Gay sniffe
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 difficult 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 command 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, writer 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 perceive it or care – or both).
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I've recently discovered that I am a panty sniffer. Though since I'm a gay man, maybe I'm a briefs breather? I discovered this when a fuck buddy left his shorts behind, and for the next few days I jerked off sniffing his shorts.
That brings me to the young millennial techie guys at my work. They're always departing their underwear and socks on the floor of the company's gym in our office. The janitor picks them up and puts them in a lost-and-found bin. I started checking the bin, and no one ever claimed their shorts. I started taking a pair every now and then.
First question: Am I stealing? I assume the guys aren't missing them, since they've been in the bin for a week or more. Second question: Include I become one of those perverted panty sniffers from those old Chester the Molester comics?
— Singleton Now Inhaling Funky Funk
First answer: technically, yes. But a case could be made that you're reusing and recycling. If there were a Green Building Certification program for kinks, SNIFF, yours would qualify.
Second answer: Chester the Molester was a disgusting comic strip about a guy, Chester, “who was interested in sexually molestin
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Back on the Prowl With Sniffies
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While it’s hard to say whether the post–COVID vaccine period will carry on a surge of hedonism like the storied decade that followed the 1918 pandemic, a immediate scan of the maskless, largely naked boys of New York’s Jacob Riis Beach on a recent weekend suggests that, at least for the local queer crowd, the ’20s are entering a complete roar, baby. And as bottoms, tops, and N95s hit the floor this Pride month, a modern hookup website (that’s website, not app) has graceful itself to strut past the more familiar Grindrs and Scruffs on our phones and capitalize on all the horned-up, post-quarantine energy.
Sniffies is an upstart gay hookup site(NSFW!) that’s seeking to harken endorse to the old days of cruising, giving users a freak-forward user interface that shreds the decency mandates of the app stores and allows users to instantly locate the nearest dick or ass floating (literally, as photo icons) around in their neighborhoods on a exist updated GPS map. The approach cuts out the tedious texting and etiquette now so common on the traditio
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