Tracks Issue 13

tracksMAGAZINE fOR ILLICID DRUG USERS iSSUE 13

All you need to know about sex Tracks Illicit Drug Users Magazine ISSN: 1832-9675

Address: Tracks Editorial Panel PO Box 2470 Fortitude Valley QLD 4006, Australia Welcome to another edition of as many of the articles are here to Telephone: 07 3620 8111 QuIHN’s TRACKS Magazine. In help keep you safer. Fax: 07 3854 1070 this edition of Tracks we discuss Email: [email protected] Website: www.quihn.org one of the oldest activities known Get down with Jodine and learn to humankind …SEX. We thought about staying safe while exploring QuIHN’S VISION that we may as well give this subject your “naughty side” with “A Guide An affirming holistic response to the health and well being of illicit drug users in the attention that everyone seems to Safer Kink”. Find out some Queensland. to give it and devote a whole Tracks interesting facts about condoms and QuIHN’s PURPOSE Identify, articulate and respond to the health issue to getting your gear off and get some tips on keeping safe while needs and well being of illicit drug users by challenging perceptions relating to illicit drug your groove on. partying and “hooking up” under use, providing client services statewide, and the influence. by linking, partnering, and connecting with individuals, families, communities, business Were you aware that in the Middle and government. Ages in England- 500AD- Did you know that Needle Play is Counselling services provide a range of strategies for people wanting to reduce or 1400AD; The Church had opinions an activity that consists of inserting cease their drug use, including psychosocial and laws about every aspect of sex. hypodermic needles or acupuncture education, and process and recreational groups offering support for people Adultery, sex out of wedlock, anal needles through the skin for contemplating, making, or sustaining changes sex and homosexuality were often pleasurable and erotic sensations? to drug use. Training and education are provided to clients, sins punishable by death. See the Well, if not, then read the article professionals and the wider community article “History of Sex” to find out titled “Painful Pleasures” to find out in regard to illicit drug use, through peer education, outreach, group education and some interesting snippets about sex more. Dixie Del Rae makes a return staff training. Information and resources are provided through QuIHN’s website, from times gone by. with a story from her past and some brochures, magazines and NSPs. QuIHN important info on Post Exposure is the Queensland member organisation of the Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug User’s We all know that sex is meant to be Prophylaxis AKA PEP! League (AIVL). fun but there are some serious issues So turn the lights down low, cue QuIHN Brisbane 07 3620 8111 QuIHN Gold Coast 07 5520 7900 to think about whilst indulging in the Barry White sounds, and slip QuIHN Sunshine Coast 07 5443 9576 the “Wild Thing”. While flicking between the pages of this Sexy QuIHN Cairns 07 4051 4742 through the pages of this issue you edition of Tracks. Enjoy!

WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK! will come across many interesting We welcome feedback on this magazine, facts, some serious and some just Senior Program Manager QuIHN’s other publications, website and services. Your comments help us to improve down right funny, please take note Health Promotion our resources, information and services. Feedback can be provided in writing, by phone or email, using the details above. You can also lodge feedback using our website, or download a form from there to fill in. You can choose to remain anonymous. Gonorrhea can be a fear; if someone rings your bell This publication does not necessarily reflect the views of Queensland Injectors Health Network Chlamydia’s insidious; because one can never tell (QuIHN). QuIHN chooses not to judge those who use illicit drugs, but welcomes contributions Syphilis reigns ridiculous; if not early found which reflect opinions and issues of those who have used, or are still currently using illicit HIV and Hepatitis B; these viruses hold their ground drugs. It is not the intention of this publication, Crabs and Lice live and breathe and make your fun bits itch or QuIHN, to encourage people to use illicit drugs or engage in criminal activities, but to Herpes and warts keep on giving but that’s not their only hitch reduce harms caused by illicit drug use. The editorial panel reserves the right to edit material So please when you’re enjoying sex; whether it’s night or day submitted, and will not be held responsible for the accuracy, or otherwise, of information in this Use your head and practice safe sex; to keep these nasties at bay publication. No responsibility will be taken by QuIHN for harm people encountered following Make condoms, lube and dams your very special friends actions taken upon reading the contents of this Give your self the best of health, there’s no need to pretend publication. This publication is not intended for general distribution — its target group is those Because most of us like sex, yes most of us think its fun who use, or have used illicit drugs. QuIHN is funded by the Queensland Department And when it comes to your wellbeing you’re the important one of Health and the Australian Government - Department of Health & Ageing. Fiona January 2012

Page 2 INDEX Myths and facts 4 Urban Legends 6 Shits goes down when you party naked 7 Dixie diary 9 Out of jail 10 Be condomed or be damed 10 Painful Pleasures 12 Your Guide to Safer KINK 14 Two-tailed tawse 15 Doin’ it Wasted 16 The Alpha Ones 17 Simon says 18 Respect 19 Sexual Transmission and hep C 20 Find a word 22 Acupuncture Services 23 Sexual health clinics 24 Myths and Facts tracks issue 13

“A story on the history of sex” the committee suggested! “Sure I say” how easy will that be? Doh! When and where in history do I start? Most cultures have entirely different beliefs when it comes to sex and sexuality and most cultures change those beliefs on a regular basis; as it Myths suits them. and Facts

o I’ve decided on a few and_Eve madams and 3,000 palace interesting tidbits (that • The Cave man couldn’t even maidens and was unfaithful to don’t link together at all) pull a root unless they clubbed them all. http://factsanddetails. Sfrom different times and places and dragged the female back to com/china.php?itemid=132&ca throughout history. Check out the their cave by the hair. tid=11&subcatid=76 reproduced newspaper clipping at the end of my random article. It’s • India - The Karma Sutra: • The Middle Ages in England- truly a good laugh. Not long after originated in 400 BC and 500AD-1400AD: The Church my Grandmother’s 80th birthday explained the joys and many in the Middle Ages had she told me and mum she’d never ways to have sex: in picture opinions and laws about every had an orgasm (and I think this form so even those that couldn’t aspect of sex. Adultery, sex article explains why) but she didn’t read could understand and take out of wedlock, anal sex and know it until she’d read a Cleo part in this exciting human homosexuality were often sins magazine. My mother said in a “must do”. punishable by death. clipped tone “well it’s not too late then”, and I disappeared into my • China: According to some old • Anything other than the room to banish unwanted visuals sayings “eating and having sex common “missionary position,” of my grandparents “doing it” or is human nature” and “after was considered unnatural and worse my Grandmother “doing you have enough food and therefore sinful. The woman it” for herself. Oh how times have clothing, your thoughts turn on top, or entering her from changed. to sex..” In the 14th century the rear (sex a tergo i.e. doggy brothels were registered and style) was not favoured because • Adam and Eve: is this where prostitutes paid taxes. Shan-Yin, they interfered with the natural sex started? With the whole a Chinese princess during the order of male-female roles. Anal apple situation; which from Sung Dynasty, had a special bed and oral sex were sins because the events that followed made that could accommodate they could only be practiced for appears to have been soaked 30 men who all made love to pleasure, not procreation, which in LSD (obviously why it was her at the same time. Chinese for the purists was the only forbidden). It must have been emperors often had thousands purpose of sex. soaked in something, because of concubines because they Adam and Eve supposedly believed that the more sexual • Punishments for those using (if the bible is to be believed) partners they had the longer “deviant” sexual positions went on with their sons Cain they would live. The last Sui could be very harsh: three and Abel to generate the whole emperor, Sui Yang (A.D. 581- years’ penance for the woman of the human race. http:// 618), had a queen, two deputy on top and the same for both en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_ queens, 6 royal consorts, 72 oral intercourse and sex a tergo,

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which was generally seen as to delve deeper into these the most sinful position ... with beliefs. Freud also used cocaine the possible exception of anal regularly and was a pro active intercourse. (Some modern advocate for euthanasia: he This is an actual extract from a sex churches still seem to embrace died in 1939 by convincing his education school textbook for girls these beliefs) http://www.oddee. doctor to administer a fatal dose printed in the early 60’s in the U.K com/item_96646.aspx of morphine after suffering the world was much happier and from cancer for too long. http:// peaceful then. • Italy -Alexander VI the Borgia psychology.about.com/od/ Pope: proved the hypocrisy of sigmundfreud/f/sigmund-freud- “When retiring to the bedroom the church at this time because death.html prepare yourself for bed as promptly during his term in the 1400’s as possible. Whilst feminine hygiene he would hire prostitutes to is of the utmost importance, your entertain the visiting clergy, tired husband does not want to throughout and after their feasts 1960’s Free love and The queue for the bathroom, as he would (no wonder the visiting priests Sexual Revolution have to do at the train. But remember loved him). The Borgias also to look your best when going to weren’t averse to using sex toys. • The sexual revolution was bed. Try to achieve a look that is a social movement that welcoming without being obvious. • Russia: Medieval Russia was challenged traditional codes If you need to apply a face cream apparently very tolerant of of behavior related to sexuality without or hair-rollers wait until he homosexuality. There is evidence and interpersonal relationships is asleep as this can be shocking to of homosexual love in some of throughout the Western world a man last thing at night. When it the lives of the saints dating back from the 1960s into the 1980s. comes to the possibility of intimate to the 11th century. Homosexual Free love was popular and well: relations with your husband it acts were treated as a sin by the free! However so were sexually is important to remember your Orthodox Church, but there transmitted infections and as marriage vows and in particular your were no legal sanctions against they started to raise their ugly commitment to obey him. them at the time. Foreign visitors heads in unison, the actual cost to Russia in the 16th and 17th of “free love” started to emerge, If he feels that he needs to sleep centuries repeatedly expressed and that’s when “free love” immediately then so be it. In all their amazement at the open needed some readjusting. Enter things be led by your husband’s displays of homosexual affection the condom. wishes; do not pressure him in any among men of every class. way to stimulate intimacy. Should Catherine the Great ruled Russia • Even though condoms were your husband suggest congress then during the 1700’s and had many in use as early as the 1500’s agree humbly all the while being lovers, without shame but rather (made from animal skin or mindful that a man’s satisfaction is with pride, presenting each one at intestines) the unassuming more important than a woman’s. court. She did not however have latex condom really comes (no sex with her horse as legend states. pun intended) into it’s own as When he reaches his moment http://community.middlebury. it takes its place as a must have of fulfillment a small moan from edu/~moss/RGC2.html fixture on the world stage of yourself is encouraging to him and sexually transmitted infections. quite sufficient to indicate any • Europe: The ages of consent I should mention here that enjoyment you may have had. for sexual activity vary by Australia has the lowest rates of jurisdiction across Europe. Spain HIV in the world thanks to our Should your husband suggest any (age 13) has the lowest age of sexual education, easy access to of the more unusual practices be consent, while Malta and Turkey condoms and our Needle and obedient and uncomplaining but are at the highest end (both age Syringe Programs. register any reluctance by remaining 18). The laws can also stipulate silent. It is likely your husband will the specific activities that are • Sexual liberation included fall promptly asleep so adjust your permitted and at what age. increased acceptance of clothing, freshen up and apply your http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ sex outside of traditional night time face cream and hair care Ages_of_consent_in_Europe heterosexual, monogamous products. You may then set the alarm relationships (primarily so that you can arise shortly before • Sigmund Freud 1900’s: Without marriage). Contraception and him in the morning. This will enable Christian dogma Freud would the pill, public nudity, the you to have his morning cup of tea have been out of work; as he normalization of homosexuality when he awakes” believed all individual’s problems and alternative forms of were caused by sexual repression. sexuality, all followed. http:// Freud invented psychoanalysis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_ revolution

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Common Urban Legends

MYTH-Two condoms are this relationship. Some STI’s such rubbing and stroking are not better than one. as syphilis can take up to three years really defined as sex. But oral sex FACT-The condom makers warn before any symptoms appear. Just is actually sex. And along with against this idea of 2 condoms. The make sure both you and your new sex come emotional risks, as well friction caused by two condoms partner have a sexual health check as physical risks from sexually rubbing against each other during before engaging in sexual activity. transmitted infections (STIs). Oral sex increases the chance of one or sex is a personalized and intimate both breaking or slipping off. MYTH-Hepatitis C is a activity, just as vaginal and anal sex. sexually transmitted infection MYTH-If you have an STI, FACT-This is a common MYTH-It’s mainly gay men you’ll see it and know it. misconception. You can only get and drug users that get HIV. FACT-Many STIs are silent. They Hep C if blood from an infected FACT-Globally, 85% of HIV don’t cause any symptoms at all. person gets into your blood stream. transmission is through heterosexual So it’s not a case of “I’ll believe it This is most common through intercourse. HIV does not when I see it. Get tested if you are sharing needles but can also be discriminate people do! In Australia, concerned about STIs. Play sexual transmitted from sharing things around 65% of people newly self defense. that may have come into contact diagnosed with HIV in 2009 were with infected blood such as sharing among men who have sex with MYTH-If I find out I have an a tourniquet, water for mixing up, men; 28.7% were exposed through STI and I have been faithful to toothbrushes, and tweezers. 90% of heterosexual contact; 2.3% were due my partner, then they must have all new cases of hep C result from to injecting drug use (thanks to our sharing used injecting equipment. Harm Reduction methods); and a cheated on me. further 3% were men with a history FACT-This is not necessarily the of both injecting drug use and sex case. Some STI’s can take years MYTH-Oral sex isn’t really sex. FACT-Many people think that with other men. (www.avert.org/ to show up and many don’t have oral sex isn’t really sex. Generally, aids-hiv-australia.htm) symptoms so you could have had it activities like kissing; touching, for a long time before you started

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I’m going to share with you a few stories from different people about how easy it is to get into bad situation when you’re ‘out of it’. These are true events, for confidentiality reasons some of the details have been changed. Shit goes down when Charming and dangerous A few years back now I liked to get you party on the wizzer every so often. I was a pretty good girl worked Monday to Friday, lived at home and loved to party on the weekend as most 24 year olds do. This guy had been texting me all week, I wasn’t that keen on him, he was a bit of a bad ass he’d been in and out of jail and naked!go into details of what happened… over the drugs. After speaking I wasn’t really attracted to the ‘Bad the next morning at 5.30am there with my parents and interviewing boy’ front. I stayed in contact with was a knock at the door that was me, the police decided to drop the him because I could get cheap gear; loud and would make your hair charges. I found out after thawt and I had known him for a while. stand up. 3 bangs, Chris jumped up Chris was wanted for armed He went out with one of my friends and turned white like he had seen a robberies and drug related offences. when I was younger so I knew he ghost. He started shoving balloons This was a fuckin’ HUGE wake up was trouble. As the night continued down his pants and telling me to call for me! This happened about so did the drinking, I had a line ‘shut up’. Within seconds the police a year ago now, I haven’t touched of speed in the bathroom and was had barged through the door. Chris speed since. My touch with danger pumped for the rest of the night. At had jumped out the window leaving was a wake up call on how easy it this point I wanted to jump every me naked laying on a mattress on can be to get involved in something boy in the club because I was horny the floor. The police started yelling by making impulsive decisions. I am as hell! 2am came around and I got at me to get dressed and read me still amazed on how it happened. a text from the bad ass ‘Chris’. It my rights, they cuffed me and took It makes me wonder ‘who are you said ‘hey babe, hope your having a me to the police station. As I was really going home with?’. I have good night. Come around later I’ve sitting in the police car I started now nearly finished my law degree got a surprise for you’. Instantly the crying hysterically. I had no idea and am thankful that the incident impulse kicked in, I was in a taxi what was happening but I knew it didn’t ruin my career. And I also going to his place. As I walked in wasn’t good. When I got back to haven’t spoken to Chris since!! the creepy looking unit, there where the police station they drug testing Asshole! 2 guys sitting on the couch on the me and I knew I would be positive nod, a chop bowl on the table, a few for amphetamines. They also found Shut up and get Your gear off ! fits and a spoon. I had no idea really drugs and money in the house. but thought it was in a strange sense Since they didn’t have Chris, they I want to tell you about my story! I exciting! This world was out of my tried to charge me with a whole went home with a boy who turned comfort zone, and being out of her range of shit. I hesitated at first out to be a sexual deviate! I can reality zone it didn’t matter. Chris but eventually called my parents, laugh about it now but at the time came out of his room; he had a pair they weren’t impressed as you can she was horrified! I am a full on of Adidas shorts on, was covered imagine. party girl; loved raves and party in home job tats and couldn’t stop The coppas eventually caught drugs. I had just broken up with my scratching. He poured her a glass of up with Chris a few hours later, boyfriend of 3 years and was ready rum and coke and they went into the asshole had blamed me for for a big one! I’d been drinking the bed room. I guess I don’t need to everything . He said that I brought all day and was getting on it that

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night. I saw this boy Paul, who I doctors and got a sexual health taxi with him. We started making had taken a fancy to on the dance check. A week later I received a text out, and he got off at my place. I floor, he looked quiet and a little message saying that I needed to vomited out the front and don’t shy. He had crystal blue eyes but come in for my results. When I got remember anything from that point. his pupils were popping out of his down there, the nurse told me that When I woke she couldn’t move, head! I started chatting with him I had tested positive for chlamydia. the room was spinning, I slurred out and we started to grind up on the The doctor gave me medication (one the words ‘get off me’. He jumped dance floor. By this time I was ready tablet) which got rid of it straight off me and made out like he didn’t for it, he asked me too go back to away! Now if I have sex I make sure know what was going on. My skirt his place so I did the slip from my the condom stays on! was pulled up, undies to the side, mates and caught a cab. He lived I yelled at him to leave . When I with flat mates but they had gone What happened? gathered myself together, I looked out that night, we went up to his on the floor and there was a box of bedroom. I was pretty antsy at this I went to a friend’s party one night; condoms on the floor 5 had been point and was in the mood, but not I didn’t have much money so I got used. I was thankful that he used to what I was expecting! We started on the goon which knocked me condoms but was still disgusted. The kissing, he ripped my clothes off for a sixer! There was this boy at phone started ringing, since I knew which surprised me, and he then the party that I had slept with a a lot of the same people as him, he turned into a total deviate! He few times at the party. He’d been had started to freak out that I was started swearing at me, calling me ignoring me all night, so to forget going to tell people what happened. names even attempted to choke me about it I drank some more. I He made up this great story that ‘I at one point! We had been going eventually had drunk to the state wanted it’ you can imagine what was at it for hours, I was getting over it where started abusing him telling said from his side! I was in complete and Paul was getting frustrated. He him what I really thought, yes his shock. I blamed myself because couldn’t keep it up but he needed penis size came into the screaming of how drunk I was and started to cum. I decided to give Paul a and yelling haha! He wasn’t the thinking that maybe I did want it? hand Job, when I grabbed his penis most pleasant guy you have ever With support of my friends and a the condom was gone! I blew up! met. He pretty much told me he just worker at the sexual health clinic I I thought Paul had taken it off! I wanted me for sex. I was hysterical! spoke to someone about it and was looked everywhere for it! I called I walked out the front and waited going to press charges. I decided not my friend to come and get me. I for taxi. I could barely stand ar this to which was the right decision for was freaking out! That night when point. A guy that I kind of knew me at the time. I have moved past I went to the toilet, I stood up and that was a bit older than me came it but will never forget how easy it the condom fell out of my vagina! out the front. He said he was going is to get into bad situations when The next day I went down to the the same way home, so I shared a you’re drunk.

1. Cover your stump before you hump. 11. Plug your funnel then enter the tunnel.

2. Don’t be silly, protect your willie. 12. Bag the mole then do her hole.

3. If you think she’s spunky, cover your 13. Cover your stone before you bone. monkey! 4. If you go into heat, package your meat. 14. Pack it in plastic, it’ll be fantastic. 5. Don’t make a mistake, cover your 15. Wrap your meat before you beat. snake.

6. No glove, no love. 16. Wrap it before you slap it.

7. Cloak the joker before you poke her. 17. Armour the tank before you enter the flank.

8. Don’t be a fool, cover your tool. 18. Leash your pet before launching your jet.

9. Stop the stream before you cream. 19. No shirt, no flirt! 10. Protect that fish then dip it in the dish. 20. Dress him up before you mess her up.

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ets talk about SEX. The before, except this once. I did once This was about ’94. word sex has lots of different have had sex with an older man. He meanings. It can be a noun, was a plastic surgeon and had lots Apart from some of Dixie’s sexual it can be an adjective or a transitive of money, I saw the wad he had in encounters lets talk about SAFE SEX. Lverb. his wallet and Dixie was speeding so I thought that I’d just try not to What is PEP? look at him. He was in his 70’s. He dragged me into the best position. PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) is A noun. I didn’t really feel anything because a treatment that may prevent HIV 1. Same as sexual intercourse he had such a small member. I transmission and is available to 2. Sexual behavior, sexual made sure that he had a condom persons likely to have been exposed activity, or leading to it. on and 30 seconds later he had to HIV within the past 72 hours. 3. Male or female gender, either finished. It is a combination of anti-HIV of the two reproductive categories, male or female, drugs that must be taken exactly of animals (humans too) and Alright, that is all the paid sex as prescribed at very specific times plants that Dixie has had. There were a over a four-week period. couple of times where the guy that These are powerful drugs that can An adjective. Dixie chatted up (or vice versa) cause side effects and may have 1. Of sex, relating to sexual still wanted to have sex with Dixie, a toxic effect on the liver. Many matters or to the sexes. not me as a male, they wanted to people report they experience some have sex with me only as Dixie the discomfort including abdominal A transitive verb. drag queen. I remember that Dixie pain, diarrhea or headaches 1. Determine the sex of chatted up this gorgeous guy. throughout the four weeks. something. Sticking to the strict medication He was a surfer with his shoulder routine however is essential to length honey blond hair, he was give the drugs a chance to work 21, muscle toned body with a six effectively. It is quite amazing what the word pack of abs. SIGH! He knew that SEX means to everyone. To some Dixie was really a male in drag, Other ways to prevent STIs and people it means that you are on but wasn’t interested in that, he was HIV are: your back with your legs apart, or so approached by Dixie’s face, her on your knees! It might make you make-up, her hair/wig. He said that • To not have sex. feel hot and powerful or it might Dixie was beautiful and did I have • Both undertake a sexual health mean you have somewhere to sleep any plans after I performed. I told check-up including a HIV or that you can pay your power bill.. him that when the show finished test early in the relationship to “This position, I’m ready…” What that I would get changed and I will ensure neither of you has HIV does it mean to you… get back to him. No no no, please or any STIs. don’t get changed I want to get to Flashback now to Dixie performing know Dixie more…… in full drag; Dixie has had drinks Yours forever bought for her expecting that she Bugger, wouldn’t even let me take would have sex with the person. that wig off. Dixie lived in Cairns Dixie has been offered to have sex Dixie Del Rae at that time and it was bloody hot. with people as Dixie (not as me) for Enough about Dixie’s idea with sex money which she had never done with men either as Dixie or as me.

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he year was 1999, my partner I can only say; we were both very, and I had been heroin addicts very lucky that once we had given up Tfor 10 years and he had just the hammer, it was only Hep C we finished a 4 year stint in prison for had to contend with and not plenty crimes he’d committed to support of other Blood Borne Viruses’ I can our habits. think of. Fortunately for me there is a treatment and I am so grateful to Be While he was in jail I took him a bit have cleared the virus after 6 months of gear when I could and supplied of taking Pegylated Interferon and him with fresh fits so he wouldn’t Ribavirin. contract HIV (the only virus that condomed concerned my misinformed mind at So the only advice I can give to any the time). This was a complete waste couple who reunite after a jail term of time really as he later told me he however brief is practice safe sex only shared his picks with a “select until you both have a sexual health few”. It only takes one! I know that, test. Because jail is a different world but a nice shot of heroin and the need and the perfect breeding ground for Open the wrapper carefully not to for wild sex after 4 years of abstinence Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually damage the condom with teeth, are a powerful combination that can Transmitted Infections and partners fingernails or rings overrule all common on the outside are only sense. human. So even though they might tell you they He also got some awe- went without sex while some tattoos while locked waiting for you that might up. Tattoo guns were made not be the case. Please be Check the condom is the right way from anything, old pens, safe not sorry. up by unrolling slightly. bits of guitar string, sta- ples, you name it, and there For the girls just an extra was a never-ending list of bit of info. Before my inmates wanting to be tat- partner went to jail he was tooed. always the one to inject me but now I know that Anyway I remember the even if you are both using Gently squeeze the tip of the condom day he got out like it was fresh fits this can be a huge between the thumb and forefinger yesterday. The kids were at risk because blood borne to push out the air. Hold the condom school and there weren’t viruses can be transmitted tip against the penis. enough surfaces in our tiny through him touching house to screw on! We had his “shot spot” and then never used condoms and I didn’t see touching your “shot spot”. The boys any reason to suggest it after 10 years always do themselves first, right? By together. the time they get around to you, they are nodding or speeding and you are Roll the condom down over the length I should have known better as I’d so keen to get your gear away you’re of the penis. Gently rub lubricant on already contracted Hep C from probably not going to be paying the outside of the condom once it is sharing a fit with him in 1989: due much attention. on the erect penis. to of my belief that if we were having sex then we had all the same nasties Anyway while my partner was inside anyway. How wrong I was about a good friend (and experienced user) that; because Hep C isn’t sexually showed me how to inject myself “for transmitted AND even if you both my own good” he said, and you know have Hep C it’s not cool to share what? He was right. From then on I as you can give each other different only ever injected myself, even after After sex (while the penis is still strains of the virus. my partner got out. I hope you also hard), withdraw the penis from the sexual partner, holding the rim of the heed my friend’s advice and take condom at the base of the penis. I never asked him if he had sex while responsibility for your own injecting he was inside, well I wouldn’t would practices instead of putting your I. Let alone if he wore a condom. I health in someone else’s hands. still don’t know because I still haven’t asked, but I do know the tatts he got Eloise weren’t done in a sterile environment and he did share the fits I took him. Point the penis downwards and slip off the condom carefully. Dipose of in a thoughtful and hygienic way Page 10 (not down the toilet!). tracks issue 13 Be condomed

Important things to know emergency contraception. Possible condom • Condoms could save your Dams: health by reducing your chances Dams are used to prevent the conversations of contracting a sexually transmission of infections from the transmitted infection such as genitals to the mouth or the mouth to Excuses for not wearing condoms: HIV, Hepatitis B, Syphilis, the genitals, specifically the vulva and Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia. the anus. ‘I can’t feel much with a condom’ To use. remove the dam from its ‘Just this once’ or be packaging and lay it flat covering the ‘They are too tight for me to stay hard’ entire vulva, (both the vaginal opening ‘I don’t feel comfortable buying them’ and clitoris), holding the edges of the ‘Don’t you trust me?’ dammed dam. Do not stretch the dam. ‘Just let me put it in a few times then I 3. If you have a reaction to latex will put one on’ STIs can be contracted through condoms or dams, stop using them ‘Oral sex is safe’ oral, anal and vaginal sex. and use a natural alternative, although ‘I’ve been tested! I’m clean’ • STIs can cause cancer of the remember these might not offer the ‘condoms kill the mood’ cervix as well as further damage best protection. to the body such as heart, liver DO NOT USE DURING and kidneys. They can also cause PENETRATING PENILE/ Responses: severe damage to unborn babies VAGINAL OR PENILE/ANAL and in extreme cases, if left INTERCOURSE ‘You won’t feel anything unless you put untreated, death to the infected one on’ person. Female Condom: ‘Once is all it takes’ • Condoms greatly reduce the ‘If you don’t put one on you won’t need chance of unwanted pregnancies; The FC2 female condom is a nitrile to worry about staying hard’ sheath or pouch 17cm (6.5 inches) in ‘If it’s not on, it’s not on Choosing a condom length. At each end there is a flexible ‘It’s not you I get pregnant easily’ • Condoms can be made of natural ring. At the closed end of the sheath, ‘If you don’t want to use a condom with latex, polyurethane or natural the flexible ring is inserted into the me how many other girls haven’t you lambskin. Although tests have vagina to hold the female condom in used one with?’ shown that latex can prevent the place. The other end of the sheath ‘condoms turn me on’ passage of HIV, Hepatitis and stays outside the vulva at the entrance ‘it’s easier for me to have sex with a the herpes virus, natural lambskin to the vagina. This ring acts as a guide condom’ condoms might not. These are during penetration and it also stops ‘sorry mate, i don’t know who you’ve been with, and you don’t know who I’ve also more expensive. the sheath from moving up inside the • The package should say that the vagina. been with so lets use one’ condoms prevent disease. If they There is a silicone-based lubricant don’t say this, then they might on the inside of the condom, but The bottom line is: not offer the required protection. additional lubrication can be used. E.g. Novelty condoms are The condom does not contain primarily for sexual stimulation, spermicide. not protection. “If you’re not going to • Condoms which do not cover Safe oral sex the entire penis are not good Oral sex is less risky when it comes to wrap it, go home and protection against sexually getting or transmitting an infection, transmitted infections, therefore but some STIs can still be passed whack it” shouldn’t be used. on through oral sex. To be as safe as • When practising anal sex, a good possible: strong condom is extra important • use condoms (try flavoured ones) because of the extra fiction and for oral sex involving the penis. other stresses involved. • use dental dams for oral-vaginal • If the condom breaks while you’re and oral-anal sex. having sex and before ejaculation, • don’t get semen or blood in your immediately stop, pull out and mouth. apply a new condom. • avoid oral sex when you have • If ejaculation has occurred, pull mouth ulcers, bleeding gums out carefully. or cold sores. DO NOT USE EXPIRED • don’t brush your teeth CONDOMSPLEASE! OR DAMS If you’re concerned about pregnancy, immediately before oral sex. call your doctor, nurse practitioner or health clinic right away to ask about Always check for the expiration date. Page 11 Painful Pleasures tracks issue 13

Needle Play aka play piercing and recreational acupuncture.

Painful

PleasuresDuring a discussion about the 1. What is Needle Play? Needle advice ASAP. this edition of QuIHN’s Tracks Play is an activity that consists of IMPORTANT NOTE: QuIHN Magazine with fellow workers it inserting hypodermic needles or strongly advises people who are was decided that Issue #13 would acupuncture needles through the considering needle play to gain be everything “SEX”. After an skin for pleasurable and erotic advice from someone who has hour or so of discussions someone sensations. experience and expertise in this mentioned “Needle Play”, I said 2. Why? Some people enjoy activity. Needle play advocates “Needle Play, what the hell is that”? the feeling of pain in controlled can be found on the net or in After a somewhat foggy description situations as others do pleasure. chat rooms and will be more than of what needle play was I decided 3. How? Needles are strategically happy to offer advice. We believe that I would take on the task of placed through different parts of the peer education is always the most researching and writing the article. body including back, breasts, arms, effective and the safest way to go; After a quick Google search I was penis and so on. The needle goes but below are some points that surprised when I found a person through the skin i.e. through the may help to guide you in the right that does this as an occupation and entry point and out an exit point. direction. they worked in the local area…. Needle Play is unlike scarification Boom! where needles are inserted and DOs & DON’Ts the wound is aggravated so that it I decided to call to find out what it leaves a scar. During Needle Play takes to insert needles through the on the other hand the needles are skin of another individual and get quickly removed and care is taken to NEGOTIATE limits for both paid for doing so. I must admit I promote healing. Do parties and use safe words during was somewhat nervous making that 4. Who performs it? Needle play play.. initial call but I ‘manned up’ and can be performed by experienced dialled the numbers. As the phone professional and non professional MAKE SURE YOU PLAY IN A rang I thought to myself…Shit, BDSM practitioners, though after CLEAN ENVIRONMENT. Wash what am I going to ask her and researching the topic it seems many hands and body well and use anti- then she answered… “Um Hello, couples outside of the SCENE bacterial wipes on any furniture or ahh my name is Nik and I work get into exploring this as a form of surfaces where you play. for Queensland Injectors Health erotic pleasure. Network, I am writing an article on 5. Caution! The surface that is to MAKE SURE THE PERSON needle play and I, ahhh, saw your be pierced should be disinfected BEING PIERCED IS WELL website and thought you may be first using alcohol swabs. The last SUPPORTED so that if they willing to answer a few questions thing that you want is a bacterial faint they are not going to hurt on the topic? Initially she said yes, infection. All needles should be themselves if they fall. and then bailed on me at the last sterile and taken from the sterile minute… So now I am left having packaging just before use. If MAKE SURE THE PERSON you to answer my own questions, which infection does occur the person are piercing knows if this is your are: should receive professional medical first attempt.

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NEVER REUSE NEEDLES; this will reduce chances of bacterial infection; needles are also blunt after one use.

DO NOT USE SEWING NEEDLES or dress maker’s pins. These have a thin coat of metal to make them shiny. The plated coat can easily come off and enter the blood stream and cause infections or even death should it lodge in the brain or an important organ.

DON’T GO TOO DEEP- If you want to do deep piercing then you will need to build up your knowledge of where potential nerve damage and other potential hazards may occur. DON’T DIG AROUND once the needle is inserted - firm, even pressure and smooth guidance is all that is needed.

DON’T PIERCE NEAR THE SPINE - there are too many nerves HAVE A MEDICAL SHARPS CHECK IN OFTEN with the here that can be damaged. CONTAINER to dispose of your person that is being pierced; to DON’T PIERCE THE FACE, as sharps properly. ensure that they are doing well and nerve damage there is a very high it’s ok to keep going. risk. HAVE A RUBBISH BIN DON’T WEAR LOOSE HANDY as there are a lot of MAKE SURE YOU DON’T CLOTHING, which may catch on packaging and swabs etc to be PIERCE VEINS AND a needle during the scene and rip disposed of. ESPECIALLY NOT ARTERIES. it out. Avoid areas around the veins to be USE DISPOSABLE LATEX certain they aren’t penetrated. GLOVES at all times, and change Be BLOOD Aware! them as often as needed, especially AVOID NERVE HEAVY AREAS before removing needles i.e., face spine, palms of hands and OBVIOUSLY THERE WILL souls of feet. BE BLOOD PRESENT whilst USE ALCOHOL SWABS to engaged in needle play. Blood can sterilise the area of skin to be USE THE CAP to make the contain various viruses such as HIV, pierced. needle’s ‘exit point’, never your Hepatitis B & Hepatitis C that fingers. This is a safety precaution can be spread quite easily whilst ONLY USE NEW STERILE to avoid needle stick injury. engaged in such activities so always NEEDLES FROM THE follow safety precautions. Even tiny PACKET never re-use and of traces of blood you can’t see can course never share. transmit viruses.

MAINTAIN A TIDY PLAY Don’tsDON’T PANIC - If person passes So, there you have it, needle play AREA. Avoid cluttered space, as out attend to their safety first! consists of inserting needles through needles really make more mess Needles can stay in and be removed another person’s skin for the purposes than you would think, with swabs, after the more immediate threat has of erotic pleasure. Hygiene is very packaging etc. been dealt with. important and guidelines should be adhered to at all times.

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afety in the BDSM (Bondage, It is equally important to point out that Discipline, Sado-Masochism Your there is very little risk of contracting or or Slave/Master) dungeon transmitting HIV and other BBV’s or seems like a contradiction in terms STI’s if you use condoms and water-based lubricant correctly. Unfortunately it is still really - considering the dungeon is S illegal in some states in Australia for those where some people willingly go to Guide with HIV to sex work or pay a sex worker be tortured, tormented, violated and to for sex but let’s remember that HIV is a humiliated. However, safety does virus and not a crime (Scarlet Alliance, in fact set the scene for all BDSM 2009). There is also consensual sex and play for both the administrators and sex work between peers who live with recipients. At the very forefront HIV. We all have the right to seek and of professional BDSM practice, is Safer receive sexual pleasure as long as we are the Risk Aware Consensual Kink not harming others in the process - unless (RACK) philosophy that acts as of course controlled harm and harming is both a guideline and an industry consensual. standard when practiced routinely As far a sex worker’s go, most of us in the every time there is any (unwilling) sex industry are aware of how to do sex risk of potential harm to self or work safely before, during and after, other. as par for the course. Let’s face it, it’s Discuss before your session, what your safe our livelihood and in our best interests word is. Don’t make it a word like ‘stop’ or to ensure that all risks are minimised ‘don’t’ as it may be confused with consent and/or eliminated from our working in BDSM play. Use a plain word like environment. A higher number of sexual ‘aeroplane’, ‘monkey’ or ‘red’. This ensures partners does not necessarily mean there that if any injuries occur or are occurring is an increased likelihood of having an there is a plan to stop, drop and check STI. On the contrary, sex workers are up on what is going on. Always have more vigilant about safer sex practices and the necessary equipment to cut through condom use (Scarlet Alliance, 2009) than rope or chain in an emergency, such as the general public. Therefore, we cannot a bolt cutter or scissors. Be aware of assume everyone else behaves accordingly breathing, sounds, smells, skin colour, and in their everyday life. The onus is on every temperature, as well as what is being said. single one of us sex workers, Mistress’s Try to avoid being under the influence and Master’s, clients, sub’s and slave’s and of drugs or alcohol where possible but if Vanilla’s to insist that all play involving you or your client will be taking drugs, contact with the genitals, anus or blood, plan ahead, have all your own equipment be done so safely and hygienically for and dispose of your equipment properly. everyone concerned. The BDSM world is mostly about the head fuck but never leave a bound person This means the routine use of unattended, ever! Discontinue BDSM prophylactics (condoms) for intercourse play until all is well for you both. and toys, anti-bacterial toy cleaner, dental dams, lubricants, latex rubber gloves Due to the nature of sex work and BDSM, for needle and anal play, clean needles the potential for direct (or indirect) or picks, needle disposal units, lined contact with blood, faeces (shit), urine rubbish bins, baby wipes, hand sanitizer’s, (piss), spit and semen is high, resulting equipment sterilising, and frequently in a direct correlation with an increased cleaning your sheets and towels to risk of possible exposure to sexually minimise pubic lice (Crabs), bed bugs and transmitted infections (STI’s) like Herpes, scabies. Remember when you are asked Hepatitis A, Human Papilloma Virus to violate someone’s arse with your fist; (HPV) commonly known as Wart Virus, you need rubber gloves, and lots of lube. Chlamydia, Gonorrhoea or Syphilis If you are reaming it with a toy or strap and blood borne virus’ (BBV’s) such as on, then you also need condoms! Create a Hepatitis B and C or HIV. It is barrier between you and it. therefore imperative that all preventative steps are taken to minimise this risk and STI’s are transmitted through body fluids increase our pleasure by incorporating safer like semen and mucus such as natural sex practices into every aspect of sex, sex fluids in the vagina and those left on work and BDSM play. unprotected sex toys. Herpes can also be transmitted via kissing to the genital’s

Page 14 tracks issue 13 Safer Kink or mouth. BBV’s like Hep B, C and shopping bags and empty your rubbish HIV are transmitted via blood, syringes, bins daily. Wash your lingerie and semen, vaginal fluids and breast milk. underwear regularly. Remember safety It is important to be aware of any cuts, in the BDSM dungeon also applies to lesions or abrasions on your fingers the bedroom, couch or kitchen table! Two-tailed and in your mouth, as well as on the The thing is to always be prepared. genitals. Condoms act as a barrier to Keep a travel kit with condoms, lube, blood and fluid born viruses. HIV is gloves, dams, a toy, toy spray cleaner, not transmissible by kissing, saliva, spit, baby wipes, portable sharps container, urine or faeces, as large amounts are needles, syringes, plastic bags, and scis- Tawse required to be passed on and the virus sors or buy a first aid kit and modify it. cannot survive for long outside the body. However Hepatitis A and B can REMEMBER: Safer sex is: be transmitted by having unprotected Always carrying condoms with you, I will grip mouth to anal play (rimming). Always using condoms and water-based my two-tailed tawse lube (NOT Vaseline), within an inch of my gloved Cleaning and caring for your sex toys Ejaculation inside the condom, appendage & your exposed, will stop the transmission of STI’s. In Oral sex using s condom or dam, most cases warm soapy water will suffice Always using a condom when sharing up-turned posterior if your dildo/vibrator is made out of sex toys and change condoms between rubber, latex, silicone or glass depending partners, always using latex gloves I will on whether or not it is waterproof. If it with anal and needle play, Mutual isn’t, then a good quality anti-bacterial masturbation, kissing your partners control toy cleaner spray to use with a tissue nipples and Cuddling (Queensland / will also suffice. Boiling dildo’s for 3 government, Family Planning suspend minutes or putting them through a Queensland). \ hot dishwasher cycle will also work If you think safety first, before you switch but may damage them a lot quicker know it you will be practising safer / (Respect Inc). Similarly, whips, paddles sex without even being aware you are strap and canes and chains can be washed doing so. Even if you started doing \ in warm soapy water and dried and/or one or two of these recommendations, shined with leather and wood polish. you will be reducing your likelihood bitch of transmitting or receiving an STI / Disposing of used condoms, gloves, or HIV. Everyone will be happy and slap needles, syringes, blades, swabs, pads, enjoying getting off on whatever tickles \ tampons, bandages etc. need a little bit their fancy... arse...clit...or nipple. You you into submission more individual attention. Condoms get my drift. Now, go, fuck off and should be tied to avoid spillage of the start organising your dungeon and start & you will obey! semen, wrapped in a tissue and placed in practicing Risk Aware Consensual a lined rubbish bin. Similarly with latex Kink! In the meantime, I’m feeling I will thrash you gloves. These are taken off and naturally horny! I might just let my fingers do within your wildest dreams, go inside out, therefore trapping any the talking... whetting only my desire for bodily fluids or faecal matter within satisfaction them; they can be simply put in the By Jodine bin. Swabs, pads and tampons can also © Copyright 2011www.escortjodine.com. All be placed in a lined rubbish bin and Rights Reserved you will not look me in the eyes should never be flushed down the toilet. you will not soil in my presence Needles, syringes and blades need to be you will not touch any part of me placed in a sharps disposable container REFERENCES: to avoid the risk of accidental pricks Family Planning Association, ‘Tonight I’m Getting you will cry like a baby (no pun intended). You can request Condoms’, What is Safe Sex?, Queensland Government & beg for my forgiveness Health, September 2008. these from your local QuIHN office or when you fail needle exchange program. Matthews, K., Scarlet Alliance, ‘The National Needs Assessment of Sex Workers who live with HIV’, 2008 Most of what I have talked about is By Jodine common sense. If you keep things Respect Inc, ‘Cleaning & Caring for your Sex Toys’, Fact Sheet www.escortjodine.com simple you can’t go wrong. Keep everything clean including you. Wash Scarlet Alliance, 2009. Australia Sex Worker Association, ‘HIV Is Not A Crime’, ‘The contemporary response to or use baby wipes before and after HIV and the law in Australia: A collection of Articles’, each client or sexual partner, in fact booklet. have a packet in your bedside drawer. Scarlet Alliance, 2009. Australian Sex Worker Association, ‘ STI Handbook: A Reference Guide for Sex Workers Frequently wash or sterilise all toys, to Sexually Transmitted Infections’. Commonwealth of canes, paddles, tawse, whips and Australia chains. Frequently wash bed lines and towels. Vacuum. Recycle your plastic Page 15 Doin’ it Wasted tracks issue 13

doing and having sex in places that are dangerous. At the time, in our happy go lucky minds none of this shit comes into our heads… What the Fuck until the next day. We don’t want to take the fun out of it, but we do happened last night? want to take precautions so that Arrrhh who are you! when you go out for a big one we can help lower the risks of making impulsive decisions that can leave us at the sexual health clinic, getting a pregnancy test, explaining to your friend that you slept with Doin’ it their partner or even waking up not knowing where you are, why your sore and who the hell are all these people!

Here are some tips to get you wastedEver woke up in some strangers through those nights with your head house looking for a letter with an screwed on, while screwing. address on it so you can get the hell out of there, yelled out ‘who’s STEP 1: Go out with safe people! your daddy’ in the bedroom, woken When planning a big night, plan up with scratches and bite marks, who you’re going with! Go out with had someone nod off on you while people that you trust aren’t going getting ‘freaky’, couldn’t get it up or to leave you stranded at 3 in the just been on the wiz, wanked and morning. Going out with a loud watched porn for hours? Well if mouthed ,trouble stirring goose you haven’t you would have known can put you in a bad situation as someone who has. well, I don’t think waking up in the When we’re smashed and want watch house with a hangover would to get down and dirty, it can be be a fun way to end the night. Try exciting and a rush in itself at and go out with someone who isn’t times! Hair pulling, back scratching, going to be really off their head and feeling confident and irresistible. can drag you home or hold your We know the up sides of being on it hair back when vomiting if needed. while getting your gear off. So what about the risks involved? Yes I know STEP 2: Drug mixing! Be aware of sometimes we don’t want to hear what your taking and how much. the down sides, but we’re going to When you’re drunk, you’re more lay it out. likely to mix drugs. Bita this, bita that, be careful when you’re on When intoxicated, we can also lose wiz and you’re going out drinking our common sense. Our thought because you may not feel drunk, process can skip out the ‘pros’ and but eventually with enough alcohol ‘cons’ of risky situations. Making in your system it can override the impulsive decisions can also come amphetamines or the amphetamines into this category. Sleeping with will start to wear off , then look out! someone you wouldn’t sleep with It can hit you like a train! Mixing sober, crazy orgies, not using drugs also can increase the risk of protection which increases the risk overdose. Heroin, benzo’s, alcohol, of HIV, Hep B and STI’S, rougher antibiotics and even some over the sex, doing sexual activities that you counter medications can be a deadly wouldn’t usually feel comfortable mix. Ask one of the NSP staff for

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some info on the risks of mixing home with someone, send a text drugs if you want to get up to date message to a mate letting them on safety strategies. know your ok.

STEP 3: Take a rubber. Slip a STEP 6: I know you would have condom in your wallet, clutch, bum been told this since you were a tiny By Jules bag, shorts, bra WHEREVER! lad, but at some point DRINK 2007 We have to admit as carefully as WATER!!! All that dancing, we think we have planned a night sweating and grinding can really it doesn’t always go as intended. heat shit up. Keep hydrated and For instance, the babe at the bar drinking water before bed can help What’s it like to dance and prance is giving you the eye on the dance your head in the morning. On top of life without such pain? floor, next thing you know you’re For some must know, for when they glance in the sack and he/she doesn’t have STEP 7: Try and be aware of what a condom! But you will, wont you! frame of mind you’re in before you They just see sunshine! Never rain! Haha. It’s also handy if your mate go out. If you have had a hectic I watch their days all clothed in pleasure gets lucky you can slip them a week, mates been locked up, going And wonder how they earned such treasure? condom to keep them safe. Using through a break up, partners being condoms are going to prevent an asshole you are more likely to That shines and climbs for more to claim! babies, STI’s, HIV and Hep B. write yourself off. Be aware of that When you’re smashed it may be and follow the steps above to keep And what’s it like to bath in laughs harder to cum so sex can become yourself safe. And each day smile with such grand passion? rougher and longer. Check that the condom isn’t broken, that it STEP 8: BEING ABLE TO SAY To never know depression’s wrath hasn’t slipped off or that it hasn’t NO!!!! Being intoxicated can make But mould their days to suit their fashion! it harder to say NO, or even to slipped off in the Vagina. I know Is their secret so tough to find the thought of using condom’s understand someone saying no in can be a pain in the ass for some a slurred, intoxicated voice. If you Or are their sweet smiles just confined, people but you make condoms are in a situation that doesn’t feel To those who live but never ration? part of the fun as well! If you are ok for you remember that it is your with someone and they don’t want RIGHT to say NO. If you are with to wear a condom it’s important someone who is saying NO,stop,I And what’s it like to cluck in luck? to be assertive. Being able to say don’t want to, I cant do this or is To stroll the streets adorned in might, NO or talking to someone about unconscious it is important that you Without that bug that craves to suck the importance of condoms can respect their wishes no matter what Their worries like a parasite! be quiet empowering. You have to their body language may be saying. keep in mind your own safety and NO does not mean YES, no matter Their health glows charming every way also think if this person isn’t using a how intoxicated someone is. And never does their mind, tricks play condom with you, how many other I watch in envy their delight! people is it possible they could We have gotten over all the risks have slept with without protection? and precautions to do with getting Wake up with someone NOT your gear off; one important step I And yet you may find this so strange forget to mention is HAVE FUN! something! That I was once those I admire And BE SAFE. Think with your STEP 4: Try and keep a bit of head and not always your pants. But some wind blew such drastic change money on you for emergencies. If you do get yourself into a bad That tore my hearts happy desires If your mate goes home with situation (it can happen no matter It took away all majesty someone, or you do end up how many precautions we take) And tied me in anxiety somewhere you don’t want to be speak to one of our staff about it you have a bit cash to get out of and we can assist you were ever we And other twisted tragedies, there! can. Now I’m the phoenix stuck in fire And can’t remember my life prior! STEP 5: Let someone know where Lets get it on. you are! If you do end up going It all now seems like fading fiction Now I’m wrapped with this addiction

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SIMON SAYS WHAT TO SEXUAL HEALTH CHECK EXPECT Various different places offer ALANNA “I reckon these nurses blood tests done are for HIV, HEP sexual health check ups, including and doctors have seen and heard a B and HEP C, and SYPHILIS. Family Planning Queensland, lot of sexy stuff so it’s most likely SIMON SAYS they know that your General Practitioner, and that you won’t shock them with the coming for a check can feel some Community Health and finer details of your escapades.” embarrassing, however they will Aboriginal Medical Services. make a really good effort to help SIMON SAYS… The assessment you feel comfortable, that it’s your I spoke to Simon at Cairns Sexual then includes questions about, body and that you are in control. Health Service, about what whether you are having any Your local sexual health clinic is someone might expect when they symptoms, such as pain, discharge there for you to call on if you have are going in for a check up and or changes in your skin. Is there a any concerns or worries about your here’s what SIMON SAYS…. risk of unwanted pregnancy? Any sexual health, even if you are not risks of contracting a BBV? They sure about going in for a check you e have a mixture of booked may ask more about injecting drug can still call up and ask to speak to a or walk in appointments use, or if you are a man who has nurse if you like. availableW which means screening sex with other men, or if you have can be done the day you come in. had sex with a sex worker outside ALANNA Simon when is it a good When you make your appointment of Australia. They will ask about the time to go for a sexual health check or walk in, just say you want to have number of sexual partners, the types up? a screen. of sex you have had and if there was At sexual health clinic, we won’t condom use or not. SIMON it is a good idea to have a disclose any identifying information, The nurse or doctor will then ask if sexual health check up if: so you can use a different name on you have any other concerns… your file if you like. They will need • You think you might have an STI your date of birth and a contact ALANNA , “So that’s when you • You have had unsafe sex-vaginal, number for you though, to follow can hit them with an odd request oral or anal up with any further testing or or question, or when you might • You have had a condom break or treatment if required. divulge other health worries, when it falls off during sex a referral to the right specialist is • Your partner has other sex First up, some of the questions required. partners (and remember you don’t you will be asked are; about your Following the assessment, you may always know) general health, sexual health, your need an examination depending • You have shared any injecting past sexual partners, and if you have on if there are symptoms, but most equipment any history of injecting drug use. people don’t need to be examined. • You are starting a new sexual Everyone gets asked these questions To do the tests they may need a relationship and the reason they ask them, is that urine sample, maybe a throat swab it gives them a clear idea about what or an anal swab. Occasionally it tests to do. All info given is strictly might mean vaginal or penile ALANNA-Thanks so much Simon, confidential. swabs, depending on the type of it’s always a pleasure talking sexy sex and if there are symptoms. The business with you…

Page 18 tracks issue 13 Respect Inc Promoting the Health, Rights & Well-Being of ALL We aim to provide: 6. To lobby government to provide

Queensland Sex Workers sex workers with legal avenues to work • Information & resources within any area of the Queensland sex • Peer support, advocacy and referral work trade/industry as they choose (e.g. • Access and outreach escort, in-house, agency, private/sole • Services network development operator, co-operatives and/or street) • General community education without fear of arrest or prosecution for • Policy advice to government criminal offences related to sex work business activities. Our Objectives are: 7. To provide a legitimate voice for 1. To provide a range of education, Queensland sex workers advocating information & resources that will for legal & other social policies to support sex workers and increase their support sex workers’ human, civil & awareness of occupational health, workplace rights & access to remedies safety, emotional wellbeing, legal & without discrimination, including taxation rights & responsibilities, in programs & initiatives that aim to a non-judgmental & non-invasive reduce discrimination & stigma environment. espect Inc is a non-profit peer- against sex workers, past & present. based association focused on 2. To provide appropriate health 8. To support & liaise with national, the rights & wellbeing of sex promotion programs to sex workers. workers in Queensland. We provide state & regional sex worker rights R 3. To operate within a context of groups in the development of a formal medium to communicate sex worker issues and concerns so as accountability, equity & transparency. networks, programs & objectives. to improve the rights of our peers & 4. To recognise that by providing 9. To build & foster constructive respond to our workplace health & education, information & support to sex relationships with all stakeholders for safety and other needs regardless of workers, sex workers will be effectively the benefit of sex workers. gender, age, location, industry sector, resourced as safer sex educators to pass Our offices are set up as a safe drop cultural background or linguistic on those educational benefits to the in space for sex workers meaning we abilities. larger general population. invite all sex workers to come in and say The organisation is funded by 5. To operate within an affirmative hello, pick up some supplies, relax, have Queensland Health to provide action approach, that is, with all direct a chat, pick up some information and services to prevent the spread of services by peers (sex workers past attend workshops. We require people HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis & other or present) within all levels of the who are not sex workers to call for Sexually Transmitted Infections in the organisation, including management, an appointment before attending our Queensland Sex Industry. We provide staff & volunteers, & to foster a offices. If you’re a sex worker, it’s a good up-to-date information & education culture of inclusiveness and mutual idea to give us a call before you drop in, to sex workers & service providers respect within the diverse community just in case we are out on outreach. who have contact with sex workers of sex workers. through various communication mechanisms, including resources to inform & enhance the knowledge of Cairns sex workers & their clients in relation to Phone 07 4051 5009 Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI’s), 7/24 Florence Street, Cairns Qld 4870 Hepatitis & HIV/AIDS issues that affect their health & wellbeing. Megan Stapleton, Peer Health Educator Mobile 0413 571 394 Respect Inc recognises how Townsville important being able to give Phone 07 4724 4853 culturally appropriate services is, so 118a Charters Towers Rd, Hermit Park, Townsville Qld 4812 we operate within an affirmative action framework. This means all Michele Mann, Nth Regional Coordinator/PE Mobile 0416 987 011 direct services are provided by peers (sex workers past or present) and Brisbane sex workers are included within all Phone 073835 1111 levels of the organisation, including 28 Mein Street, Spring Hill, Brisbane Qld 4000 management, staff & volunteers. We Laurell Sands, Sth Regional Coordinator/PE Mobile 0451 149 782 aim to foster a culture of inclusiveness & mutual respect within the diverse Gold Coast Phone 07 5657 0857 community of sex workers. Principles, values and standards – www.respectqld.org.au [email protected] aims and objectives

Page 19 Article Title tracks issue 13 Sexual transmission & hepatitis C

FACTSHEET 29 Hepatitis Queensland

Relationships can sometimes be hard, Sharing needles or syringes or any other drug injecting equipment, or especially when people don’t understand Unsafe tattooing or body piercing. transmission. It is important to understand that While less often, transmission can occur from hep C is not a sexually transmitted infection mother to baby; through sharing razors, toothbrushes or tweezers; receiving a blood Can people get hep C from sex? transfusion prior to 1990 and occupational Hepatitis C is not classified as an STI transmission (needle-stick or sharps injuries). (Sexually Transmitted Infection) and not transmitted through semen or vaginal Sex and relationships fluids; When one or both partners have hepatitis C, Hepatitis C is only transmitted by blood-to- couples need to assess their sexual practices to blood contact during sex; reduce the risk of blood-to-blood contact during Research has followed couples long-term, sex. A decision to use condoms depends on the where one partner is hep C positive, and nature of the sexual relationship: has shown the risk of transmission to be extremely low to non-existent. With new or casual sexual partners, safe sex practices should always be used to Therefore there are no specific recommendations protect both partners against the wide for condom use outside what would normally be range of STIs; recommended in the general community. All In a relationship where sexual practice sexually active people should consider safe sex; may involve risk of blood contact (anal however there is no need to change sexual sex, sex toys, rough sex) partners may practices just because one partner (or both) has decide to practice safe sex; hepatitis C. Within sexual relationships where there is

“I used to worry about household transmission but now I know it is hard to catch like that. I have been practising unsafe sex with my partner for thirty years now and she has not been infected”

little risk of blood-to-blood contact there is General transmission of hep C currently believed to be no need to Hepatitis C is transmitted through blood-to-blood change sexual practices just because one contact, i.e. when the blood of someone with the partner has hepatitis C; virus enters the bloodstream of someone else. Hepatitis C is not considered an STI. This most commonly occurs through: Therefore, the decision whether you disclose that you have hepatitis C is up to you.

The ABC of Hepatitis Training Package is an initiative of Queensland Health through funding provided by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing under the National Hepatitis C Prevention and Education Initiative

Updated: 10 June 2012 For more information www.hepqld.asn.au Pageor 20 Hepatitis Queensland info line 1800 648 491 Sexual transmission & tracks issue 13 Article Title hepatitis C

FACTSHEET 29 Hepatitis Queensland

When is there blood during sex? gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, crabs and genital There is only a risk of hepatitis C transmission warts to name a few. If you have any condition during sex when blood is present. Where there is that involves scratching, sores or blisters a risk of blood-to-blood contact safe sex (especially when these may come into contact (condoms or dams) are recommended. Blood or during sexual activity) the possibility of blood-to- tears in the mucous membrane can occur; blood contact and contracting an STI is increased. During unprotected anal sex; During sex when you have cuts or lesions on or close to the genitals; Interested in finding out more? When STI’s are present; Factsheets HIV/AIDS lowers the immune system and 07 Disclosure and confidentiality has been associated with higher rates of 11 First aid & standard precautions sexual transmission. Co-infection with HIV 14 Hepatitis C: an Australian snapshot or hep B can also raise the level of virus in 26 Hep C, my baby and me the blood making transmission more likely; 33 Support Sex during menstruation; 37 Hepatitis B: what you need to know Rough sex or sexual practices that may involve bleeding or broken skin; Organisations Menopausal changes may affect women’s Hepatitis Queensland natural lubrication. Using water-based For further information call the Hepatitis lubricants will reduce the chances of skin Queensland on 1800 648 491. Hepatitis breakage or tears. Queensland can refer you to your closest Sexual Health Clinic for more information What can I do to lower the risk of on safe sex practices, sexually transmitted infections or testing transmission? Sexual Health Although contracting hepatitis C during sex is Sexual Health/HIV/AIDS/Hepatitis C quite rare, there are practical things you can do www.health.qld.gov.au/sexhealth/ to minmise the risk of transmission. Use lubrication during anal sex, or in times during a woman's menstrual cycle (including menopause). Further reading Poor lubrication may raise the potential for blood- Lack of evidence of sexual transmission of hepatitis C to-blood contact during sex. In these situations a among monogamous couples: results of a 10-year water-based lubricant will lower the potential for prospective follow-up study. Vandelli C, et al (2004). tears or blood contact. American Journal of Gastroenterology

While condoms are not specifically recommended or necessary to protect a partner from hepatitis C, all sexually active people should consider safe sex because of the risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections. STIs include genital herpes, HIV, hepatitis B,

Updated: 10 June 2012 For more information www.hepqld.asn.au or Hepatitis Queensland info line 1800 648 491 Page 21 Find a Word tracks issue 13

S E X U A L F L U I D S E X D O L L M D A B C H M L Q P O N E I A I D S G F A E Find a Word C T V U S I X S J W S K L F C X L P S S C O N T R A C E P T I O N D E Z U N T J AIDS, ANAL, BEAT, COCK, F R N H Y F R X R G R L I H O S L I E N CONDOMS, CONTRACEPTION, U A N D C R A U H X E R S R S I E N R H CRABS, DESIRE, DICK, DILDO, C L I N O N B A Z G T H G Y N X O X B O DIRTY SANCHEZ, DOGGY, FUCK, K C O U C M S L M Y O Y V F O T Z I A M FUN, GAY, GONORRHEA, K P G R K P S P S W Q E E A U Y O C T O HAND RELIEF, HARD SEX, I H P W R M R A E S T C T L G N P L I S HETERO, HOMOSEXUAL, S A M R D F N R Q P T S Y E D I X A N E INFECTED, KINKY, KISSING, S N X K U C T T G E D Y T O L N N N G X LEATHER, LESBIAN, I D R Y H U W N D R M A G L J E J A V U LOVE, MASTURBATING, N R D E W J Y E I M P G O N O R R H E A ORAL, ORGASM, ORGY, G E Z Y S D U R S D Y S C N A I B S E L PILL, PROSTITUTE, PUSSY, E L W K B P O R G A S M W P H Q U S O L RESPECT, ROUGH, SAFESEX, K I C A G X E R T S N M X G V U L V A V SEX DOLL, SEXUAL FLUIDS, Z E A A I J G C K B E A T E I S E V I M SEXUAL PARTNER, SHOWER, Z F Y K Z R E H T A E L L Q Y Y K N I K SIXTYNINER, SPERM, STI, H E T E R O U H U T E T U T I T S O R P VAGINA, VULVA

Want information on looking after your veins and reducing your chances of getting, or passing on hepatitis C?

Check out AIVL’s online Hepatitis C & Vein Care resource.

www.aivl.org.au/veincare

This ‘Hepatitis C and Vein Care’ on-line resource was produced by the Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) for people who inject drugs. It contains information on how looking after your veins can be one of the best ways to prevent getting, or passing on hep C, hep B and HIV.

This guide aims to reduce the risk of all these viruses, but has a particular focus on hep C. Hep C is preventable! Safer injecting is more than just using new equipment; it also means looking after your veins.

Check out www.aivl.org.au/veincare for everything you may want to know about vein care, safer injecting and blood-borne viruses. AIVL

Page 22 tracks issue 13 Acupuncture Services

Did you know... BRISBANE ACUPUNCTURE Sex burns about 360 calories per hour. SERVICE For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your Did you know that our resident acupuncturist is at QuIHN Brisbane fingers it doesn’t hurt. office every Wednesday? Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen. Acupuncture treatments are totally painless, take around 30 minutes and have been proven to be of great help with the following: Cherophobia is a fear of fun. • Stress The G in ‘g-string’ stands for groin. • Anxiety • One punishment for an adulterous wife in Depression medieval France was to make her chase a • Muscular-skeletal problems chicken through town naked. • Men’s and Women’s health

German soldiers, both heterosexual and QuIHN’s acupuncture practitioner is degree qualified and has had homosexual, are allowed to have sex with each other! training in both China and Australia.

A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.

‘Formicophilia’ is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.

The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.

There is a town in Pennsylvania named Intercourse.

Kampang School in north-eastern Thai- land is the first school to open a toilet for trans pupils.

In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest!

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

Tasmania was the last state to decrimi- nalise sodomy, doing so in 1997. It is also notable that Tasmania was the first jurisdiction to recognize same-sex couples in Australia since 2004 under the Relation- ships Act 2003.

There is town in Austria called Fuck- ing. Britsh tourists have been constantly stealing the signs for the oddly named village. Police chief are on the lookout and says this will not be tolerated. “We will not stand for the Fucking signs being removed” the officer said.

It is still illegal to practice homosexuality or indeed adultery and abortion and even premarital sex in some countries. If you’d like to make an appointment for acupuncture please contact Homosexuality is now recognised in 113 QuIHN Brisbane Reception 3620 8111 for all bookings. countries but still illegal in 76 countries Page 23 Look below for your nearest Sexual Health Clinic

Gold Coast Sexual Health Clinic - Miami Ph: (07) 5576 9033

Ipswich Sexual Health Service Ph: 38172428

Toowoomba Sexual Health Service Ph: 46166446

North Coast Woman’s Health Ph: 54448077 appointment needed

Princess Alexandra Sexual Health (PASH) Ph: 3176 5881

Brisbane Sexual Health Clinic No Medicare card required Biala - Ph: 3837 5611

Princess Alexandra Sexual Health (PASH) Ph: 3176 5881

West Moreton Health Plaza Ipswich – Ph: 3817 2428

Redcliffe Sexual Health Clinic Kippa Ring- Ph: 3897 6300

Nambour Clinic 87 - No Medicare card required Ph: 54705244 Outreach services to- Caloundra, Maroochydore and Noosa

Bamaga Men’s and Woman’s Health Ph:409042119/35

Bundaberg QClinic- No Medicare card required Ph: 41502754

Cairns Sexual Health Service, 381 Sheridan Street, Cairns Nth 4226 4769

Mackay- Sexual health and Sexual Assault Services Ph: 49683919

Mount Isa – District Sexual Health Services Ph: 47444805

Palm Island- Men’s and Woman’s Business Ph: 47525165

Rockhampton- Sexual Health, HIV and Hepatitis Services No Medicare card required Ph: 49205555

Thursday Island Men’s and Woman’sHealth Ph: 40690413

Townsville Sexual Health Service Ph: 47789600

Weipa Men and Woman’s Sexual Health Ph: 40823900