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Flaccid theory and the geographies of sexual health in the age of Viagra.

Del Casino VJ

Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90840, USA. vdelcasi@csulb.edu

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.

Published 9 July 2007 in Health Place, 13(4): 904-11.
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