Shove It Up Your Ass ... Literally. New Study Shows A Rise In Hospitalizations For Items Stuck In People's Rectrums

NY Post - Nearly 4,000 people are hospitalized with foreign objects in their rectum each year, according to a new study published last month in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine — with many of the stuck items sexual objects.Researchers at the University of Rochester in New York were stumped by the “little epidemiologic information on this condition,” so they decided to analyze emergency reports from 2012 to 2021.

The study — said to be the first “nationally representative data” on rectal foreign bodies in the US — found 38,948 emergency department visits based on 885 cases in this time period among party poopers older than 15.Researchers scoured the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System for injuries involving the “pubic region” or “lower trunk,” with “an accompanying diagnosis of foreign body, puncture, or laceration.”

Of these reported cases, the average age of the patient visiting the emergency room was 43 years old.Nearly 78% of the patients were male, and 40% of these patients required hospitalization.Over half of the foreign bodies were sexual objects, which could be items like vibrators, anal beads or other toys. Balls and marbles, as well as drugs, were associated with a lower rate of hospitalization.

The really interesting thing to me is how did they decide to research this story? Did someone at The American Journal of Emergency Medicine have to go to the emergency room themselves and then try to make themselves feel better by looking into the numbers? Did it start as an icebreaker in the office at a team building function? "Raise your hand if you don't mind something going up your ass" and then the number of people was alarmingly high? Did someone's son or family member work in a hospital and come home from work and say, "you'll never believe this but guess what we had to pull out of someone's ass today?" I'm just interested how they got to a point to decide to research the stats behind this story. Also, feel bad for the guys sifting through hospital records across the country searching keywords involving ass, rectum, pubic region, and lower trunk. If it was an easy job everyone would do it. 

The all time lines in the story were these …shoutout to these guys. Deodorant and artillery shells. Guy stuff. 

In April, the Visual Journal of Emergency Surgery reported that a man had to be rushed into emergency surgery after getting a can of deodorant stuck in his butt.

And last year, a French senior citizen left doctors shell-shocked when he arrived with a World War I artillery shell lodged in his rectum.