What is the street name for the practice of ingesting cocaine by blowing it up your anus?

July 22, 2004 6:59 AM

What is the street name for the practice of ingesting cocaine by blowing it up your anus?

(I only read about it, I swear)
posted by magullo to sports, hobbies, & recreation (45 comments total)

Doing an Elton?
posted by kenaman at 7:04 AM on July 22, 2004

My anus or your anus?
posted by sharksandwich at 7:10 AM on July 22, 2004

Coke-holing?
posted by Robot Johnny at 7:11 AM on July 22, 2004

"Hitting rock bottom?"
posted by bondcliff at 7:20 AM on July 22, 2004

"Taking a powder"?
posted by emptybowl at 7:29 AM on July 22, 2004

Ahem, "Snowmobiling on the Hershey Highway"?
Er, "Brown Nosing"?
posted by Divine_Wino at 7:37 AM on July 22, 2004

"Blowing Bisquik up the Mocha Trail"?
posted by emptybowl at 7:41 AM on July 22, 2004

That would be
a "Manhattan Powdered Doughnut"
"Moby Dick's Blowhole" (or just a "blowhole" for short)
the "Executive Surprise"
a "White Christmas"

I could go on, but I'm at work and someone's going to look over my shoulder at any moment, I can just tell.
posted by Capn at 7:57 AM on July 22, 2004

"Back-door blow?"
posted by ssmith at 8:03 AM on July 22, 2004

How the hell does one blow coke up one's own anus?

The 'the hell' stems from disgust and revulsion not frustration and exasperation.
posted by kenaman at 8:04 AM on July 22, 2004

Kenaman:

1) Stretch, start slow, Rome wasn't built in a day.
2)Don't give up if it doesn't work at first.
3)Yoga helps.
4)lean into it.
5)CLOSE THE SHADES.
6)Enjoy it, you limber coke fiend. While you're down there you might want to give yourself a "mic check".
posted by Divine_Wino at 8:20 AM on July 22, 2004 [1 favorite]

Stevienicksing.
posted by bcwinters at 8:25 AM on July 22, 2004 [1 favorite]

How the hell does one blow coke up one's own anus?

It's more like a couple sort of thing ...

It is also good to remember that blowing hard into any body orifice is not exactly a good idea ...

Here is my source. So maybe doing an Elton is indeed right.

/Is this made up for the book?
posted by magullo at 8:46 AM on July 22, 2004

"Friday Night."
posted by the fire you left me at 8:53 AM on July 22, 2004

I can only imagine two concievable reasons to do this:

1. Your nose is so damaged from near-constant long-term cocaine use that the blood, scabs, scar tissue, and residue prevent effective absorbtion of the drug


2. As part of an erotic encounter

If you are into coke so hard that blowing it no longer gets you high, odds are you'll move to a needle before you start doing this nonsense, so I doubt people do it for reason 1.

Given that coke generally has deleterious effects on the male annatomy, unless some compensatory measures (viagra) are taken, I wouldn't reccommend 2, either.

This leads me to believe that this 'practice' is apocryphal. I'm sure someone, somewhere, has done it, but I doubt that it happens often enough to warrant specialized terminology. Then again, I don't know many homosexual coke users, and this practice might be bigger in that community.

Here is my source.

ahh... your source is a work of fiction. Suspicions confirmed.
posted by ChasFile at 9:16 AM on July 22, 2004

i've done it, and i've had it done--it's really fun (and of course, i forgot what it was called) : >
posted by amberglow at 9:19 AM on July 22, 2004

Amberglowing? ;)
posted by filmgoerjuan at 9:35 AM on July 22, 2004

Glowblowing.
posted by armoured-ant at 9:55 AM on July 22, 2004

I can't believe no-one has mentioned crack cocaine yet.
posted by biffa at 10:09 AM on July 22, 2004

It tears too much on the way up. Plus it's hot.
posted by yerfatma at 10:16 AM on July 22, 2004

amberglow- So, what's the deal? Is the high any different (quicker/longer/better), or is it just erotic novelty?
posted by mkultra at 10:28 AM on July 22, 2004

Michael Musto mentioned this in the Voice last year. He called it "booty bumping."
posted by hashashin at 11:08 AM on July 22, 2004

"Hooping"

At least that's the name I've heard for sticking Ecstacy up your hiney.
posted by Monk at 11:20 AM on July 22, 2004

Apparently, I know about hooping but can't correctly spell ecstasy.
posted by Monk at 11:24 AM on July 22, 2004

"Awesome"?
posted by dhoyt at 11:36 AM on July 22, 2004

"coke poke"?
posted by btwillig at 11:50 AM on July 22, 2004

A more important question perhaps is which Republican senator we can name the post-anal-cocaine-drip after.
posted by scarabic at 11:58 AM on July 22, 2004

smuggling?
posted by whatnot at 12:09 PM on July 22, 2004

Bad, bad Leroy Brown?
posted by taz at 1:15 PM on July 22, 2004

There was a thread posted a while back that discussed this. The site talked about using speed. Butte the thread's comments may shine some light on it for you. The link was a gay NY's gossip if that helps. Could be wrong, just recall understanding the life style of a drag queens could fill you in on the conversation.
posted by thomcatspike at 2:02 PM on July 22, 2004

It may have been LA, Ca.
posted by thomcatspike at 2:04 PM on July 22, 2004

"blowback"
"Johnson's Adult Powder"
"Anarchy Up Your Anus"
"Bundt Cake"
posted by sonofsamiam at 2:09 PM on July 22, 2004

This leads me to believe that this 'practice' is apocryphal. I'm sure someone, somewhere, has done it, but I doubt that it happens often enough to warrant specialized terminology

yes, it really is called "booty bumping" and yes, a lot of folks do it - hard-core drug taking/party going gay men, for the most part. i said MOST, not all. the reason folks do this is because the anus is another mucous membrane, like the nasal cavity, so the drug is absorbed into the bloodstream thru the membrane very quickly AND it gives the membrane a tingly, cool/hot/numb (and many say) pleasurable feeling.
posted by tristeza at 2:58 PM on July 22, 2004

yup, it's a booty bump. It was fun, and very tingly. (i only did it once, so Amberglowing maybe isn't the best name for it) ; >
posted by amberglow at 3:53 PM on July 22, 2004

it was novelty for me, and another safe, fun thing to try with someone.
posted by amberglow at 3:54 PM on July 22, 2004

Nothing says "safe" like cocaine.
posted by NortonDC at 4:53 PM on July 22, 2004

Wow... can you smoke with your anus? You know, "blow smoke up your ass"?
posted by Keyser Soze at 5:05 PM on July 22, 2004

Nothing says "safe" like cocaine.

safe as in non hiv-transmitting/bodily fluid exchanging.
posted by amberglow at 5:14 PM on July 22, 2004

and you could (or rather, someone else could to you), Keyser, but that wouldn't be as much fun.
posted by amberglow at 5:19 PM on July 22, 2004

'round these parts, we call it "assuflation".
posted by zerokey at 6:45 PM on July 22, 2004

"Nestle's Trick"
posted by blackholebrain at 7:31 PM on July 22, 2004

"Corkin' the Bung Hole."
posted by ashbury at 9:21 PM on July 22, 2004

I'm tempted to call it "Stupid." But I shan't. At least, not directly. Instead, I shall do it passive-aggressively.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:37 PM on July 22, 2004

OK, zerokey, "assuflation" is a brilliant word for this practice. ("Insufflation" is a fancy word for "snorting," but I just checked the dictionary to be sure and insufflation is defined as "the act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body." I suppose "assuflation" would denote a specific cavity.)

I guess it's not very 'street,' though.
posted by hashashin at 10:54 PM on July 22, 2004

can we please call it "the mic check" now?

/me falls about
posted by Pretty_Generic at 1:54 PM on July 23, 2004