Urban Dictnary: Gay juice

Contents:

• HOW A VICTORIAN HEART MEDICE BEME A GAY SEX DG
• GAY JUICE
• HOW A VICTORIAN HEART MEDICE BEME A GAY SEX DG

HOW A VICTORIAN HEART MEDICE BEME A GAY SEX DG

In the Journal of Gay and Lbian Mental Health, a team of rearchers report on an a potentially dangero product that’s beg marketed towards gay men: poppers that aren’t actually poppers.

GAY JUICE

The new products—advertised or scribed as poppers and sold onle by retailers that also sell poppers—have more ser health nsequenc than the tradnal amyl nre-based poppers oftentim ed recreatnally by gay men to enhance sex. Tradnal poppers have been popular among gay men sce the seventi. Popular brands such as “Rh” and “Jungle Juice” are sold onle and sex shops terg to gay men as “vio head cleaners” or “room odorizers.

But the vast majory of gay men who have ed them feel like the worst thg that is likely to happen is that they’ll get a headache.

HOW A VICTORIAN HEART MEDICE BEME A GAY SEX DG

It’s not somethg that most gay and bi men have any real cultural knowledge of, and now ’s beg marketed as a cheaper alternative to nre poppers. Journal of Gay & Lbian Mental Health.

Poppers were scribed as a gay dg for a few s, as gay men ed regularly to eher enhance sexual enunters or make the nightclub experience more tense.

Relaxed mcl around the an: takg poppers will relax the an mcl, which is one reason that gay men e to enhance their sexual experienc. Juice, I thk 's a type of popper which was a big gay dg, that's all I know.

As you say amyl was known as a 'gay dg' for a very long time, wh gay men, particularly the 70s and 80s, g to enhance sex or to make the lights and mic seem more tense when dancg nightclubs.

Men who were part of the gay nightlife scene the 70s, 80s, and 90s say you uld walk to a club and immediately smell poppers. Now, njur llective memori of the gay bars of yteryear: tight pants, dark spac, and speakers blarg Donna Summer and The Village People.

And creased police raids on gay bars, clubs, and diss (like the one that triggered Stonewall) popularized spac allowg that that didn’t e whout baggage.

Fifty years ago, when society was even ls acceptg of homosexualy than is today, that shame uld feel overwhelmg. But the story of poppers started long before gay bars and glass bottl—when French chemist Antoe Balard first synthized amyl nre 1844. “And a lot of dgs have their genis the gay scene before bleedg out to other cultur.

“Dis is many people, not jt gay men, ” he says.

While queer men weren’t the only people g poppers durg the dis era, Callanr says they particular took to the amber bottl bee of their practil applitns for gay sex.