Homoerotic Masculinity Through Chemsex. A Cultural Analysis of Substance Uses in Gay Men of Mexico
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Psychoactive substance use (PSU) among gay men (GM) has been examined through a biomedical-epidemiological lens. While national studies offer a general overview from a biopsychosocial viewpoint, they fail to explore the cultural influences on PSU. The objective was to analyze the cultural aspects of PSU among GM in Mexico by exploring the social construction of identity as men with a non-normative sexual orientation who experience a distinct form of masculinity while engaging in PSU during sexual activities. Utilizing a symbolic approach in anthropology, specifically in identity and gender studies, three focus groups comprising 19 middle-class gay men aged 22 to 42 were conducted in May 2022 via Zoom Meetings. The information was coded and analyzed using targeted content analysis. Identity, masculinity, and homoeroticism play a crucial role in shaping PSU practices among GM in Mexico, with the interplay of these three cultural dimensions manifesting in the ritualistic practice of sexualized drug use (chemsex), particularly concerning crystal meth.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".