The intersection of women's sexual pleasure and injection drug use

Substance Abuse : Official Publication of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse
Caroline Katzman, Ellen Tuchman

Abstract

Background: There is a dearth of literature concerning the sexual behaviors of women who inject drugs. The existing literature emphasizes the violence, trauma, and social disadvantage experienced by these women and obscures any sense of agency or sexual pleasure. This omission imperils our ability to develop effective interventions for women, ignores the true context of their sexual and injection practices, and presumes women to be free of agency and thus at the will of external social, environmental, and economic factors. This qualitative study strives to extend the boundaries of conventional risk-focused research to understand the complex and multidimensional sexual practices of women who inject drugs. Methods: Purposive sampling was used to select women who inject drugs from a syringe exchange program in New York City. The principal investigator and trained study staff conducted interviews with 26 women. The interview transcripts were thematically coded in Atlas.ti with a grounded theory approach to understand the concerns, actions, and practices to further explain patterns. Results: Four themes emerged with respect to women's descriptions of their sexual and injection experiences: (a) linguistic parallels of sexual and inje...Continue Reading

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Aug 16, 2008·American Journal of Public Health·Jenny A Higgins, Jennifer S Hirsch
Apr 22, 2010·Journal of Addictive Diseases·Ellen Tuchman
Sep 8, 2012·The International Journal on Drug Policy·Jennifer LorvickAlex H Kral
Jan 31, 2014·Current HIV/AIDS Reports·Nabila El-BasselSteffanie A Strathdee
Apr 19, 2015·Harm Reduction Journal·Ellen Tuchman

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Jun 7, 2020·Harm Reduction Journal·Meera ShahMichael Silverman
Apr 3, 2021·Substance Abuse : Official Publication of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse·Kathryn J BarnhartMichael Reece

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