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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, Page 4 tracks issue 13 Myths and Facts 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.