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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.

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I read that as melatonin 2 and thought Big Sleep was holding out on me.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Good lord fifteen minutes is plenty to get the job done

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I thought "drained priaptic penises" was a brag that you're really good at giving head at first. 🤣

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Oh lol. No, professionally. Which I guess could go either way too.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The real question is how much school you needed for this job 😂

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

I think you mean "schooling." The way you say it sounds Epsteiny.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Got any openings coming up? 😏

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hey that's what I asked your mom on the merry-go-round at the local swingers club /s

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

Bruh i do but need to know this lmao

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In real life I’ve drained enough priaptic penises to be scared of boner pills

Gonna assume that's not the kind of path the career counsellor at your school pointed you to?

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Quite the opposite, it was sold to me as live wherever you want and work all the hours you want.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

I want to get to the snuggles sometime this millennium is all.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 points 6 days ago

I think being tan is an essential part of the experience for me.

I don't feel so bad about taking research chemicals to get high when I was a teenager anymore.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (6 children)

The FDA notes the most severe adverse events include melanoma, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, sympathomimetic toxidrome, and prolonged and painful boners.

Boners can be painful?

Painful Boners is also the name of my punk band.

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Forget painful boners, the first listed adverse "event" is cancer. I'm just gonna get my farmers tan naturally thank you

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

For sure! You can only handle being so hard and for so long.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Boners can be painful?

if you close a car door on one.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

You can have the punk scene, I'm taking this shit emo and singing about the socioeconomicly depressed area I'm from.

[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When is Big Peptide going to finally release Melanotan III? GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT WE WANT

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Melanotan III: Tan Harder.

[–] MrShankles@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Find more information and the latest peptide news at MH’s peptide hub

I think they're just trying to get clinical data without official studies

[–] ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

Check out Papa Smurf here, huge fan of colloidal silver.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

My back hurts just looking at her

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Amazing cover for her to go off and fuck black dudes lol

"No, honey, we make black babies now remember?"

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well fine, it's better that than her painting the baby black or something.

[–] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Also better than non-consensually injecting her white baby with Melanotan.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Amazing cover for her to go off and fuck black dudes lol

Not necessary

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

D.A.R.E. and Just Say No were miserable failures.

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago

People are fucking dumb