Can you absorb calories rectally?

No this isn't a joke.  I seriously want to know.  I have a buddy who swears that you can't absorb calories rectally...but you can absorb alcohol.  So instead of drinking a sixpack, he'll just casually sip on a single beer all night.  But he'll also slip off to the bathroom to take some liquor shots up the bum to suppliment his buzz. (I have no idea how he actually does it) He claims he gets all the fun feelings of drunkeness, without any of the calories.  Is there any truth to this?

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I really don't want to know. LOL

You can administer drugs rectally, they're called suppositories.   Just wondering how in the hell he gets spirits to stay up his arse without being some kind of contortionist with a cork.  Or do we think his 'liquor shots' are actually the powdered herbal variety usually indulged in in toilets....... taken nasally.... ? 

Oh my gosh...I don't know what the answer is, but I sure as hell can't wait to find out! 

Jane, your reply made me choke on my drink. This is so disturbing. I know about suppository drugs but I've never considered someone wanting to absorb alcohol through their rectum. xD

Original Post by gi-jane:

You can administer drugs rectally, they're called suppositories.   Just wondering how in the hell he gets spirits to stay up his arse without being some kind of contortionist with a cork.  Or do we think his 'liquor shots' are actually the powdered herbal variety usually indulged in in toilets....... taken nasally.... ? 

 

 *snort*

^^ The highlight of my day.  Thanks for that!

I don't believe it for a second.   You can't introduce liquids to the rectum without a sizeable syringe the size of a turkey baster, let alone expect them to stay there.   

Good job he doesn't drink pints though... hmmm....

I have heard of this - and it is a very dangerous game. Life threatening. People have died from it.

The alcohol is absorbed directly into your bloodstream if administered rectally - no stomach digestion - and can be very dangerous for alcohol posioning because you can very easily over estimate the quantity. A shot of booze rectally is much more potent than orally and therefore hard to judge what your body can handle.  And the "buzz" will hit you very suddenly. It is a VERY dangerous decision to "get a buzz" this way. It can cause serious illness or even death.

How you actually phyiscally administer it... not my forte. But wouldn't type it here regardless due to the bad idea-ness of it.

I have no idea if because it is absorbed into the bloodstream if that counts as consuming calories or not - but regardless - don't do it.

Consume your booze the regular way please!

Did you ever see the American show Jack-ass?  (that's the show's name.  I'm not calling you a jack-ass).  Steve-O did a beer enima where he literally stuck a tube up his bum and kind of.....sucked it up.  It was weird and I don't know how he did it.  But he claimed it was like an instant alcohol buzz.

I have no clue if the calories are absorbed though.  Nor would I want to test that theory.

Edit:  Jeff9up made a good point.  I forgot to mention that it is dangerous and over time can cause rectal problems as well as risking alcohol poisoning.  To the OP, I'd suggest you tell your friend that what he is doing is dangerous.

i've also heard of soaking a tampon in alcohol and inserting it.  solves the leakage problem.  apparently this is a popular thing for underaged kids, because they can get hammered without risking getting caught with alcohol.

Original Post by jef9up:

I have heard of this - and it is a very dangerous game. Life threatening. People have died from it.

Should this be the outcome, his buddy should be given a Darwin Award for gallantly improving the gene pool by removing himself from it. 

The entirety of this thread has made my day. You hear something new every day, yeesh... xD

Saying that, I forgot about the risk of alcohol poisoning. Nor does he really want to be messing with his colon like that.

Original Post by gi-jane:

Should this be the outcome, his buddy should be given a Darwin Award for gallantly improving the gene pool by removing himself from it. 

 win!

also, there is a problem where i used to live where people shoot alcohol because it goes right into the drug stream too.  people...it really doesn't take THAT long to get drunk by DRINKING it.  ugh.

and am i the only one wondering how bad it burned?

This topic was recently covered on the TV show 'Manswers.'  The expert noted that it is indeed possible to get drunk by taking alcohol through the rectum, and it provides the quickest and cheapest 'drunk.'  However, he also pointed out that it is extremely dangerous.  Not because of where you're taking it, but because of the way that the alcohol is absorbed into the blood stream.

After chuckling a fair bit, I decided to do some investigating. I did NOT discover if you do, in fact, ingest the calories (though I would assume that you would absorb a few if you can absorb the alcohol) and as it turns out, the winner of the 2007 Darwin Award was victorious because of the "Alcohol Enema".

I don't wanna go that way... I doubt your friend does either! Super DUPER dangerous!!!

Also, I hope no one ever stumbles upon my Google search history... :S

Alcohol has seven calories per gram.  If the alcohol is getting into the blood so are the calories.

...wow.... oook.... ... i ... dont know ... and i dont realy want to know...?

xDD

This is the most informative & shocking thread I've seen on CC all week..

This was also recently addressed on a show called 1000 Ways to Die.  The premiss of the show is going over literally 1000 stupid ways that people have died.  Anyway, this episode was just on within the last 2 or 3 weeks.  The guy that they were discussing was an alcoholic and had liver issues.  I can't remember his exact details, but I know it had to do with the liver somehow because he was so desperately wanting his buzz, he convinced his wife to give him the alcohol rectally.  The show demonstrated how this was absorbed directly into the bloodstream and how it got around whatever his liver issue was (I can't remember if he couldn't process the alcohol or if he was on a transplant list or whatever, point being he couldn't have alcohol in his liver). I forget exactly how much they said he has his wife help him "drink", but it wasn't anything that we wouldn't normally do in a bar, and by the time he got out of the bathroom and into the bedroom, he was already drunk. By the time he made it to the bed, he passed out and he died shortly after.

It's a crazy, dangerous thing and I personally, how anyone even thought of it in the first place is well beyond me.

ahahaha that is too funny. I do remember the "Jackass" episode where Steve O put a tube in his but and pour alcohol down it. ahaha Some people are just so damn stupid. lol