Fish in penis "accident"

[Captain Elephant]

YesButNoButYes: Fish in Penis "Accident"

Yes, you will wince when you read this story. I do not think my 14-year-old brain was ever not thinking of sex, and I used to think there were no limits to what I would do to pleasure myself. This, however, never entered my mind.

 

[2322]

At least it wasn't a candiru!

 

[Gl3nn]

You read my mind Jason!

 

[RandyL]

They mentioned this in the Tom Berenger movie "Sniper". The first one. When they are hiding in the water, Tom Berenger says not to take a piss because something will swim up your dick.

Your dickhole isn't a huge opening (at least mine isn't, unlike the people who slide pens up their pisshole), so I have a hard time seeing how a fish is going to get in there and you don't notice it.

 

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

Somewhere, travel writer Redmond O'Hanlon talks about some kind of creature of the river that swims up the male ureter and then sticks out bristles that make it impossible to pull the thing out.
I wonder if it was the candiru.
There was only one solution, albeit a simple one.
Amputation.

 

[139189]

Team Venture!

 

[sykray]

Randy, the candiru is a very small thin fish. It is attracted by the smell/taste of urine. You usually feel it enter your urethra. As senor rubirosa says the traditional treatment is penile amputation.

 

[SpeedoMike]

I think this story needs to be checked in Snopes; it sounds like an urban legend. I doubt anything larger than a sperm can navigate upriver.

 

[Ed69]

Good luck with that doubt Mike,the rest of us live in the real world.

 

[ManlyBanisters]

I think this story needs to be checked in Snopes; it sounds like an urban legend. I doubt anything larger than a sperm can navigate upriver.

Really? I suggest you google 'sounding'.

 

[Captain Elephant]

I think this story needs to be checked in Snopes; it sounds like an urban legend. I doubt anything larger than a sperm can navigate upriver.

Shit, salmon sperm?

 

[eastbaydude]

I spent a week at an Amazon lodge last year. Our guide told us about the Candirú fish. I disn't beleive him but still didn't piss in the water. When I got back, I looked it up. Buddy, it's all real. Rare, but real

 

[B_Think_Kink]

Yikes!

 

[mjcp]

Grey's Anatomy did an episode on it last year, no? It sounds all urban-mythy, but I kinda believe it.

 

[nicenycdick]

The Candirú fish does, in fact, exist and is attracted to urine. It is found in the Amazon River, mostly at its junction with the Rio Negro. It is a small, parasitic fish and it's usual prey are other river fish. It senses the urea that the fish exudes from its gills and lodges itself in those gills and bores for a blood vessel, attaching itself with its spiney exterior. It has been known to attack humans and can enter the urethra, the anus and, yes, the penis. Although this is rare, it can not survive inside the human body, but can cause infection and extreme discomfort. Because of it's spines, it is difficult to dislodge without surgery, although the locals have a mixture of fruits and berries that will supposedly kill and dissolve the fish. There is a myth that it can travel up a urine stream to enter the penis, but this has been determined to be impossible.

 

[pym]

Definately real, read about those fuckin' things back in the 1970's.I don't know what could be worse.A genuine dick eating monster!

 

[2322]

Does nobody do any research? Does nobody bother to investigate whether something is true or not before spouting off on what they believe?

The candiru is real, yes it can swim up your penis and become lodged there.

Candiru on Animal Planet.

Cecil Adams dopes the candiru.

Case report from a physician with accompanying description and photos of surgical removal.

 

[D_Jared Padalicki]

What is going on with the world here!!!!! Everyone wants our dicks, now the fish too! :tongue:

The only thing I have to say is: Lucky that it's not me OUCH!