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paradoxide
Group Member • Jul 7th 2023
I tried a snail for the first time, a large, white Roman snail. I won't do it again. The snail rasped a hole in my glans fairly quickly, it bled for quite a long time and healed very slowly. The feeling was far too brief and not intense.
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joshua069
Group Member • Jul 9th 2023
I tried a snail for the first time, a large, white Roman snail. I won't do it again. The snail rasped a hole in my glans fairly quickly, it bled for quite a long time and healed very slowly. The feeling was far too brief and not intense.



Wait... snails bite? I did not know this. Been wondering why anyone uses snails, if it was just because of the slime they leave.
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paradoxide
Group Member • Jul 9th 2023
Snails have a tongue called a radula. It has many small teeth. That works like a rasp.
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dutchkinker
Group Member • Jul 10th 2023
Snails have a tongue called a radula. It has many small teeth. That works like a rasp.
Indeed, that's how they eat leafs and such.
I am a bit surprised the Roman snail does this to human flesh, because this specie is a herbivore.
Also never heard similar stories about other slug or snail species.

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Eastmidsdude
Group Member • Jul 10th 2023
I’ve used the slugs and snails we have here in the uk and never had that happen
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JayNobody
Group Member • Jul 11th 2023
The freshwater 'Mystery Snails' sold in pet stores for aquariums can also 'bite' & break through the skin causing bleeding.
While stuff like algae & plants is their main diet, they'll eat most anything they can find...fish food, dead fish, etc.
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joshua069
Group Member • Jul 13th 2023
Wow, never would've thought.
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