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alonzo , 09 Mar 2009

Scrotum picking

Hi everyone. I'm a new member. I was wondering if anyone else had an intense sensation of itching or pressure in their scrotum. I've been plucking hairs from my sack for at least 5 years now which wasn't a problem, but 2 years ago I started scratching at the hairs. My plucking had lead to ingrown hairs which compounded my fixation on them. Then scabs would occur and I would peel them off and continue working on the hairs. Then, I started pulling out more than just hairs. I would pluck the hair and then remove the milky colored ball of jell that holds the hair. It hurts a lot. So even now, when I have no hair on my scrotum, I can still pick at these roots. Sometimes, I'll take those little roots things and place them to my lips or lightly chew them. Scary parts : 1) My nuts look like a WW1 battlefield 2) I think I'm doing permanent damage. 3) I can't stop. 4) It feels REALLY good when I get them out. Something about the pain is satisfying.
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rosie
March 13, 2009
Hey, don't feel alone! We're all crazy pickers on this site, but i think most of us here are female... and thus I don't have a scrotum to pick, or know anyone who would let me pick theirs, lol. I do understand your compulsion to dig out hairs and stuff though! Do you think something is wrong and that's why you don't leave them alone? Like what do you think would happen if you didn't pick? Rosie
Smoothballs
January 06, 2017

Nah I do this too.
Thankfully I don't get ingrowns OR red splotches and over time the hair has grown thinner on my sack. I'm mixed so the hair on my balls is mad prickly & tweeting them out feels like relief.

ra1nb0wb00tay
March 26, 2009
i'm a female..so i dont pick at my scrotum..BUT i do rip out my pubic hair. its very frustrating. i've done it since adolescence...i'm 22 now. *sigh* its frustrating
spring_water15
April 21, 2009
I'm 17 and also pick at my pubic region.it really bothers me .I find myself better off when I don't have a tweezers with me but I can still sqeeze and pick the scabs and the ingrowns.I hate it.grr.I wish all of you good luck!
Jason Ladas
January 18, 2013
I've been doing this since I was a teenager and still do it at 40! I started doing it because I wanted to attract the other boys at RLA (private military highschool) by having a clean look!
Orange
January 18, 2013
I'm a girl, so that's pretty much self explanatory, but I do get random urges to go pick "down there" but I can't because that would look weird, so I do it in private. I wish somebody else in my school had this. I know you're probably thinking "how does she know if people have it at her school or not" I don't know. It's an assumption, because they are all preppy. Perfect hair, skin, body, everything, and nobody seems to have a humongous secret, they are all problem free, it seems. I just wish I could relate to someone I could actually see, instead of people on the Internet. Just some random rambling I'm sorry.
Orange
January 18, 2013
I'm a girl, so that's pretty much self explanatory, but I do get random urges to go pick "down there" but I can't because that would look weird, so I do it in private. I wish somebody else in my school had this. I know you're probably thinking "how does she know if people have it at her school or not" I don't know. It's an assumption, because they are all preppy. Perfect hair, skin, body, everything, and nobody seems to have a humongous secret, they are all problem free, it seems. I just wish I could relate to someone I could actually see, instead of people on the Internet. Just some random rambling I'm sorry.
Jason Ladas
January 18, 2013
I cant help but to look down there pretty much whenever I get the chance and quite literally rape my scrotum done by ripping every last tiny white hair, little black stumps, juicy long hairs or even bit of skin for that matter.. only just to feel the gunk rip out from under the surface! There is defiantly something about when the hair sack ejaculates out from under the skin.. aaaahhhh, it feels strangely nice for some reason! The problem is, I am left with loads of red blotches and patches all over my balls.. -- Anyone else have a problem with being addicted to plucking their pubes?

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