# Sex...or Q-tips? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 28, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852 "2009-12-28T23:45:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/21 "2009-12-29T15:32:21Z")
A properly placed Q-Tip causes what I have heard called, and _Ear-gasm._ ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/22 "2009-12-29T15:56:09Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Oooh, good call. I can get behind that one. Same here. Q-tips can go hang, but I could spend my life at the hairdresser’s, getting my hair washed over and over. I don’t have a clue what they do to your head, where they massage or how but god_damn_. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/23 "2009-12-29T16:03:36Z")
I simply have the wife bleach her beehive hairdo, wear a blue spandex body suit, then we engage in a bit of the ol’ “in, twist and out”, if you know what I mean (nudge, nudge, 😉 ;))—why choose when you can have the best of both worlds? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/24 "2009-12-29T17:18:51Z")
[Essential scalpgasm tool.](http://www.viewpoints.com/images/review/2007/232/23/1187672127-72436_full.jpg)Can be found for a fiver, usually. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/25 "2009-12-29T17:39:50Z")
Didn’t Tosh.0 (the new show on Comedy Central) do this? I remember him going to a porn convention and getting some of the actresses to make naughty with Q-tips (all very SFW - they showed it on CC at 8 PM, for heaven’s sake). ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/26 "2009-12-29T19:13:25Z")
Q-tips are pretty satisfying, I have to admit. But sex is better. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/27 "2009-12-29T19:43:44Z")
Um… they’re called cotton-buds. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/28 "2009-12-29T19:50:39Z")
I like sex. ---
**Author:** ![Telcontar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Telcontar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telcontar)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/29 "2009-12-29T20:06:24Z")
Sex with whom? I mean, I’ve never seen a bad q tip, but Rush Limbaugh isn’t my type. ---
**Author:** ![InterestedObserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@InterestedObserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InterestedObserver)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/30 "2009-12-29T21:53:47Z")
I KNOW you’re never supposed to use q-tips…terrible for your ears/nose/throat connection, tear through your tiny ear-hairs whatever they’re called like a bulldozer through a dry cane field, and according to more than one Dr. I’ve known, they keep such specialists in business. The adage is, “Never stick anything in your ear except your elbow” 😉 BUT…omg, the feeling of a good Q-ing after not doing it for a while…NOT as good as good sex, but still pretty darn satisfying 😛 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/31 "2009-12-29T23:18:35Z")
After all these years of living, I’ve never experienced the slightest bit of sexual pleasure or arousal from having a Q tip in my ear. Not once. Maybe I need a certified ear sex therapist to coach me or something. Maybe I’ll even exert myself enough to consult Google, but first I’ll have to decide if I really care and that might take a few days. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/32 "2009-12-29T23:24:01Z")
Ok. My Facebook status today is “I like real Q-tips best”. This came from our recent trip when I was using an inferior brand and the stick part bent as I was cleaning my ears. Back home now, I was enjoying a good, real Q-Tip, with a firm stick that easily cleaned teh shower water from my ears. I had no idea some people would be reading my update in such another way… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/33 "2009-12-29T23:30:17Z")
I prefer Johnson’s swabs, myself. But I prefer sex to all of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/34 "2009-12-30T00:13:31Z")
Sex is at least a little better than Q-tips, enough that I was not comfortable saying they were equally awesome. But this may be my nitpicky precision. Also, I speak from the male, top/straight - non-pegging p.o.v., & cannot speak to comparisons for women or bottoms. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852/35 "2009-12-30T00:16:07Z")
> [@Telcontar](#): > > Sex with whom? I mean, I’ve never seen a bad q tip, but Rush Limbaugh isn’t my type. Ooh, good call. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-or-q-tips/522852.md?page=1)