," are certainly regressive, as are lollipops and bubble gum. The final essential supplies are Vicks and oil. Ravers will often massage each other with baby oil to loosen their muscles. Additionally, they will apply Vicks to themselves and others to let it seep into their pores, especially their temples, says McKusick (1992). Supplies then become both practical and fun."Trip toys" are purely amusing rave supplies such as gadgets and trinkets to delight and amuse ravers under the flashing strobe lights. Garcia (1992) states, " A trip toy is something that will catch peoples attention and make them smile" (60-61). Common trip toys brought by ravers include: yo-yos, bubbles, squirt guns, kazoos, games, and stuffed animals. Sometimes raves will supply trip toys such as rattles, Frisbees, and even gyroscopes. Raves typically have play rooms, such as a Twister room, or a room with ropes for swinging. Trip toys, like supplies and clothes, are useful for ravers and help identify them as part of the subculture. In addition to looking the part, ravers need to speak the part. Like other subcultures, rave has its own lexicon, or in-group speech, to identify members and exclude non-members. Reynolds (1994) referred to the lexicon as the "semantic fuzziness of slang" (56). Although it is practically impossible to identify all the lexicon terms of a subculture, rave terms center around drugs, rituals, and music. For very obvious reasons, ravers need code words for illegal substances. The illegal substance used to identify ravers is methlenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). "Each generation finds it own drug, however (hippies chose acid, punks sulfates or speed), and this time young Britons chose MDMA or Ecstasy" reports Smith (1992: 31). Not surprisingly, methlenedioxymethamphetamine is referred to by less cumbersome names, such as: MDMA, Ecstasy, XTC, X, and Roll. Most commonly referred to as X, methlenedioxymethamphetamine was first patented in Germany i...
