From: francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Clarification Re: Amyl nitrate
Keywords: Amyl Nitrate Legality
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:42:30 GMT
Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France)

I've been asked to clarify a few points:

In article <1992Oct14.151107.13803@ircam.fr> francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.025349.5419@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>>I'd be grateful if someone could tell me
>>(preferably by e-mail)_
>>
>>1) Is the use of amyl nitrate restricted to gays?
>
>photographs of Robert Redford in various films, (2) the weightless
>striptease by Jane Fonda in the title sequence of "Barbarella" (titles
>deleted);

Other movies by Roger Vadim have been substituted on occasion.

(B) pupil-dialation response to X-11 colormap names
>juxtaposed with their Pantone (tm) value equivalents such as "papaya
>whip", "bisque", "alice blue", and "dark slate grey";

Also, to the palettes "Black Leather Jacket" and "Cinnamon" in the
Microsoft Windows desktop setup utility.

>(C) Keyword
>source-scoresheets, with such phrases as "Jungle Red", "Heart of an
>Artichoke", "Too Utter", "Tomorrow is another day", "I can see they
>have split ends in other galaxies", "You have been convicted of
>assholism"; (D) The ability in blindfold taste-tests to tell the
>difference between various grapefruit-flavored mineral waters;

"Jungle Red": from "The Women"
"Heart of an Artichoke": from "All About Eve"
"Too Utter": Oscar Wilde
"Tomorrow is another day": "Gone With the Wind"
"I can see they have split ends in other galaxies": "Earth Girls are Easy"
"You have been convicted of assholism": Divine in "Pink Flamingos"

>>2) Is it legal to own amyl nitrate in most countries?

...
>is often (in fact most often) sold under-the-counter in gay leather
>bars as leather cleaner; usually to desperate heterosexuals who

In the Netherlands, or rather Amsterdam, One can buy "Amyl" Nitrite at
"Expectations" leathershop, address: 28 Warmoesstraat (don't quote
me). Most other sources worldwide sell "Butyl Nitrite" or other -yl
group variations on the same. "Amyl"'s use is becoming more and more
restricted. The last kind commonly available in the US would peel your
skin right off if you spilled it. "Amyl" doesn't suffer from that
defect.

>>3) Is its use generally legal or illegal?

Generally both. What does it do one might ask, that it is in such
limbo?  It is a vasodilator, as opposed to something like, offhand,
methamphetamine hydrochloride. The vapors are inhaled, and the rapid
drop in blood pressure makes for a pleasant feeling of giddiness.
During sex, it can be pleasant. Some people react poorly, developing
intense incapacitating headaches. The other effects during sex are
that it tends to make the (my favorite pleonastic tautology) erect
"male penis" get soft, and the pain (something strictly for beginners)
of something like anal intercourse less, because the sphincter relaxes
(you aren't concentrating so hard on it). Most people I know don't
have a lot of anal intercourse anymore but they do use poppers so it
isn't the selling point. There are other inhalants with similar
effects, which aren't illegal, but much less known -- "Chloryl".

>See (2) above.
>
>>4) Is its use dangerous? Has anyone died from it?

>Peter Sellers ("Thank You Alice B. Toklas", "The Pink Panther"), a
>self-admitted heterosexual male actor of note, who had a heart attack

Don't confuse him with Don-King hairdresser-victim contender Peter
Sellars, self-admitted opera director of gay note (noted for
idiosyncratic opera staging, such as the Santa Monica Freeway, or
Prison Camps).

>person, female heterosexual actor Britt Eklund,

Not to be confused with Danish Uber-woman Brigit "Stallone", of
"Beverly Hills Copy II" fame, who certainly would be more clever than
to have sex with any other than self-aggrandizing miniaturized
ex-porno star hollywood "artist" manques especially when they took
poppers.

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