Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism – The Emerging Subculture

The ibogaine medical subculture.

AIM OF THE STUDY Ibogaine is a naturally occurring psychoactive indole alkaloid that is used to treat substance-related disorders in a global medical subculture, and is of interest as an ethnopharmacological prototype for experimental investigation and possible rational pharmaceutical development. The subculture is also significant for risks due to the lack of clinical and pharmaceutical standa...

Evolutionary Considerations on the Emerging Subculture of the E-psychonauts and the Novel Psychoactive Substances: A Comeback to the Shamanism?

BACKGROUND Evolutionary research on drug abuse has hitherto been restricted to proximate studies, considering aetiology, mechanism, and ontogeny. However, in order to explain the recent emergency of a new behavioral pattern (e.g. 'the e-psychonaut style') of novel psychoactive substances' (NPS) intake, a complementary evolutionary model may be needed. OBJECTIVE A range of evolutionary interpr...

The Internet and Youth Subculture in Kuwait

Young people in Kuwait constitute both the highest concentration of Internet users (estimated to be approximately 63% of all Internet users in Kuwait)and the largest sector of Kuwaiti society. Moreover, as argued in this article, young people's Internet practices are likely to stimulate the most significant changes in Kuwaiti society. This article scrutinizes a handful of descriptions by young ...

The Gamer Subculture in Lacy, WA

some reflection on the youth subculture: a study of the subculture of exhibitionist car driving

over the past few years, the subculture of exhibitionist car driving has attracted the attention of any social and cultural researchers in our country. these phenomena have been formed in interaction with general social trends. therefore, the study of these phenomena would facilitate a better understanding of these trends and currents. the present paper is an attempt to study the grounds that c...