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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
Man, 21, hospitalised due to risky 'sounding' sex act involving a USB cable
A 21-year-old man ended up needing emergency surgery after a sexual experiment with a USB cable went horribly wrong. The unnamed college student inserted the object into his urethra—the tube in the penis that carries urine out of the body—as part of a dangerous practice called 'sounding'. But the thick cable—which he had inserted in a U-shaped loop leaving both ends hanging outside of him—had gotten stuck, requiring an urgent trip to A&E. American medics, who reported the case, said their patient admitted to having inserted objects like 'cotton swabs and wire cables' in a similar manner before. But on this occasion he found himself unable to extract the USB cable. Scans show how the man had pushed the looped cable so deep inside his urethra that it had entered his bladder, where it then become lodged. Writing in the journal Cureus, the medics said that initial attempts by staff to pull the cable out by hand were unsuccessful. As a result, they decided to anaesthetise the man and attempted to extract the cable using special tools inserted into the urethra. This proved successful and the cable was 'gently' pulled out until it could be snipped with scissors and each section extracted more easily. After keeping him in hospital for a week for monitoring, the man was then discharged with painkillers and antibiotics. One month later he returned to hospital for a follow up which showed he had suffered no long term problems from his ordeal. Writing in the report the medics noted: 'Self-insertion of objects into the urethra for sexual or other reasons is rare but can cause serious harm.' Known risks include an infection, which can in turn lead to life-threatening sepsis as permanent damage to the reproductive organs. If inserted objects reach the bladder, it also carries the potential of rupturing the organ. Sounding is a sexual kink whereby people, mostly men, insert long thin objects into their urethra. Examples of objects previously used include forks, telephone cables metal piping, nail clippers, an allen key, needles, olive seeds, batteries, a skipping rope, a coyote rib, and even a decapitated snake. While most famously done for sexual pleasure the act is has carried out by people with serious mental health conditions as well as men undertaking an ill-advised attempt to maintain an erection. UK experts have previously reported a rise in the number of men having sounding issues over the past few years. They have blamed it the surge in men looking to 'expand their sexual activities and enhance their sexual experiences'. How many men perform sounding is unknown. However, the NHS in England reported treating 258 cases where patients had a 'foreign body' stuck in their urethra last financial year. The vast majority of these cases, 231, were in men with an average patient age of 47.
The Sun
3 days ago
- Health
- The Sun
Man, 21, shoved entire USB cable up this penis in ‘risky sex act' – as doctors issue warning
A YOUNG man got a USB cable lodged in his penis after inserting it for sexual pleasure. The 21-year-old student only decided to go to hospital when he realised he couldn't pull it out himself. 2 2 He told medics he had previously inserted items like cotton buds and wire cables into his urethra for ' sexual stimulation '. This practice, called sounding, involves pushing objects into the urethra, the tube that carries urine out of the body, for sexual pleasure. Many household objects have been used as 'sounds', according to reports, including forks, tennis racket wire, headphones and a decapitated snake. It is unclear how often sounding is practised or by how many people among the general population. However, men make up 85 per cent of object retrieval cases from other bodily orifices. Scans showed the cable had been pushed into his bladder, which doctors writing about the case in Cureus, said made it harder to remove. They decided to take him into surgery, put him under general anesthesia and send a camera up his urethra alongside the cable so they could carefully pull it out without causing too much damage. 'Self-insertion of objects into the urethra for sexual or other reasons is rare but can cause serious harm,' the report authors from Drexel University College of Medicine in Pensilvania, US, warned. It can damage the urethra which can lead to sepsis, cause erectile dysfunction and lead to bladder rupture. It also carries a risk of sexually transmitted diseases, as well as other bacterial infections from inserting non-sterile objects or implements. Bizarre medical case reports A further camera check showed only minor injuries to his urethra. To help him pee and allow healing, doctors placed a catheter for one week. He was sent home with antibiotics and painkillers. A follow-up check a month later showed he was healing well, with no lasting damage. The weirdest things found inside the human body IT is not unusual for doctors to find random objects inside people's bodies. hether they are inhaled by accident, inserted for erotic pleasure or as a means to try and solve a health problem like constipation, doctors see it all. Medics recently found a fully intact fly buzzing around a man's intestines. Meanwhile, a lady in Taiwan recently made the news because a live spider and its discarded outer shell were found inside her ear. Spiders crawling inside the body are rare; those with arachnophobia will be pleased to hear. While the person giving a home to a spider had little choice, others accidentally inhale objects, while some even purposely stick things up themselves. A 2021 study found the vast majority - a whopping 88 per cent - of people attending A&E with this complaint are men. Some of these have included apples, an aubergine, a brush, pens, carrots,, a deodorant can and pesticide containers. Inhaling objects is one of the most common causes of death in children under three. Some of the most commonly inhaled objects include coins, toys or magnets, peanuts, and even hot dogs. In one bizarre case published in Dove Press, doctors in Africa found a leech stuck in a little girl's throat, which was later safely removed. A postman from Preston, England, inhaled a Playmobil road cone as a child, but it was only discovered when the 47-year-old had his lungs scanned when he presented with a persistent cough. In another odd case, a man inhaled a pea, which was in place long enough for it to begin to sprout in his respiratory tract
