Imagine all the designer gastroliths. Gucci rocks in your stomach. All the snake oil ones that “cleanse”, “detox”, or have positive ionic charges or something. Someone surely would suggest plastic, or those would be the cheap ones at gas stations. At some point, we would have had people shilling asbestos or uranium gastroliths as good for you. Someone else would pick rocks up along stream beds and sell them as “organic”, nevermind the parasites or other possible diseases attached to them. Someone would push bullshit medical rocks instead of vaccines as cures for diseases.
Lol, people would make a mess of plain old rocks.
College bros would compete to swallow the roughest and sharpest ones. There would be a Silicon Valley startup trying to “disrupt” gastroliths with a “smart stomach stone” that gathered data about what you’re eating and sold it to McDonald’s and Kroger. Couples who were really serious would prove it by regurgitating and swapping stones. The “raw gut” movement would be trying to convince people that they didn’t need gastroliths, they just needed to eat softer foods.
Damn, this was eye-opening. I seem to hate humans quite a bit.
It would absolutely be a fetish too
Well think of the actual “real” rocks though. Some humans would’ve put time, effort, and thought into testing a safe, effective, and healthy mass scale solution
That’s what makes humans cool!
Smart Gastroliths would definitely be a thing. Ai enhanced gyroscopic gastrolith for assisted fiber digestion.
Guarantee that it’s only a matter of time that some snake oil company would release a gastolith that actually gives off positive ions because it contains thorium.
There would definitely be vibrating rocks
remember to sterilize your gastroliths, but be careful so you don’t create microfractures that might splinter off in your stomach and kill you! Just stick to smooth polished rocks washed in soap.
Btw, our digestive tract can’t handle rocks; swallowing rocks is hazardous.
Edit: typo
Thank you! I was about to put one in my mouth when I saw your comment. Close call.
tract. though there’s a joke in there about calling it a track when you have the runs.
Limestone, calcite and chalk are the same compound as the active ingredient in antacid tablets: calcium carbonate. There isn’t much danger in eating small amounts of it.
In fact, it’s best practice
Chalk it up to a feeling but eating a little bit of sand and whatnot is probably good for us
how small is small?
You know how big an antacid tablet is? About that amount.
Whenever someone asks for tums I tell them “just eat chalk, it’s the same thing.”
So we do swallow rocks!
I eat Halite pretty frequently
People will make a health conspiracy out of every innocuous thing, though.
My ruined mind immediately wonders how porn would be different. Similarly, imagine if we had tails. Would we put underwear on them? Would we shave our tails?
Oh my fuck, we absolutely would shave our tails, and there is just something so horrid about that thought that how I won’t be able to fucking sleep, thanks, I hate it.
It might not be as bad as you’re thinking. Demon tails usually aren’t depicted as having hair. Also, without the hair the skin would have melanin in it due to sun exposure. Or people would have it spray-tanned
Just think of all the holes those shaved tails can fit into.
Are they prehensile?
The Victorian era would have made it so that showing any amount of tail was scandalous and we would all be wearing these bizarre contraptions designed to hide our tails beneath our clothing. Most people would be aware of the fact that keeping our tails tied up was an antiquated puritanical practice that was overall unhealthy for us, but even still, the brave few who chose to let their tale go in public would be looked at as pariahs even by those who ostensibly agreed with the reason behind it.
wearing these bizarre contraptions designed to hide our tails beneath our clothing
You mean skirts and dresses?
Depends on how big the tails are.
If the tail is long enough, they’d probably just do socks or worst case make stockings with a garter, just like with legs
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Nerdy joke, if I’ve ever seen one.
Wouldn’t quartz cut up your insides?
