# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/141 "2024-08-28T11:04:28Z")
Ah, but what kind of music? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/142 "2024-08-28T11:07:28Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > > > I have decided I do not like eels. Not one bit. > > Wait, how is the eel the bad guy in this story? Yeah, i was feeling really sorry for the eel. It must have been terrified and disgusted. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/143 "2024-08-29T00:56:44Z")
“Terrified”, agree. “Disgusted”, not so sure. If this is the common Asian swamp eel Monopterus alba, which it appears to be, then it routinely eats all sorts of other marine animals as well as arthropods and detritus. Chowing down on some live mammal digestive tract is probably not much of a stretch. I note with some concern, however, that these eels host a nematode that causes the parasitic disease gnathostomiasis in humans. Though it generally seems to be transmitted due to humans consuming undercooked eels, it seems likely that transmission could also result from eels (partially) consuming humans, so I hope the (human) survivor will get that checked out. ---
**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 29, 2024, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/144 "2024-08-29T01:26:52Z")
Oh, god not Nematodes!! 😳 I can’t take it no more. ---
**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 29, 2024, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/145 "2024-08-29T01:53:25Z")
This may not be the thread for you. ---
**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 30, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/146 "2024-08-30T23:51:43Z")
A couple days ago I went out for a fancy _prixe fixe_ dinner. The first course? Eel. Not the first time I’ve eaten or enjoyed eel. Butt certainly the first time I did so while thinking of this thread, ass-eels, buttcarrots, and all you fine folks and your sordid senses of humor. Gee thanks Cecil! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/147 "2024-08-31T00:06:05Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Butt certainly the first time I did so while thinking of this thread Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2024, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/148 "2024-08-31T06:21:10Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The first course? Eel. Were they accompanied by carrots? ---
**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 31, 2024, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/149 "2024-08-31T06:25:24Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Were they accompanied by carrots? Or a lemon? ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/150 "2024-09-01T16:09:34Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Damn near killed him! Dr. Bennett? ---
**Author:** ![MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@MW\_Degen\_Gamblr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MW_Degen_Gamblr)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/151 "2024-09-04T03:21:52Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > 👏 👏 👏 @Slithy_Tove > > Am I a bad person that I’m disappointed it wasn’t an electric eel? > Nature’s original Plug ‘N’ Play. OMG! I will never think about MGMT’s “Electric Eel” the same way again. Midwest Degenerate Gambler - “I said, ooh girl. Shock me like an electric eel! Baby girl, turn me on with your electric feel” ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/152 "2024-09-10T16:56:09Z")
I had to think of this thread when I read this article in the New York Times: [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/science/eels-escape-fish-stomach.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.Jk4.0ylK.c7qA3RylDZzf&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/science/eels-escape-fish-stomach.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Jk4.0ylK.c7qA3RylDZzf&smid=url-share) Did I mention that eels are though? And the NYT gift links do not preview in Discourse, it seems, but the link works. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/153 "2024-09-10T17:54:19Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Slimy. > Bitey. > Bad dinner date, all around. > Didn’t show itself out. Well, it made it as far as the abdominal cavity, I’m guessing it would have shown itself out eventually. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/154 "2024-09-11T09:02:23Z")
Curiously enough, the following story just appeared in my email: > [@](#): > > # Watch eels escape from the stomachs of fish after being swallowed > > X-ray videos of Japanese eels swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish have revealed how the eels can make a daring escape from being digested > > By [Michael Le Page](https://www.newscientist.com/author/michael-le-page/) > > 9 September 2024 > > Japanese eels try to wriggle back out of the stomachs of fish that have swallowed them whole – and now we know how they sometimes succeed. > > A few years ago, Yuha Hasegawa at Nagasaki University in Japan noticed that Japanese eels (_Anguilla japonica_) that had been swallowed by fish were somehow reappearing in tanks. Further investigation revealed that the eels were escaping through the gills of fish, with [28 out of 54 eels that had been observed being swallowed whole managing to escape](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2281462-young-eels-escape-from-the-mouths-of-fish-by-wriggling-out-the-gills/) – but exactly how they managed this feat was unclear. > Now, Hasegawa and colleagues have managed to film the process by injecting eels with a contrast agent that makes them visible on X-rays. Of 32 eels that were filmed being swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish (_Odontobutis obscura_ ), 12 managed to go back up the gullet far enough to bend their tail around and get it out of a gill slit. Of these 12, nine escaped. > **[Watch eels escape from the stomachs of fish after being swallowed](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2447128-watch-eels-escape-from-the-stomachs-of-fish-after-being-swallowed/)** > > X-ray videos of Japanese eels swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish have revealed how the eels can make a daring escape from being digested ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/155 "2024-09-11T09:33:15Z")
Yes, that is exactly the same story in the NYT I linked to two posts ago. Eels are becoming trendy, it seems. There is a lesson in this for everyone: do not eat eels when they are still alive. Same goes for [octopus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1oByXmohhU&t=1s), btw. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/156 "2024-09-11T15:11:45Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > There is a lesson in this for everyone: do not eat eels when they are still alive. > Same goes for [octopus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1oByXmohhU&t=1s), btw. Or if you do, at least chew them thoroughly so they will not still be alive as they proceed through your digestive tract. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-sticks-live-eel-and-lemon-up-his-rectum-in-attempt-to-feel-intense-sensation-succeeds-spectacularly/1006123/157 "2024-09-11T16:47:02Z")
Also be careful when you eat squid sperm. > **[We regret to inform you that a woman’s tongue was never pregnant with baby squid](https://www.nine.com.au/entertainment/viral/squid-sperm-didnt-impregnate-womans-tongue/5bfcb9ef-a241-47d9-9ace-5b005953c5f1)** > > Uh, it's a long story. [Previous 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=7)