http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=16295662 Comments On: Savage Love by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
He actually answered it, too, after qualifying that this is something that "very very few" people do. I remember being really puzzled at age 15 as to where my teacher would get this information.
Posted by Whoop Di Doo]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:27:30 -0700 The Stranger or one willing gerbil and one doomed butt-hole
(the practitioner, not the body part)

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>> But being a gay man or Richard Gere in America
>> means always having to reassure people
>> that you don't have a gerbil in your ass.

Ahhhh, I understand. Mr. Gere only does it in foreign countries. Less trouble, that's smart. No wonder he's always going to Tibet.

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So, no one practices "gerbiling".
But, everyone engages in "horsing around".

Now that's gotta be just downright painful.

But it does explain how you find a horse's head in your bed in the morning. Someone made you an offer you couldn't refuse.

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"Joker, I've had my ass in the grass. Can't say I liked it. Lots of bugs & too damn dangerous. Fortunately, my present duties keep me where I belong. In the rear with the Gere."

-- Lt. Lockart, "Full Metal Jacket"

Posted by RobynH]]> Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:47:04 -0700 The Stranger Okay, NOW I'm scared.
Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:17:04 -0700 The Stranger
And no, it was not told me during a drunken session in a bar, but during an "Emergency First Responder" course I was taking.

And it is well known to any emergency room attendant anywhere near a gay district just how often GAY men show up with an astounding range of objects stuck up their asses, so, really, Dan, let's not pretend it "isn't so", okay? A mutilated gerbil would be just one out of many things!

As for the "no gerbil" law, well, it's easy enough to breed one's own just for the purpose. Marijuana is illegal too; doesn't stop people smoking it! I heard about the gerbil thing long BEFORE the Richard Gere incident; being in the S&M scene means you hear about a LOT of strange things before the vanilla types..and yes, the news came out of SanFran, and having heard even stranger stories about what the gays get up to in terms of prostate stimulation(remember the horse story out of Washington?)there is no question the practice of gerbil mutilation enjoyed a vogue in the back rooms of gay bars and similar venues!
Posted by Garuda]]> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:01:50 -0700 The Stranger Posted by michey]]> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:01:58 -0700 The Stranger Even then I knew is was a load of crap. I have been bitten by hamsters, and there is no way in Hell that someone would shove a squirming animal up their ass willingly for kicks when it will shred your butt beyond human endurance.
Posted by Huge Liability]]> Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:36:46 -0700 The Stranger Posted by mydriasis]]> Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:09:16 -0700 The Stranger Posted by TTrahB]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:54:19 -0700 The Stranger Posted by TrahB]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:53:01 -0700 The Stranger Posted by lolorhone]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:10:59 -0700 The Stranger Posted by lolorhone]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:13:41 -0700 The Stranger Top secret! She'd get fired if anyone knew she told! I'd like to think that my reply back then was "yeah, whatever..."

Posted by shak]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:55:37 -0700 The Stranger
I am surprised that no one here has mentioned South Park, that depicted a gay character doing this, and is most likely where this rumor is finding a new generation of gullible 13-year-olds.
Posted by I blame Trey Parker and Matt Stone for this!]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:40:05 -0700 The Stranger

Posted by jhosh]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:14:08 -0700 The Stranger
I'm another mid-forties person and I heard this long before 1990.
Posted by AFinch]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:35:01 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Sketch]]> Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:26:15 -0700 The Stranger Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:54:07 -0700 The Stranger Yeah----it has been a lifelong struggle to declare my independence,
but lo these many years the rewards are all the sweeter.
No news from either of my sisters or their equally meddlesome peers
is good news.


Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:51:25 -0700 The Stranger
Posted by Hunter78]]> Sun, 24 Mar 2013 05:34:13 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Crinoline]]> Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:08:30 -0700 The Stranger
May I add that I enjoy reading your posts ? You seem to be a fine specimen of human on your own, you're well rid of the controlling people.
Posted by sissoucat]]> Sun, 24 Mar 2013 03:29:05 -0700 The Stranger Luckily, I now live a good county away from all those who were so excessively hellbent upon coercing me into doing what I didn't want to do.
Being the youngest in my family was supposed to be a curse for some bizarre, still unexplained reason.
Posted by auntie grizelda]]> Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:52:26 -0700 The Stranger
As for the Richer Gere-bil connection, I think someone already confessed to starting that malicious rumor. I think it was a movie producer that Gere pissed off, so he started the most ridiculous rumor about him that he could think of, and took on a life of it's own.

I never heard this stuff about removing teeth and legs and lower jaws. According to all the straight men I know, the biting and clawing are half the fun for the gays. When you ask how they do not die of perforated colons, gangrene, septicemia, etc, the answer they give is that the gerbil goes in a ziplock bag. Which according to the logic of straight men is impervious to the gnawing of rodent teeth and reduces the potentially fatal bites and scratches into stimulating pinches and pokes.
Posted by jussmbdy]]> Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:02:33 -0700 The Stranger
Also, I would imagine that the choice of rodent is not particularly important. Doing the same with mice or rats or (if you're Rick Santorum) raccoons (which aren't rodents, but I doubt he knows that) could perhaps reasonably be referred to as "gerbiling" just as photocopying on a Canon is often called "Xeroxing".

Again: I doubt this is a very common practice. I'm just criticising the nature of the presented evidence.
Posted by something]]> Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:05:04 -0700 The Stranger
Check out what Snopes has to say about how many people supposedly worked the ER and witnessed this personally:
http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/ger…
Posted by nocutename]]> Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:18:27 -0700 The Stranger