# Man sticks live eel (and lemon) up his rectum in attempt to feel "intense sensation", succeeds spectacularly **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123 "2024-08-24T00:13:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/1 "2024-08-24T00:13:22Z")
Nearly killed him. > **[Indian man almost dies after inserting 65cm long eel up his anus to 'seek...](https://www.wionews.com/trending/indian-man-almost-dies-after-inserting-65cm-long-eel-up-his-anus-to-seek-sensations-746595)** > > An Indian national in Vietnam had to be rushed to a hospital after he shoved a live, 65 centimetre long eel up his anus to experience an 'intense sensation'. The doctors at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi on July 29 performed an emergency... Google translate of Vietnamese website. [https://benhvienvietduc-org.translate.goog/mo-cap-cuu-cuu-song-nguoi-benh-thung-dai-truc-trang-nhet-con-luon-va-di-vat-vao-hau-mon.html?\_x\_tr\_sl=vi&\_x\_tr\_tl=en&\_x\_tr\_hl=en&\_x\_tr\_pto=wapp](https://benhvienvietduc-org.translate.goog/mo-cap-cuu-cuu-song-nguoi-benh-thung-dai-truc-trang-nhet-con-luon-va-di-vat-vao-hau-mon.html?_x_tr_sl=vi&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp) [![](https://d2thvodm3xyo6j.cloudfront.net/media/2020/11/80d9db8222e84f8b-600x338.png) ](https://d2thvodm3xyo6j.cloudfront.net/media/2020/11/80d9db8222e84f8b-600x338.png) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/2 "2024-08-24T00:41:50Z")
When I was a youngster, people had to use gerbils because they couldn’t afford eels. Those were simpler times… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/3 "2024-08-24T00:46:51Z")
65cm is very roughly two feet. Although eels are known for having zero feet. Still, that’s a long thing to try to stuff up there. Sounds … challenging. Evidently where there’s enough will, there is a way. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/4 "2024-08-24T00:53:23Z")
It could have been worse–it could have been a hagfish. > **[No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime](https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/)** > > It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, it’s 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alike. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/5 "2024-08-24T01:04:37Z")
Wrecked him. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/6 "2024-08-24T01:07:09Z")
> "Therefore, people should never insert live animals through the anus to seek intense sensations due to the unforeseeable consequences,” the doctor warned. I’m not sure that the consequences are entirely unforeseeable. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/7 "2024-08-24T01:11:44Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > I’m not sure that the consequences are entirely unforeseeable. It’s too dark to see in there, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/8 "2024-08-24T01:16:34Z")
You have to admit… the lemon was a nice touch. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/9 "2024-08-24T01:32:43Z")
Homemade sashimi. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/10 "2024-08-24T01:37:12Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Wrecked him. Damn near killed him! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/11 "2024-08-24T01:51:58Z")
Did he make a Lemon Pledge never to do it again? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/12 "2024-08-24T02:09:06Z")
Where have you gone, Joe Umagi-o? Our nation turns its brownest eye to you Woo, woo, woo What’s that you say, Mr. Throbinson? Joltin’ Joe has left and gone away ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/13 "2024-08-24T02:12:13Z")
Beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/14 "2024-08-24T02:18:55Z")
Well, this has taken my mind off the convention. 😯 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/15 "2024-08-24T02:20:51Z")
👏 👏 👏 @Slithy_Tove Am I a bad person that I’m disappointed it wasn’t an electric eel? Nature’s original Plug ‘N’ Play. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/16 "2024-08-24T02:26:01Z")
Huh, thanks to the new “related posts” suggestions at the end of this thread, it appears that this isn’t a new thing: > [@Is this story about an eel devouring a man's internals plausible?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-story-about-an-eel-devouring-a-mans-internals-plausible/538047): > > I wonder if this rather grusome tale is plausible; I link to the story without further comment: [The Sun](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2954500/Chef-dies-after-feeling-eel.html) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/17 "2024-08-24T02:28:11Z")
Lemon can burn sensitive tissue. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/18 "2024-08-24T02:29:01Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Lemon can burn sensitive tissue. Ouch _That’s_ what you’re concerned about??? (hopefully it’s a whoosh!) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/19 "2024-08-24T02:32:43Z")
My brother has been an ER doctor for more than thirty years, and he rarely shares anything medical with me, but last week he sent me a scan of a mason jar inserted into a rectum. It was without warning, and I really didn’t want to see that, but here we are. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/20 "2024-08-24T02:33:59Z")
Well, yes it’s a silly thought. (Everyone else is joking🤔) I did see a Moray eel on a movie today. It had teeth. EEEK! I hope it wasn’t one of those ones. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123.md?page=2)