Gerbilling

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{{dablink|For a hazard relating to piloting a monowheel, see [[Monowheel#Other issues|monowheel gerbiling]]}}

'''Gerbilling''' also known as '''gerbil stuffing''' or '''gerbil shooting''' refers to the [[hypothetical]] insertion of small animals, usually [[gerbil]]s but also [[mouse|mice]], [[hamster]]s, and various other [[rodents]] into a human [[rectum]], supposedly to stimulate the prostate as in [[anal sex]]. Contrary to the popularity of the legend of its existence, gerbilling is unknown as an actual [[human sexual behavior|sexual practice]], and despite apparently widespread public belief and persistent rumours, especially in the 1980s, no verified medical evidence of gerbilling exists, and its status is that of an [[urban legend]]. According to the [[Urban Legends Reference Pages]] (Snopes) inserting items into the rectum for purposes of [[auto-eroticism]] is practiced by people regardless of sexuality.

Medical literature, which covers examples of items retrieved from patients' rectums in extreme detail, has never actually recorded a case of an animal having been removed from a patient, nor of damage inflicted on a patient's insides due to rectal insertion of an animal. Rumors surrounding various male celebrities engaging in gerbilling have become popular over the years.<ref name=Brunvand2001b /> [[Jan Harold Brunvand]] records that the urban legend began in 1984, and initially involved a mouse and an unidentified gay man, but that in subsequent years this metamorphosed into a gerbil, and was applied to several named male celebrities that were publicly supposed to be gay.<ref name=Brunvand2001a /> In recent years, such rumors have heavily circulated regarding practices in the locker room of the New England Patriots. Because there have been no medical records of any gerbil complications, it is unknown whether or not the rumors are of substance.

== See also ==
* [[Rectal foreign object]]
* [[Felching]]
* [[The Death Camp of Tolerance]], ''South Park'' episode

== References ==
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* <ref name=Brunvand2001a>{{cite encyclopaedia|article=The Colo-Rectal Mouse|pages=81|author=[[Jan Harold Brunvand|Brunvand, Jan Harold]]|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Urban Legends|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|date=2001|isbn=157607076X|isbn13=9781576070765}}</ref>
* <ref name=Brunvand2001b>{{cite encyclopaedia|article=Gerbiling|pages=166|author=[[Jan Harold Brunvand|Brunvand, Jan Harold]]|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Urban Legends|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|date=2001|isbn=157607076X|isbn13=9781576070765}}</ref>

</references>

== Further reading ==
* {{cite journal|title=The Case of the Missing Gerbil|author=Norine Dresser|date=July 1994|volume=53|issue=3|pages=229–242|url=http://jstor.org/pss/1499810|journal=Western Folklore}}
* {{cite web|url=http://snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.asp|title=From Gere to Eternity|date=2001-11-18|author=Barbara and David P. Mikkelson|work=[[Urban Legends Reference Pages]]}}
* {{cite news|url=http://straightdope.com/columns/read/478/is-it-true-what-they-say-about-gerbils|title=Is it true what they say about gerbils?|date=1986-03-28|author=Cecil Adams|work=[[The Straight Dope]]}}
* {{cite journal|author=Becky Vorpagel|date=1988|title=A rodent by Any Other Name: Implications of a Contemporary Legend|journal=International Folklore Review|volume=6|pages=53–57}}

==External links==
* [http://larvatus.livejournal.com/234912.html A study of felching and gerbiling in language, culture, and popular imagination.]

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