"The Great Unmentionable": Exploring the Pleasures and Benefits of Ecstasy from the Perspectives of Drug Users.
"The Great Unmentionable": Exploring the Pleasures and Benefits of Ecstasy from the Perspectives of Drug Users.
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《难以启齿的伟大》：从吸毒者的角度探索摇头丸的乐趣和好处。
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10.1080/09687630701726841
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2008
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Evans,Kristin
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Hunt,Geoffrey;Evans,Kristin
尽管历史上合法和非法毒品给吸毒者带来了快乐，但毒品领域的研究忽略了这一核心和根本特征。当人们想到当代关于狂喜和舞蹈场景的文学时，没有任何关于快乐的讨论是令人震惊的。在这种毒品讨论的大部分内容中，快乐仍然是缺失的。研究未能探索毒品使用的一个重要和不可或缺的特征，主要是人们使用毒品的原因和他们获得的好处。为了调整这种不平衡，本文的目的是探索年轻人体验和谈论使用摇头丸的快乐、享受和好处的方式。利用社会学和文化研究的最新理论发展，我们对276名服用摇头丸并参加旧金山湾区舞蹈活动的受访者进行了深入的定性访谈数据。我们探索了两个不同但相互交织的主题，这两个主题出现在他们的叙述中。第一，从药物的直接影响中体验到的快乐，第二，更持久的好处。前者使他们能够超越日常活动和互动的平凡本质，而后者则是因为受访者相信他们可以在日常生活中重现狂喜体验的元素。基本上，我可以这样描述它，一种快乐过载。(018)我所有的朋友都说，你知道，我变得非常非常友好。他们说，就像他们看着我，他们认为我就像阳光从我的屁股里飞出来一样。好像我很开心一样。就像…一样我再也高兴不起来了。(036)
Although legal and illegal drugs have throughout history given pleasure to those who consume them, research in the drug field has ignored this central and fundamental feature. The absence of any discussion of pleasure is striking when one considers the contemporary literature on ecstasy and the dance scene. Pleasure is still missing within much of this drug discourse. Research has failed to explore a significant and integral feature of drug use, primarily the reasons why people use and the benefits they receive. To adjust this imbalance, the aim of this paper is to explore the ways in which young people experience and talk about the pleasure, enjoyment, and benefits of using ecstasy. Utilizing recent theoretical developments in both sociology and cultural studies, we examine in-depth qualitative interview data from a sample of 276 respondents who use ecstasy and attend dance events in the San Francisco Bay Area. We explore two different but interwoven themes that emerge from their narratives. First, the pleasures experienced from the immediate effects of the drug, and second, the more enduring benefits. The former enabled them to transcend the mundane nature of their everyday activities and interactions, and the latter resulted from the respondents’ belief that they could recreate elements of the ecstasy experience in their day-to-day lives.Basically that's how I could describe it, a pleasure overload. (018)All my friends say like, you know, I get very, very friendly. They say like they look at me and they think that I’ve got like sunshine flying out of my butt. Like I’m so happy. It's like … I can’t be any more happy. (036)