A couple having sex in the ocean off the Italian coast earlier this week reportedly became stuck together—"due to suction," according to the Local—and required a trip to the emergency room to be separated.

The couple somehow became locked together mid-sex off a mostly empty beach at Porto San Giorgio, according to Il Mattino. After briefly panicking, the couple fought their way back to shore and flagged down a woman, who passed them a towel.

A doctor was called to the beach but the job proved too tough, and the couple was taken to a local hospital. There, the woman was given "an injection commonly used to dilate the uterus of pregnant women," as Il Mattino put it, and the couple was finally free to go their separate ways.

[h/t Cooper Fleishman/NYDN/Image via Shutterstock]