Talk:Anal wink

Keep?
Article kept by consensus. VfD notice removed. Archived delete discussion below. -- Cecropia | Talk 05:32, 11 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Hoax article.  Either that or I have been missing something. ping 07:38, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Do a google search on the term; both the reflex and the term for it seem to exist and to be accepted terminology. (I don't know how accurate the content of the article is, however) Marcika 07:44, May 2, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. I looked at the Google hits and they seem sound.  Description seems pretty much the same as can be gleaned from Google too. --bodnotbod 11:25, May 2, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Google hits look reasonable, and many seem to be from legitimate medical sources. Agree with Bodnotbod. Dpbsmith 19:51, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Ping, don't feel bad about this, it is generally known only to medical professionals.  The reflex is very important in a neurologic examination, and it is even called the "Anal wink".  An abnormal anal wink is a sign of a low spinal cord compression.  Another weird reflex for a similar purpose is the Cremasteric reflex Stephen Holland, M.D., Wikidoc Kd4ttc 06:33, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's a completely legitimate term. It only seems prurient. - Nunh-huh 06:46, 3 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Cribcage 02:41, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

Include "Anal Wink Test" Information
It seems like some information should be included about the "Anal Wink Test" here, which was a "test" used to determine if a child had been sexually molested as was used as such in at least some court cases in the "satanic panic" of the late 1980s. It was later determined to be unrelated to having been abused.

Something about when this case took place would be helpful Htaccess 10:39, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree that some information about this infamous test should be included here. Hundreds of parents and their children in the UK were affected during this disgraceful episode. A reliable write up on Wikipedia would help prevent stop credence ever being given to this "test" again. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 21:03, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Woodling did not develop the test
I will re-request the book with the information, but the "anal wink test" was not Bruce Woodling's creation; he was using a test that had been used by another dubious practitioner to determine whether an adult male had been sodomized (and was therefore a homosexual.) Still no medical validity to it, but not original to Woodling. -- Antaeus Feldspar 00:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Cost
It is ambiguous if this trial cost the most Perhaps the OJ trial cost the most -- there is a discussion on the McMartin preschool trial page regarding this issue -- Cliffb 04:16, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Video?
Would a short video clip of an anal wink be useful for this entry?

I just got a new digital video camera.

Trollaxor (talk) 01:42, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

BLP issues
Criticism of a living person must be reliably sourced. See WP:BLP. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 19:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)