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The annals of emergency medicine provide numerous accounts of patients who have sought treatment for the removal of sizeable foreign objects from the rectum or urethra,items which sometimes ended up penetrating those openings by accident, but most commonly were deliberately inserted by patients seeking some form of sexual gratification. The list of items which doctors have documented removing from urethras and bladders includes a plethora of common household objects: telephone wire, pencils, toothbrushes, candles, balloons, hairpins, light bulbs, tweezers, thumb tacks, feathers, beans, foam sealant, shoelaces, animal bones, pipe stems, crochet needles, hair, and chewing gum. That list added another entry in August 2013, when the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports published an article entitled An Unusual Urethral Foreign Body authored by three Australian doctors from The Canberra Hospital's Department of Urology. Example: [Collected on the Internet, August 2013] The doctors reported on the removal of a dining fork (via forceps traction and copious lubrication) from the urethra of a 70-year-old man, as shown in the x-ray displayed above: The authors also noted that men inserting objects into their urethras is a fairly uncommon phenomenon, and the use of a fork in such a scenario is rather rare:
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