So why do people get off on this? Could it beВ prostate-related? Edwards says itвЂ™s hard to say, as some also find pain pleasurable, but she does add that this sometimes stems from men who are used to being penetrated by dogs. вЂњItвЂ™s that feeling of them biting and scratching and rooting around thatвЂ™s pleasurable to them,вЂќ Edwards says. From there, a mouse, gerbil, or whatever is inserted into the tube - oftentimes with a lubricant on their snout - and a string is tied to their tail for later retrieval. If youвЂ™re still with me after that - and I honestly donвЂ™t blame you if youвЂ™re not - Edwards explains that the way this is done is by putting some kind of plastic tubing into oneвЂ™s anus (a toilet paper tube, a common detail in the Gere story, is too flimsy). And while no cases exist in any medical journals, that doesnвЂ™t mean people havenвЂ™t everВ put a gerbil in their asshole, it just means that it hasnвЂ™t gone horribly wrong for them to the extent that theyвЂ™ve needed medical attention for it. Edwards also says, вЂњEels are pretty popular, both by men to insert into their anuses, and occasionallyВ women into their vaginas, but more often the women use small fish like a goldfish.вЂќ She also worked on a case that involved a mouse being inserted into a manвЂ™s anus, which was later removed in an emergency room.ДЄs for gerbils specifically, Edwards says that sheвЂ™s not personally dealt with a gerbil case, nor has she read about them, but she says that she wouldnвЂ™t be surprised if it occurs. One such case was a man she dealt with who would go to Thailand, rent young girls and insert roaches into them. This is a form of bestiality, which essentially deals with things crawling on you or in you.вЂќ Generally, these things are living, вЂњor at least they were living when you put them in there,вЂќ Edwards explains, citing a variety of cases on the subject. вЂњWhile itвЂ™s colloquially called вЂgerbiling,вЂ™ the actual name for it from a medical or mental health point-of-view is formicophilia, which involves not just gerbils, but other kinds of small critters as well. Jenny Edwards, an attorney specializing in criminal law andВ sexual offenses relating to bestiality, zoophilia and zoosexuality. As the final likely nail in the coffin, late National EnquirerВ gossip columnist Mike WalkerВ once remarked, вЂњIвЂ™ve never worked harder on a story in my lifeвЂ¦ IвЂ™m convinced that itвЂ™s nothing more than an urban legend,вЂќ referring to not only the Richard Gere story but gerbiling as a whole.Дespite all this, gerbiling may still be a real thing - in fact, it probablyВ is.

Iconic sex-advice columnist Dan Savage remarked in 2013В that heвЂ™d never heard of any firsthand or even secondhand account of this in real life. One of the very few who replied told me, вЂњThere is no sexual act of вЂgerbiling.вЂ™ This is an old urban legend.вЂќ Certainly, the Wikipedia article for вЂњ gerbilingвЂќ (which contains perhaps the greatest wiki image/caption pairingВ of all time) regards the act as merely a вЂњrumored sexual practice.вЂќ Being a respectable journalist, though, and unwilling to take Wikipedia at face value, I also reached out to literally dozensВ of gerbil breeders for this piece. Why has this story been so durable? Where did it come from? Why the fuck is a gerbilВ always the rodent of choice? Most importantly, is it true?ДЇirst off, letвЂ™s establish whether gerbiling - as itвЂ™s apparently called - is even a real thing.

Yet this single-sentence narrative has somehow endured the test of time for decades, like some ancient folklore passed down from generation to generation.

The story goes like this: Richard Gere once got a gerbil stuck up his ass and then had to go to the ER to get it removed.

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