Quote Originally Posted by yellowrose
When looking up items concerned with health risks the first thing I look for is who wrote the article. Was it a medical professional or a layman? If not a medical professional do they provide links to substantiate their claims? If not then what is written could be and often is erroneous....
You are quite right, and that is often the problem when you get any type of information from the WWW.

It just so happens that both the articles I mentioned echo your concerns almost to the letter, so they probably aren't that far off base.

While there are many reasons to discourage fisting, there will be people doing it anyway so it's a good thing that there are people spreading information on how to lessen the risks, imho.