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Welcome a newcomer to the lexicon: butt chugging. Butt chugging also takes a more prosaic label, the “alcohol enema,” but the former was the nom du jour at a Tuesday press conference conducted by a lawyer involved in the nation’s foremost butt-chugging case—he used the phrase on account of the gravitas it lent the proceedings, I imagine. Butt chugging refers to the rectal consumption of alcohol (pretty NSFW illustration here, via Buzzfeed, of course), and is not a supergreat idea, even if you really love getting drunk. The lawyer and his client, a fraternity member at the University of Tennessee, would only stipulate to these facts: There was a frat party at which young men played a game called “Tour de Franzia.” As the student, Alexander P. Broughton, noted in a later statement, “I consumed wine from a wine box.” A lot of it, apparently, as a case of alcohol poisoning soon sent Broughton to the hospital, where he was asked if he’d engaged in butt chugging. (There was some suggestive evidence, but this is a dignified blog.) “What in the world is that?” Broughton responded, according to his lawyer.
