In recent years, the combination of drugs and sex, known as chemsex, has gained ground in gay and MSM sexuality. Although this type of sexuality is not new, it is improving thanks to the use of new dating applications. What's the impact on male sex workers?

Based on academic research initiated by Stéphane Boyer in 2017, himself a sex worker and chemsex practitioner, this workshop is an open space for exchanges, sharing experiences and tools, strategies and safe practices developed by the community itself. 

*Male sex workers: all those who work and identify as men in the male sex industry.

**Chemsex: use of drugs (legal and/or illegal) during sex to enhance sexual performance and get high during sex - willingness to have high sexhigh

Bio Stéphane Boyer 

Stéphane Boyer is a sex worker since 2011, specializing in BDSM since 2014: shibari, torture, needles or other body modification practices. He was first involved in STRASS in France before launching UTSOPI in Belgium in 2015 with a couple of sex workers and obtaining the decriminalization of sex work in Belgium. Finally, Stéphane Boyer is a performer, sharing his own journey through BDSM, sex work, body modification and the working class with his art. Now self-employed and a law student, Stéphane Boyer continues to develop artistic, advocacy and research activities to amplify the voices and rights of sex workers.