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Gerbilling

2005-07-08T20:03:47Z

81.218.88.105:

'''Gerbilling''', or '''gerbil stuffing''', refers to the supposed [[sexual practice]] of inserting small animals, usually [[gerbil]]s but also [[mouse|mice]], into the [[anus]]. 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]].

According to [[Snopes]],
:''The notion of gerbilling . . . appears to be pure invention, a tale fabricated to demonstrate the depravity with which "[[faggots]]" [sic] allegedly pursue sexual pleasure.''

The lack of medical evidence of gerbilling is suspect when one considers that (1) rodents have claws, and (2) frightened animals tend to bite.

[[image:gerbil.jpg|thumb|200px|No verified medical evidence exists of gerbilling.]]

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,

:''The rumor'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 press release 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 the United Press 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 a newsreader 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.

A fictional victim of gerbilling is [[Lemmiwinks]], a gerbil in the cartoon television series [[South Park]].

The movie '''[[Mallrats]]''' opens with a story about gerbil stuffing.

== See also ==
* [[Rectal foreign object]]
* [[Felching]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.htm Full snopes article]
* [http://darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998-10.html An urban legend from the Darwin Awards]

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

Gerbilling

2005-07-08T20:03:21Z

81.218.88.105:

'''Gerbilling''', or '''gerbil stuffing''', refers to the supposed [[sexual practice]] of inserting small animals, usually [[gerbil]]s but also [[mouse|mice]], into the [[anus]]. 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]].

According to [[Snopes]],
:''The notion of gerbilling . . . appears to be pure invention, a tale fabricated to demonstrate the depravity with which "[[faggots]]" [sic] allegedly pursue sexual pleasure.''

The lack of medical evidence of gerbilling is suspect when one considers that (1) rodents have claws, and (2) frightened animals tend to bite.

[[image:gerbil.jpg|thumb|200px|No verified medical evidence exists of gerbilling.]]

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,

:''The rumor'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 press release 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 the United Press 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 a newsreader 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.

A fictional victim of gerbilling is [[Lemmiwinks]], a gerbil in the cartoon television series [[South Park]].

The movie '''[[Mallrats]]''' opens with a story about gerbil stuffing.

== See also
* [[Rectal foreign object]]
* [[Felching]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.htm Full snopes article]
* [http://darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998-10.html An urban legend from the Darwin Awards]

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

Gerbilling

2005-07-08T20:03:05Z

81.218.88.105:

'''Gerbilling''', or '''gerbil stuffing''', refers to the supposed [[sexual practice]] of inserting small animals, usually [[gerbil]]s but also [[mouse|mice]], into the [[anus]]. 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]].

According to [[Snopes]],
:''The notion of gerbilling . . . appears to be pure invention, a tale fabricated to demonstrate the depravity with which "[[faggots]]" [sic] allegedly pursue sexual pleasure.''

The lack of medical evidence of gerbilling is suspect when one considers that (1) rodents have claws, and (2) frightened animals tend to bite.

[[image:gerbil.jpg|thumb|200px|No verified medical evidence exists of gerbilling.]]

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,

:''The rumor'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 press release 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 the United Press 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 a newsreader 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.

A fictional victim of gerbilling is [[Lemmiwinks]], a gerbil in the cartoon television series [[South Park]].

The movie '''[[Mallrats]]''' opens with a story about gerbil stuffing.
== See also
* [[Rectal foreign object]]
* [[Felching]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.htm Full snopes article]
* [http://darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998-10.html An urban legend from the Darwin Awards]

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