THE QUEST FOR ‘FARM-TO-DISCO’ POPPERS
THE QUEST FOR ‘FARM-TO-DISCO’ POPPERS
Is the new brand Double Scorpio a cleaner, healthier gay party d**g?
As I recalled earlier this year in the introduction to “A Fascinating History of Poppers,” my first experience with Amyl Nitrites — the beloved recreational inhalant of the gay community — came in the back room of a sleazy East Village dive bar, where groping is encouraged and not-yet-dried semen sometimes sticks to the sole of your shoes. Those who love poppers, like the men who regularly post on the r/popperpigs subreddit, point to “relaxed sphincter muscles” as the prime benefit, along with a “complete loss of inhibitions” and “wanting to get fucked more than anything else in the world.”
As I (barely) recall, part of the experience also includes a momentary panic that something has gone critically wrong deep inside of your brain. So this is what a stroke feels like, I remember thinking before attempting to mouthfuck a twink in a broom closet. Sometimes, though, the side effects — i.e., anemia, pounding headaches and/or lips and fingernails turning blue — can last much longer than a moment.
So when my friend Richard Morgan, a distinguished author whom I first met via Craigslist M4M in the mid-aughts, mentioned a new “organic” popper called “Double Scorpio,” it struck me as a bit oxymoronic. “I think it’s for guys who want to burst their capillaries while also receiving the health benefits of agave,” he suggested on a recent walk in Playa del Rey.
In fact, Double Scorpio is the brainc***d of 32-year-old former radiologic technologist Julian Eternal and his boyfriend Brian, a chemist, who live in Austin, Texas. (Both are Scorpios, hence the name.) Fittingly perhaps, Double Scorpio’s story begins on a bus redesigned to look like a giant sheep at Burning Man in 2014. “I was on a lot of different things that day, talking with a drag queen about our mutual fondness for cleaners,” Eternal tells me. (To evade anti-d**g laws, poppers are often packaged as “VHS tape head cleaners” and “room deodorizers.”) He decided, upon returning to the real world, to create a Facebook group celebrating such cleaners and began selling enamel pins featuring a tombstone inscribed with “Your Hole,” which immediately sold out.
rest of story in link.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/organic-poppers
Is the new brand Double Scorpio a cleaner, healthier gay party d**g?
As I recalled earlier this year in the introduction to “A Fascinating History of Poppers,” my first experience with Amyl Nitrites — the beloved recreational inhalant of the gay community — came in the back room of a sleazy East Village dive bar, where groping is encouraged and not-yet-dried semen sometimes sticks to the sole of your shoes. Those who love poppers, like the men who regularly post on the r/popperpigs subreddit, point to “relaxed sphincter muscles” as the prime benefit, along with a “complete loss of inhibitions” and “wanting to get fucked more than anything else in the world.”
As I (barely) recall, part of the experience also includes a momentary panic that something has gone critically wrong deep inside of your brain. So this is what a stroke feels like, I remember thinking before attempting to mouthfuck a twink in a broom closet. Sometimes, though, the side effects — i.e., anemia, pounding headaches and/or lips and fingernails turning blue — can last much longer than a moment.
So when my friend Richard Morgan, a distinguished author whom I first met via Craigslist M4M in the mid-aughts, mentioned a new “organic” popper called “Double Scorpio,” it struck me as a bit oxymoronic. “I think it’s for guys who want to burst their capillaries while also receiving the health benefits of agave,” he suggested on a recent walk in Playa del Rey.
In fact, Double Scorpio is the brainc***d of 32-year-old former radiologic technologist Julian Eternal and his boyfriend Brian, a chemist, who live in Austin, Texas. (Both are Scorpios, hence the name.) Fittingly perhaps, Double Scorpio’s story begins on a bus redesigned to look like a giant sheep at Burning Man in 2014. “I was on a lot of different things that day, talking with a drag queen about our mutual fondness for cleaners,” Eternal tells me. (To evade anti-d**g laws, poppers are often packaged as “VHS tape head cleaners” and “room deodorizers.”) He decided, upon returning to the real world, to create a Facebook group celebrating such cleaners and began selling enamel pins featuring a tombstone inscribed with “Your Hole,” which immediately sold out.
rest of story in link.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/organic-poppers
6 years ago