{"title":"Books by Joan Daròs","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"inhalacion-profunda-historia-del-popper-y-futuros-queer-dos-bigotes","title":"Inhalación profunda: Historia del popper y futuros queer","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdam Zmith analyzes the cultural forces and connections underlying the practice of inhaling poppers and its links to identity, capitalism, and sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree, two, one… take a deep breath! From Victorian hospitals to 1970s sex clubs, popper vapor has unleashed the queer potential in many of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the surprising story of how poppers moved from the laboratory into gay bars, corner shops, bedrooms, and porn films. Combining historical research with ironic observation, Adam Zmith explores the cultural forces and unlikely connections behind the power of poppers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the book in your hands is not just a story of pub raids, viral phobias, and massive chests; it is a collection of fresh and provocative ideas about identity, sex, utopia, capitalism, law, freedom, and the bodies through which we experience the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fact, Deep Inhalation. History of the popper and queer futures, which begins as an investigation into poppers, becomes a necessary manifesto in favor of pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Absorbing, unrestrained, deeply documented, and absolutely festive, Deep Inhalation is exactly the kind of queer history we need right now” (Richard Scott, author of Soho)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating and joyful story, sociological and personal, of an underestimated drug. 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