How do things get stuck in the anus?

FrozenHandle@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 77 points –

I have seen a lot of stories online of people getting things stuck in there and doctors having to remove it, even items like cucumbers. I get that an item with a highly irregular shape could get stuck. But if it's something long and rounded, why can people not just poop it out? Is it because the item isn't soft enough?

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Every patient I’ve had in the ER just slipped and fell on it. Crazy odds. Yeah, our bodies can’t push everything out whether because of size, shape, or integrity. I think the worst was the guy who had peeled ginger that got stuck. BDSM thing for him, used to be a form of torture. He was in a lot of pain and it took a while to get him to endoscopy.