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FIGURE 3.2 Cumulative recency of use of gay social settings by MSM in LSL
Cumulative %
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
website
cafe/bar
disco/club
cruising site
sauna
backroom/public
sex party
community centre
0
24 hr 7 day 4 wks 6 mth 12 mth 5 yrs ever
Within this time period
private sex party
porn cinema
3.8 SETTING USE AND DRUG USE
In considering the association between setting use and
drug use we have concentrated here on the four drugs
currently causing most concern for gay men in LSL –
crystal meth, mephedrone, GHB/GBL and ketamine. In
the following sections we look at how recently men using
each of these four drugs have used four settings: gay
cafés/bars/pubs; saunas; backrooms and sex-clubs; and
sex parties at private homes.
3.8.1 Gay café/bar/pub use and drug use
The following figure shows the cumulative proportion
of men who had used a gay café, bar or pub within
increasing time periods before the survey. Each line
represents the group of men who had used that drug in
the last four weeks, with a fifth line showing the group of
men who had used none of these four drugs in the last
four weeks. The four drug use groups are therefore not
exclusive groups (since some men had used more than
one of these drugs).
Although attendance at gay cafes, bars and pubs was
common among all groups, it was more common among
men who used each of the four drugs than it was among
those who used none of these four drugs. So for example,
47% of men in LSL who had used none of these four
drugs had been to a gay café/bar/pub in the last four
weeks compared with 61% - 71% of those who had used
these drugs.
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