Flaccid theory and the geographies of sexual health in the age of Viagra.
The discipline of geography is largely absent in discussions and debates about drug use practices and their relationships to sexual health. Given the important relationships among the use of drugs, performances of sexualized identities, and the practices of sex, it behooves medical and health geographers particularly, and social and cultural geographers more generally, to engage in the wider interdisciplinary debates about these relationships. Through a discussion of one drug, Viagra, this brief intervention offers an agenda for studying the geographies of sex, sexuality, and drug use. It is argued that drug use is an inherently geographic practice that reshapes how places are resituated in relation to the fluid and dynamic meanings of sex, sexuality, and sexual health, areas of research and practice that medical and health geographers ought to consider more seriously.
Del Casino
Vincent J
VJ
Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840, USA. vdelcasi@csulb.edu
D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000188:drug therapy; D005783:Gender Identity; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010410:Penile Erection / Q000187:drug effects; D010879:Piperazines / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011687:Purines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019529:Sexuality / Q000187:drug effects / Q000523:psychology; D000068677:Sildenafil Citrate; D012962:Sociology, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D013450:Sulfones / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014665:Vasodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D010879:Piperazines; D011687:Purines; D013450:Sulfones; D014665:Vasodilator Agents; D000068677:Sildenafil Citrate