# heterosexual anal sex **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 10, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646 "2009-04-10T16:06:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/21 "2009-04-13T14:43:24Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > I saw a movie where a guy shoved his entire foot up the ass of his partner. … Oh, my. A gal’s likely to get athlete’s ass that way. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/22 "2009-04-13T14:46:27Z")
> [@davidw](#): > > Another possible complication of anal sex that Cecil didn’t mention is [epididymitis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epididymitis). I always wondered where P. Diddy came up with that name. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/23 "2009-04-13T22:00:19Z")
> [@herownself](#): > > What I am really dying to know is what those guys thought the electrosensitivity of the anal mucosa had to do with anything Not the stuff I usually like to comment on, but since no one else has offered the explanation… Cecil mentions that the sensitivity could not be linked to incontinence, which leads me to believe that that assumed link was the purpose of the experiment. In other words, anal sex might cause later anal leakage. ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/24 "2009-04-14T01:26:51Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > One question to consider is the type of activity involved. Specifically, are we talking just penetration, or the process called “gaping”? … Just what is gaping, and does it apply to what you follow up with in the rest of your post? > [@](#): > > …What about applying outward pressure, such as to void semen for display? Those activities can lead to prolapses, i.e. the colon pushing out through the sphincter. That can weaken the anus and lead to incontinence. _ **- Jack** _ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/25 "2009-04-14T02:53:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Just what is gaping About what it sounds like: holding an orifice wide open. ---
**Author:** ![BRing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@BRing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BRing)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/26 "2009-04-14T04:21:48Z")
The article about the risks of anal sex made me recall an item I heard on the news late last year about how gay men should get pap smears: > **[Anal Pap Screening for Those at Higher Risk of Anal Cancer](https://www.verywellhealth.com/anal-papilloma-screening-47925)** > > Anal pap smears are for early detection of anal cancer in people who have receptive anal sex, genital warts, HIV, and some other risk factors. I suppose a mongamous, heterosexual woman who engages in anal sex would have the same risk. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/27 "2009-04-14T09:06:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Just what is gaping > [@Chronos](#): > > About what it sounds like: holding an orifice wide open. ths post has been gaped by the gapist. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/28 "2009-04-14T15:42:23Z")
I feel obliged to make one observation about the article that prompted this thread: > [@](#): > > While there’s no denying anal sex has a certain kinky charm, the rectum was designed as an exit, not an entrance. What, are we creationists now, Cecil? The rectum wasn’t **designed** at all. It **evolved**. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/29 "2009-04-14T16:02:24Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > … In other words, anal sex might cause later anal leakage. My sources tell me that first-time anal sex sometimes causes **anal eekage!** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/30 "2009-04-14T18:29:02Z")
> [@](#): > > ths post has been gaped by the gapist. You should have put a bunch of carriage returns between the two quotes. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/31 "2009-04-14T18:41:41Z")
Well that takes away all the charm of fucking a girl in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![TexasP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@TexasP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexasP)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/32 "2009-04-14T18:58:03Z")
I dated a Brazilian woman for almost two years in New York. We mostly used the good ol’ Catholic Birth Control because she didn’t like the Pill and I didn’t like condoms. We were genuinely monogamous and experienced, and suffered no ill effects. By “experienced” I mean that we were older and knew how to keep ourselves clean and that it’s not going to lubricate itself, mister. That said, we also knew two crucial things: 1) porno movies are highly dubious, 2) human medical research projects are also highly dubious. My advice is to take both lightly and use your own common sense. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/33 "2009-04-14T20:12:32Z")
> [@davidw](#): > > Another possible complication of anal sex that Cecil didn’t mention is [epididymitis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epididymitis). Also Non-Gonococcal Urethritis (NGU, symptoms very similar to gonorrhea) can apparently be caused by fecal matter entering into the man’s urethra. At least so I was told by a doctor once. On the issue of condom use, perhaps men are able to persuade women that they aren’t needed to prevent pregnancy when delivering in the rear, and I suspect that most straight men would rather perform _sans culotte_ whenever they can. Cecil seems to be mainly concerned with consequences to the ladies, and not at all with the men’s risks. Also, he doesn’t touch on the reverse, i.e. men penetrated by a lady with a strap-on. Significant gaps in his otherwise voluminous answer. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/34 "2009-04-14T20:35:39Z")
**True Blue Jack** said: > [@](#): > > Just what is gaping, and does it apply to what you follow up with in the rest of your post? Opening the hole up wide. The other comment had to do with prolapses. A prolapse is when part of the rectum protrudes out the anus. Gaping can contribute to this result. What happens is the rectum separates from the internal wall so it can be pushed out. It can also happen because of straining, either for a bowel movement (persistent constipation) or trying to squeeze out a small quantity of liquid (i.e. semen). A small quantity of liquid is not very squeezable, so you end up pushing the rectum out. Advice for the kiddies - anal prolapses aren’t fun. They do lead to anal leakage. And that is a serious impediment to all sorts of normal daily activities. Cecil said: > [@](#): > > While there’s no denying anal sex has a certain kinky charm, the rectum was designed as an exit, not an entrance. Of course it was. Why else would God make it compatible in size and place it right next to the other entry? **Skald the Rhymer** said: > [@](#): > > What, are we creationists now, Cecil? The rectum wasn’t **designed** at all. It **evolved**. If evolution is a process of adaptation over time, then the result might reasonably be considered designed by evolution. But that is perhaps confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/35 "2009-04-14T20:42:35Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > [ **Skald the Rhymer** said: > If evolution is a process of adaptation over time, then the result might reasonably be considered designed by evolution. “Design” implies a consciousness behind the process, which is absent in this circumstance. If I were designing a humanoid organism, there’s tons of things I could do to prevent it from enjoying anal sex if that were my desire. As there is no designer in evolution, those things are not present, even though anal sex is not an unmixed blessing. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/36 "2009-04-14T22:48:54Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Entire foot? As in, past the heel? There’s a part of the US where macho men are fond of threatening to “put a boot in your ass.” Coincidentally, folklore says the men of that place “don’t know sh!t from Shinola.” Now, I know a little more about those guys. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/37 "2009-04-14T22:53:18Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > “Design” implies a consciousness behind the process, which is absent in this circumstance. If I were designing a humanoid organism, there’s tons of things I could do to prevent it from enjoying anal sex if that were my desire. As there is no designer in evolution, those things are not present, even though anal sex is not an unmixed blessing. This argument is a thing of beauty. A ID proponent would have to concede either that God didn’t design the rectum intelligently, since it will admit the penis, or else concede that God is not against anal sex. Plus the fact that we’d have to have a serious discussion about buttholes and buttsex during the ID discussion - how perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Dubinsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dbc845/32.png) [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/38 "2009-04-15T02:48:59Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > The best advice I’ve heard is that “too much lube is almost enough.” Oh no. Like with anything else, there **is** such a thing as too much: [http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/tucker\_tries\_buttsex\_hilarity\_does\_not\_ensue.phtml](http://www.tuckermax.com/archives/entries/date/tucker_tries_buttsex_hilarity_does_not_ensue.phtml) ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/39 "2009-04-15T03:13:52Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Oh, please. Google “anal foot” and see how long it takes. Almost all the links are sex videos, and I think the Xvideos link is exactly what was described. Doing my part to fight ignorance, I did exactly this. Thank god I had the volume down. The Xvideos link is the **EXACT FREAKIN’ FILM** I was referring to. Google frightens me. But, on further review, it does NOT appear to be complete heel penetration, although it comes close enough for me. How about that… I can now send that link to the sick bastard that sent it to me those many years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646/40 "2009-04-15T03:56:06Z")
You know the goatse guy? There are more photos than just that one. I don’t think he’d even notice a foot unless it belonged to an elephant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heterosexual-anal-sex/492646.md?page=3)