Crime or culture? Representations of chemsex in the British press and magazines aimed at GBTQ+ men

Figures & data

Figure 1. Collocational network of chemsex in the Mainstream Corpus.

Figure 2. Collocational network of chemsex in the GBTQ+ Corpus.

Table 1. Top 50 keywords of the mainstream and GBTQ+ corpora when compared against each other.

Category	Key in the Mainstream Corpus	Key in the GBTQ+ Corpus
Crime	police, Port, court, Brizzi, jailed, officers, Cuckson, supply, Sinaga, Hiran, victim, Buck, accused, murder, PC, Semple, victims, killer, class, Matovu, death, guilty, investigation, legal, crown
Sexual health		HIV, PREP, bareback, Dean, GMFA, negative, condoms, support, hep, undetectable, positive
Sex/sexuality		sex, gay, porn, fucking
Verb/processes	said, told, found, heard	think, get, want, talk
Social actors	Mr, family	guys, someone
Drugs	drug, meth, GHB	chems
Culture		monologues, play
Pronouns	his, he, her, she, him	you, I, we, your, our, my, us, me
Other grammatical words	was, had, after, of, in, were, the, by	can, it, if, that, about, do, ‘ve, us, are, ‘re, or, ‘t, ‘m, what, so, and, don, like
Others	flat, year, four