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Gerbilling

2007-03-19T01:21:24Z

24.61.98.230: /* Pop Culture */

[[Image:614 image 16.jpg|thumb|250px|The satirical animated television series ''[[South Park]]'' depicted gerbilling in the 2002 episode "[[The Death Camp of Tolerance]]", in which a gerbil known as [[Lemmiwinks]] falls victim to the practice.]]
'''Gerbilling''' also known as '''gerbil stuffing''' or '''gerbil shooting''' is the supposed [[human sexual behavior|sexual practice]] of inserting small animals, usually [[gerbil]]s but also [[mouse|mice]] and [[hamster]]s, into the [[rectum]]; the idea being that the animals would "nose around" and stimulate the prostate as in [[anal sex]]. Despite apparently widespread public belief and persistent rumours, especially in the [[1980s]], no verified medical evidence of gerbilling exists; its status is that of an [[urban legend]].

'''Gerbilling''' also has an alternate meaning, associated with [[monowheel]]s, referring to when the rider loses his normal position in the bottom of the wheel and instead spins around the inside uncontrollably. This sense is derived from [[gerbil wheel]]s.

According to the [[Urban Legends Reference Pages]] (Snopes):

{{cquote|The notion of gerbilling (not necessarily restricted to homosexuals — the insertion of items into the rectum for purposes of autoeroticism is practiced by heterosexuals as well) appears to be pure invention, a tale fabricated to demonstrate the depravity with which "[[faggot (slang)|faggots]]" allegedly pursue sexual pleasure.''}}

The lack of medical evidence for gerbilling is not surprising when one considers that (1) rodents have claws, and (2) frightened animals are likely to bite.

In the mid-1980s a rumour began about actor [[Richard Gere]], claiming that he had to have a gerbil removed from his anus at [[Cedars-Sinai Hospital]] in California. Snopes writes,

{{cquote|The rumour's spread was aided by an anonymous prankster who, not long after the film ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' led to a tremendous increase in Gere's popularity, flooded fax machines in Hollywood with a phony "press release" purportedly issued by the Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, claiming that Gere had "abused" a gerbil. But, as a reporter from ''[[The National Enquirer]]'' found when he attempted to track down the gerbil story, there were no facts to be had.}}

Former Philadelphia newscaster [[Jerry Penacoli]] was also a victim of similar rumors in the 1980s. In the early 1990s a fake [[United Press International]] story appeared on the [[Internet]] (sometimes also falsely attributed to the ''[[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]'' ''[[Los Angeles Times|Times]]'') detailing a supposed press conference at a hospital where a gay couple were taken to emergency after a session of gerbilling. Neither UPI nor the ''LA Times'' ever published a news article about these fictitious events (the full "press release" can be seen on Snopes). Nonetheless, recordings exist of radio stations covering the "story", including a memorable recording dubbed "Armageddon!" in which [[Robert D. Raiford]] (the commentator on the [[John Boy and Billy|John Boy & Billy "Big Show"]]) goes into near-hysterical laughter as he tries to read out the press release.

Medical literature, which covers examples of items retrieved from patients' rectums in extreme detail, has never recorded a case of an animal being removed from a patient, nor of damage inflicted on a patient's insides due to rectal insertion of an animal.

== Pop Culture ==
Apart from the aforementioned South Park episode, the legend was also mentioned in the [[2000]] film [[Cecil B. Demented]], where in porn-star Cherish([[Alicia Witt]]) stars in a gerbilling movie.
* Pittsburgh indie band Truth in Advertising references the legend during the chorus of their song, "Richard," on their 2005 album, "Inconsequential Background Music."
* In the last verse of "Fack" by [[Eminem]] he raps about gerbilling, repeating the line ''Shove a gerbil in your ass through a tube'' several times.
* Half way through "Electric six's "Gaybar video a gerbil is shown running through a plastic tube.
* In a hidden track at the end of Robbie Williams' ''Escapology'' album, in a list of things he idly thinks about when bored, Williams includes 'Is the Richard Gere gerbil story true?'
* [[Roddy Bottum]], keyboardist for the rock group [[Faith No More]], would describe gerbil stuffing in graphic detail to shocked interviewers.
* The comical minstrel [[Stephen Lynch (musician)|Stephen Lynch]] published a song entitled "Gerbil", wherein he sang of a fictitious misadventure about this particular phenomenon.
* JoeCartoon.com has published an animation featuring a gerbilling Bill Clinton.
* On the [[Family Guy]] tv series Peter in an espisode has a flash back to Easter at Richard Gere's house. While there Gere continues to tell Peter to "find" the hidden easter egg which is right in front of him. However Peter keeps claiming that it is up Gere's butt. Later a rodent runs out of Gere's pants leg and then back up.

== See also ==
* [[Rectal foreign object]]
* [[Felching]]
* [[The Death Camp of Tolerance]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.asp Full snopes article]
* [http://darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998-10.html An urban legend from the Darwin Awards]
* [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_216b.html The Straight Dope: Is it true what they say about gerbils?]

[[Category:Anal eroticism]]
[[Category:Sexual urban legends]]

[[it:Gerbilling]]

Gerbilling

2007-01-12T08:25:45Z

24.61.98.230: /* Pop Culture */

[[Image:614 image 16.jpg|thumb|250px|The satirical animated television series ''[[South Park]]'' depicted gerbilling in the 2002 episode "[[The Death Camp of Tolerance]]", in which a gerbil known as [[Lemmiwinks]] falls victim to the practice.]]
'''Gerbilling''' also known as '''gerbil stuffing''' is the supposed [[human sexual behavior|sexual practice]] of inserting small animals, usually [[gerbil]]s but also [[mouse|mice]] and [[hamster]]s, into the [[rectum]]; the idea being that the animals would "nose around" and stimulate the prostate as in [[anal sex]]. Despite apparently widespread public belief and persistent rumours, especially in the [[1980s]], no verified medical evidence of gerbilling exists; its status is that of an [[urban legend]].

'''Gerbilling''' also has an alternate meaning, associated with [[monowheel]]s, referring to when the rider loses his normal position in the bottom of the wheel and instead spins around the inside uncontrollably. This sense is derived from [[gerbil wheel]]s.

According to the [[Urban Legends Reference Pages]] (Snopes):

{{cquote|The notion of gerbilling … appears to be pure invention, a tale fabricated to demonstrate the depravity with which "[[faggot (slang)|faggots]]" allegedly pursue sexual pleasure.''}}

The lack of medical evidence for gerbilling is not surprising when one considers that (1) rodents have claws, and (2) frightened animals are likely to bite.

In the mid-1980s a rumour began about actor [[Richard Gere]], claiming that he had to have a gerbil removed from his anus at [[Cedars-Sinai Hospital]] in California. Snopes writes,

{{cquote|The rumour's spread was aided by an anonymous prankster who, not long after the film ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' led to a tremendous increase in Gere's popularity, flooded fax machines in Hollywood with a phony "press release" purportedly issued by the Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, claiming that Gere had "abused" a gerbil. But, as a reporter from ''[[The National Enquirer]]'' found when he attempted to track down the gerbil story, there were no facts to be had.}}

Former Philadelphia newscaster [[Jerry Penacoli]] was also a victim of similar rumors in the 1980s. In the early 1990s a fake [[United Press International]] story appeared on the [[Internet]] (sometimes also falsely attributed to the ''[[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]'' ''[[Los Angeles Times|Times]]'') detailing a supposed press conference at a hospital where a gay couple were taken to emergency after a session of gerbilling. Neither UPI nor the ''LA Times'' ever published a news article about these fictitious events (the full "press release" can be seen on Snopes). Nonetheless, recordings exist of radio stations covering the "story", including a memorable recording dubbed "Armageddon!" in which [[Robert D. Raiford]] (the commentator on the [[John Boy and Billy|John Boy & Billy "Big Show"]]) goes into near-hysterical laughter as he tries to read out the press release.

Medical literature, which covers examples of items retrieved from patients' rectums in extreme detail, has never recorded a case of an animal being removed from a patient, nor of damage inflicted on a patient's insides due to rectal insertion of an animal.

== Pop Culture ==
Apart from the aforementioned South Park episode, the legend was also mentioned in the [[2000]] film [[Cecil B. Demented]], where in porn-star Cherish stars in a gerbilling movie.

== See also ==
* [[Rectal foreign object]]
* [[Felching]]
* [[The Death Camp of Tolerance]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.asp Full snopes article]
* [http://darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998-10.html An urban legend from the Darwin Awards]
* [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_216b.html The Straight Dope: Is it true what they say about gerbils?]

[[Category:Anal eroticism]]
[[Category:Sexual urban legends]]

[[it:Gerbilling]]

Gerbilling

2007-01-12T08:25:02Z

24.61.98.230: /* See also */

[[Image:614 image 16.jpg|thumb|250px|The satirical animated television series ''[[South Park]]'' depicted gerbilling in the 2002 episode "[[The Death Camp of Tolerance]]", in which a gerbil known as [[Lemmiwinks]] falls victim to the practice.]]
'''Gerbilling''' also known as '''gerbil stuffing''' is the supposed [[human sexual behavior|sexual practice]] of inserting small animals, usually [[gerbil]]s but also [[mouse|mice]] and [[hamster]]s, into the [[rectum]]; the idea being that the animals would "nose around" and stimulate the prostate as in [[anal sex]]. Despite apparently widespread public belief and persistent rumours, especially in the [[1980s]], no verified medical evidence of gerbilling exists; its status is that of an [[urban legend]].

'''Gerbilling''' also has an alternate meaning, associated with [[monowheel]]s, referring to when the rider loses his normal position in the bottom of the wheel and instead spins around the inside uncontrollably. This sense is derived from [[gerbil wheel]]s.

According to the [[Urban Legends Reference Pages]] (Snopes):

{{cquote|The notion of gerbilling … appears to be pure invention, a tale fabricated to demonstrate the depravity with which "[[faggot (slang)|faggots]]" allegedly pursue sexual pleasure.''}}

The lack of medical evidence for gerbilling is not surprising when one considers that (1) rodents have claws, and (2) frightened animals are likely to bite.

In the mid-1980s a rumour began about actor [[Richard Gere]], claiming that he had to have a gerbil removed from his anus at [[Cedars-Sinai Hospital]] in California. Snopes writes,

{{cquote|The rumour's spread was aided by an anonymous prankster who, not long after the film ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' led to a tremendous increase in Gere's popularity, flooded fax machines in Hollywood with a phony "press release" purportedly issued by the Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, claiming that Gere had "abused" a gerbil. But, as a reporter from ''[[The National Enquirer]]'' found when he attempted to track down the gerbil story, there were no facts to be had.}}

Former Philadelphia newscaster [[Jerry Penacoli]] was also a victim of similar rumors in the 1980s. In the early 1990s a fake [[United Press International]] story appeared on the [[Internet]] (sometimes also falsely attributed to the ''[[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]'' ''[[Los Angeles Times|Times]]'') detailing a supposed press conference at a hospital where a gay couple were taken to emergency after a session of gerbilling. Neither UPI nor the ''LA Times'' ever published a news article about these fictitious events (the full "press release" can be seen on Snopes). Nonetheless, recordings exist of radio stations covering the "story", including a memorable recording dubbed "Armageddon!" in which [[Robert D. Raiford]] (the commentator on the [[John Boy and Billy|John Boy & Billy "Big Show"]]) goes into near-hysterical laughter as he tries to read out the press release.

Medical literature, which covers examples of items retrieved from patients' rectums in extreme detail, has never recorded a case of an animal being removed from a patient, nor of damage inflicted on a patient's insides due to rectal insertion of an animal.

== Pop Culture ==
Apart from the aforementioned South Park episode, the legend was also mentioned in the [[2000]] film [[Cecil B Demented]], where in porn-star Cherish stars in a gerbilling movie.

== See also ==
* [[Rectal foreign object]]
* [[Felching]]
* [[The Death Camp of Tolerance]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.asp Full snopes article]
* [http://darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998-10.html An urban legend from the Darwin Awards]
* [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_216b.html The Straight Dope: Is it true what they say about gerbils?]

[[Category:Anal eroticism]]
[[Category:Sexual urban legends]]

[[it:Gerbilling]]