The 4-inch fork that was lodged into the urethra of a 70-year-old Australian finally had been removed. It took a team of three doctors 12 hours to retrieve the utensil. Fortunately for the senior, he suffered no long-term damage and was send home after the procedure.

He surely would have learned his lesson the hard and embarrassing way and would most likely stay away from kitchen utensils to achieve sexual gratification. Why he turned to a fork could be explained by the fact that the man was living alone and appears to have an addiction for masturbation and using objects to help him reach a climax.

Krishanth Naidu, Maurice Mulcahy and Amanda Chung, the three doctors who removed the fork and published their experience in the International Journal of Surgery Cases, said the Canberra man was not the only case they had encountered of various objects inserted in penises.

They said other things they had discovered stuck inside the male urethra in the past include pens, safety pins, telephone cables, glue, cocaine, straw, marbles, light bulbs, carrots and even snakes.

"Autoerotic stimulation with the aid of self-inserted foreign bodies has been existent since time immemorial and has presented an unusual but known presentation to urologists," the doctors wrote in the journal.

To remove such objects as what the three doctors did with the Canberra resident, they use forceps traction and a lot of lubrication.

They noted that many patients initially try to remove these stuck objects by themselves due to embarrassment, but their tries often fail and instead cause more injuries.

The doctors warned horny and adventurous males who insist on trying to insert object in their orifices to achieve sexual gratification that "urological consequences of this type of behavior can be significant and the implications for patients can be serious, including death from sepsis."

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