People are injecting a peptide called melanotan II to make their skin darker without having to tan. The history and safety risks behind the drug draws concern.
Young Guys Are Taking Melanotan II for the Perfect ‘Sunless Tan’—and Finding Other Results
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a73172711/melanotan-ii-tanning-peptide-risks-explainer/
40 Comments
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 29d
So I can be tan and have prolonged erections with a possiblity of cancer in the future or I can be pale with a dick that won't stay up for more than an hour or two. It's like this article was written by an advertising company trying to sell grey market peptides.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 29d
Good lord fifteen minutes is plenty to get the job done
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 29d
Nothing succeeds like excess! In real life I've drained enough priaptic penises to be scared of boner pills but there is a part of me (the more impulsive, less cautious part) that wants to throw caution to the wind and be able to hang a towel on it for a few hours.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 29d
I thought "drained priaptic penises" was a brag that you're really good at giving head at first. 🤣
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 29d
Oh lol. No, professionally. Which I guess could go either way too.
dermanus@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 28d
The real question is how much school you needed for this job 😂
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 28d
I mean it is manual labor 😉
What level of education would you like someone, who's about to stab your erect penis, to have? Personally I'd prefer a urologist and not some yokel armed with a metal straw and YouTube.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 28d
I think you mean "schooling." The way you say it sounds Epsteiny.
Mac@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 28d
Got any openings coming up? 😏
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 28d
Hey that's what I asked your mom on the merry-go-round at the local swingers club /s
Mac@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 28d
Bruh i do but need to know this lmao
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 28d
Gonna assume that's not the kind of path the career counsellor at your school pointed you to?
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 27d
Quite the opposite, it was sold to me as live wherever you want and work all the hours you want.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 27d
you boast sir!
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 27d
I want to get to the snuggles sometime this millennium is all.
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 29d
hmm well if you want to be pale and have a dick that gets hard whenever you want you can already get tadalafil for relatively cheap from one of those online pharmacies that also writes prescriptions. hims for example. no need to risk cancer or anything.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 29d
I think being tan is an essential part of the experience for me.
qynruidaetkuuproon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 29d
I don't feel so bad about taking research chemicals to get high when I was a teenager anymore.
Hairyfishnuts@feddit.online · 10 pts · 29d
MrShankles@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 29d
I think they're just trying to get clinical data without official studies
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 28d
Boners can be painful?
Painful Boners is also the name of my punk band.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 27d
For sure! You can only handle being so hard and for so long.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 27d
Forget painful boners, the first listed adverse "event" is cancer. I'm just gonna get my farmers tan naturally thank you
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 28d
Emotionally painful, for sure. I can't count the number of times I had to look down sadly and tell mine there wasn't much we could do about that at the moment until the poor guy just gave up and stopped asking.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 27d
if you close a car door on one.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 27d
You can have the punk scene, I'm taking this shit emo and singing about the socioeconomicly depressed area I'm from.
dustyData@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d
If a boner lasts for too long it can actually cause oxygen deprivation and necrosis of the tissue. You dick dies and falls off. If you had a boner for hours and suddenly feel no pain, it's too late, the nerves already died and the boner not only is not going away. Unless you get a surgery immediately, you can die from sepsis. So, yeah, boners can be painful.
ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 29d
Every time I hear about Melanotan, I think of Martina Big, a pale blond woman who now identifies as Black because of how dark the injections made her skin.
iocase@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 28d
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 28d
Check out Papa Smurf here, huge fan of colloidal silver.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 29d
Yikes (unless she is mentally well and happy with her results) but you can't argue with the efficacy if that's all she took
ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 29d
I don't think she is mentally all there, she said in an interview once that she and her husband (who was also born white) will naturally have Black babies now
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 28d
Amazing cover for her to go off and fuck black dudes lol
"No, honey, we make black babies now remember?"
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 27d
Well fine, it's better that than her painting the baby black or something.
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d
Also better than non-consensually injecting her white baby with Melanotan.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 27d
Not necessary
vaionko@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 27d
My back hurts just looking at her
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 27d
I read that as melatonin 2 and thought Big Sleep was holding out on me.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 29d
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 28d
D.A.R.E. and Just Say No were miserable failures.
BoosBeau@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 27d
When is Big Peptide going to finally release Melanotan III? GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT WE WANT
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 27d
Melanotan III: Tan Harder.