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It’s the end of an era. Pac West Distributing (PWD), the company that makes Rush poppers has gone out of business. Nobody knows why, but according to the This is FYF blog, the company’s website […]
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Test your knowledge, how many brands of poppers of you used or scene people use. Watch the video that I posted and find out? I used two of them, I would rather have great sex without them.
My lipstick be poppin’!
Lord I feel so embarrassed for Pacino when I see scenes from that awful movie… but anyways, I think John Waters is lucky. I wish I had a case of them bottles in my freezer.
http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2010/08/joe-popper-king-miller-dead.html
Seems there’s more to this Popper story! Yeow.
Joe Miller, one of the largest financial contributors to Indiana Democrats and the world’s largest manufacturer of Poppers is dead according to fellow blogger Ruth Holladay. She says a source tells her he took his own life last night:
A known contributor to Dem causes, Joe Miller, a gay man, has died. By his own hand.
Tragic.
Here is a portion of an email from a source:
“You’ve probably heard that Joe Miller died late last night. Joe was a controversial figure in the gay community—I’m sure you’ve heard of his travels and tribulations. He made lots of money and spread it around. Rumors about his lifestyle are rampant, and always hahve been. Yet, he was largely a recluse.”
Joe Miller owner of the Pac West Distributors of Rush , had his business raided last week by the FEDS. He supposedly was found dead at his home and it was initially reported as a suicide and then the local news paper pulled the story off the web and it has been hush ever since. So was the death due to him losing the empire he built, we may never know. He was a generous and philanthropic man and he would help anyone who needed it. He was a gentle soul and may he rest in peace. It is a sad loss to all those who knew him. I am anxious to find out more about the Federal raid and who initiated it and what they think they found and why they targeted him. It is so political, but he cover will soon be pulled from this and we may all be sitting with EYES WIDE OPEN.
It’s amazing how long Rush Poppers existed as a viable business, in the short amount of time I have been a member of the gay community I can’t tell you how many gay business’ I have seen change hands or disappear completely.
The 1983 ban on poppers might have been a result of the toughing of war on drugs at the beginning of the 1980’s. But also lets me now that gay sexuality was much different before the Aids crises. Did it hinder how mainstream sex is? Look at how novel the sex shop still is in america. Will bathhouses ever become main stream in gay culture again? Or are they a tribute to the 1970’s that should be considered retro?
Gay bathhouses are a tribute to the ’70s, when gay men didn’t have other alternative places to meet and have sex with men anonymously. With the arrival of HIV and the rise of other STDs, gay bathhouses no longer seem like the place to be. Besides, if one wanted to have anonymous sex, one would now just hit Criag’s List.
Well, one of the sponsor of this site is a gay bath house and they do a healthy business.
Every time I go there I always find more than a few men that I wouldn’t mind getting to know better. Unfortunately, I’m usually there on business.
As far as STDs, most people get infected in their own homes, but that’s not to say you can’t get infected anywhere. If you are worried about that, practice safe sex.
Finding a sex partner is like shopping, and Craig’s List may be fine and dandy but it’s like ordering from a catalog rather than actually visiting the mall to find the perfect fit. It’s about the experience- gym, sauna, baths.
When when I posted last , I did realize that steamworks was a sponsor, and I realize they bath houses in general are still relevant. The last two times I was in Chicago I maid sure to visit. Your s suggestive salesmanship at work.
Your right Marc bathhouses do have there place it is about experience, if I go I bring a couple friends and we go to the bar first its not anonymous that way. They are relevant in a hole new way.
The bathhouse is a masters class in the art of cursing, and gay vernacular. Had I seen a glory hole,tired a sling or even used poppers before going to steam-works….no
Was it fun as a twink to discover these things..hell yeah . Do I wish sometimes being a gay history buff that I would have seen the movie “Cursing” before going or for that matter and the band plied on yes. i would have had a respect for what a bathhouse is and its place in history.
I haven’t maid up my mind if I’m going to be visiting steamworks this weekend but I will not rule it out. Its part of the boystown experience.
Bring home the fun! Hah ha…
The hard times really hit after Bush was elected in 2000 & the overseas supply of real amyl was confiscated upon entry into the US. It wasn’t till after 9/11 when the US Govt stepped in to close down the European amyl makers. Meantime, this “popper” stuff sold, until now, was always headache-in-a-bottle, total crap. Then again I guess you had to have used the real thing to know.
Unfortunately, this event will be another infringement on civil rights that will go largely unnoticed. Don’t expect any of the well known bloggers to notice this.
know anywhere in te world where you can get amyl anymore?