THE FACTS ABOUT POPPERS

The information contained in this article was edited by the BearCity Big Bear Editor from information @ www.AllAboutPoppers.com

AllAboutPoppers state that the information on their site is factual and gained from a year long student project undertaken at Stanford University, in coordination with a study of Cornell University's Voeller/Goodstein Human Sexuality Collection.

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"Poppers are a source of great joy for many, but something surrounded by mistruths and misrepresentation." They contain a compound used by many, universally applauded, yet often publicly discredited.

Poppers, often called liquid aromas, come in many guises

What is the history of poppers? This goes back to the days when old-fashioned poppers came in ampoule form and used to increase the blood-flow to the heart! They have now evolved from a glass ampoule broken open to relieve chest pain from angina to glass screw-top bottle used for sexual fun. The gay community use poppers today to enhance:

• orgasm
• anal sex
• masturbation
• the "buzz" factor

Poppers sell today as "room odorants" or "liquid aromas" and are occasionally used as such.

Poppers have been used safely by the layman and the
medical profession for almost 150 years!

What do poppers contain?

Poppers are made of various forms of nitrite that is what does the trick.
The various nitrite compounds used are:

• butyl nitrite
• isobutyl nitrite
• amyl nitrite

These are all in the alkyl nitrite family of compounds.

All the alkyl nitrites act on the body in nearly identical fashion, but isobutyl nitrite is the most potent of them all. Amyl nitrite is sometimes thought to be more potent, but it is actually less potent. It was chosen over isobutyl nitrite to treat heart ailments simply because it's cheaper to manufacture.

They are clear yellowish liquids with a sweet smell when fresh. Some have described it as smelling like old gym socks, or like a men's locker room, once a bottle begins to degrade.

The different forms of the compound combine different molecules and structure. But with the nitrite attached it gets you where you want to be. It's all in the release of the nitrite ion.

Are Poppers Safe?

In general, poppers are safe unless you drink them, pour them on your skin, or put your cigarette out in them. Yes, it has been done! If you get a headache or you can't get an erection, open the window and take a deep breath. In fact, the headache is caused by excessive consumption and is considered part of the safety of these compounds. This is the body's way of saying, you have had too much and it is time to get some fresh air. It really is that simple.

In rare cases, individuals may experience 'syncope'. Syncope is defined as a 'transient loss of consciousness' which 'can occur in sensitive persons kept in a static upright position' after inhalation. This is the reason there have been no cases of intoxication. The chances of fainting are very slight, and the chances of fainting and remaining upright insignificant - nearly impossible.

In the unlikely event you should feel sick, lie down. But what reasonable adult needs to be told that?

!!! WARNING !!!
Manufacturers of tablets containing Sildenafil Citrate (such as viagra and kamagra) warn against mixing such tablets with poppers.

What do the experts say?

AllAboutPoppers.com detail a wealth of evidence which overwhelmingly demonstrates that alkyl nitrites are generally safe. The site claims testimony from:

• scientists
• government researchers
• medical professionals
• politicians
• university professors
• journalists

What is the great joy of poppers?

For starters, the ultimate orgasm; shooting off to the stars for a serene moment or two. The joy can be summed up In one word: vasodilation. You and poppers, and some great porn, are the perfect combination for the safest sex possible! You'll get some of the best orgasms ever with a good video or magazine and a bottle of "Rush" in your hand.

According to many researchers, poppers are the closest thing to a true aphrodisiac that exists today! In addition they have been shown to be among the safest and most pleasurable compounds the world has ever seen.

What is the story about poppers?

The poppers story begins in 1859 with the first reported use of alkyl nitrites by Sir Lauder Brunton. The story ends in 2002 with the launch of AllAboutPoppers.com. In between time, poppers have enjoyed and celebrated a century and a half of completely safe use.

Alkyl nitrites, their many benefits, and the millions who have benefited from them, is the major untold story of the pharmacological age in the midst of the great medical advances throughout the past two centuries.

According to Time Magazine, by 1977 the Isobutyl nitrite odorant industry in the USA was exceeding $50 million a year.

In San Francisco in 1981, Hank Wilson formed the one-man "Committee to Monitor Poppers", the spearhead of the anti-poppers campaign. This was the same year that the USA's Consumer Product Safety Commission's study on nitrite room odorants (often misused as poppers) showed clear evidence that poppers are amongst the safest consumer products ever to be put on the market. Additionally in 1981, the USA Food and Drug Administration declared that no restrictive action against these products was necessary because of the total absence of 'any demonstrable hazard'.

For twenty more years the groundless anti-poppers campaign struggled on. Then in the face of all the evidence and common sense to the contrary, legislation in the USA in 1990 made nitrite odorants illegal to sell in America. The ultimate legislation written to ban these products was a few small lines of text, buried in a huge and unrelated bill, to avoid last minute detection and circumvent any effort to stop it from happening. So, on February 26 1991, it suddenly became illegal to sell nitrite based room odorants in the USA, as they could be misused as inhalants. Whoosh!

Is there a downside to poppers?

Well there was the AIDS issue. Men, women, gays and straights have enjoyed poppers for decades as a sexually enhancing compound, with a very high rate of use in the gay community. In fact, most of the market for poppers is heterosexual but the correlation is proportionally much higher amongst gay men.

The high correlation between gay men and poppers was interpreted by some a high correlation between poppers use and AIDS. Some AIDS researchers noticed this and made an issue of this assumed correlation for a short while, until subsequent research and the voice of reason stepped in.

As the famed AIDS researcher, Dr. Bruce Voeller (Voeller gave AIDS its name), wrote in the Mariposa Education and Research Foundation's document (MARIPOSA OCCASIONAL PAPER No 6, May 1986 -- "Are 'Poppers' Safe?"). "In short, the much vaunted body of research supposedly demonstrating a link between poppers and AIDS does not withstand close scrutiny." Of course, poppers are used recreationally as an aphrodisiac. Sex has associated dangers which any reasonable adult is aware of, especially anal sex. But the anal sex is the risk, not the poppers. More importantly, poppers are widely used to enhance masturbation. Sex doesn't get much safer than that, does it?

What then appears to be the verdict?

From the evidence available it is blatantly clear that poppers are extremely safe, raise the heights of sexual pleasure and have no demonstrable link to the spread of HIV and AIDS. In essence they appear to be the ultimate love potion, enjoy!