Kristian Møller
@kristianm.bsky.social
Interesting look at VR raving, including reflections on how different substances mesh with digital sensory immersion to create effects with varying pleasure and risk profiles.
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60-Hour Dance Sessions, Simulated Sex, and Ketamine: Inside the World of Hardcore VR Ravers
VR Clubbing has exploded since Covid-19 lockdowns, with enthusiasts doing drugs and finding friends and love in an inclusive environment. But some say the convenience is making it harder to control th...
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May 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Interesting look at VR raving, including reflections on how different substances mesh with digital sensory immersion to create effects with varying pleasure and risk profiles.
www.wired.com/story/60-hou...
www.wired.com/story/60-hou...
This article brings out how chemsex stretches, mixes, and displaces notions of the (un)homely. I think the notion of Grindr as the actual “front door” is apt, enabling hosting to be somewhat distributed. It also touches on the q of homonormativity (see @sharifm.bsky.social and Jamie Hakim)
Here's a new paper I wrote with Cesare Di Feliciantonio (based on fieldwork he conducted in Italy and the UK), we think about the way homespaces are negotiated, adapted, and projected onto in chemsex scenes: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Chemsex at home: Homonormative aspirations and the blurring of the private/public space divide
Sexualised drug use -usually referred to as chemsex- represents an established cultural practice among gay men in contemporary societies, mostly assoc…
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January 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This article brings out how chemsex stretches, mixes, and displaces notions of the (un)homely. I think the notion of Grindr as the actual “front door” is apt, enabling hosting to be somewhat distributed. It also touches on the q of homonormativity (see @sharifm.bsky.social and Jamie Hakim)
Holding space for these fuzzy excited feelings that I have bc I just submitted a grant application with the best folks on a subject I really care about.
a woman with long nails is touching another woman 's hand on a green chair .
ALT: a woman with long nails is touching another woman 's hand on a green chair .
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December 22, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Holding space for these fuzzy excited feelings that I have bc I just submitted a grant application with the best folks on a subject I really care about.