A podcast concentrating on the internet’s most revolting stories has turned up what is undoubtedly the internet’s most disgusting story ever.

The crew at JaackMaate's Happy Hour Podcast read out a (questionable) tale from a bloke called Steve who had experienced what may well be the most upsetting sexual mishap since sex began.

Steve and his girlfriend Samantha had apparently gone to different colleges in the US, and so lonely Steve was delighted when she told him she was going to fly up to Philadelphia to visit.

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He was so delighted, in fact, that soon after she arrived he suggested they hop into bed. He moved down Samantha’s body, intending to treat her to The Greatest Love of All, but was dismayed to find that her vaginal hygiene wasn’t up to its usual standard.

The disgusting story proved too much for the podcast hosts

Steve, the story goes, grabbed a Jolly Rancher – a popular brand of boiled sweet – to help disguise the unpalatable odour and cracked on with the job in hand. But his enthusiasm for the task led to him losing the Jolly Rancher which slipped inside Samatha.

Aware that foreign objects left in the vagina can cause all sorts of unpleasantness, he fished it out and started eating it. But it wasn't the Jolly Rancher.

Instead, Steve had managed to retrieve a pus-filled blister caused by a particularly nasty case of gonorrhoea. Samantha hadn’t been keeping herself pure for Steve when she was down in Florida after all.

The Jolly Rancher is a popular sweet in the US, although not so much with Steve
The Jolly Rancher is a popular sweet in the US, although not so much with Steve
The incident happened while the bloke was performing oral sex

Not unreasonably, when Steve realised he had a mouthful of putrid pus, all bets were off. He called a halt to the lovemaking session, and started demanding answers. Samantha shamefully admitted that she had hooked up with a random bloke in a club in her first week at Florida State.

While she had noticed that everything wasn’t as it should be downstairs, she had no idea she had picked up an STI on that night she strayed.

The clip has gone viral online

Fans of the show wrote in to say how thoroughly grossed out they had been. One wrote: “I swear I completely spewed when I heard this,” while another listener added “This is the most disgusting thing I’ve heard in a long time.”

Despite – or perhaps because of – the fact that the story is one of the grimmest yarns ever told, the short video clipped from the crew’s Spotify podcast has picked up thousands of likes and retweets.

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