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Poppers: reviewed from leading to worst
As a chemical class, alkyl nitrites (AKA poppers) are vasodilators. Inhale, and they smooth muscles surrounding the body’s blood vessels, relaxing minds and sphincters. First used in the 19th century to treat chest pain, they are now a common accoutrement of a wild night at the club, or in the bedroom. A fairly benign “drug”, poppers remain mired in a semi-legal grey zone, with new recipes devised to evade creeping code. There are even “European” – isopropyl nitrite – and “American” – isobutyl nitrite – versions (though for once, arguably, the American product is better).
To hear from a true professional, I spoke with Javier who works at a sex shop in Brooklyn. “All the types of poppers are basically the same bullshit,” he tells me. Widespread labels – like Jungle Juice, Man Scent, and Amsterdam – are even produced in the alike factory. Like much in late capitalism, branding is nearly everything. Buy “Man Scent” to unleash your piggy fantasies, or maybe stick with classic “Rush” to accentuate the
Sexual health for gay and multi-attracted men
Having unprotected penetrative sex is the most likely way to hand over on a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Using a condom helps protect against HIV and lowers the chance of getting many other STIs.
If you’re a man having sex with men (MSM), without condoms and with someone new, you should have an STI and HIV assess every 3 months, otherwise, it should be at least once a year. This can be done at a sexual health clinic (SHC) or genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic. This is vital, as some STIs do not lead to any symptoms.
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A is a liver infection that's spread by a virus in poo.
Hepatitis A is uncommon in the UK but you can acquire it through sex, including oral-anal sex ("rimming") and giving oral sex after anal sex. MSM with multiple partners are particularly at risk. You can also get it through contaminated meal and drink.
Symptoms of hepatitis A can show up up to 8 weeks after sex and include tiredness and feeling sick (nausea).
Hepatitis A is not usually life-threatening and most people make a entire recovery within a couple of months.
MSM can avoid getting hepatitis A by:
- washing hands after se
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I don’t recognize why he thought he could do this. I wasn’t acting sexy. I was reading Beverly Cleary books and wishing I could be a horse.
Do you think he had been listening to locker room banter?
Editor's note: Tara Weaver posted this essay on her personal Facebook page after the second presidential debate, when Donald Trump said that his talk of sexual assault was merely locker room joking. More than 4,400 people joint this story, and hundreds commented with their own devastating stories in the comments.
The second day I was kissed I was twelve or thirteen. My mother’s boyfriend came into my room to say goodnight. He sat on my bed, ran his hand under the covers and put his fingers up inside me. It hurt. He made me hold his penis and rub it. He told me it was “safe” to hold sex with him — he’d had a vasectomy and wouldn’t get me pregnant. He laughed.
I went to school the next day, sitting in class love nothing happened. I told my mother only that he had propositioned me, not anything else. It took twenty years and much therapy before I could tell her the full story, before I could admit it even to myself.
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