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Originally posted by dawnylou
At school I heard that one girl was using a frozen sausage and it defrosted and got stuck. She had to go to hospital to have it moved, apparantly.
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One of our male members read this and PM'd me to reply.
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Originally sent by papermachesatan
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I just thought I might point out the urban legend she's referring to. 
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What the article says for those who don't feel like clicking the link above...
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Legend: A coed who uses frozen hot dog to pleasure herself ends up in the emergency room when it breaks off inside her.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 1995]
At a party last week this girl gets really drunk and really horny. The guys at the party can't satisfy her and she starts looking for an object to do the trick. Her attention turns to the kitchen where she finds a frozen hot dog. She gets a little too excited and the hot dog breaks in two with one piece remaining inside. She has to be taken to the hospital to have it removed and is quite embarrassed.
Variations:
Though the weiner is most often retrieved from the vagina, it's sometimes fished out of the girl's rectum.
In one especially disgusting version, after failing to get the hot dog out by herself, the girl leaves it in there for weeks. A burning sensation in her nether regions encourages her to seek medical help, and when the bits of hot dog are pulled out, they're discovered to be crawling with maggots.
The girl's masturbatory experiments usually take place when she's alone, not at a party. She's often characterized as stuck up and haughty, someone who routinely turns down dates.
An unusual variation has the hot dog being returned to the refrigerator after doing its service and the girl's brother later scoffing it down, unaware of its history.
A closely related legend stars not a hotdog but a Coke bottle. In that tale, the girl requires medical attention to break the seal the suction has caused.
Origins:
Though some tellings of this story date back to the early 1960s, the legend has yet to be documented. Boys (in my experience it's almost always guys, very rarely girls, doing the recounting) generally tell it as a story they heard back in high school or junior high. The star of the piece is usually said to be someone the teller either went to school with or a girl who attended a nearby school.
Underlying the tale is the standard "inappropriate sexual knowledge" theme -- we find out the girl has been doing something she shouldn't through the plot device of her having to go to the hospital where her activities are revealed. The hospital trip is a necessary element in the story because without it no one would know what she'd been up to. It's very much a perils of masturbation story and when told among girls echoes the moral of "this could happen to you."
This legend probably originated as a salacious tale from a more chauvinistic era, one intended to put a socially-successful, overly-snobby or unattainable girl in her place. By portraying her as overcome by desire, she's taken off her pedestal and made human; by having the handling of her physical urges lead to an embarrassment, she's brought down to a level where boys who'd lusted after her can now view themselves as somewhat her superior and thus need no longer feel inadequate in her presence.
In a larger sense, such legends work to reassure adolescent boys that all girls are sex objects and there isn't one of them they can't be having wild fantasies about. When one can believe that even the highest of the high have gotten down with a hot dog, graphic day dreams about any girl no longer seem out of place. Telling -- and believing -- such tales is a way of combating fear of rejection by building up bravado. The frightening, all-powerful girl is made an object of derision, thus working to dispel a boy's fear of asking her (or any other girl) out.
Rumors like this can do their target a lot of damage. In 1993 the first suit in the nation seeking damages from a school or school official for peer harassment was filed against the Petaluma City School District. According to the suit, a seventh-grader was taunted daily by dozens of students after one boy spread the rumor she had masturbated with a hot dog. Failing to get any help through the system, her family had to uproot and leave town. Though the suit against the school counsellor failed, in 1996 the school system settled with the girl for $250,000 without admitting any wrongdoing.
A legend similar to the hot dog tale, The Promiscuous Cheerleader, also brings into play the theme of kinky sexual behaviour being revealed through the need for medical intervention. Doctor/patient confidentiality does not appear to factor into many urban legends.
Barbara "ball park frank" Mikkelson
Last updated: 6 April 2001
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I just want to add that I had a friend who was an EMT, and they did have a case where they had a young girl with the cap of a perfume spray bottle (one of those Imposter aerosol cans). This required medical attention to remove. When they found her, she was covering herself with a towel that was bloodsoaked (she had tried to remove it on her own and caused a "little bit" of irritation in doing so).
So, not all "masturbation stories" are urban legends.