No licking!

  • hddsx@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Okay. I can’t tell if you’re serious, but if that’s true, how does that work medically?

    Don’t liquids get absorbed through the intestines? Can you even stick something up your butt far enough to reach your intestines?

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      5 months ago

      It’s capillary action. It just rams straight into your bloodstream, no dilution or waiting to go through stomach. It’s fast and effective.

    • superkret@feddit.org
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      5 months ago

      Alcohol gets absorbed by mucus membrane much faster than by going through your digestive tract. And your anus is lined with mucus membrane.
      It was a craze a decade or so ago where I live, cause teenagers did that to get drunk without having their breath smell of alcohol, and some of them ended up in the ER.

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        It was also a crazy in the US. They called it butt chugging. It was funny to hear politicians talk about how we needed to do something about butt chugging

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        5 months ago

        cause teenagers did that to get drunk without having their breath smell of alcohol

        Did they ever realize that’s not how that works?

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      5 months ago

      Additionally to what others have said it’s also quite dangerous. You can drink a fatal amount of alcohol but your body will generally puke before it absorbs enough to kill you.

      Using this method (boofing), you don’t have that defense, it’s absorbed too quickly and your body doesn’t generally shit itself to expel poison.