Gerbilling

For a hazard relating to piloting a monowheel, see monowheel gerbiling

Gerbils are the most common rodents to be allegedly inserted.

Gerbilling, also known as gerbil stuffing or gerbil shooting, is an urban legend that describes a supposed sexual practice of inserting small live animals (usually gerbils but also mice, hamsters, rats and various other rodents) into the human rectum to obtain stimulation.

Overview

According to folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand, accounts of gerbilling were first recorded in 1984 and initially were said to involve a mouse and an unidentified gay man. In subsequent versions of the story, the animal was a gerbil and the story applied to several male celebrities who were rumored to be gay. Rumors surrounding various male celebrities engaging in gerbilling have become persisted as urban legends over the years. This is simply an unverified and persistent urban legend, that is, pure fiction.

As of the mid-1980s, there were no reports in peer-reviewed medical literature describing gerbilling.

In popular culture

An account appeared in "The Death Camp of Tolerance," episode 93 of South Park.

See also

• American Psycho
• Mallrats
• Rectal foreign object
• Stephen Lynch album A Little Bit Special

Further reading

• Norine Dresser (July 1994). "The Case of the Missing Gerbil". Western Folklore. 53 (3): 229–242. JSTOR 1499810.
• Barbara and David P. Mikkelson (2001-11-18). "From Gere to Eternity". Urban Legends Reference Pages.
• Cecil Adams (1986-03-28). "Is it true what they say about gerbils?". The Straight Dope.
• Becky Vorpagel (1988). "A rodent by Any Other Name: Implications of a Contemporary Legend". International Folklore Review. 6: 53–57.

External links

• A study of felching and gerbiling in language, culture, and popular imagination.