Your blood flows faster, your heart beats harder, your penis throbs like pulsating lava. If I had to explain what inhaling amyl nitrite for the first time really feels like, I’d say it’s like witnessing a hundred goosebumps in one go. I slumped too, the back of my neck feeling like it had just undergone a serious Balinese massage. I took the bottle and like a professional, like I was born to do it, I shut one nostril with one hand, and inhaled the fumes from the other. I saw him inhale, his hair rising instantaneously, and he slumped a little. He pulled out a bottle, no bigger than two AA batteries held together. Comes all the way from England,” he said. I was honestly fine with the regular beer-and-marijuana routine before getting in bed with prospective dates, but this one rainy evening, I was chilling with a long-time fuck buddy who just casually said he’s got a new batch of poppers. It’s like the moment you do it, you feel like an invincible rail bogie that can charge through pretty much anything.
They might not be really addictive, as a study says, but for gay men, there has ben a pattern of depending on them to make sex more enjoyable. The only problem is, poppers are highly addictive in an obnoxiously good way. Now the internet is rife with the many issues the continued usage of poppers exhibit, and let me tell you, they aren’t too far from the truth.
