Dymock, Alex and Dubus, Zoe. 2025. Sex and Psychedelics: A Wide-Lens Look at a Burgeoning Field. Medical Humanities, ISSN 1468-215X [Article] (In Press)

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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 reliability and efficacy of future studies. The need for socially and culturally attuned research grounded in contemporary sexual politics in this area is urgent, as in recent years—despite little reporting of sexuality in clinical research—the psychedelics field has had to grapple with the ethics of the relationship between psychedelic states and sexual interactions in therapeutic spaces and the ’underground’. There is also scant attention to date paid to the gendered dynamics of sex and sexuality, and how this may impact perceptions of the relationship between psychedelic therapeutic repair versus enhancement. We unpack some of these dilemmas and outline some key concerns and potential priorities for future research into sexuality and psychedelics in a post-#MeToo era.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-013068
Additional Information:	© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. This article has been accepted for publication in Medical Humanities following peer review, and the Version of Record can be accessed online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2024-013068. Reuse of this manuscript version (excluding any databases, tables, diagrams, photographs and other images or illustrative material included where a another copyright owner is identified) is permitted strictly pursuant to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. Funding: Work contributed by Dymock to this article was supported by a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant, no. SRG21\211416.
Data Access Statement:	All data relevant to the study are included in the article.
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Law
Dates:	Date Event 26 November 2024 Accepted 6 January 2025 Published Online
Item ID:	38074
Date Deposited:	07 Jan 2025 11:28
Last Modified:	08 Jan 2025 09:27
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38074

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