Describing a contraction of the words “chemical” and “sex”, “ChemSex” is a practice that tends to develop with the proliferation of dating sites. Close-up on a phenomenon that is increasingly worrying the medical profession.
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From 15 to 18 March last took place in Marseille the 11th French conference on sexology and sexual health. During this event, Dr Jean-Marc Jacquet, addictologist and hospital practitioner, wished to warn against a practice that he has literally exploded over the past ten years, and which in his eyes is not far from become a public health issue.
Called “ChemSex”, this practice which knows a galloping development in particular thanks (or rather because) of the profusion of dating applications, offers using psychoactive substances to boost performance and sexual sensations.
A young, precarious public
According to Dr Jacquet, relayed by RTL, this way of looking for euphoria and excitement in sexual intercourse would be more practiced by a young audience, rather from a precarious background, but also from the homosexual community.
If the practice is not new, on the other hand it tends more and more to democratize with the accessibility of the products of synthesis which one finds from now on relatively easily on Internet. According to the practitioner, indulging in ChemSex can also cause sexually transmitted diseases, serious addictions, psychotic decompensation (i.e. episodes of delirium) or even risk of death.
A classic sexuality devoid of interest?
Dr. Jean-Marc Jacquet also notes that people who follow “ChemSex” can quickly lose interest in having sex without using certain substances.
“How do you go back to playing duck in the bathtub when you’ve surfed the best waves in the world?”, thus illustrated the specialist to detail his analysis about people who have experienced sexual intercourse by products.
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ChemSex followers worry the medical profession all the more because they do not consider themselves “like drug addicts”, underlines Jean-Marc Jacquet, “They rather see themselves as experimenters of extreme sex”, concluded the latter by recommending better information and education of the populations concerned in order to prevent addictogenic behavior.
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