I blame Fifty Shades....

The Fifty Shades saga which sold squillions and squillions of books may have a lot to answer for - this week a Doctor in China wrote on her blog of a man who, presumably unable to find a butt plug, almost died after sticking an eel up his rear end. The creature went and ate part of his colon.

Story goes that the 39-year-old man was doing a bit of drinking when he concluded that it might be nice to let a live swamp eel swim up his rectum.

Needless to say, it damn near killed 'him.

According to the doctor, the 20" eel gnawed its way through the man's colon into his body, causing massive internal bleeding.

"The eel was simply trying to find its way out," another doctor is quoted as saying.

Happily, surgeons who worked through the night to extract the fish from the man's gut were able to save his life.

Shockingly, the eel survived the ordeal as well, though it didn't stick around for long.

One Japanese news outlet reports that the story of the man's misadventure has generated much conversation in his native land, along with many "LOLs."