Career Move Or Really Weird Sexual Fetish?
Posted by: Wendy Atterberry
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8:50AM, Friday October 30th 2009
Earlier this week our own Dr. V told us about seven surprising sexual fetishes that perhaps we hadn’t heard about before. A robot fetish, balloons, sneezing? Well, OK. If she says so — whatever floats people’s boats! Then a few days later I was flipping through this week’s Time Out New York and read about yet another odd fetish in the sex column, Get Naked. I’m beginning to wonder if people actually sit around thinking of the strangest fetishes they can imagine with the sole purpose of seeing them end up in some sex advice column they can pass around to all their friends. Because, honestly, I can’t imagine the fetish described in this letter is, like, real. Check it out after the jump.
I have what my boyfriend calls a fetish. We can be lying in bed, seemingly too tired for sex. Nearly dozing off, I’ll rub his back. Soon, I’ll feel more energized. I’ll find myself turning him over, saying, “Let’s see what we find.” That starts one of our routines: I straddle him and pop zits on his back. (Even when there are no zits, I’ll scour and push pores.) I think I’m naturally a tense person, and the zits are my easy way in—like little orgasms. I push them and they come. I usually find myself with enough interest and energy for sex after a good zit popping. Is this a fetish, a problem or a harmless quirk of our love life?
Zit-popping? “Little orgasms”? What?! Jamie Bufalino, the columnist congratulated the couple on “having such a deeply invested relationship,” but admitted that while popping pimples may be a harmless fetish, he doesn’t foresee it catching on as a widespread practice anytime soon. I wouldn’t think so either. Then again, the letter writer may have a career as an aesthetician.
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luke15chick
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 07:55 am: [report]
sadly enough my friend told me of a couple where the girlfriend has the fetish described above. Either they are one and the same or there are more out there. Don’t want to know.
_jsw_
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 08:06 am: [report]
Damn it all. I was eating breakfast.
Not any more. Ugh.
Still, in the world of fetishes, this is far from the grossest.
FrzKey
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 08:29 am: [report]
There’s more than a few medical conditions that are tied to zit popping. Not usually fetishes though these poppers often describe the urge to pop their own or their s.o.‘s zits as compulsive and fulfilling. These are people who usually suffer from a lot of stress and feel that aspects of their lives are out of their control - so being able to pop that offending pimple soothes them.
Blazicus
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 08:52 am: [report]
My most recent ex used to do this, didn’t get off on it but she really enjoyed it for some reason.
kr070707
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 09:42 am: [report]
Yeah, I’ve heard of this too. Check out the Savage Love archives if you want to find some really interesting fetishes…
msu.umich
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 09:43 am: [report]
Yeah, I have heard of this. Not as a sexual fetish, but as a calming stress-soother. Similarly (in my head at least) I’ve heard of ppl getting the same relief (comfort? relaxation?) from picking out ingrown hairs. I wonder if its OCD related? No offense to anyone with OCD - I don’t know much about it.
Lily Q
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 09:47 am: [report]
Okay, so that makes me feel a bit like vomiting. But I will admit that I started going out with this guy a while back who had a few stray hairs between his eyebrows. No unibrow action, but I found myself wondering “will we every be close enough that I’ll be able to sneak tweezers into bed, straddle him and get rid of that?”
bogart4017
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 09:57 am: [report]
Had a girlfriend who had this habit as well as the hair pulling fetish. Just like sex she never stopped until she was completely satisfied. You can’t stay in a relationship like that for very long.
Xfadeld
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 10:18 am: [report]
My ex girlfriend used to loooovee to look for blackheads and zits on my back when we were laying in bed, Fortunatly for my food already in my stomache, i dont get backne. But yeah for some reason it was always a starter.
Little Lamb
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 10:24 am: [report]
I’ll stick to fondling thank you very much.
Jenn27549
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 10:24 am: [report]
That’s interesting about the stress aspect other people have mentioned. I find it gross to do to someone else, but there are nights (not every night, but usually once a week, maybe twice) where I just can’t pull myself away from my magnifying mirror. I will be in my bathroom for hours going over my pores and squeezing or popping any perceivable little thing. I also have an extremely stressful life, am slightly on the OCD side, and find that I do it more on nights where I know I should be going to sleep rather than staying up until 2am.
Rokkor
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 12:27 pm: [report]
This is why I firmly believe in sex before marriage. Some people are just into the weirdest #&@$%…
Emi
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 03:36 pm: [report]
*gags* I was eating too..
whatshesays
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 03:45 pm: [report]
ohhh, ew. i mean if I see a zit, I’ll think to myself, “that person should really extract their pimple”... but that’s about it, this is gross
majicksand
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 03:56 pm: [report]
Guilty! If it has a head on it, it has to go. It isn’t at all sexual for me, but I will admit to a feeling of personal satisfaction. It’s like waging a war against pimples.
tattooed_redhead
wrote on October 30 2009 @ 07:50 pm: [report]
When this starts happening, the romance is dead. Forget farting, this is the new one.
Heatherer
wrote on October 31 2009 @ 12:40 am: [report]
Actually, I’ve heard of the sneezing fetish before. A stranger sent me a message on youtube (why me I don’t know, I don’t have a single video uploaded) asking if I had any sneezing videos I could send him. I went to his page and it was full of all these clips from shows and movies of people sneezing and blowing their noses. And it was a whole community full of people talking about how sexy it was! Strangest things that’s ever happened to me online.
theattack
wrote on October 31 2009 @ 01:38 am: [report]
Wow this is incredibly disgusting. I haven’t heard of anyone doing this with pimples, but I do know a few people who get satisfaction from popping blisters. I had a blister once this summer, and a girl I know asked me to tell her if I decided to pop it so she could do it for me or at least watch. She said she liked popping pus-filled things, so maybe that includes pimples too. Ewww
Jill
wrote on October 31 2009 @ 01:11 pm: [report]
Eww by boyfriend keeps begging me to pop his zits on his back. I wouldn’t call it a sexual fetish because he doesnt get turned on by it, but I refuse to do it….ew.
frozenjuice
wrote on October 31 2009 @ 05:23 pm: [report]
I refuse to pop zits. A few days of redness does not compare to the chance of a lifetime of little scars.
cand86
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 11:28 pm: [report]
Okay . . . I don’t find zits or blackheads sexual; they don’t turn me on. But do I find them fascinating? Yep! I live to pop zits and squeeze things, and I think I got it from my mother (who also straddles my dad’s back and pops his- no word yet on whether sex follows, lol).