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* gay slam party *
There has been nsirable publicy the gay, scientific and general media recently about so-lled ‘slammg’ or ‘slam parti’, fed as group sex parti where gay men take dgs such as methamphetame or mephedrone, often by jectn, orr to facilate prolonged sexual activy. Needls to say, the reports have created nsirable alarm about the possibily of a new gay subculture that may amplify the spread of HIV and hepatis C, and anecdotally, the large majory of gay men attendg support servic for dg ers London now report jectg. In rponse to ncern about a siar scene velopg France, Net Gai Baromètre (NGB), a biennial ter survey of gay men France, French terrori and Quebec, asked ers if they attend ‘slam parti’ their last survey to gge how mon this activy actually was.
Over 14, 000 gay men answered the last survey and of them 3115 (22%) reported that they had had ‘bareback sex’, fed by the rearchers as unprotected anal sex wh someone who is not a regular partner and is of different or unknown HIV stat. 8% of rponnts) was characterised by the e of one or two dgs that gay circl tend to be specifilly associated wh sex – MDMA, GHB or GBL, erectn dgs such as Viagra or Cialis, poppers (nr), snorted e and dgs of the mephedrone fay (‘miaow miaow’ or ‘bath salts’).
They were also nsirably ls likely to intify as gay: 60% ls likely than all NGB rponnts, whereas the high-dg-g group members were 2. 7 tim more likely to intify as gay than average. Rearcher Ala Leobon mented that men who have sex wh men who attend ‘slam parti' are not a homogeno populatn.