Gerbilling

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'''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 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 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 />

== 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}}

== See also ==
* [[Monowheel#Other issues|Monowheel gerbiling]]
* [[Rectal foreign object]]
* [[Felching]]
* [[The Death Camp of Tolerance]], ''South Park'' episode

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