What is it like inside a chemsex party?
The portal Código Nuevo has gone undercover at a chemsex party organized in Madrid. “Chemsex” refers to orgies involving mostly gay men. They are characterized by the unrestrained consumption of drugs, with the aim of engaging in sexual relations over a long period of time.
Despite still being a minority practice in Spain, the term is beginning to be heard in large cities among the gay community, and there are fears it will expand as it has in other European capitals. A dangerous trend.
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What is a chemsex party in Madrid like?
Everything surrounding this type of party is shrouded in mystery. The undercover reporter can only clear up doubts by meeting a contact person at a bakery in Madrid. It is a girl who gives him the basic instructions: “The party will be tonight, starting at ten, in a renovated old flat located in one of the capital’s most central neighborhoods. Dress code? It doesn’t matter; everyone goes naked here.”
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She also makes the rules clear: “You are not a journalist, you don’t take photos, and you don’t identify anyone present.” At a quarter to two in the morning, the editor goes undercover with a friend (they pretend to be gay). It is held in a dark building with “seven floors and large gray windows” in the center of the capital. The party will be on the fifth floor.
When they pass through the armored door, “a good number of people have already been submerged in their own world for several hours. Inside, low lights, many voices, and some electronic music.” He describes the atmosphere as “heavy, a dense and sticky smell, from a strange combination of fermented alcohol, fast food, and body fluids that permeates every corner of the first room. There, a small group of intoxicated guests grope each other on inflated mattresses. At a quick glance, I see that, besides Andrea, there is only one girl. The rest are all men.”
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Chemsex party staples
Among other interesting details, the article mentions what seem to be staples of a chemsex party, such as a “welcome chemical cocktail” or the presence of “several blisters of blue pills and another tray with substances I cannot identify.” The undercover reporter believes that among them there must be GHB, ketamine, cocaine, or methamphetamine and mephedrone (“m-cat” or “meow meow”), a stimulant whose long-term effects are still unknown and which facilitates disinhibition.
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Around the undercover reporters, many men engage in sex without noticing their presence. They notice “that they are not wearing condoms” and, therefore, that “they are also a party for HIV, hepatitis, and other sexually transmitted diseases.” In this blog, we have already explained that this practice triples the risk of HIV. In conclusion, before leaving the place, the undercover reporter confesses that: “regardless of fetishes or sexual orientations, what I have seen there is of an almost animalistic rawness.”
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