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Burning Man has been dubbed the "wildest festival in the world" and it's certainly an event like no other.
Every year up to 80,000 free-spirited revellers, known as burners, head to the Nevada desert for a crazy nine-day event that sees campers build their own temporary metropolis — Black Rock City.
Inside the pop-up city, campers can wear whatever they want — often choosing to opt for nothing at all — and "deeply personal participation" in the outlandish events that take place every year is strongly encouraged.
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Psychedelics, debauchery and an "erotically charged" atmosphere are commonplace at the artistic event — so it probably comes as no surprise that when you combine all three it leads to some pretty wild tales.
Over the years, open-minded burners have been more than happy to share their experiences at the surreal annual event, including some jaw-dropping confessions.
With its reputation as a highly sexual event some of the wildest things to have happened at Burning Man often involve outlandish sexual escapades and many of them take place inside Burning Man's infamous Orgy Dome.
The tent offers a "safe, consensual, sex-positive, inclusionary and exploratory environment," according to the festival's bosses.
But one festival goer claimed it wasn't exactly what you might expect, taking to Reddit to reveal it's "generally not a writhing pile of 10 or 15 naked bodies as the name might suggest."
Describing what it's really like inside, they added: "Usually the dome is occupied by couples, with some threesomes and moresomes. For the most part, people keep to themselves, though partner swapping happens, and sometimes more!
"Usually there are some people watching on the edges, voyeurism and having an audience are definitely in play here, so know that going in."
The Orgy Dome isn't the only area offering a place for burners to experiment with sex though.
"Nectar Village had a metal room where about ten naked people could be in a place even hotter than the playa, and humid. It was amazing. I think that was more decadent than the orgy dome," one burner revealed.
But the Orgy Dome is still the most popular and things can get intense inside — on one occasion a wild sex session left one bloke with an incredibly painful injury.
Burning Man regular Sammy told The Sun: "I met a gentleman who had been at the Orgy Dome — the only camp with air conditioning, where you go and have sex.
"He was having sex with the seventh guy that day and broke his penis. He had to go to the nearest town and get stitches and was back at the playa the next day."
Sammy, a 29-year-old journalist from Washington, also revealed "lots of people are taking drugs" and there are "giant raves."
But another one of the wildest scenes at the festival every year is the famous Dr Bronner's Magic Foam Shower — where dozens of strangers strip down naked to help each other clean the desert dust off.
Sammy explained: “You basically take a shower with 50 people. You walk into this clear container and everyone’s naked, people spray you with Dr Bronner’s soap and then hose you down with water.
“Then you just hang and dance nude with a bunch of squeaky clean happy people. It’s a vibe.”
It turns out the bloke Sammy met isn't the only burner to sustain a nasty penis injury at the intense festival.
In another crazy tale, a festivalgoer who had to be transported to the local hospital in Reno after passing a kidney stone discovered that medics were overwhelmed with injuries from Burning Man and recalled overhearing about a particularly grim one.
She wrote on Reddit: "I could hear the surgeons talking with each other outside my room. One was explaining to the other that he had to tell a guy 'his penis is entirely gone, fully degloved, totally ripped off. He’ll never have a normal penis again.'
"The doctor sounded so worn out and done with burners, I felt bad for him (the ER even had a Burning Man tally board, by the time I got there they had over 40 hash marks)."
She added: "I did spend the rest of the weekend SO CONCERNED at every person with a penis riding around naked on bikes or with chains/jewellery attached to their d**k piercings."
And it turns out she had reason to be concerned, as another burner on Reddit recalled seeing exactly that happen.
He explained he witnessed a man with a "MASSIVE sounding rod" — a sex toy generally inserted into a man's urethra — "just riding his bike, legs splayed, d**k dangling."
But later that day, a campmate who had to make a trip to a medical tent saw the same man again.
He said: "Apparently he came in with a massive erection and blood everywhere, all the medics immediately took him to the back room with the X-ray machine and were not seen again for over an hour.
"IDK what happened to him, but moral of the story: sounding rods are fun just not on a bike."
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