Medical Humanities
January 6, 2025
Alex Dymock, Zoë Dubus
4 citations
In this article we initiate a conversation between scientific and humanities-oriented studies of sexuality and psychedelics. Drawing on three recent studies which indicate a positive connection between the use of psychedelics and sexual well-being, the article argues that taking account of sexuality as culturally produced, historically contingent and geographically specific would improve the...
Front Psychol
August 21, 2024
Tehseen Noorani, Oliver Davis, Alex Dymock et al.
5 citations
Keywords: psychedelic experience, set and setting, context, culture, anthropotechnics, humanities, social science and humanities
The Sociological Review
July 1, 2023
Alex Dymock
3 citations
Psychedelic substances have undergone a transformation in the public consciousness over the last 15 years. However, the most influential first-person narratives of psychonauts and ‘scientist-shamans’ navigating the frontiers of consciousness have tended to entirely exclude women’s experiences and voices. Psychedelic feminism, has emerged to signify the role consciousness expansion and...
International Journal of Drug Policy
November 24, 2020
Leah Moyle, Alex Dymock, Alexandra Aldridge et al.
42 citations
BACKGROUND: The use of drugs in sexual contexts is receiving closer attention in the media, public health bodies and communities than ever before. However, research to date is most often concerned with the sex-related drug use of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) populations, and particularly men who have sex with men (MSM) engaging in 'chemsex'. Against a backdrop dominated...