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| | [[Image:Monowheel.jpg|thumb|<center>A participant in the 2005 Doodah Parade in Columbus, Ohio rides a monowheel</center>]] |
| <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: [[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''' is when the rider of a [[monowheel]] brakes too hard. Instead of staying in the normal position at the bottom of the wheel they spin around the inside uncontrollably. This sense is derived from [[gerbil wheel]]s. |
| '''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 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]]. | |
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| (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.)
| | Gerbilling also known as [[gerbil]] stuffing or gerbil shooting is the [[sexual intercourse|sexual practice]] of inserting small [[animal]]s, usually gerbils but also [[hamster]]s, and reportedly other rodents, into the [[rectum]]; the idea being that the animals would snoop and or wiggle about which in turn would stimulate the [[prostate]] as in [[anal sex]]. Although there are apparently widespread public belief and persistent rumours about this, especially in the [[1980s]], no [[medicine|medical]] evidence of gerbilling exists; this would classify it as an [[urban legend]]. |
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| 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>
| | == Other websites == |
| | * [http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.asp Snopes.com - Gerbilling] |
| | *[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16042702/ MSNBC page on gerbilling rumor also contains video, both are halfway down the page] |
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| According to the [[Urban Legends Reference Pages]] (Snopes):
| | ==See also== |
| | *[[Anal sex]] |
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| {{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...''}}
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| == 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.
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| * Half way through [[Electric Six]]'s "Gay Bar" video a gerbil is shown running through a plastic tube.
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| * The comical minstrel [[Stephen Lynch (musician)|Stephen Lynch]] published a song entitled "Gerbil", wherein he sang of a fictitious misadventure about this particular phenomenon.
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| * The 1987 [[Dayglo Abortions]] album [[Here Today, Guano Tomorrow]] includes a song about gerbilling called "Hide the Hamster".
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| * 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.
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| * The album [[Farmyard Filth]] by [[The Tiger Lillies]] includes a song about gerbilling (or in this case, hamstering) entitled "Hamsters".
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| * 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.
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| * 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.
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| *It is often claimed that this is the reason the [[Pet Shop Boys]] are so called, but this is false.
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| *In volume 1 of the graphic novel "[[The Boys (comic book)|The Boys]]", a hamster crawls out of a dead man's anus.
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| * 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.
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| * 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?"
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| * Lead singer of the band [[GWAR]], Oderus Urungus, commonly makes references to his practice of gerbilling.
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Homophobia]]
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| * [[Rectal foreign object]]
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| * [[Felching]]
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| * [[The Death Camp of Tolerance]]
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| * [[Gerbil]]
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| == External links ==
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| * [http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.asp Full snopes article]
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| * [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_216b.html The Straight Dope: Is it true what they say about gerbils?]
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| == References ==
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