# How can I soothe and prevent my coin slot irritation? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300 "2008-12-02T04:17:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/21 "2008-12-02T11:25:36Z")
I know how mine gets irritated - sit-ups. I just have no padding there at all (in deference to the rest of my well-padded body), and the situps cause the skin to be crushed between the bones of my pelvis/coccyx and the floor/mat/pad/towel. Bruising and abrasions ensue. During Boxercise, when we are expected to do situps on the wooden dance hall floor, I have to go find a pad as it is too painful otherwise - with the pad it just hurts. So, I sympathise with the OP. Si ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/22 "2008-12-02T13:31:28Z")
Wait, coin slot means ass-crack now? Man, am I behind. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/23 "2008-12-02T13:40:24Z")
stop inserting coins in it, for a start. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/24 "2008-12-02T13:40:33Z")
So what’s a coin purse then? I’m really confused now. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/25 "2008-12-02T13:42:02Z")
Gold Bond medicated. Or if you suspect you have a fungal infection you better go with something that cures jock itch. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/26 "2008-12-02T13:48:56Z")
WD40 and other lubricants tend to attract dirt. Any engineer would tell you to clean the relevant parts in kerosene and then apply powdered graphite. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/27 "2008-12-02T14:49:18Z")
A&D ointment, if we’re talking about asshole irritation. It’s gentle enough for babies, and it soothes and heals chapped skin and mucous membrane. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/28 "2008-12-02T14:56:37Z")
[http://www.antimonkeybutt.com/](http://www.antimonkeybutt.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/29 "2008-12-02T15:33:15Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > [http://www.antimonkeybutt.com/](http://www.antimonkeybutt.com/) Is there a problem so obscure that there isn’t someone already trying to make a buck of solving it? ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/30 "2008-12-02T15:35:04Z")
**BaneSidhe** , which is your recommendation? The link you posted, or your signature? If the first doesn’t work, try the second? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/31 "2008-12-02T15:46:59Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > There is no problem that cannot be solved with a proper application of high explosives. First, the juxtaposition of this topic and sig line made me spit bagel. Nicely done, **Bane Sidhe**. \ > [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > He may not have that in stock under the bridge. **Sleeps With Butterflies** , that’s not acceptable outside of the Pit. Take it there if you wish to insinuate such things. \ ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/32 "2008-12-02T16:19:34Z")
Go with the tagless briefs. ---
**Author:** ![clarkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@clarkstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clarkstar)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/33 "2008-12-02T16:41:48Z")
blargh ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/34 "2008-12-02T16:56:18Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#): > > I know how mine gets irritated - sit-ups. I noticed this during yoga. There are 2 things I do to minimize the grinding (ouch!). One is to train that tailbone to kind of ‘tuck under’. It takes a little practice, but what you want is to minimize that inward ‘bow’ of your lower back which is making the tailbone poke outward. The other thing is, when on the mat, before doing situps or similar exercises, kind of wallow around with your butt so that you situate the tailbone between the butt muscles. That way, they bear more of the weight/force. If you need better butt muscles, I recommend lunges. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/35 "2008-12-02T17:03:37Z")
Wash well with lye soap; dry with slick catalog pages. Apply copious amounts of alcohol and cover said slot with large adhesive pads. Place mass quantities of duct tape over adhesive pads. Take two aspirin and don’t bother calling every again. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/36 "2008-12-02T17:18:53Z")
I recommend applying some Vaseline Intensive Care. Unfortunately, with the weather getting colder, the relative humidity in the air goes down, and it dries everything out. You know, the whole Juneau effect. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/37 "2008-12-02T17:44:45Z")
> [@TwistofFate](#): > > stop inserting coins in it, for a start. Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/38 "2008-12-02T17:49:29Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > The other thing is, when on the mat, before doing situps or similar exercises, kind of wallow around with your butt so that you situate the tailbone between the butt muscles. That way, they bear more of the weight/force. If you need better butt muscles, I recommend lunges. 🙂 It is lots of gym work (including lunges) and running that has caused contraction of said glutes to the point that I am really flat in the arse. Sitting for long periods actually hurts because I compress my glutes against my pelvis. I used to be able to drive for hours (7-8 hours sometimes) - now I need to stop after a couple. When I lie back, I either rest on the tips of my pelvis or my coccyx. It looks pretty good, just useless for sit-ups. I watched an early Jean-Claude VanDamme movie the other day (_Kickboxer_) on TV - I couldn’t quite believe the roundness of his backside (not in that way, either). Mine just does not do that, and it gets heaps of working out. I want to get these sit-ups beaten, though, so I will just suffer. A flat belly to go with the flat butt is worth the pain 😉 Si ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/39 "2008-12-02T18:07:14Z")
Spray it with Windex. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300/40 "2008-12-02T18:17:19Z")
Witch hazel. Tucks medicated pads are soaked with witch hazel, chiefly. Buy a container and use them. This presupposes that you are performing adequate daily hygiene in that area. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-soothe-and-prevent-my-coin-slot-irritation/475300.md?page=3)