In the 1980s, Mick Jagger was trying to prepare for a movie part in the film Fitzcarraldo, about a rich entrepreneur who went to great lengths to get rubber from the Peruvian jungle, in a bizarre bid to build an opera house. Jagger was set to play Fitzcarraldo’s assistant, a role he ultimately had to turn down due to touring commitments coupled with filming delays.

Jagger was in Peru for months, and according to the film’s director he tried a weird Peruvian marriage ritual which involved putting bees in a bamboo tube inserted over the penis. It is supposed to enlarge the penis, but sounds more painful than helpful:

Mick Jagger reportedly tried to enlarge his penis by letting bees sting it. The Rolling Stones frontman, whose “small penis” was mocked by a former lover, covered his manhood in bees in the hope that their stings would cause it to swell.

Film director Julien Temple, revealed how the ageing rocker attempted to use the ancient Amazonian marriage ritual while filming scenes for 1982 movie ‘Fitzcarraldo’.

Julien, 53, told Radio 4’s ‘Film Programme’: “It involved putting bamboo over the male member and filling it with stinger bees so the member attained the size of the bamboo.

“Mick spent months in the jungle in Peru. He was going mad out there I think.”

British director Julien was with The Rolling Stones in Mexico making their ‘Undercover of the Night’ video.

Janice Dickinson, the scary ex-model who claims to have once had an affair with Jagger, is quoted as saying he has “a very small penis.”

It sure seems to work fine, though. Jagger has seven children by four different women. What he may lack in manhood, he surely makes up for with that big ‘ol mouth.