Talk:Defensive vomiting

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I agree that this article should be deleted or redirected somewhere else, but it isn't really complete garbage, so it shouldn't be deleted speedily. I don't know, is it an actual phenomenon? XYaAsehShalomX 20:18, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I found a number of apparently reliable online soruces that use the term, mostly in the context of eating disorders, and one as a defense by vultures. DES ^(talk) 20:48, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm... I don't know enough about this to add to the article, but I think it's fairly well known that if someone is trying to rape you, vomit if you can. Said to be effective. Herostratus 05:51, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

How on earth did that ridiculous statement about male American highschool students survive this long? Even if it was true (of some of them) it's by no means confined to that group, and no explanation was provided at all. --Saforrest 05:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

This isn't a term that's widely used in the field of eating disorders. Yes, a search brings up some authors who've used it, but it's not a common term. Self-induced vomiting is referred to as "purging" in the DSM and in most clinical speech and writing (the term is used regardless of whether this is in response to bingeing or is a component of a restricting pattern). The portion of the article referring to eating disorders should be deleted or at the very least edited to explain that this a nonstandard term and not something that most clinicians are going to understand. I wasn't aware of the term until I saw it here and did a literature search to see whether it was obscure or just complete crap. Triangular 23:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

If nothing else, it seems a little weird to me that it covers both sea cucumbers and bulimia. Maybe a disambiguation page? Ed Ropple - Blacken - (Talk) 06:20, 9 March 2007 (UTC)