In Japan, Why Kiss When You Can Lick Eyeballs?
Things are a little different in Japan. Instead of asking your girlfriend about her new boyfriend "has he kissed you yet?", they ask "has he licked your eyes yet?". We highly recommend that you DO NOT try this practice at home.
By Mei Mei Chu — 17 Jun 2013, 05:00 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
Love-sick kids in Japan are licking each other's eyeballs...
This is one of the craziest trends that we’ve seen in recent times. It’s not just crazy, it’s completely disgusting. The latest trend from Japan, known as
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Love-struck Japanese teens are risking their health and sight with a dangerous new craze — where they lick each other's eyeballs.
nydailynews.comIt is eyeball licking -- a strange erotic activity wherein participants actually put each other's tongues on each other's peepers.
Alternatively called "oculolinctus" or "worming," eyeball licking has few public advocates but they include Elektrika Energias, a 29-year-old environmental science student in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
It's apparently seen as a new second-base; the thing you graduate to when kissing gets boring.
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Teachers noticed something was amiss when students started showing up wearing eye patches, one middle school teacher wrote on the blog Naver Matome.
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.. and going to school wearing eye patches
Eyeball licking: 6th-graders wear eye patches to hide infections, sexual disease
Image via examiner.comThe Japanese teacher also noted with growing concern that he saw up to 10 students at a time wearing eye patches, which he realized were hiding eye ailments.
cbsnews.comThis teacher’s school was so surprised at the incident that they conducted a survey to see just how many students were actually getting involved in this activity.
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Although the survey only focused on Year 6 pupils, roughly aged 11 – 12 years old, the school found that almost one third of the students were licking each others eyeballs.
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Spreading outside Japan, an America girl says it feels tingly
Apparently the practice isn't limited to Japan.
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"I just love it because it turns me on, like sucking on my toes. It makes me feel all tingly," Elektrika Energias, a 29-year-old environmental science student in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
"My boyfriend started licking my eyeballs years ago and I just loved it. I'm not with him anymore, but I still like to ask guys to lick my eyeballs," she said.
It's also a very intimate act, she said.
"I don't ask just anyone to do it. Guys I like a lot are more likely to not think it's so weird. I've never had anyone turn me down though," she said.
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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Doctors say they don't recommend this practice
Even worse, an eyeball-licking session with your best bro could potentially lead to eye-chlamydia, an unpleasant condition resembling pink-eye — wherein the sexually transmitted bacteria decides to take up unwelcome residence on one's eyeball.
Doctors have concluded the practice can spread viral conjunctivitis or "Pink Eye," that itchy and highly contagious eye ailment feared by grade-school teachers and parents alike.
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“The bacteria in the mouth is nothing like the bacteria in the eyeball, which is why we no longer recommend people lick contact lenses to moisten them,” Dr. Phillip Rizzuto, an American Academy of Ophthalmology spokesman, told the news website.
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"There are ridges on the tongue that can cause a corneal abrasion. And if a person hasn't washed out their mouth, they might put acid from citrus products or spices into the eye."
nydailynews.com"Chlamydia is a bacteria of particular concern which can be spread sexually, and has the potential to lead to blindness if left untreated," he said. "Although its incidence is decreasing, it is always a concern in this setting, especially if there has been any orogenital contact."
cbsnews.comSome believe the craze started from this music video by Japanese emo-band "Born"
The craze is thought to stem from a music video by Japanese emo band Born– which features a woman licking a man’s eyeball, beginning at the 3:30 mark.
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