Yes, you read that right. A Chinese man had to have an eel surgically removed from his bladder after a mishap while undergoing an unusual spa treatment.
Zhang Nan, a 56-year-old resident of Hubei province, was bathing with live eels, in the hopes that the tiny, serpentine critters would nibble away layers of dead skin, revealing more youthful-looking skin below.
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| One unusual spa treatment resulted in a painful mishap as an eel traveled up a Chinese man's penis. The treatment was thematically similar to so-called 'fish pedicures,' which use fish to eat away dead skin on the feet. |
It's similar to those unusual pedicures that have fish eat dead skin off people's feet -- except that you're fully submerged, and you're probably naked, and there are eels all over you.
Eel enters man's penis in spa treatment, is surgically removed
