Eyeball-licking: the fetish that is making Japanese teenagers sick

[babylonsister]

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Eyeball-licking: the fetish that is making Japanese teenagers sick

The popularity of the bizarre practice, sometimes called 'worming', has been blamed for a rise in cases of conjunctivitis. And it freaks us out just to think about it


Warning: don't read this if you're eating, prone to sudden bouts of queasiness or unable to even think about Un Chien Andalou without simultaneously bursting into tears and dry-heaving. Believe me, I'm speaking from experience here.

Because this is an article about oculolinctus, an eye-licking fetish that is currently sweeping across the schools of Japan like, well, like a great big dirty bacteria-coated tongue sweeping across a horrific number of adolescent eyeballs.

Sometimes known as "worming" – which somehow makes this whole thing worse – oculolinctus is being blamed for a significant rise in Japanese cases of conjunctivitis and eye-chlamydia, which is actually a thing. It's apparently seen as a new second-base; the thing you graduate to when kissing gets boring.

The craze is thought to stem from a music video by Japanese emo band Born (there's a chance that the eyeball-licking scene was only included to distract everyone from the fact that the song sounds like it belongs on a menu screen for an EA Sports game about snowboarding from a decade ago, but at this point that's just speculation).

Tumblr, inevitably, is filling up with drawings and unnecessarily close-up photographs of the act, and YouTube is no stranger either. One theory about why it has taken off so spectacularly is down to the sheer number of nerve endings in the cornea. The eyeballs are incredibly sensitive because they need to detect grit and other small particles, and the sensation of oculolinctus is supposedly akin to that of toesucking.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2013/jun/14/eyeball-licking-fetish-japanese-teenagers-sick

[tanyev]

1. Ew.

[Ian David]

2. I think I want to try it just once. n/t

[sdfernando]

3. Its even better when you

lick your own eyeball....well, maybe not better but it can make you very popular!

[panader0]

5. Don't you have to have a rib or two removed first?

[Squinch]

21. Don't you need to remove the eyeball before you do that?

[rug]

4. Ball-licking?

Wut?

[Whisp]

8. reminds me of a bad joke

and I tell all jokes badly.

Anyway, bill and joe are walking down the street and see a dog licking his privates.
bill says to joe, Gawd, I wish I could do that.
joe says, Nah, he'd probably bite you.

[rug]

9. Lol, bad jokes are the best jokes.

[babylonsister]

10. Haha!

[Floyd_Gondolli]

6. Good to see us evolve as a species

[jessie04]

7. And thats sexually arousing?

Maybe there is something wrong with me but that doesn't sound so wonderful.

[Squinch]

22. I can't even put in eyedrops. I guess must be a prude.

[Marrah_G]

11. ewwwww....whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy????????

[Cirque du So-What]

12. And when they get bored with that...

there's always squicking (between consenting adults, of course).

[stevenleser]

15. I'm really sorry I looked that up.

[Cirque du So-What]

17. They say

the gap between the hemispheres is especially sweet

[Skidmore]

20. Me too.

That was truly disgusting.

[babylonsister]

16. You made me look that UP???

[Cirque du So-What]

18. Sorry

but it kinda makes eyeball-licking seem tame in comparison, doesn't it?

[babylonsister]

19. Yes indeed! And

I DON'T want to know how you knew that. No indeed.

[Cirque du So-What]

26. I hope

it's strictly fictional

[hobbit709]

13. Self correcting problem

[BlueStater]

14. It's possible to get sexually aroused by anything, I guess.

Yuck regardless.

[markiv]

23. 'stop it, or you'll go blind'

too bad they've already cryed wolf on that one

[backscatter712]

24. Eye-chlamydia: that's an awkward trip to the ophthalmologist...

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"You've got the eye-clap. You mind telling me if you've done anything recently that could have brought this on?"

[MoonRiver]

25. Brain damage from all the mercury laden dolphin and whale meat school children are forced to eat?

[Cirque du So-What]

27. Another thing

A long time ago, I was researching a safety topic - eye injuries - and found that, as low as 5 psi, compressed air can potentially dislodge an eyeball from the socket. Seems that it wouldn't take much 'enthusiasm' on the part of the 'licker' to do the same thing.

[etherealtruth]

28. Aaaaaarghhh

Like a train wreck ... I felt compelled to look. Ugh

[Zorra]

29. You should try it.

Tastes like chicken.