Matt Spike is a professional fetish photographer from London. He was recently hired by a wealthy businessman to take photos of a group of escorts injecting themselves with chemsex drugs.
“Basically, a professional has come from another country and has hired one or more escorts, dressing them up in this fantasy gear,” Spike explains to Gay Star News. “And then he’s just happy to sit there and watch them inject themselves with crystal meth. I was brought along as a photographer.”
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The PnP party was held in a luxurious penthouse hotel suite in central London. When he arrived at the location, Spike says, “money, drugs and expensive fetish gear covered every surface.”
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Things quickly got underway. Armed with his camera, Spike began taking photographs of the men while the businessman sat quietly in the corner watching it all unfold.
“When I was there, I asked the guy if he wouldn’t mind me taking a photo of him injecting. Which, he said was fine so long as he didn’t have his face in it,” Spike recalls.
Not surprisingly, a lot of people have taken issue with the photo series. But Spike is undeterred by his critics.
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“It’s important to capture some of the sexiness because that’s what attracts people to it,” he says. “After all, chemsex is about chasing the ultimate sexual high. And crystal meth does make you feel really horny, and people use it to enhance sex.”
He adds, “I could also turn around and say, if you see my series as sexy – maybe you need to re-examine your own priorities because watching people engage in something that could be very harmful, is, after all, not such a sexy image.”
Watch Spike discuss his experiences in the video below.
am_psi
Queerty once more celebrating depravity.
ChrisK
In what way is Queerty celebrating it and why should they censor it just because you don’t approve?
CastleSF
This is disturbing in so many ways. Injecting chemical drugs into your body just to get high, have wild sex, and act upon your dark fantasies is just repulsive. Fortunately some people will eventually wake up and head to the 12-step meetings to save themselves from this insanity but others will perish in various tragic ways.
Kangol
Reporting on something isn’t “celebrating depravity.”
Like, Queerty could report on the recently arrested white gay serial killer in Toronto, who is now accused of having murdered two gay men, and is linked to possibly three other murders, with four of the murdered gay/bi men people of color. Gay people even warned the police, but they apparently did not respond.
But it isn’t touching news like that, at least for now. If Queerty did, it would not be “celebrating depravity,” but like this chem-sex story, just reporting news about gay people and gay lives.
Frank
He got paid so this is a no brainer…there is always a market for something and he is filling it…unbridled capitalism NOTHING more than that….
On a personal note if you are STUPID enough to video tape or photograph yourself doing illegal drugs then you get what you get in regards to police involvement and/or black mail down the road…
ChrisK
I find it interesting that the gay community embraced it it back in the 90s. It started in California and was mostly for the circuit parties. If you want to look deeper it also coincided with the first real treatment for HIV. People wanted to party and forget. It made it’s way to NY around mid 2000. Then all the horror stories which caused it to peter out and/or go underground for awhile. Now London is picking it up with a whole new twist on it (chem sex). They’ll soon discover the same thing and watch the NA meetings ski rocket.
CastleSF
“The gay community embraced the drug use in the 90s?” I don’t know where you were back then but we clearly lived in a very different universe. And this notion of “gay community” is, in my view, nothing more than a charade. There are conservative and liberal gays, upper class, middle class, and lower class gays, highly enlightened and drug addicted gays. The only thread that connects us all is our sexual orientation. Nothing more, nothing less.
Frank
CastleSF…I am thanking you from the bottom of my heart for this comment:
There are conservative and liberal gays, upper class, middle class, and lower class gays, highly enlightened and drug addicted gays. The only thread that connects us all is our sexual orientation. Nothing more, nothing less.
ChrisK
Yes. I shouldn’t of generalized.
billjones
Spending your life photographing drug addicts spreading disease. What a great contribution to society.
ChrisK
I’m not sure if this is good. Like he says about looking at it in a 360 view or just a way to market it to guys into watching it.
This reminds me of that story from last year about that West Hollywood activist paying and filming black escorts to inject themselves and the one that over dosed.
duje_buric
He is reporting the truth and the real problem of the gay community which is a significant contribution, What you make of the pics is all up to you.
Paco
The end result is far from sexy.
chris33133
These judgmental remarks are funny. Toulouse Lautrec painted prostitutes and his work is now considered great art.
PinkoOfTheGange
Unless the pix are glorifying, it in some way, I don’t see the issue.
If he wasn’t there would the party not of happened?
Are you all afraid that the pix will have some super power that if some see them they will fall down the rabbit hole?
Who do you contact to get the clutching pearl concession around here?
surreal33
The situation is sad. Sadder is that gay media glamourizes such self-hatred. Saddest is that gay men consider it normal.
Ummmm Yeah
Foreign business man means Middle Eastern muslim.
duje_buric
I find it extremely hypocritical to judge a photographer for reporting about injecting a dangerous chemical (crystal meth) only to get high and at the same time to drool over others who inject dangerous chemical (steroids) only to look good and buff.
Frank
Hmmm, so you are a purest and only want to see men and women that have NEVER taken drugs…..therefore you must not have NEVER seen a Hollywood movie…I applaud your stance
ChrisK
I think you missed duje’s point. He was just talking about hypocrisy.
Notright
Speaking of sex you can prepare yourself better for sex (if you are a bottom) with this https://packedman.com/squatty-potty-legit/
Frank
Also it is just good to clean out your lower colon…if you want to save money the next time you are on the toilet…just put your knees up towards your chest and let the good times flow