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The existing literature emphasizes the violence, trauma, and social disadvantage experienced by these women and obscures any sense of agency or sexual pleasure. This omission imperils our ability to develop effective interventions for women, ignores the true context of their sexual and injection practices, and presumes women to be free of agency and thus at the will of external social, environmental, and economic factors. This qualitative study strives to extend the boundaries of conventional risk-focused research to understand the complex and multidimensional sexual practices of women who inject drugs.\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Methods:<\/jats:italic>\n                    Purposive sampling was used to select women who inject drugs from a syringe exchange program in New York City. The principal investigator and trained study staff conducted interviews with 26 women. The interview transcripts were thematically coded in Atlas.ti with a grounded theory approach to understand the concerns, actions, and practices to further explain patterns.\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Results:<\/jats:italic>\n                    Four themes emerged with respect to women's descriptions of their sexual and injection experiences: (a) linguistic parallels of sexual and injection experiences, (b) substituting sex with injection drug use, (c) pleasure, and (d) injection drug use as intimacy. Our findings indicated that there was much positive discourse about sexual experiences and injection drug practices, with some women describing injecting as a substitute for negative sexual experiences and others noting that injection drug use served as a foundation for intimacy and eroticism in a relationship.\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Conclusions:<\/jats:italic>\n                    In contrast to the literature, women who inject drugs demonstrated power and agency and discussed pleasurable sexual experiences. Ultimately, interventions should recognize the realities of women's experiences to help empower them to practice safer sexual and injection practices.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1080\/08897077.2018.1547811","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,27]],"date-time":"2019-02-27T17:52:11Z","timestamp":1551289931000},"page":"201-206","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["The Intersection of Women'S Sexual Pleasure and Injection Drug Use"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"40","author":[{"given":"Caroline","family":"Katzman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ellen","family":"Tuchman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"New York University Silver School of Social Work, New York, New York, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/10550881003684582"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.drugpo.2012.07.005"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_4_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5172\/hesr.2012.21.3.272"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_5_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2105\/AJPH.2007.115790"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_6_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1471-6402.2004.00124.x"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_7_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1300\/J013v39n03_01"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_8_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s12954-015-0041-6"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_9_2","volume-title":"Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among Five Traditions.","author":"Creswell JW","year":"1998","unstructured":"Creswell JW. 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