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According to a famous urban legend, a man had been admitted to hospital after his gay partner put a gerbil in his rectum.

Is ‘The Gerbil & the Gay Couple’ a Homophobic Urban Legend?

It even had its moment of glory when a radio journalist read this fake press release that he believed was true on air:. This French fake press release is, in fact, a word of word translation of one of the many versions of this gerbiling hoax, circulating on the American Internet since :. At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what happened next.

Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract. It should be noted that the only difference between the French and the American versions is the nature of the unfortunate rodent.

Gerbils are barely known as pets in France, which is not the case of hamsters. It can easily explain that minor amendment of the original version. The popularity of Darwin Awards in the early days of the Internet in France can possibly explain why this gerbil story traveled from the US hampster France in the s.

Before being an internet hoax, this urban legend was and is still today a story spread by word of mouth in hampster different versions: the first one gay a gay couple and the second one a celebrity suspected to be a homosexual. Richard Gere is the most famous victim of this last version, according to Snopes founder David Mikkelson :.

Although the legend homed in on various targets when it first appeared including a Philadelphia newscasterit has clung tenaciously to Mr. Gay, as a reporter from the National Enquirer found when he attempted to track down the gerbil story, there were no facts to be had. Folklorist Norine Dresser collected some of these jokes in Bigger that secret is and stronger are the rumors in their effort to offer an overview of the hampster life of celebrities … And it is often to describe an out of the ordinary or perverted sexual life.

In the 18th century, it was told that Catherine II of Russia was so sexually insatiable that she used to have sex with animals. This reputation of debauchery was mainly built by French anti-Russian historians. Sarah Bernhardtas for her, would have tried to have sex with a young alligator; an act that is, by the way, anatomically impossible to perform.

Power and sexual desire seem to go hand-in-hand in our imagination and true facts sometimes give credits to hoary gay. Jimmy Savile, Harvey Weinstein or Jeffrey Epstein used, for example, their power and influence to commit sordid actions which remained cover up for a long time.

The taboos highlight by these affairs, such as pedophilia, are however absent from sexual urban legend whose main purposes are to shock but also to make fun of specific social groups and provoke laughter. Same time as the Richard Gere rumor, the idea that some gay couples would use gerbil as an anal toy started to spread.

This alleged practice even has a name: gerbiling. Traces of this urban legend can be found back in In The Straight Dopea famous question-and-answer newspaper column, we can read the following question :. That gentleman is now doomed to be tied to a colostomy bag through eternity. How are the gerbils inserted and retrieved?

Why not hamsters or snakes?