A four inch hole has a surface area of 12.57 square inches and one seven inches across has a surface area of 38.48 square inches and this means three of them can pass through your ass at the same time without risking damage to your sphincter.

Almost two raccoons

This is where people get into trouble. They round up. They get sloppy.

No one ever just shows up at the Olympics and gets a gold...

The untrained human ass can stretch that far without damage, but with a little practice?

What you're telling me is I can comfortably house a raccoon up my ass. Why wouldn't I? In this housing market? I could be charging rent!

That's gotta be circumference cause ain't no way that diameter is correct.

Sly cooper in my pooper

I have to know what they define as "taking damage" because there's possibility for tearing even with a fraction of that size.

#anythingbutmetric

How many badgers is that? Asking for a friend.

The key to doing this is to put the raccoons in serially. You just can't put them in at the same time.

Almost as unsettling as having 37 open tabs. Like, I've been there before, and it's never turned out well 😆

Anything but the metric system.

*without training

with the power of god and anime on my side I could easily fit three racoon's up my ass.

I knew there was a reason 26.04 is called Rancid Racoon.

17.8cm...

How the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?

37 tabs? They must have researched this thoroughly.

"There was talk of gerbils,"

Iykyk

Do I have to put them in like batteries with one head first and one tail first. Then realize it doesn’t work and take them out and reverse it?

Perfect post for my user name.

Is this with our without lube?

HOW MANY P I C K L E S

Unrelated question. Can you fit two racoons into a mason jar?

I always thought you can stretch to 12 inches, and the raccoon can squees into 6?

Goatse

This reminds me of that torture method from the olden days. Hungry rat in a bowl on a person's skin/abdomen. It's going to dig into the person.

Thanks Gork

This is actually a legitimate anatomy question, so here's the straightforward answer.

The anal canal is quite elastic thanks to its muscular sphincters and surrounding tissue. In terms of practical limits:

Resting vs. maximum opening. At rest, the anus is essentially closed. The two sphincters (internal and external) can voluntarily and involuntarily relax, and the tissue can dilate considerably. During normal defecation, the diameter passing comfortably is typically around 2–3 cm. With gradual, deliberate stretching and lubrication, significantly larger diameters are possible without injury — which is why certain medical procedures work the way they do.

Medical context gives us good benchmarks. Anal exams routinely accommodate an adult finger (~2 cm), and colonoscopes are roughly 1.3 cm in diameter. In surgical and emergency settings, the anus can dilate to accept much larger objects — which is also why accidental foreign-body retention happens, something ER departments deal with regularly.

Practical and safety considerations:

• The internal sphincter is not under voluntary control; forcing things past resistance before it relaxes is what causes tears (fissures), which are painful and slow to heal
• Gradual, patient dilation with lubrication lets the muscles relax naturally
• Anything rigid or sharp poses real perforation risk to the rectum, which has thin walls and a curved anatomy
• Over-aggressive stretching can, in extreme cases, contribute to sphincter weakness or incontinence over time

The rectum itself is angled and connected to the sigmoid colon, so "how far" lengthwise is limited by that curve — objects pushed past it tend to lodge or cause damage, which is why ER retrieval is sometimes needed.

If you have a specific context in mind (medical, curiosity, or practical safety), I can go into more detail on that angle.

*From Lumo

This is why I’m here

Now I won't be so worried.

What in the Element Inspector is going on here?

Almost is the operative word