The rectum is a very efficient means of delivering medication.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectal_%28medicine%29

Actually, alcohol per rectum is a frequent cause of Darwin awards.

The myth that it won't show on your breath is based on an appalling ignorance of physiology. The route for alcohol on breath isn't alcohol traces in mouth >> breath, it's bloodstream >> lungs >> breath.

An old geezer in Texas got Darwined by his wife a couple years ago, with two bottles of sherry.

People put drugs up their butt all the time-legal and illegal ones. it bypasses the hepatic portal, which gives you a bigger bang for your buck. All those mucus membranes down there are very absorbant. So I'm betting someone's done this. You could soak it in the applicator for ease of use.

People get enemas, and that is your butt gulping up water.

I've heard of this before. My understanding is that it's not through that orifice, but through the vagina, and it's effective. It has long term effects (lacerations, internal burning) because it does sit there for an extended amount of time. Just what I heard from an alcoholic blog.

I think you could file this under Darwin Awards Amy... basically anything that can be done, is... also? Commenter Sarah's common sense... er, don't you use an applicator? Seems like if you soak it in the applicator, it won't expand until you install it.

As we saw with Mr. AAA in the rear... people are powerful strange.

I can’t wait to try it when I get home. Are there and side effects I should know about like explosive farts, orange pee, etc.?

This was in the news therefore it cannot possibly be false or exaggerated.

Tobacco enemas used to be used by the medical profession for all sorts of ailments. They would stick a bellows full of smoke up there. After it was proven ineffective, the term "blowing smoke up one's ass" came into being.

I'm not blowing into that breathalyzer - I don't know where it's been!

Sigh...this strikes me as this year's moral panic equivalent of "rainbow parties".

People get enemas, and that is your butt gulping up water.

As several people have pointed out - yes, the rectum is an effective mechanism for drug delivery. In a technical sense it might work.

But I'm a long term alcoholic, and the amount of booze required to get me drunk isn't going up there!

Sigh. For as long as there have been humans, there have been humans sticking things into their various holes.

What I should have titled this: ABSOLUT Tampax

I think you just found another way to make money.

@ dex,
I found your reference:
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007-13.html

Swell. A beernema. Sick.

You can generally always get a good reference from Snopes -- www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/vodka.asp

But can you trust Snopes?
xkcd.com/250/

I will continue to buy the good stuff and drink it.

These are the people who are going to be wheeling me around when I'm old and decrepit? Stop the world, I'm getting off.

DrCos: Is that true?

(Kinda fun if it is.)

I'm hesitant to believe this. The ice cubes alone are tremendously problematic.

There is one group who will never do this - and that's the folks who can smoke a cigarette with a nether orifice.

The flareup potential is just too great.