Gerbilling

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'''Gerbilling''' also known as the '''Richard Gere''' 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 man's [[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]].

(Gerbilling also has an alternate meaning, associated with [[monowheel]]s, referring to the rider losing her or his normal position in the bottom of the wheel and instead spinning around the inside uncontrollably. This sense is derived from [[gerbil wheel]]s.)

Medical literature, which covers examples of items retrieved from patients' rectums in extreme detail, has never recorded a case of an animal having being 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 urban legends over the years.<ref>Brunvand, Jan Harold. ''Encyclopedia of Urban Legends''. Page 166. W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.</ref>

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 [[ auto-eroticism ]] is practiced by heterosexuals as well) appears to be pure invention...''}}

== Pop Culture ==
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* In the last verse of "Fack" by [[Eminem]] he raps about gerbilling, repeating the line ''Shove a gerbil in your ass through a tube'' four times.
* Half way through [[Electric Six]]'s "Gay Bar" video a gerbil is shown running through a plastic tube.
* The comical minstrel [[Stephen Lynch (musician)|Stephen Lynch]] published a song entitled "Gerbil", wherein he sang of a fictitious misadventure about this particular phenomenon.
* The 1987 [[Dayglo Abortions]] album [[Here Today, Guano Tomorrow]] includes a song about gerbilling called "Hide the Hamster".
* In the episode of [[South Park]] titled "[[The Death Camp of Tolerance]]", Mr. Garrison's class gerbil is put into Mr. Slave's anus through a heated glass tube. This gerbil, named [[Lemmiwinks]], is guided out of Mr. Slave's intestinal tract by the spirits of other small animals that have died inside.
* The album [[Farmyard Filth]] by [[The Tiger Lillies]] includes a song about gerbilling (or in this case, hamstering) entitled "Hamsters".
* The opening of the film "[[Mallrats]]" talks about one of the main character's cousins continuously purchasing cats to attempt to retrieve a gerbil from his anus.
* In the Season 6 finale of the [[HBO]] show [[Curb Your Enthusiasm]], [[Larry David]] is falsely accused of gerbilling in a rumor that he instigates by lying to a nurse about his reason for visiting a gastroenterologist.
*It is often claimed that this is the reason the [[Pet Shop Boys]] are so called, but this is false.
*In volume 1 of the graphic novel "[[The Boys (comic book)|The Boys]]", a hamster crawls out of a dead man's anus.
* In the [[Drawn Together]] episode [[Requiem for a Reality Show]], hen Clara first summons the animals with her singing, a gerbil climbs out of Xandir's anus.
* In [[Tim Dorsey]]'s novel [[Cadillac Beach]], [[Serge A. Storms]] and Lenny are discussing homophobes and Lenny asks Serge if he ever put gerbils up his ass, to which Serge replies "But I only use non-cruel, gerbil safe, all synthetic Nerbil's®. You know how I feel about animal rights. What a horrible way to go. What if some giant space alien landed and did that to you?"
* Lead singer of the band [[GWAR]], Oderus Urungus, commonly makes references to his practice of gerbilling.
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== See also ==
* [[Homophobia]]
* [[Rectal foreign object]]
* [[Felching]]
* [[The Death Camp of Tolerance]]
* [[Gerbil]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.asp Full snopes article]
* [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_216b.html The Straight Dope: Is it true what they say about gerbils?]

== References ==
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