“Once I came down with the clap.”
Apparently, fishermen in Japan have this little rite of passage where young men lose their virginity to manta rays whose stingers have been removed. The cap’n gets the first crack at it, then the rest of the crew gets jiggy with it, opening up all sorts of health issues in which STDs can get passed around (no word on what the STDs do to the Mantas). Quoth the storyteller:
“So some guys slip on condoms before they do it. Once I came down with the clap. But we were in port around that time and I did it with a woman, so I don’t have any way of knowing if I picked it up from her, or from the manta.”
It’s not so unbelievable. Those Japs are some kinky fuckers.
Actually it is unbelievable—>Manta Rays do not have stingers. The kinky part is completely believable, but they didn’t pull any stingers from any Manta Rays.
I’ve read about this. It’s true that they do this. IMO, it’s animal abuse, no better than doing it to your Corgi.