Editing Rod Liddle (section)

===Column on poppers and gay sex===
During a [[parliamentary debate]] on the Psychoactive Substances Bill – which "makes it an offence to produce, supply, offer to supply, possess with intent to supply, possess on custodial premises, import or export [[psychoactive substances]]"<ref>{{cite news|title=Psychoactive Substances Act 2016|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/psychoactive-substances-bill-2015|access-date=3 April 2016|work=[[Gov.uk]]|agency=Home Office|date=29 May 2015}}</ref> the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician [[Crispin Blunt]] admitted he used [[poppers]]:

<blockquote>And would be directly affected by this legislation. And I was astonished to find that it's proposed they be banned and, frankly, so were very many gay men.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Perraudin|first1=Frances|title=Tory MP Crispin Blunt: 'I out myself as poppers user'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jan/20/tory-mp-crispin-blunt-poppers-drug-policy|access-date=3 April 2016|work=The Guardian|date=20 January 2016}}</ref></blockquote>

Liddle responded in his ''Spectator'' blog: <blockquote>So, Crispin Blunt MP feels hurt because laws proscribing {{sic|amyl nitrate}}<!-- Should be "nitrite", not "nitrate". --> (or 'poppers') would criminalise the entire gay community. ... I would have thought that the requirement for amyl nitrate to relax the sphincter muscle and lube to accommodate entry was God's way of telling you that what you're about to do is unnatural and perverse. Or your body's way of telling you – your call. So eeeeuw. ... Crispin and others can always use a [[jemmy]] [crowbar] instead.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Liddle|first1=Rod|title=Did we really have to hear all about Crispin Blunt's sex life?|url=http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/did-we-really-have-to-hear-all-about-crispin-blunts-sex-life/|access-date=3 April 2016|work=The Spectator|date=25 January 2016|archive-date=30 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330205758/http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/did-we-really-have-to-hear-all-about-crispin-blunts-sex-life/|url-status=dead}}</ref></blockquote>

The [[satirical]] and [[current affairs (news format)|current affairs]] [[Humor magazine|magazine]] ''[[Private Eye]]'' described this as hypocritical, pointing out Liddle's account in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' of using [[Viagra]] in July 2004 in which he wrote that it was: "The weirdest drug I ever took, far more psychologically disturbing than LSD. For the next six hours, I had this implacable, disembodied, unconscionably rigid appendage dragging me hither and thither".<ref>{{cite news|title=Private Eye|url=http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CaS4nkpWwAAL-4Y.jpg|access-date=3 April 2016|issue=1411|date=5 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Liddle|first=Rod|url=https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/asia-travel/china/love-rat-you-cant-mean-me-m5krch766fp|title=Love rat? You can't mean me|date=17 July 2004|access-date=29 September 2016}} {{subscription required}}</ref>

A spokesperson from the [[LGBT rights]] charity ''[[Stonewall (charity)|Stonewall]]'' said of Liddle's remarks: "Comments like this are shocking and damaging, but we wouldn't expect anything less from repeat offending bigots like Rod Liddle. The Government's move for an immediate review of whether poppers are harmful is right, but banning them ... will cause confusion and drive gay and bi men who use poppers to seek out illegal drug suppliers from April onwards, putting their health at serious risk."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ridley|first1=Louise|title=Rod Liddle Slammed As 'Repeat Offending Bigot' For Column On Poppers And Gay Sex|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/01/25/rod-liddle-spectator-poppers_n_9071604.html|access-date=3 April 2016|work=The Huffington Post|date=25 January 2016}}</ref>