How about death?: I would consider death as ultimate danger of long insertions. Sure, trained physicians perform flexible sigmoidoscopy & colonoscopy routinely but these are under direct visualization after years of training. Blindly doing same thing can lead to perforation of bowel (known risk even when doctors do procedure) which leads to nasty infection in belly, possibly death. Finger? Penis? Sure but not longe
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