The volume edited by two mustaches has two clearly differentiated parts. The first, Gé is a dramatic monologue of Emma Demar in which its protagonist, Paco, speaks to the public of his addiction, of the chills in which he participates and the different situations that occur in them. In a sober scenery, in which the messy table full of substances and boats stands out, the work tries to rummage in the reasons for that sexualized drug consumption and in the most human component of the protagonist (or the protagonists, since Paco intends to be archetypal). There is a confessed purpose: break the stigma suffered by users [es una palabra impropia, pero es difícil encontrar otra más atinada] of chemsex.

“Those who, on the other hand, come to escape a problem, to seek the affection that they do not have, they will probably face addictions with much greater impotence and more dangerous risks“

I saw first a portrayal of the play in a theater in Madrid and then read the text to underline ideas, and I checked, first of all, that Reading theater – something we do recently – is an exercise as great as reading novels. Avelino Piedad, the actor who has been playing Paco since the work was released, gives him heat, honesty and the morbidity that the work asks, but in the written paper there are ideas that are easier to fix.

One of the most important – and evanescent – is that of the reasons that are at the bottom of consumption, or problematic consumption: loneliness, the need for affection, marginality and difficulties of some lives, which need to flee and forget relatively. “Give yourself a taste or take off a disgust”, this is the problem that arises: who goes to the chills To give a pleasure he resorts to his legitimate right to find pleasure. Who, on the other hand, come to escape a problem, to seek the affection they do not have – “to be seen. To see me. So they love me” -, they will probably face addictions – of substances and sex itself – with much greater impotence and with more dangerous risks.

“Iván zro the second author of this book, has a long experience as a disseminator of sexual health and exploration of those most stigmatized aspects of the LGTBIQ+community, such as male prostitution and HIV“

“Sometimes I think I like the party because I wont to be young forever,” says Paco in the final stretch of the work.That consumption of Peterpanesco drugs – replied by that feeling that many gays have not being able to live their youth in time – is in the background of many of those recreational behaviors, some of which end up becoming addictive.

But both in Gé as in De chill There is a disapproved defense of determined and voluntary promiscuity. From that search for the chosen pleasure: we are body and the body we owe ourselves.

Iván zro the second author of this book, has a long experience as a disseminator of sexual health and exploration of those most stigmatized aspects of the LGTBIQ+community, such as male and HIV prostitution. His books always have two columns to settle on: the informative rigor and the real testimony of people involved.

“I am assaulted that the LGTBIQ+ collective is starting an ideological march towards social victimism, which is an attitude that it has never had in these six decades that seperate us from stonewall and that, from my personal perspective, would be a setback“

In this case, this model is millimetrically fulfilled. In the long first part he explains with detail, thoroughly, everything that an interested reader needs to know. The names of substances,their classification,their effects.The risks to physical and psychic health. Sexually transmitted diseases that can be derived from chemsex. The details of the back room and social problems, such as consent and violations. And he does it with a meticulousness that perhaps a connoisseur is excessive but that a reader like me allows him to build a complete map.

the second column, that of the royal testimonies, is at the end. Ricardo and José, two “victims” of the chemsex that tell their own life, their reflections, their fears and their ways of overcoming. “I tried to be normal when it wasn’t really,” says Ricardo. “I tried to fit in a world, one night and an atmosphere just for looking one more. When, in reality, all I wanted is, like Thoreau, feel that I have lived.”

“it is arduous to find in a documentary of any subject so many intelligent and transparent looks that alumn the viewer on the issue of discussing“

During the theatrical representation and during the reading of Zoo’s book, however, The fear assaults me “I just for some loose phrases, by brushstrokes whose stroke I don’t share.” that the LGTBIQ+ collective is starting an ideological march towards socia victimismL, which is an attitude that it has never had in these six decades that separate us from Stonewall and that, in my opinion, would be a setback. There is no alarm, but a gentle doubt.

Gé y De chill In short, they are a perfect marriage of texts, which deserves not only the recognition of the authors but the editorial commendation. And it shoudl be added that in these same weeks, Emma Demar has presented a cinematographic documentary entitled Chemsex: A trip inside “In which Iván Zaro also participates,” which deserves all the attention.It is difficult to find in a documentary of any subject so many intelligent and transparent looks that alumn the viewer on the issue of discussing.

Literature and cinema are also an addiction.

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Authors: Emma Demar and Iván Zaro. Title: The GE and Chill. Editorial: Two mustaches. Sale: All your books.