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The NarcoSexuals

Studio Dries Verhoeven

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A bare-chested person with light hair and wearing a white contact lens stands behind a semi-transparent curtain; another bare-chested person is visible in the background. The room is lit blue.
© Willem Popelier

This event ran from 07.09.2023 to 11.09.2023. But wait, there's always more at Kanal! Check out the calendar.

Scrolling through their phones they go in search of sex, sex like they’ve never had before, sex beyond the imaginable. Horny and determined they get on their bikes, a phial of GHB or a bag of 3mmc or something in their pockets. Disobeying the request for social distancing, giving the health cult the finger, rebelling against the loneliness that is lurking all the time. They meet on a couch in a random living room somewhere in town. They snuggle up, they talk and talk, they fuck each other to kingdom come, sometimes they faint, in each other’s arms, they take care of each other. Meet: The NarcoSexuals.

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This event is for 18+ audiences

In his latest work, Verhoeven investigates the ins and outs of sexual drug use, a phenomenon that is gaining popularity especially among gay men. Forty years after the start of the gay liberation, we’re entering a ‘narco-sexual revolution’, even though this current liberation is invisible to the outside world. What pushes people to even risk their own lives? How different are they allowed to be?

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