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I really expected this to be overblown clickbait, but the article delivers on the title about as well as it could. I have seen many more breathless articles on

I really expected this to be overblown clickbait, but the article delivers on the title about as well as it could. I have seen many more breathless articles on treatments that weren't already conducting human safety trials as well as having animal effectiveness trials concluded. And yeah, it turns out that mammals can absorb oxygen through their butts. Weird

leoh 1y ago
Not really. Said tissues are well vascularized and therefore lend themselves to oxygen exchange. It’s just that the lungs are especially efficient for this.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
  Supposedly end stage alcoholics will give themselves alcohol enemas to more readily absorb the alcohol. More direct exposure to the veins. Which sounds like a fake urban legend, but I would never discount want an addict is capable of doing.
  - agobineau 1y ago
    it pretty common. a lot of people in my high school did this, or froze beer and inserted it to get rapidly wasted. the other classic is the tampon soaked in vodka most of this was just done because drinks were too expensive or hard to get for high schoolers and they had to optimise their alcohol supplies
    - not_a_bot_4sho 1y ago
      > froze beer and inserted it to get rapidly wasted Wow. TIL...
      - Larrikin 1y ago
        Don't treat an anecdote on the Internet like it actually happened. There have been people posting that they had friends of friends in college do this for twenty years. OP never did it but it definitely happened. In this case it's high schoolers, half of whom most likely have no sexual experience but are fully willing to explore their anal cavity, having access to alcohol but not that much access. They can get drunk off small amounts of alcohol, but it's such a small ration that they are freezing and destroying their limited amount of beer (which most high schoolers hate) to shove up their butts, to get drunk slightly faster? How much frozen beer can one butt fit? Is it really that much better than holding your nose and pounding it in front of your friends? Are high schoolers really going to parties with beer in their butts to maybe get a buzz of two beers from one butt beer because they only have access to one twelve pack, instead of just telling everyone how they are so wasted instead?
        tomcam 1y ago
        As a guy who was gotten to by some male abusers as a child, I was simultaneously laughing uncontrollably and shutting my sphincter like a bank vault door as I read this. Never experienced anything like this before.
        bregma 1y ago
        Not to mention the freezing point of ethanol is about -20 F. Just touching beer frozen solid enough to insert is going to instantly freeze surface water. You'd get your buttcicle maybe a quarter of the way in and it's going to start tearing layers of flesh off. I imagine it would make for hilarious fun party times.
        loloquwowndueo 1y ago
        Buttcicle hahahaha I’m dying here, lol what an awesome word
        jnwatson 1y ago
        Beer is typically only 2-3 percent ethanol. Its freezing point is only slightly below 0 C.
xnx 1y ago
> breathless I see what you did there.
foxyv 1y ago
I know that rectal rehydration is a good method when sterile IV fluids are not available. Hopefully it's much safer than current ventilator or ECMO treatments.
imglorp 1y ago
Some reptiles too. Painted turtles can survive under winter ice for months with cloacal respiration to extend their hibernation. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/the-secret-to-turtle-hibernation-butt-breathing https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/the-secret-to-turtle-hi...
JackFr 1y ago
> breathless articles Nice.

leoh 1y ago

Not really. Said tissues are well vascularized and therefore lend themselves to oxygen exchange. It’s just that the lungs are especially efficient for this.

0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
Supposedly end stage alcoholics will give themselves alcohol enemas to more readily absorb the alcohol. More direct exposure to the veins. Which sounds like a fake urban legend, but I would never discount want an addict is capable of doing.
- agobineau 1y ago
  it pretty common. a lot of people in my high school did this, or froze beer and inserted it to get rapidly wasted. the other classic is the tampon soaked in vodka most of this was just done because drinks were too expensive or hard to get for high schoolers and they had to optimise their alcohol supplies
  - not_a_bot_4sho 1y ago
    > froze beer and inserted it to get rapidly wasted Wow. TIL...
    - Larrikin 1y ago
      Don't treat an anecdote on the Internet like it actually happened. There have been people posting that they had friends of friends in college do this for twenty years. OP never did it but it definitely happened. In this case it's high schoolers, half of whom most likely have no sexual experience but are fully willing to explore their anal cavity, having access to alcohol but not that much access. They can get drunk off small amounts of alcohol, but it's such a small ration that they are freezing and destroying their limited amount of beer (which most high schoolers hate) to shove up their butts, to get drunk slightly faster? How much frozen beer can one butt fit? Is it really that much better than holding your nose and pounding it in front of your friends? Are high schoolers really going to parties with beer in their butts to maybe get a buzz of two beers from one butt beer because they only have access to one twelve pack, instead of just telling everyone how they are so wasted instead?
      - tomcam 1y ago
        As a guy who was gotten to by some male abusers as a child, I was simultaneously laughing uncontrollably and shutting my sphincter like a bank vault door as I read this. Never experienced anything like this before.
      - bregma 1y ago
        Not to mention the freezing point of ethanol is about -20 F. Just touching beer frozen solid enough to insert is going to instantly freeze surface water. You'd get your buttcicle maybe a quarter of the way in and it's going to start tearing layers of flesh off. I imagine it would make for hilarious fun party times.
        loloquwowndueo 1y ago
        Buttcicle hahahaha I’m dying here, lol what an awesome word
        jnwatson 1y ago
        Beer is typically only 2-3 percent ethanol. Its freezing point is only slightly below 0 C.

xnx 1y ago

> breathless I see what you did there.

foxyv 1y ago

I know that rectal rehydration is a good method when sterile IV fluids are not available. Hopefully it's much safer than current ventilator or ECMO treatments.

imglorp 1y ago

Some reptiles too. Painted turtles can survive under winter ice for months with cloacal respiration to extend their hibernation. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/the-secret-to-turtle-hibernation-butt-breathing https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/the-secret-to-turtle-hi...

JackFr 1y ago

> breathless articles Nice.