TORCHURE: The man had the light lodged for 27 hours

The patient turned up to A+E complaining of pain in his stomach.

Doctors quickly ran a few X-rays to investigate.

And despite it being a place where the sun doesn't shine, scans returned to reveal the shining light stuck inside him.

When asked about the incident, the Chinese man, only identified by his surname, Cai, refused to give doctors any details.

And unsurprisingly, the 10in object wasn't easy to remove either.

Surgeons – who believe it had been used as a sex toy – took two hours operating on the man at the Guangzhou University hospital.

It is believed the item had been inside him for more than a day – which must have been torchure (sorry).

Yet local reports suggested it may not have been part of a strange lighting sex game – and instead the end result of a dispute in a karaoke bar.