pompeii
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Googling for "lighting the match was my big mistake", I find: http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/gerbil.asp http://www.darwinawards.com/legends/legends1998-10.html http://www.pagetutor.com/jokebreak/160.html quote:
Analysis: Despite being attributed to the Los Angeles Times, the "news story" above is anything but news. Nothing of the kind ever appeared in the LA Times, or any other newspaper for that matter. Any editor worth his or her salt would instantly recognize it for what it is — a joke (more specifically, a joke bordering on an urban legend because it's alleged to be true). Variants of the story can be found in message board postings dating back to 1993. Note that the term "felching" is used in reference to the particular sexual activity that takes place in this story. This isn't the time or place to provide a clinically correct definition of the term, but it behooves me to inform those unfamiliar with it that in this instance the word has been, um, sorely misused. For further discussion of "gerbilling" myths, including my own cranky reflections on the genre, see "Richard Gere and the Gerbil." quote:
Origins: Contrary to widespread public belief, Gerbil "gerbil-stuffing" is unknown as an actual sexual practice, nor are we aware of a verified medical case of a gerbil having been extracted from a patient's rectum. Despite the assiduousness with which doctors record unusual items removed from patients' rectums in order to write them up as illustrative cases, we haven't yet found a medical journal article involving a gerbil removal. (Doctors, like most people, often repeat urban legends and stories told to them by others as first-person experiences, hence our standard for declaring this true is a peer-reviewed journal article rather than anecdote.) The notion of gerbilling (not necessarily restricted to homosexuals — the insertion of items into the rectum for purposes of autoeroticism is practiced by heterosexuals as well) appears to be pure invention, a tale fabricated to demonstrate the depravity with which "faggots" allegedly pursue sexual pleasure. (While people do stick all sorts of unusual items up their rectums, they also do so for reasons other than sexual pleasure.)
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