# Licking Your Finger to Turn the Pages

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-your-finger-to-turn-the-pages/491305>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 30, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-your-finger-to-turn-the-pages/491305 "2009-03-30T14:13:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-your-finger-to-turn-the-pages/491305/41 "2014-04-16T16:49:58Z")

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Eww! I encounter this way too much at work. The worst is when you can see a damp little finger smudge on the paper(s).

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**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-your-finger-to-turn-the-pages/491305/42 "2014-04-18T00:56:26Z")

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I don’t really find it disgusting, but I also don’t see the need to do it myself.

But I’d like it and find it intriguing if it was a cute girl doing it. 😉

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-your-finger-to-turn-the-pages/491305/43 "2014-04-18T04:28:18Z")

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> [@LawMonkey](#):
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> I think I shouldn’t tell you about the [pennies](http://youtu.be/DO1Q7F23DxM), should I?

Oh dear God that’s so funny! Thanks for sharing that!

**wipes away tears**

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-your-finger-to-turn-the-pages/491305/44 "2014-04-20T04:24:17Z")

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When you are my age, you will understand that the palms of your hands stop producing sufficient quantities of oils in old age, and it is nearly impossible for septuagenarian fingers to get purchase on a page.

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**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/licking-your-finger-to-turn-the-pages/491305/45 "2014-04-20T04:33:22Z")

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It is thoroughly disgusting. There are several options to smearing one’s bodily fluids over an absorbent material that others will be handling.

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