Question about Poppers

[MikeThomas]

If you bring them on board I would triple zip lock them just in case!

[+ Lucky]

In an archived thread on this topic, a few years ago someone wrote about his poppers leaking in the overhead compartment, with the smell engulfing the cabin. (If my memory is correct!)

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

15 hours ago, jonnychgo said:

About to travel to Palm Springs. Wondering if it is possible to bring poppers on an airplane?

The TSA is searching for weapons, not marijuana, alcohol, drugs, sex toys, or cleaning solutions.

Pack it in your checked luggage, or keep it with your quart size bag of liquids for the carry-on.  It should be no different than an adult without a child traveling with breast milk; or wearing a cock ring through security (which I've done); or packing dildos and vibrators in your carry-on.

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

7 minutes ago, Lucky said:

I had no trouble bringing a wrapped dildo through security. I just told them that it was a ski pole! 🤪

I had no trouble bringing enemas in my checked baggage to Mexico.  Mexican authorities questioned what it was for.  I told them, in English with hand gestures, that it was too prepare for sex in the ass.  They quickly let me through.

Edited February 7, 2024 by Vegas_Millennial

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

 Last year I flew with poppers I bought in Vienna in my checked baggage from Europe to the USA.  The bottle was no longer sealed (I used it before) and I did not put it in any type of airtight bag.  No problem whatsoever.

Edited February 7, 2024 by Vegas_Millennial

[Thomas_Belgium]

The liquids must be in a releasable, transparant plastic 1-litre bag. With all the problems around the world, security could become stricter.

[shadowcatzxxx]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the possible toxic components of some of these "alternates" to amyl-based poppers. Last time I looked into this (some years ago) a few of them could cause serious negative effects on the brain. IMHO, unless you really know that you are buying amyl, you're playing russian roulette.

And, of course, they should never be used in conjunction with viagra, tadalafil, etc.

 

[Boaxxx]

I sure do miss the good old days when one hit would give me the biggest head rush and carnal desires.

[Guest]

I have some questions about these, if someone wants to PM me

[56harrisond]

FDA reportedly raids manufacturer of poppers, an increasingly popular party drug

A manufacturer of the drug announced it has “stopped all operations following a search and seizure at our offices by the FDA.”

 

FDA reportedly raids manufacturer of poppers, an increasingly popular party drug

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[+ Lucky]

14 hours ago, 56harrisond said:

FDA reportedly raids manufacturer of poppers, an increasingly popular party drug

A manufacturer of the drug announced it has “stopped all operations following a search and seizure at our offices by the FDA.”

 

FDA reportedly raids manufacturer of poppers, an increasingly popular party drug

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A manufacturer of the drug announced it has “stopped all operations following a search and seizure at our offices by the...

 

The article says that many people actually drink poppers! Yuck!

[Boaxxx]

The article mentioned that poppers are often sold in convenient stores. I have never seen them sold in a convenient and usually get them at adult book/novelty stores. Just curious if others have seen them at your local 7-Eleven?

[Dolman]

I’m surprised this isn’t being discussed more.

Is RFK Jr. Cracking Down on Poppers? Double Scorpio Says It's Shut Down After FDA “Search and Seizure” | Them

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, which oversees the FDA, has promoted the...

There’s a lot of talk on X and Bluesky about people stocking up on poppers before more manufacturers get shut down. 

[Whippoorwill]

Is the Poppers Party Over?

A potential crackdown on a readily available party drug seems to be afoot. But don’t panic just yet.

 

 

Often marketed as nail polish remover or DVD cleaner, poppers are a popular party accessory.Credit...Tonje Thilesen for The New York Times

By Jacob Bernstein  New York Times 

Published March 27, 2025Updated March 29, 2025

Were it not for the fact that it was 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning and were it not for the blaring house music, one might have seen what was going on at HK Hall, an event space in Midtown, and at first glance said, “Is this a jock strap convention?”

There were men in jock straps by Nike, there were men in jock straps by the fetishwear brand Nasty Pig, and there were men in jock straps by Bike, which was the kind Garrett Magee wore along with a fanny-pack-like contraption that went around his thigh and gave a butch garter belt effect.

He was attending the Black Party, a yearly bacchanal that has been a mainstay of the gay social scene for more than four decades.

As it happened, Mr. Magee — an influencer whose profile derives from his ability to pair shirtlessness with landscape work — was not under the influence of any mind benders, although he did have a little brown bottle of poppers in his fanny pack, the use for which he made clear was to seize the moment should he encounter a person of interest.

 

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Popular since at least the early 1970s, poppers were thought to enhance pleasure in the bedroom and while boogieing on disco dance floors to anthems by the likes of Donna Summer and Loleatta Holloway.

For the last several years, bottles of the substance could readily be purchased at most sex shops as well as at scores of bodegas in New York, where they tend to sit behind glass cases next to energy-shot drinks at prices that range from $10 to $30.

Sometimes they were described as being nail polish remover on the bottle. (A reporter who tried them out for this purpose discovered they worked perfectly well.) Other times, they were described as being DVD cleaners, though prevailing evidence suggests their main selling point is their ability to temporarily relax the sphincter muscle.

The writer Paul Rudnick recalled the ease with which people bought a bottle as being comparable to buying Tic Tacs. “It was right there, it wasn’t very expensive and it wasn’t technically illegal,” he said. “It was off brand, like Ozempic.”

So enthusiasts took it mostly for granted that they’d be able to scoop them up when, on March 13, a company called Double Scorpio, a purveyor of poppers, announced it was suspending operations after a search and seizure from the Food and Drug Administration.

 

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The exact reason for the raid is not entirely clear. A spokeswoman for the F.D.A. said in an email that the agency would not comment on a potential investigation. Emails to Double Scorpio received no response.

Efforts to crack down on the use of poppers, citing possible health risks, precede President Trump’s return to office in January. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the Food and Drug Administration as the secretary of health and human services, has made it pretty clear that he is no fan of these products.

Regulators in the United States and Britain have often banned the specific formulations contained in poppers, but the brands that make them have largely remained one step ahead, tweaking the formula to keep the product in a legal gray area and on store shelves. Or, as a tour of Manhattan’s most distinguished sex shops would indicate, in glass cases by the cash register.

Rush is essentially the Coca-Cola of poppers. The label on the 3-inch-tall bottle at the Blue Store in Times Square is bright yellow. A bright red logo sits in the center of the bottle between a pair of bright red lightning bolts. In small letters at the bottom, the product is called a cleaning solution.

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Rush is essentially the Coca-Cola of poppers. The label on the 3-inch bottle at the Blue Store in Times Square is bright yellow. In small letters at the bottom, the product is called a cleaning solution.Credit...Martyn Vickery/Alamy

Other bottles with names such as Jungle Juice, Everest Premium and Double Scorpio are also commonly sold alongside Rush. This may be an inflection point for the Jungle Juices and the Double Scorpios of this world; so it’s worth understanding how the market evolved to where it is now.

 

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According to “Deep Sniff,” an exhaustive biography of poppers by Adam Zmith, their origin dates to 1844, when a French chemist named Antoine Jerome Balard passed nitrogen fumes through amyl alcohol.

The result was a substance with a pungent smell — an odorizer that wiped out an offending odor by creating one that was arguably even worse (think: chlorine, but several times stronger).

As far as Mr. Balard knew, inhaling the compound did nothing more than produce a bit of a rush, but other doctors began to study it. One was Thomas Lauder Brunton, a physician who, in the 1860s, discovered amyl nitrate’s ability to lower blood pressure upon inhalation, and began prescribing it to angina patients as a pain reliever.

By the mid-20th century, the substance was sold over the counter in a number of pharmacies in Britain and the United States, according to Mr. Zmith.

Word spread that, in addition to being a remedy for heart pain, amyl nitrate produced a nice high that lasted generally more than 30 seconds, and generally less than a few minutes.

After the Stonewall revolt, poppers proliferated in newly opened gay clubs around the United States. They were largely made by the Pacific West Distributing Corporation, which was owned by a gay man named W. Jay Freezer, according to “Deep Sniff.” (The colloquialism “poppers” owes to the fact that they were initially sold in ampules, a single use glass capsule or bottle, that when broken or cracked open, made a popping noise.)

 

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Jim Morrison, the frontman for the Doors, was described in the book “Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison” as popping “amyl nitrates right onstage” and then collapsing on the piano. Patti Smith, in the book “Just Kids,” describes visiting the piers on the West Side Highway in the 1970s with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and “the smell of patchouli oil, poppers and ammonia” in the air.

 

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For the last several years, poppers could readily be purchased at sex shops as well as at bodegas in New York, where they tend to sit behind glass cases next to energy shot drinks at prices that range from $10 to $30.Credit...Tonje Thilesen for The New York Times

The onslaught of AIDS in the 1980s created a stigma around poppers.

This was partly because, during the first years of the epidemic, the precise cause of the disease was unknown, said the AIDS activist Peter Staley. But, given the patient base, it stood to reason that sex was somehow involved in its transmission.

The theory that poppers could be a cause gained some popularity, despite the fact that there turned out to be no scientific basis for it, said Dr. Jerome Groopman, a veteran oncologist and a professor at Harvard Medical School who spent much of the 1980s and ’90s caring for patients with H.I.V. And during the next two decades, they remained easily available, though Mr. Zmith believes their popularity waned, at least somewhat. (“There aren’t a lot of studies,” he said in a phone interview.)

A cultural resurgence in the 2010s coincided with the advent of Prep, an H.I.V.-prevention protocol for people who are H.I.V.-negative but in high-risk groups.

As Prep was widely adopted in cities like New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, sex parties began to abound again. Poppers did, too.

 

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In 2017, the clothing line Nasty Pig made swimsuits emblazoned with bottles of poppers. In 2021, Mr. Zmith completed “Deep Sniff,” his book about amyl nitrate’s place in the history of gay culture.

By then, the Covid-19 pandemic was in full swing. Mr. Kennedy published “The Real Anthony Fauci,” a book full of baseless claims about Anthony Fauci, an immunologist who became the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and whose life and identity had been shaped by his research into H.I.V.

 

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the Food and Drug Administration as the secretary of health and human services, has been publicly critical of poppers.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The book contained 45 references to poppers, slyly connecting them to AIDS without outright blaming them for it.

Last summer, Louisiana instituted a statewide ban on poppers and whippets.

In February, David Lauterstein, the co-designer and co-founder of Nasty Pig, received an email from a vendor named Clint Taylor.

Mr. Taylor owns a gay bar in New Orleans called the Phoenix, which operates a store that previously sold poppers, along with fetish gear and various sex toys. Stores like Mr. Taylor’s have suffered over the past few decades, a result of the declining DVD business and consumers’ ability to buy lube and sex toys over Amazon. That made poppers one of their last remaining points of distinction.

 

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In a phone interview, Mr. Taylor recounted what he said to Mr. Lauterstein: After the statewide ban on poppers, foot traffic at the Phoenix dropped by more than 60 percent.

But in an age when Viagra and anabolic steroids can be purchased online in minutes without a prescription, Kevin Aviance, the well-known drag performer, said at the Black Party that he thought there was little possibility poppers would really be going away, raids or no raids.

Gay people, he said, using a more colorful term, “are resourceful.”

Mr. Aviance was standing by the bar in a nude-and-black bustier that he had paired with thigh-high boots that looked a lot like the Balenciaga pair that sells for $8,700 but that really came from China and cost what he said was about $8,600 less. He said he did not want to get overly worked up about the possibility that the Trump administration was “coming at us about the little things,” not when it was also doing things far more serious to trample the rights of trans people.

Still, it grated at him that Mr. Kennedy had such a high-profile platform, especially when he had made false claims about the link between poppers and AIDS.

“Girl, are you serious with that?” he said. “Come on.”

 

 

[+ Alabastrine]

Asking for a friend. Where would I find poppers in DFW?

[BuffaloKyle]

15 minutes ago, Alabastrine said:

Asking for a friend. Where would I find poppers in DFW?

They would be at your local sex shop.

[+ Alabastrine]

1 minute ago, BuffaloKyle said:

They would be at your local sex shop.

[Becket]

that spray stuff in the silver can  is better anyway

[Simon Suraci]

5 hours ago, BuffaloKyle said:

They would be at your local sex shop.

Correct. @Alabastrine Try Package Dallas (formerly Tapelenders) on Cedar Springs a few doors down from Hunky’s. Or Skivvies, on Throckmorton across from Sue Ellen’s and JR’s. Other sex shops in Oak Lawn will have it too. Plus the mainstream sex shops in broader Dallas.

Edited April 7 by Simon Suraci

[jeezifonly]

On 4/6/2025 at 10:57 PM, Becket said:

that spray stuff in the silver can  is better anyway

I find the reactions of my body to ethyl vs nitrites very different when used in similar setting/activity.  Tried BlackJack spray a while back. Heightened a couple of nerve centers, but post-play headache was just too much.  Ethyl has a higher mortality rate associated with it, for whatever that’s worth. Proceed with caution. 

I’ve used poppers on/off for 45yrs. Never in excess - I know my parameters of quantity and timing and stay within. When it’s part of a climax, there’s an element to the experience that defies descriptive words.
There will be exclusive black market poppers eventually. Bottoms with chemical engineering degrees will just need discrete financial support. 
The comefuckme gofundme.

 

[Becket]

Just ask for head cleaner. It comes in a silver can. The black max is too strong.