Gay men and poppers
Poppers use should be goal for gay men's HIV prevention
Reducing the utilize of poppers in serodiscordant unprotected sexual encounters should be an objective of gay men’s HIV prevention campaigns, according to UK investigators in an article published in the online edition of Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Researchers found that gay men who inhaled poppers during unprotected anal intercourse had a significantly increased risk of entity infected with HIV. The investigators think there are two reasons why poppers are implicated in HIV transmission. Firstly, they facilitate longer and 'rougher' sexual intercourse; and secondly, poppers could increase biological susceptibility to infection, either by suppressing immune function or increasing uptake of body fluids.
Unsurprisingly, men who had unprotected receptive anal sex and those who received ejaculate, had an increased risk of acquiring HIV. But the researchers also found that unprotected insertive anal sex, a practice that many men believe to be ‘low risk’ for HIV, in fact involved an increased risk of seroconversion.
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seroconversion
The transition period from infection with HIV to the detectable pr
The twisty, titillating, controversial history of gay sex drug poppers
You'll recognize it if you smell it. "Nail polish remover with a hint of permanent marker." "Photo chemicals." "It's rigid to describe the perceive odor, but I know I hate it."
These Reddit users – of the subreddit "Ask Gay Men" – are talking about poppers, alkyl nitrite inhalants that many gay men sniff from little bottles in request to feel euphoric on the dance floor and/or loosen up before anal sex. They may "hate" the smell, but that isn't stopping them, either.
"It's just a momentary tall like that's like a minute- or two prolonged, every time you sniff," says Adam Zmith, creator of "Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures."
Poppers as a gay sex drug dates back to the 1960s in the U.S. People joke that you can smell the poppers "through the screen" when perusing social media footage of gay men jiving, gyrating. Troye Sivan's song "Rush," for example, shares a name with a poppers brand.
But that euphoric, sexual feeling – which comes from sniffing chemical compounds called nitrites – isn't always so euphoric or sexual. It can be unsafe in excess (though many users don't understand it or care – or both).
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Participants in a fresh study have reported a small but growing and worrisome trend among some gay American men. Often described as a modern way to use poppers or as huffing poppers, in fact, the perform is simply inhaling biological solvents or propellants. This practice appears to hold been going on for several years but may be increasing.
“Poppers” originally referred to recreational use of amyl nitrite, a substance that triggers production of nitric oxide and thereby produces a potent outcome of widening of the blood vessels. It has been used to increase sexual experience through relaxing smooth muscle and its mild psychoactive effects. Since the 1980s, amyl nitrite has been restricted to medical uses in the United States and Europe, but a number of related alkyl nitrites endure to be available in legal or semi-legal form.
The current trend does not involve the conventional poppers, which are inhaled directly from a bottle, typically in smaller amounts. The new huffing of solvents and propellants carries substantially greater risk both for death and for long-term neurocognitive damage than does the use of nitrite poppers. These new produc
Poppers
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Poppers are also known as: amyl/butyl/isobutyl nitrite, amyl (especially in Australia, where it's promounced 'ammul'), aromas and by brand names appreciate Liquid Gold, Rush, etc. They're often (but wrongly) called 'nitrates', which is a similar, but other chemical.
Poppers are a liquid made from chemicals from the alkyl nitrite family. The name comes from the days when they came in glass capsules that popped when broken open.
Sex on Poppers
Poppers can form you feel horny, bring down your inhibitions and build orgasms feel stronger. Because they relax the sphincter (the muscle in the arse hole) poppers can make it easier to be fucked or fisted. They can cause a man to lose his hard-on too.
Research shows poppers might play an important role in HIV being passed on. The reasons could be:
- poppers can lower inhibitions, making unsafe sex more likely
- there's a bigger peril of the arse bleeding (poppers expand blood vessels inside the arse)
- and/or poppers might make the immune system weaker for a short time, so that people are more open to infection.
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