Re Fun with farts, Cecil addresses the issue of air being introduced into one of the major bodily orifices. There are numerous other orifices, however, to be addressed: while it’s pretty obvious what might happen if you forced air into some of them (ears, for example: eardrum rupture, at the minimum), I’ve heard rumors that introducing air into some of the others can actually be fatal, regardless of the pressure involved.
Can someone (SDSAB member, perhaps?) comment on this?
You’re trying to hint at embolisms caused by air being forced into the vagina, perhaps during creative sex play? A book I happen to have on the shelf “She Comes First : The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman” by Ian Kerner does indeed say this can be fatal. I’m sure some medically minded dopers will come with more details.
i thought I recalled this topic surfacing before: link (last pp)
Well compressed air entering the rectum can not only cause “shredding” of the intestines, requiring immediate surgery but in the worst of cases death.
Um, blackraven, that’s exactly what Cecil said, except that he gave case studies, history, and considerably more detail. This thread is to expand on what Cecil said, not simply to restate it.
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If I blow into my dog’s nose, she will roll over onto her back. I used that fact to teach her how to do the trick where you point your finger like a gun and “shoot” the dog and she plays dead. Not at all dangerous, but well worth the effort.
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There’s gotta be a way to work “Rectum? Damn near killed 'im!” into this thread.
Just wanted to note that in a previous life (summer job) I worked in a factory. After a thorough physical exam, the doctor gave all us newbies a lecture about on-the-job safety and the evils of pranks. he specifically cited a case in which a couple of guys stuck an air hose up another guy’s anus as a prank, and it split his intestine and killed him. He told this story as if it were something he had personal knowledge of.
I read the article, and went “eeeewwwwiiiieee”
“When I was a kid growing up in the late 50s-early 60s, one of the things we used to do was induce ourselves to fart by sticking the nozzle of a bicycle hand pump into our behinds and giving ourselves several pumps of air.”
I don’t know about your bike pump, but the end of mine was an unpleasant metal contraption with that little latch thing to lock the end onto your valve stem attached to it.
He put THAT in his ass?
Sick bastard.
When I was in the Navy, I was a Machinist’s Mate. Among other things we were the crewmen responsible for maintaining the compressed air systems aboard ships. The standard was for two systems aboard ship: HP Air at ~1000 psig and LP Air at about 60-100 psig. During my training one of my instructors claimed that he’d had a shipmate stick the hose up his own arse for a joke, thinking that LP air would be safe. And earned himself a full Darwin. (Not that he used those terms. Back in 1989, I don’t think anyone used the phrase Darwin Award.) The impression I’d had of the man was that he lacked the imagination to make something like this up, and his horror seemed real. Alas, I can’t find a cite for it to debunk Cecil’s claim that there isn’t a documented case.
I think, however, I’m going to keep believing it has happened. In spite of Cecil. 