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Chandler

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I have been married for many years, and have shared a lot of things with my husband. But, I can honestly say that the thought of going over his body and squeezing every little bump and pore has absolutely never occurred to me. Am I unusual, or does this seem to be a common practice? These girls have only known these guys a few weeks, and I can't imagine what possesses them to do this! Just wondering if the general viewing audience finds this as strange as I do...

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
"Does anyone else feel the need to "groom" their partners like these female houseguests do?? "

Well, I'll admit that *I* did......about 900,000 years ago, but then I evolved.

Fix2scream

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Married 22 years.. pop your own.

Whit4you

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL my fav pasttime was always pulling the chest hairs on my partner... um that's prolly why I was never with a man without them :)

But no the idea of picking someone else's zits disgusts me LOL - even seeing someone ELSE do it disgusts me - I can't IMAGINE doing it myself.

Battlestar

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I find it very very bizarre

Twiggyish

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nooooo!! (Long married here, too)

Oregonfire

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, who is going to say "Yes! I love it!" to this question?

Chandler

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you for confirming that I'm not the only one! Clearly, it is something that these people must enjoy, you know what I'm sayin'? lol

Scarlett

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ok, I am opening myself up really bad here. No flames. Just as watching these girls do this disgusts you guys, the thought of that being in the skin of my partner disgusts me. If my husband does not mash them, I will. I can not stand the thought of some disgusting blackhead near me. Some people keep that stuff in their skin. I maybe phobic about it, but I sit and wonder how anyone can let that stuff lie in their epidermis and not get it out. Ewwwwwww.

So although I know from the outside it is disgusting looking to watch, the alternative of knowing someone who is touching you and has that stuff in them is even worse. Does that make sense?

Fix2scream

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll tell you one thing. It sure gives me a new meaning to the term "action".

Battlestar

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
scarlett---tell him to bath more and get an exfloliating glove. Works wonders---and no nasty pus under your fingernails

You should never ever look into what microscopic beasties live on your body---even after washing and scrubbing there is a universe of teenie tiney beasties on every inch of you. Just your eyelashes --have a virtual village living there

Mrose4243

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It reminds me of monkeys on the Discovery Channel picking lice and ticks off of each other.

Oregonfire

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The thing about blackheads is...they are usually just oil, not dirt. My mother and I are both prone to them, and we have both have large pores, and are both clean people. I tried those strips and they didn't work. I took Accutane for six months, and that's the only thing that made them go away. But the big pores are still there. If I spent every day of my life focusing on my big pores and blackheads I'd never leave the house.

Zachsmom

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
whew..and here I was thinking that the reason I was still single is cuz I never groomed a man..

I remember watching a show on discovery..I only saw part of it..but it was this animal tamer/trainer..he was showing how he trained this one animal (some primate) and one of things he did was make her mad..after the "fight" she would then show that she was "submissive" and "under his control" by grooming him..it's an intinct that cannot be broken in these type of primates.. not that I am calling Chiara and Lisa primates mind you..just thought it was an interesting tidbit..and every time I see the girls grooming thier guys..I think of that show..

Wendydarling

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You know, I'd hold my husband's head if he vomited...bathe him when he was sick...but I'm not grooming him like a freaking monkey. I think it's totally bizarre, too. Ripe for psychoanalysis. Repulsive.

Scarlett

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Battlestar.
Its not the "puss" y ones". They can do those themselves. It is the long cultivated black heads. Everyone has them. Some people just let them sit. In fact, I would say most do not have this obession to get them out of their skin pronto as I do.

I would not being doing this to people I have known for only a few weeks. Only a select few have met this end....LOL. But anyone close to me shall be pore-free.

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Zachsmom....but Chiara and Lisa ARE primates! We ALL are! :-)

Merrium Webster:

3 [New Latin Primates, from Latin, plural of primat-, primas] : any of an order (Primates) of mammals comprising humans, apes, monkeys, and related forms (as lemurs and tarsiers)

Jane_Bond

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I admit it - I am a pimple popper. My hubby hates it, but I am compelled to get rid of them. And, it isn't just that they're pimples, they are pimples caused by tiny ingrown hairs on his back.

I am a zit nazi with myself, too. So...

Pantha

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Could be a variation of psychogenic excoriation.

Zachsmom

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
SanFran..I stand corrected..:)


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Fanny

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Do I groom my partner? Absolutely. Every day. I don't know what the big deal is. I clean my partner Buckie's ears out with my tongue all the time, and he licks my face. I like to lick his pits.

Of course I'm a long-haired Birman and my partner is a DSH brown tabby. Buckie feels the same way I do; you internet people are way too squeamish!

I can't wait for these...what do you call them...oh yes, hamsters, to start licking their butts like we do!!!! Buckie and I are certain it's just a matter of time.

Zachsmom

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Fanny.. you scared me for a minute there..really scared me..LOL..:)

Emo1979

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I admit that I've done it, but NOT in front of other people, NOT in front of cameras, and NOT to someone I've known for only a few weeks.

It also wasn't particularly for any cleanliness reason - I only did it when we were bored (after we had done several other things to try to stave off boredom. ;) ). LOL.

My boyfriend liked it - he just looked at it as more attention I was giving him. But I've only done it to one guy, and not any thereafter - perhaps I'll never do it again. :)

Hohoho

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It would NEVER occur to me to pick someone else's zits. YUCK.

Oh man. Can we change the subject? :::getting nauseous:::

Scarlett

Friday, August 02, 2002 - 09:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL HoHo. So getting touched by this disgusting stuff is preferable? See, to me, that is what I do not understand. People would rather let others touch them with all this disgusting stuff in their pores. To me, that is a bigger ewwwww.