CONFESS!!!!!!! You like the feeling when you clean your ears with Q-Tips

Hey, I do!

Go figure!!!

My kids always come up to me and say "clean my ears". They like it too!

Now I have this need to clean my ears....

like an enema for your ears. Sounds gross but I've heard its incredible.

it isn't so much as we want clean ears - we just enjoy the feeling we get when we clean them!!!!

You could damage your ears doing that.

How?

How would a vacuum be produced that would cause earwax to be pulled up vertically? With a candle?

There aren't updrafts in the lower atmosphere that can do that.


Next time somebody gets Ear Candles, peel the pointy part off before you use them and check out the orangey wax that is miraculously already there.

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/candling.html

Why Candling Can't Work

Since wax is sticky, the negative pressure needed to pull wax from the canal would have to be so powerful that it would rupture the eardrum in the process. However, candling produces no vacuum. Researchers who measured the pressure during candling of ear models found that no negative pressure was created. The same investigators candled eight ears and found that no ear wax was removed and candle wax was actually deposited in some of them! <3>

The notion that the ear canal is connected to structures beyond the eardrum is false. A review of a good anatomy book should dispel this notion. The external ear canal, with an intact eardrum, is not connected to the brain, the sinuses targeted by the procedure (those above your eyes), or the Eustacean tubes (the passageways between the internal ear and the back of the throat). While some claim that the eardrum is porous and quickly allows impurities to pass through, this is untrue. The "impurities" that appear in the collected wax (usually on a paper plate or other collecting device) are nothing more than the ashes from the burnt wick and wax of the cone itself.

Dangers Reported

Candling poses several dangers, the most serious of which involve burning caused by the hot wax. Candle manufacturers claim that their candles will drip only down the outside of the ear, but shamefully few direct the user to hold the candle horizontally to prevent this. A 1996 survey of 144 ear, nose, and throat physicians, found that 14 had seen patients who had been harmed by ear candling, including at least 13 cases of external burns, 7 cases of ear canal obstruction with candle wax, and 1 perforated eardrum <3>.

Another case was reported by The London Free Press, a Canadian newspaper. A woman who experienced stuffiness in the nose and ear pains while scuba diving went to a local health-food store and was referred to a "qualified" candler. During the "treatment," she felt an intense burning in her ear. At the emergency room, attempts to remove wax that had dripped from the candle onto her eardrum failed. Surgery was required, and a hole in her eardrum was discovered, which presumably was caused by the procedure. She recovered fully, and luckily her hearing was not affected. The practitioner apologized, compensated the woman, and stopped performing ear coning <4>.

I won't do it!

:hi:

I have one word.

YIKES.

-MR

I was just cleaning my right ear with a Q-Tip when I read the title to your thread here.

And yes, I do love the feeling.

I wonder what it would be like to clean my ears with Q-Tips while having sex?

Maybe I should try it, if I ever clean my ears again.

:)

It feels really good.

The hot water softens up the wax- it's a much more thorough cleaning.

-MR

P.S. Um, what prompted this topic? :shrug:

Do both ears at the same time. Woohoo.

so.

that way he can watch my foot jump uncontrollably. He knows my sweet spot.

I have to hide from the kids when I do it - I don't want them puncturing their ear drums!

nothing like soft lead in your ear to clear your thoughts.

You're poisoning your mind - no wonder you manage to tolerate me!