Does the colon or rectum have any feeling?
The only feeling is distention; otherwise, no feeling at all. This is the very reason colorectal cancer sneaks up on people who don’t keep their colon clean via internal cleansing, as in the case of the husband of NBC Today’s Show’s Katey Couric who died at 42 of colon cancer. He never suspected it. If a person swallows a nail and it perforates the wall, there’s no feeling until infection sets in. There are no nerves in the area. You must have regular daily bowel movements. Constipation begins with the pressing together of one feces to another. This is one type; another is when old feces stick to the wall of the colon and do not pass out with regular bowel movements. Both types are so common that hardly anyone recognizes them as being unnatural.
