# Ever get stuck?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 9, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001 "2010-11-09T04:14:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/1 "2010-11-09T04:14:11Z")
I’ve been told that some couples get “stuck” during intercourse. This is apparently caused by the vaginal muscles spasming to the point where nothing can escape\*
I assume that this phenomenon is quite unpleasant (at least to one of the participants, and possibly both), but I don’t know much about it, or how common it is. So if you answer affirmatively, please share your experience.
\*While I’ve never had this happen to me (which hopefully isn’t a commentary on anything), I do have a name for it: a whack hole!
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/2 "2010-11-09T04:18:20Z")
It’s never happened to me. I read about it in the book the Painted Bird…though I don’t know how true that is.
In the book they have to cut the couple apart and the girl ends up bleeding to death–which didn’t make any sense to me…wouldn’t it be the guy who’d end up bleeding to death? It seems like cutting off the penis would be the way to go.
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### Author:  [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/3 "2010-11-09T04:25:42Z")
I got married and got stuck in Denver, which was not part of my master plan (if I can see snow, I’m too damn close). Does that count? I feel pretty stuck.
As to the other thing, I understand a blast from the garden hose works wonders.
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### Author:  [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/4 "2010-11-09T09:55:19Z")
Occasionally couples get “stuck” in a rut.
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/5 "2010-11-09T11:38:04Z")
I think this is spurious. Vaginal ‘spasms’ don’t keep you locked in, they push you out, IME.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/6 "2010-11-09T12:03:28Z")
CCR got stuck in [Lodi](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUehLKZSedw)…again.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/7 "2010-11-09T13:21:48Z")
I am stuck on Band-Aid ® brand.
'Cause Band-Aid’s ® stuck on me.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/8 "2010-11-09T14:26:50Z")
I swear that snopes had a page on this, but I can’t find it.
No, no one has ever gotten stuck. But everyone knows someone who knows someone who has.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/9 "2010-11-09T14:55:47Z")
I’ve never heard of such a thing and totally call BS. Unless you are a dog. Or having sex with a dog, I guess.
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### Author:  [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/10 "2010-11-09T15:04:27Z")
I have a friend who used to be an ER nurse, source of many urban legends. She said she never saw this and that if the couple panicked, the man would probably lose his erection and slip out in any case. But her time in the ER was before the advent of erections lasting more than four hours.
However, she did see a few people, male and female, who came in with locked jaws. They always said they were biting into an apple when it happened. The ER staff believed otherwise, in all cases.
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/11 "2010-11-09T15:19:33Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#):
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> I have a friend who used to be an ER nurse, source of many urban legends. She said she never saw this
I used to know someone who used to work in a hospital, and she saw it with her own eyes. Really? “Yes.” With your own eyes? “Yes.” You personally witnessed it? “I know someone who did.” You knew them personally? “I know someone who knew them.”
Gotcha.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/12 "2010-11-09T15:42:46Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> It’s never happened to me. I read about it in the book the Painted Bird…though I don’t know how true that is.
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> In the book they have to cut the couple apart and the girl ends up bleeding to death–which didn’t make any sense to me…wouldn’t it be the guy who’d end up bleeding to death? It seems like cutting off the penis would be the way to go.
Really? Given an existing procedure - episiotomy - which is used to handle emergencies where the vagina is too tight and is normally recoverable, you think they’d settle for surgically mutilating the man with a much poorer prognosis for him? That strikes you as “the way to go”? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/13 "2010-11-09T15:45:38Z")
I’ve had a few condoms ripped off, but self-extracation has never been a problem.
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### Author:  [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/14 "2010-11-09T19:42:36Z")
> [@Malacandra](#):
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> Really? Given an existing procedure - episiotomy - which is used to handle emergencies where the vagina is too tight and is normally recoverable, you think they’d settle for surgically mutilating the man with a much poorer prognosis for him? That strikes you as “the way to go”? :dubious:
I believe that the setting was early 20th century Poland. I read the book in college. From what I recall the author, Jerzy Kosinski, later revealed that it was actually an autobiography. The crazy thing is that while I read the book, I forgot about that part of the book until **Freudian Slit** ’s post. If it indeed was an autobiography, that was one crazy life that the author lived. It would have been even crazier. Just a bit more misfortune in his life, and he would’ve been one of the Charles Manson victims.
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### Author:  [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/15 "2010-11-09T19:53:45Z")
> [@StusBlues](#):
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> I’ve had a few condoms ripped off, but self-extracation has never been a problem.
With different women? Or a few condoms with the same woman?
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/16 "2010-11-09T20:11:26Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#):
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> I believe that the setting was early 20th century Poland. I read the book in college. From what I recall the author, Jerzy Kosinski, later revealed that it was actually an autobiography. The crazy thing is that while I read the book, I forgot about that part of the book until **Freudian Slit** ’s post. If it indeed was an autobiography, that was one crazy life that the author lived. It would have been even crazier. Just a bit more misfortune in his life, and he would’ve been one of the Charles Manson victims.
For what it’s with, sources cited in the Wiki article says it’s almost certainly not an autobiography (and there were even charges of plagiarism), and that he was living securely with a Catholic family who did not mistreat him.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/17 "2010-11-09T20:30:15Z")
> [@Malacandra](#):
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> Really? Given an existing procedure - episiotomy - which is used to handle emergencies where the vagina is too tight and is normally recoverable, you think they’d settle for surgically mutilating the man with a much poorer prognosis for him? That strikes you as “the way to go”? :dubious:
It honestly never occurred to me that an episiotomy would be used in such a situation since I’m not even sure it really happened. I’m not saying they SHOULD have surgically mutilated the guy. I was just thinking in terms of, “OK, something’s stuck inside, let’s cut it off.” It was more idle speculation–I wasn’t actually thinking about what I’d do in that situation, especially since it doesn’t even seem remotely plausible.
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### Author:  [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/18 "2010-11-09T20:51:56Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#):
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> However, she did see a few people, male and female, who came in with locked jaws. They always said they were biting into an apple when it happened. The ER staff believed otherwise, in all cases.
A friend has recounted how the very first time she had sex both her hips dislocated. :eek: Apparently her hips are oddly jointed, but fortunately they also… what’s the word… re-located? fixed themselves? without requiring medical intervention – but it came as quite a surprise to both parties.
No personal experience of this, but stories do the rounds of young lovers with braces on their teeth becoming inter-locked. It may also be an urban myth, but at least sounds more plausible.
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### Author:  [@Tammi\_Terrell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tammi_Terrell)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/19 "2010-11-09T20:52:47Z")
> [@tdn](#):
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> I swear that snopes had a page on this, but I can’t find it.
**[Penis Captivus | Snopes.com](http://www.snopes.com/risque/penile/captivus.asp)**
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### Author:  [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-stuck/560001/20 "2010-11-09T21:09:42Z")
Perhaps a poll wasn’t necessary on this particular subject.
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