![]() “Hold the bottle open under your nose and inhale deeply, and try not to let the liquid touch your skin or go up into your nose.” Swallowing poppers poses all sorts of harrowing risks, like cyanosis (a bluish tint to the skin), unconsciousness and death. In case you missed this vital point in the preceding paragraphs: The liquid in your bottle of poppers is not for drinking! “The vapor is the stuff that you want,” Zmith says. Poppers Safety 101ġ) Don’t Drink the Liquid. Zmith recommends looking for them at your local sex shop for the purposes of this article, I’ve linked to 4Solvents, an online poppers store that comes well-recommended by the intrepid hedonists of the PopperPigs subreddit. “Authorities like the FDA, I don’t know if they overstate the potential harms, but they just state the problem, and some people give undue weight to statements like that.” As with any other intoxicant, you should do your own research, make your own decisions and pay attention to your own body’s responses.įor the time being, because of poppers’ semi-illegality, they’re sold under many euphemistic names: “videotape head cleaner,” “nail polish remover,” “room deodorizer” and so on. “The relative harms of poppers are really, really low,” Zmith says. ![]() The FDA advises against them, citing potential health effects like severe headaches, difficulty breathing and blood oxygen issues, but some researchers have found that the risks associated with poppers are minimal compared to those of other recreational drugs, especially when users inhale the vapors rather than swallowing the liquid itself, and avoid overusing them. and not in the U.K., and vice versa meanwhile, some countries, like Canada, have banned them entirely. The legal status of poppers is messy, to say the least. The effects only last about 90 seconds, but for many people, it’s a pleasurable enough experience to keep them coming back to sniff again and again. “It’s a combination of relaxation, a head rush and horniness all at the same time,” Zmith says. They also help you shed your inhibitions and boost arousal for some people. One of poppers’ best-known uses is for relaxing your muscles, especially in and around the anus, thereby making anal sex and other tricky sexual maneuvers (like deepthroating) temporarily easier to achieve. Though they were first synthesized in the 1840s, they gained widespread popularity in the 1970s, especially among gay men in the nightlife scene.Ī bottle of poppers contains a liquid, and - crucially - you don’t drink or otherwise ingest the liquid, but instead the vapors instead. “ Poppers” is a slang term for a class of drugs called alkyl nitrites. ![]() Let’s get to the bottom of these controversial little bottles. To clear up some confusion about what these drugs are, what they do to the body and mind and where to get the best ones, I spoke to Adam Zmith, a writer and podcaster who released a book last year called Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures. But eventually I learned that they’re actually a different drug associated with boning: poppers. ![]() Ever been at a sex shop and seen some small, colorful bottles at the register that look like 5-Hour Energy shots? I always used to think these were some kind of sketchy over-the-counter boner pills, having never looked too closely. ![]()
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