Experimenting with boofing alcohol safely

[wulframite]

You may have read an article on the dangers of boofing alcohol before and I'm going into this with the awareness and acceptance of that risk, but I hope my approach here will show I'm trying to do this as safely as possible. Those articles about the very real dangers of this talk about cases involving much higher quantities of alcohol than I'll be touching. (That one with the 58 yr old in Texas had over 3 litres of sherry which would be like 15-20% ABV).

Alcohol poisoning is a risk with any method of consumption, but an alcohol enema skips out on the first round of metabolism and means you can't flush alcohol from your system via vomiting. If you are doing this you are intentionally avoiding biological safety mechanisms.

So over the next few days I'm gonna be trying this and I'll update here with my findings.
Context/Method:
I don't have a problem with alcohol, typically only drinking at parties/social events, I'm really doing this out of curiosity after hearing various talk about "butt chugging" over the years, and because I think it'll be fun to offer real experience about it should I find myself in a discussion on the matter. I'm a reasonably large individual (6'2, 107kg) so have a fairly high tolerance for alcohol as is, if anyone is replicating this please exercise care and use similar precautions estimating your dose. I'll be taking it in the evenings (around 7pm), and there will be some caffeine in my system still from having a can of monster at lunchtime (1pm).

Firstly I will suppose that boofing will have 10x the strength of effects as oral consumption, I know I can handle 250ml of vodka pretty easily, so will be starting myself at 25ml. 10x is likely an overestimate as alcohol has reasonably high bioavailability orally as is, I think the main thing is skipping the metabolism. Still, I'm using these values for safety. Regardless of this assumption, worst case scenario I'm putting 10ml or ~7.9g of ethanol in, at approx 8.0L of blood for my bodyweight, even transferring 100% to the blood gives a BAC of ~0.099%, which while over the limit for driving is far from the risk of alcohol poisoning.
Secondly, in reading about this, a lot of the issues seem to be from people using way too high a concentration for the sensitive rectal tissue, and damaging it. I will be diluting everything down to ~5% which I believe should be a safe concentration.

Therefore, the plan for tonight is to take 25ml of 40% ABV vodka and mix it with 175ml of water, then insert rectally (after cleaning myself out with just water first) and hold it there for at least 10 mins, more if I can hold it longer.
Day 2 I'm thinking 40ml, and day 3 maybe 50ml (of course diluting down to 5% as before). These values are not set and I will probably adjust them based on the experience as I go through, but 60ml is a hard cap for keeping worst case scenario BAC for my size below 0.3 (the lower range of lethal BAC). If I only experience mild/no effects I may try this again in future, slowly increasing to higher values, or with mixing in other substances.
I will be drinking electrolyte water throughout the evening after taking, which should help further reduce the risk by flushing the alcohol from my system.

I hope this information will be useful to anyone tempted to try this, but please be careful, don't skip straight to higher dosages, be aware of how your size affects tolerance and BAC. You can, and will, die.

 

[wulframite]

Trial 1 is underway, I only managed to get about 4/5 of the liquid into me so my 25ml is looking more like 20ml, assuming an even mix (I did shake it before inserting). I noticed effects within 20s, that weird mental feeling of things running ever so slightly slower, not disorienting but noticeable. I'd compare it to maybe 3 normal drinks worth - you know you've been drinking but the buzz hasn't really hit yet. I'm still able to speak, think and type fine, I can hold my balance on one leg, I think all the precautions have made this a very mild first experience, which was the goal. But again, this is first couple mins of effects.
Thank to the low concentration I didn't get any unpleasant sensations or burning when I inserted it, the only noticeable thing was the feeling in my head/vision.

No noticeable changes from the initial ones at 10 mins.

Around 20 mins I started getting a mild discomfort wanting to expel the enema, it had a very mild sting as it came out but nothing concerning. Balance while walking to the bathroom was off by the slightest amount as well. I'm now getting the alcohol warmth across my skin and those initial mental/visual effects have lessened. I am starting on the electrolyte water at this point. Overall I'm feeling totally fine, if I had a breathalyzer I'd put money on me being below the 0.08 driving limit. If anything changes throughout the night I can update, but will otherwise hold off now until how I feel in the morning.

 

[antresemble]

I don't have a problem with alcohol, typically only drinking at parties/social events, I'm really doing this out of curiosity after hearing various talk about "butt chugging" over the years, and because I think it'll be fun to offer real experience about it should I find myself in a discussion on the matter. I'm a reasonably large individual (6'2, 107kg) so have a fairly high tolerance for alcohol as is, if anyone is replicating this please exercise care and use similar precautions estimating your dose. I'll be taking it in the evenings (around 7pm), and there will be some caffeine in my system still from having a can of monster at lunchtime (1pm).

Firstly I will suppose that boofing will have 10x the strength of effects as oral consumption, I know I can handle 250ml of vodka pretty easily, so will be starting myself at 25ml. 10x is likely an overestimate as alcohol has reasonably high bioavailability orally as is, I think the main thing is skipping the metabolism. Still, I'm using these values for safety. Regardless of this assumption, worst case scenario I'm putting 10ml or ~7.9g of ethanol in, at approx 8.0L of blood for my bodyweight, even transferring 100% to the blood gives a BAC of ~0.099%, which while over the limit for driving is far from the risk of alcohol poisoning.
Secondly, in reading about this, a lot of the issues seem to be from people using way too high a concentration for the sensitive rectal tissue, and damaging it. I will be diluting everything down to ~5% which I believe should be a safe concentration.

Therefore, the plan for tonight is to take 25ml of 40% ABV vodka and mix it with 175ml of water, then insert rectally (after cleaning myself out with just water first) and hold it there for at least 10 mins, more if I can hold it longer.
Day 2 I'm thinking 40ml, and day 3 maybe 50ml (of course diluting down to 5% as before). These values are not set and I will probably adjust them based on the experience as I go through, but 60ml is a hard cap for keeping worst case scenario BAC for my size below 0.3 (the lower range of lethal BAC). If I only experience mild/no effects I may try this again in future, slowly increasing to higher values, or with mixing in other substances.
I will be drinking electrolyte water throughout the evening after taking, which should help further reduce the risk by flushing the alcohol from my car games system.

I’ve seen enough alcohol-related experimentation to be very cautious with the assumptions here. The biggest issue is treating rectal absorption like oral alcohol and trying to calculate a “safe” BAC from body weight. Rectal absorption can bypass some first-pass metabolism, and the medical literature includes cases of severe and even fatal ethanol poisoning from rectal administration. I also wouldn’t assume that diluting vodka to 5% makes it safe—the rectal tissue can still be injured, and alcohol-induced proctocolitis has been documented.

 

[placebonaut]

why do this?

are you trying to reduce alcohol intake while maxing effect?

will this work in that way?

 

[Pundare]

This is not harm reduction, it's dangerous for yourself and anyone else willing to try what you're doing.
It's a shame you don't have a breathalyzer. It would be helpful to track your BAC for science, and your own safety.

 

[4DQSAR]

History is littered with people who imbibed ethanol via a parentheral route. It ends badly every time.

Beyond the obvious stupidity, since alcohol dehydrogenase differs between individuals, even if you find what you consider a 'safe' dose is absolutely no guide to the safety for others.

BTW IV ethanol is the specific antidote to methanol/ethylene glycol poisoning by using up all of that alcohol dehydrogenase. The dose is based on body mass, gender and even then titration takes place. But the clinician aims to maintain a BAL of 1.8 ml/kg of 43% ethanol (calculated to offset diuretic action of ethanol). I've only witnessed ethanol used medically once and the hangover was, apparenty, every bit as nasty as expected even with infusions of electrolytes and water-soluble vitamins (that diuretic action again).

 

[Bluebarbital]

This is quite ridiculous although I appreciate you being a guinea pig in the name of science. If you are trying to maximize the potential effect I suggest sticking to the common methods such as empty stomach or sleep depravation paired with ethanol as they are much safer than bypassing first pass metabolism altogether.

 

[placebonaut]

my worry is that it's going to make the alcohol taste funny

 

[4DQSAR]

I am only half joking that boffing nitrous oxide in a perfluorocarbon solvent WILL work.

So why not go with that? The limited solubility of nitrous oxide and it's relatively lower toxicity (and importantly it's MAC value is >100) means you cannot black out and end up dead.

Breathing through your bum could save your life in an emergency

www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk

Obviously you would need to find the best solvent but for goodness sake, don't think because N2O works, swapping to sevoflurane or similar would be 'the next step' as chances are, you would be dead within seconds...

 

[puke]

Hmm, breathing through your asshole. Could u u also do cpr that way?

 

[4DQSAR]

Hmm, breathing through your asshole. Could u u also do cpr that way?

No, I've seen a surgeon use a surgical rib-cutter (rib shears) to take out three ribs to allow direct massage a patient's heart.

Patient died - but if I ever use the term 'heroic intervention' it represents NO heroism on the part of the clinician but a decision that IF the pateint survives, they will need to be heroic to recover.

It really is true that at the very edge some people fight death every inch of the way which most of us don't.

 

[lost weekend]

At least you never wasted a fine malt whisky in the interest of science