The moment you've all been waiting for ... it's the Poppers ep! With poppers in the crosshairs, we had to give y'all a whiff of the story behind your favorite little brown bottle. We start at the beginning in a french apothecary, peruse some titillating archival material, and perform some particularly lewd and crude reports that absolutely dripping with nitrites, among other things ;) Tune in next week for our interview with Adam Zmith, who quite literally wrote the book on poppers.

*Trigger Warning for explicit descriptions of sex

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Sources Referenced in this Episode

View scanned Drummer archives: cowboyfrank.men/

Special thanks to CSUDH Gerch Archives and Special Collections for making their archives available for research. With their cooperation we viewed archival material from: Drummer Magazine, Newswest, The Sentinel, The Advocate, and several other queer periodicals published between 1975 - 1990.

Adam Zmith, "Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures" [2021] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676195/deep-sniff-by-adam-zmith/

Gina Tonic, "From Heart Medicine to Party Drug: A Brief History of Poppers"

Tim Willems, "Hit Hold Release 3: A Gay Adult Poppers Fantasy" [2024]

Time Magazine, "Nation: Rushing to a New High"

Jerry Mills, "Poppers: The Collected Cartoons of Jerry Mills" [1985]

H.W. Haverkos et. al, "Nitrite inhalants: history, epidemiology, and possible links to AIDS."

Austin Le et al. "Use of 'Poppers' among Adults in the United States, 2015 - 2017"

Wayne, on Erowid, "Mostly for Solo Sex"

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