I put hair in my ears.

OMGGGG!!!! (((((((group hug))))))) ...

I feel so at home right here on this page. I never thought that there were others like me. I can totally identify to almost everyone here... especially the ones who thought that nobody else could hear the noise. I am still convinced that no one can hear it... especially when ur in that zone an the hair is in the right spot and u keep pushing it in... WHO CARES WHO HEARS THE NOISE THEN!!! lol... I have to admit that I am becoming a bit brave by sneaking it in the public... esp when I'm on the train on my way to work and I'm reading a book. AHHHHHHHHHH THAT FEELING!! :)

I swear I probably started doing this while in my momma's belly because I've been doing it ever since I knew my name... I am 35! hehheheh
I've experienced different reactions to this habit, but in my memory is embedded 2 extremely opposite reactions... the first was when I was younger and my mom 'beat' me for doing it. The second is when I was in my late 20's, I was mad about something and as I sat on the couch watching tv and sulking; my ex-boyfriend who was sitting next to me calmly took my hair, twisted it and put it in my ears.... OMG! I could not believe it because I did not know that he knew of my habit... I wanted to marry him right then! Unfortunately…

I can’t imagine myself not being able to put hair in my ears… esp when I am studying… I LOVE IT! I NEED IT! WEIRD????

I don’t know anyone of you all… but I already love you all just for making me feel normal! WOOHOOOOO!!!! lol

I also had this habbit of sticking my hair in and out and sometimes round and round inside ear canal. All my friends know of this habbit because I wasn't shy about it, I described it as an orgasm in my ear. Problem is that now I no longer get that same sensation (it's gone). I think I worn out my ears...:( I still do it all the time like I have no control but I find myself usually aggravated I'm not reaching my peak lol

I have also put hair in my ears since i was very little! I do it mostly when I'm tired, or bored. like in a long lecture, sometimes at a long stop light. I twist a lock of hair just right then push it in fairly far and actually work it back and forth a bit in the canal. It feels incredibly satisfying to me. Weird huh? Once in awhile I have hurt myself, but only momentarily . I stopped completely when i was five, due to a short haircut. Probably that would have been the end of it if it but for grandmother visiting when I was 7. She said ... "remember when you used to put your hair in your ear?" and asked me to show her how i "used to" do it! and i stated all over again. Been doing it ever since and now I'm 51 years old! i used to be very self conscious and would have died if anyone knew. One of the upsides of age is not caring so much about what others think. I'm glad to hear I'm not alone though!

AHHHH i've been searching all over the web for others like me! Awesome. I've done it since I was a little kid. It relaxes me for some reason, and I find myself subconsciously doing it when nervous or stressed. I love the feel of it, the noise, everything.

If I consciously try and stop myself, I'll start to feel stressed and anxious.
I wonder if there is a name for it? How intersting!!

I just thought of something -- I wonder if people who do this have very straight hair which allows them to do it? I sure do!

I think I am the oldest person to comment here -- I'm 62 and have not missed a day finding deep satisfaction in this habit. I find that I am doing it when I am deeply engrossed in something or thinking hard about something. And I thought I was the only person in the entire world who did it. Started when I was very young -- hence my father's nickname -- Woolstuffer. But ... egad! People can hear it?

i insert the hair all the way , i just dont feel anything doing it gently anymore..
if you insert it all the way down , youll get to some point where nerves are connected and it will make you cough, not lying its really cool try it out.

Wow I'm so happy to hear I'm not the only one who does this-like many of you, I assumed I was, as I have never seen any one else do this. My concern is that I absolutely cannot stop doing it-it's as if I have no control over when or how much I do it (I mean there are situations where I can stop myself if it seems incredibly inappropriate, but the urge is always there). Like a few people mentioned, I was wondering if this was a type of OCD or something. I love the sensation so much though, I don't actually want to stop doing it-just have some control over it I guess. Any thoughts? Anyone else who feels they have no control over twisting their hair in their ears? lol

I am SO happy that I found this. Im in University and Im studying the functions of the ear...and I was googled "putting hair in your ear" to see if it was harmful!
I cant remember not doing this as a little kid. I've been doing it for 20 years and I thought I was the only person who ever did it!
I feel normal- thank you!
And It IS really comforting. I cant even control my hands- they just start doing it!

Can people really hear it though...?

I actually lick my hair so its nice and firm and then put it in my ear canals... I don't do it often but when I do it feels nice ~

This is brilliant - there are others like me :D

I have never known anyone else to do this but was sure I couldn't be the only one!! My ex girlfriend 'caught' me once and said it was weird...

I have done this probably every day for the last 25 years plus (I am 27) I have pictures of me as a toddler doing it... I bloody love it, its so relaxing, I do find myself totally losing track of time when I'm sat on the sofa or lying in bed twiddling a hair in my ear - hours could easily pass.

I dread to think what I'll do if I go bald!? :(

I do this too! I was just wondering...this might be really weird, but does anyone ever sometimes pull wax out of their ear when you twist your hair in your ear?

I was sincerely too amused by the question to read the responses but...Really, I'm rather sure that's at least half normal. In fact, there are worse things to stick into one's ears as a nervous and/or compulsive reaction. It's funnier (& more genuine I suppose) because the hair in question is always there. It's not as though if you had a lucky penny that might end up getting lost. That's pretty funny and qutie heart-warming. It's like biting your lip. Or straightening your neck-tie. Or murdering a step-father.

Oh my gosh, thank you guys so much! I have been doing this ever since I was little too, and I thought I was a weird person. :)
Like jazzzgrl, "I twist a lock of hair just right then push it in fairly far and actually work it back and forth a bit in the canal. It feels incredibly satisfying to me."

i am truly amazed at how many people do this too. i'm 18, have OCD, and can't remember not doing this. i remember as a child i enjoyed the sensation of paint brush bristles too. i also like to do it in the corner of my eye, under my fingernails, on my cuticles and between my fingers. i sometimes can't help it in public and get really embarrassed. 'nice to know there are others like you :)

Haha wow! And I thought I was the only freak ;0)
I had a very traumatizing childhood and not so great events to follow. But now I have lead a very stable, amazing life...but I still do it! So apparently I just like the way it feels. I do it all time and I too sneak it in public. I leave my hair in for a while and what I desire most is pulling the hair out, I do it as slow as possible. It almost puts me at peace.
So glad I found my fellow freaks :0)

haha!

this is the one thing i thought only i do :P

im 27 too. finally somewhere i belong :D

we should make a facebook page!

Holy hell, I can't believe I'm not the only one. I've been doing this ever since I had hair long enough to do it, probably 2 or 3 years old. Besides holding the hair with my hand, I like to rub a soft stuffed animal or pillow up and down against my ear while hair is in front of the ear. The rubbing causes the hair to go inside and it feels heavenly. I even catch myself sucking in my mouth while doing it, like I'm sucking on a pacifier. (But my mouth is closed with nothing in it, and I just suck.) It is entirely subconscious. I wish there was a name for this, I'd love to find a community of fellow ear ticklers. I registered for this site just to comment this. Hope someone finds it and responds, to let me know this forum isn't dead... Well, that's all, thank you internet for opportunities like these.

OH MY GOSH IM SO HAPPY I AM NOT ALONE!!!!
I’m 23 and have been doing this since before i had Hair. I used To use my aunts hair and do it until i fell Asleep as a baby.

Hello fellow ear ticklers. I've often wondered if there are others like me out there. You can all imagine, I'm sure, what a thrill it was to discover I have a little family out there. I'm 57, female, and I've been doing this since at least the age of 3; I have a family photo from that age as proof. I used to use a clump of hairs and tickle the outer ear. At some point a single hair must have found its way deeper into my ear and gave me what someone here has aptly called an eargasm and from then on I was hooked on the single hair technique. I did have a very stressful childhood and for many years thought I developed this habit as a soothing mechanism but I find that now, since my life is pretty stress free, I do it when I'm tired or bored. When I wore my hair long I never pulled it out as it wasn't necessary, but I've worn my hair too short for it to reach for many years and have had to pull it out (a single hair at a time)and go to town. Twisting the hair in my ear canal is very loud to me but it was only when my husband pointed out that he could hear it loud and clear that I realized others can hear it too. Happy tickling, ticklers.

The thinner the hair is the more intense it becomes. If you have not done it for a while is even better. Too much can be boring. Never use two hairs, can hurt. Both ears at the same time not good either. After you scratch your ears with your finger the surface is ready.
Make sure the hair is not curly. Saliva can help. Never met someone....

I don't know how old this post is, but it excited me SO MUCH when I saw it! So much that I even registered to this site so I could comment.

When I was a little girl I used to fold in my ear and rest my head on my pillow so it stayed folded. Then about a year after I started that I started putting hair in my ears.

Nowadays I'm 19 years old and have had this habit for about as long as I can remember. :) It's the ONLY way I get to sleep at night, and if my hair falls out while I sleep I instantly wake back up. I love putting my hair in my ears and then nuzzling it against my pillow. <3 Or sometimes during the day I put it in there secretly and just kind of pretend to be fiddling with my ears or something as I pull the hair out one by one.

Awh, I'm so glad I found other's that do this too! I no longer feel like I'm the only one. :)

This is soooo crazy! My mom yells at me when she hears me twirling hair in my ear. The rest of my family laughs and makes fun of me. I'm 37 and whe I was little I used to suck my fingers and whe I would do that I would rub my hair between my fingers, around my nose and in and around my ears. I have also had chronic ear infections since I was a baby. When I got older and my hair was long enough I would tickle my ear, somehow it made me feel better. I also have horrible allergies and my ears would get to itching something fierce and sometime all I had was my hair to take care of that itch. I have pulled out little pieces of hair while cleaning with a q-tip. Several years back I was doing when I had thar horrible itch & my bestfriend asked what I was doing. I was embarrassed but pretended like I wasn't and just told her my ear itches. Well she has the same ear itchy allergies and she couldn't do it herself so she let me try it. She is now hooked. I love it. It makes me happy. Oh, and yes, I have twirled out small pieces of earwax. Not very often and not very much because I am also addicted to cleaning my ears with q-tips. My dr's have always said I have the cleanest ares they have ever seen and when they look in there its like looking at a well polished pearl...they love to look at my eardrum...lol...well, that's my story. :-)

I almost shed a tear when I ran across this page! Google is such a great friend to me!

I have been doing this for as long as I can remember and have always been so embarrassed and ashamed by it. I'm 20 now and all these years of my life and I thought I was the only person who did this! I really wonder if there is a name for it or if its some form of OCD. Only a select few people know I do it and it's not something that gets talked about...at all!

I actually googled this to possibly find a solution. It's gotten to the point where I do it so much my ears are actually in pain for a good part of the day. I'm afraid that if I continue on doing it I could cause some serious damage and maybe up my chances of becoming deaf when I get older.

When I was little my parents told me that it caused ear infections but I haven't had an ear infection in probably 10 or more years. I'm still worried it might cause other complications though.

As satisfying and wonderful as it is, to me it is not worth my hearing, or worth being in pain all day.

Has anyone been successful in quitting and if so how did you do it?

Just like everyone else here I am amazed but SOOO glad that there are more of us out there. I have done this probably since I was 4, and I am now 31. I figured I started up when my parents started fighting before they got divorced, because it was so calming for me. I have tried on my own to stop, but can't go longer than a day (and even that day, I'll have to put my hair up in a bun or something). Its gotten worse over the years. I don't THINK anyone knows, and I try to hide it, because I'd be embarrassed if anyone knew. My mom thinks I tickle my outer ear with my hair soemtimes, and play with my hair, but I dont think she knows how much I do it. I used to use a bunch of hairs at a time, now its usually just one hair at a time. I'll even pull a thick hair out to do it, if I find one. So for a while I thought maybe it was a little bit of trichotillomania. I didn't realize that others could hear it!! EEK. I really wonder how obvious it is to other people sometimes. :S
I have never seen anyone else do it! Glad to know I'm not alone!! I just love the feel and sound. One bad thing is sometimes I just get in a "zone" and can't get other things done, because I'm focused on it so much!
Also since I was little I have liked to stick hair under my fingernails. I'd always scratch my doberman backwards to tickle under my nails with the hair.

How funny the same thing happened to me when I was younger. i forgot about it and someone reminded me and I have been doing it since and now I am 36 years old with 2 kids. I have a cousin that does it on the corner of her eye. I seem to do it when I am bored as well. I know when I do it too many times a day that I will get a sore throat soon after. But I still do it. I knew that I wasn't the only person in the whole world that did this. I think it might be also genetic. My sister and I also still use our baby blankets as well as our cousin. But only at night and she mainly uses it for touching and feeling it on her fingers. I like to rub the edges in between my finger nails. Other than those two things I do not indulge in drinking or smoking or any form of drugs.

i do it too , im actually a male , straight and when i have a little bit of long hair i love to do it , its like a constant intent to try to get an orgasm in your ear but cant never achieve , i know it sounds twisted but its really a nice feeling , im not really comparing it with an orgasm but i think theres a lot of nervous sensibility in that area

when i was 6, i use to suck my thumb and twirl my hair but i always got in trouble b/c i am extremely tinder headed and it took a long time for my mom to brush my hair. so i began putting my hair in my ear...im now in my mid 20's and still do it. i love it...it is most def a comfort/coping mechanism for me. i love the feel and noise it makes...is it possible to get hair stuck in your ear and not be able to get it out? i just hope i dont have a huge hair ball sitting inside my ear or brain haha...

It's good to know that others put their hair in their ear! My mom and I were talking about this and I decided to see online if this is normal behavior because I've been doing this since I was a toddler! My mom can't stand it when she she's me doing it but I can't help it. I just like doing it for some odd reason and I don't think I'll ever be able to stop since I've done it for over 20 years!

Never heard of someone doing this, lol... but everyone does their little things when they are nervous. I couldn't do what you do, I'm very ticklish. lol

I’m literally doing it right now and so glad I’m not alone either! Does anyone save the cold hairs you should try it having cool hair feels really good lol and I have curly hair already so it makes it super easy to just twist and stuff it in 😂

I just joined this because I saw this post. I have been doing this since I was six. I’ve never known anyone else that has done it, it’s sort of life changing for me! And I’ve asked believe me. My ears are ringing so bad right now that I’m actually starting to get worried. But it’s the best feeling ever. I also shove my hair in my eye. I love I can’t stop and it’s blows my mind that I’ve found people like me! I think it’s a form of tricitiolmania. I’m spelling it wrong but it’s a hair pulling condition :)
Please reply I would love to hear from my people. Even though I can’t anymore...

Wow, finally after all those years .... my friend showed this funny habit to me when I was only 6, but have been doing it until today (43) ... for long time I didn't know that people can hear it ... ha ha ha .... yes ... i described it to my friend few years ago as an ecstasy in head ..relaxing sensation .. being carried away .. escaping stress .. etc ....enjoy ;)

I too put hair in my ears since i was perhaps 4-5 years old. I am 29 now ! i find it very soothing and i don't even realise when i start doing it. The activity is more when I am stressed or thinking of something. I just find it entertaining. I put the hair in my ears and twirl them till they hit d point where it pains. Pain is something that makes me realise that i am damaging my ear and i stop there.

But i am scared i might hamper my hearing. I try not to do it but i cant control it. Now a days my head starts paining on d side of the ear where i put my hair. I wonder how many pieces of hair will be there stuck inside my ears over years. I have kind of reduced the habit but it starts again.

Any solution or treatment on this problem? Are there any doctors here who can guide us?

Though it may seem fun for all of us putting hair in d ears I dont think we should be doing it. It could lead to serious damage.

I love it when I put my hair inside my ear and tickle the inside until I can not stand the urge to itch. And I pick up the q-tips and itch until I feel something like an orgasm

I thought i was odd. Just did it on the couch just now getting on fb. Said to myself let me google to see if this is normal. I been doing as a habbit like a kid sucking their thumb since i was a toddler. Here i am at 38 still doing it. So funny.

I'm now 37 (holy crap, where has the time gone?!) and I've been sticking my hair in my ears and obsessively twirling my hair since I was knee high to a grasshopper. In my early 20's I was unofficially diagnosed with anxiety and panic disorder after a trip to the E.R. with what I was SURE was a heart attack. Turns out it was my first of many panic attacks. When I was 30 I was officially diagnosed and was started on treatments and medications (until I found the right one for me) to help control my anxiety. I have since found out that my obsession with sticking my hair in my ears is a behavior they refer to as "stimming". Stimming, or Stims, is most noticed in people with autism but is also found in people who suffer from anxiety. Pacing, rocking back and forth, tapping your foot, hair twirling and, in our case, sticking our hair in our ears, are all Stims. I'm not saying that Stims are a direct sign of anxiety or autism but could have just started as a nervous twitch that you found comforting and just never dropped the habit.

I've been reading to find someone saying they use elastic to tickle the ear.

I can remember to messing with my ear at the age of 6 but at that time I used to put tiny balls of tissue in my ear then use hairpins or pencil to take it out. This went on until my mom notice because sometimes it takes so long for me to retrieve it that she started taking me to the doctor to get it taken out. Hated going to the doctor because it took a nurse and my mom to hold me down while the doctor uses a light to shine into the ear and a syringe to remove a piece of rubber from my ear.

Elastic became my ears best friend after I stop putting balls of tissue into them. I started pulling the little tiny elastic from the waist of my underwear. Omg.... I must say I destroyed so many underwear just to please my ear. I'm now 30 and my partner makes fun of me whenever he sees take my phone out its case. Yes I keep two pieces in my phone case so I never loose them. My mom bought two broad elastic waistband girdles for me over 10yrs ago and until this day I have 1 of the girdle which I pull the elastics from. I would twine the elastic between my thumb and pointer finger to tickle the ear. It surely is eargasim because it does feel good. It happen so often that it's hard to tell how many times a week it's done. Omg I could go on but I end here.

I too do this and am very worried like some on this thread and my family too would get onto me when I would start sticking my hair in my ear(never had a word for it just did it) always wondered if others did it also did it from a very young age since I was a toddler my mother has told me and would stick her hair in my ears stopped and then started would I visited my dad after not seeing him and he asked if I still did it. So yeah it feels AMUSING but feel it is harmful and wouldn't want my kids to start. Any suggestions or we could try to go to scientist with this page what ever is decided I just want to get help also like to clean out my ears as others have commented I don't have clean ears and like to pull out hair balls from my ears but no longer have satisfaction from doing so. Now I just do it out of habit.

I finally found people with the same issue. I have no clue why I do it. Gets worse in winter/nasal issues. Its like I imagine relieving all pressure in my head while removing all ear wax. F'ing insane. I thought I maybe had "obsessive compulsive" disorder, but doesn't fit. It has always been something in my life I wish someone could tell me why, and stop.. Apparently not many people have this problem. The only thing I can think of why I do this is had an ear infection when I was 12(apparently not common). I just wanted to get all the fluid out, but never ended. Weirdest think I did was find a thick hair on my girlfriends head that was perfect, done before. She finally asked me, "what the fuck are you doing." I'm screwed and insane.

Can't believe there's others who do it! I like to wet my hair then make it slightly stiff then wiggle it inside until it makes a funny crackling noise! Sometimes my ears get itchy so this unitches it too. It's probably dangerous in the long run but isn't everything :)

I bring some hair (around a lock of hair) near my ear..then i insert my finger in my ear in such a way that my hair also goes in..then i go round and round and up and down with my finger and as a result the hair is pushed in..it feels amazing..nearly orgasmic (for the ear)..it makes a lot of sound to me,but i dont know if other people can hear it or not..then i pull out the lock of hair carefully and i can see in the mirror that my hair has taken the shape of my ear canal.. :P

Wow wow wow! For 31 years i've thought i was alone in this! For as long as I can remember i've sort of sucked my tongue & twisted, then put my hair in my ear. Sometimes at work I put it in my ear, then put my headphones over it so it stays in. So glad to have found you guys - we need to form a support group for this! Lol

I seriously was shocked at how many people did this.. I honestly thought I was a goofy ball.. I am 43 years old and have done this as long as I can remember.. Im a freak about putting my hair deep in my ear.. I love how it makes me feel (relaxed mostly) I do it while driving.. and It can at times to me be as enjoyable as an orgasm. I especially enjoy it after I get my hair trimmed because its sharp and I like it to go down really far in my ear.. My newest thing is to put hair in my ear and then put ear plugs in and pull each hair out of my ear one at a time.. and I even from time to time make my husband allow me to put my hair in his ear..he at first thought I was a nut job but now when he is stressed he ask me to do it.. LOL.. and agrees that Its like an orgasm.. I got pulled over by the highway patrol one time because he said I was talking on my phone.. I had to assure him that I wasnt and told him that I have this fetish of putting hair in my ear.. the look on his face was classic. I do it all day ever day.. Its just my way of relaxing.. thank you for making me feel relaxed about this I seriously thought I was the only one..

My son is turning 2 in a few weeks and he's been poking my hair into his ear since he is able to hold it.
He will even fall asleep while doing it.
Yesterday my husband told me, that he found my make up brush and is using that instead when I'm not home.

Reading through all your comments, I'm already feeling sorry for his future girlfriend. ha ha ha

Alright. I think I have the answer. We are all waaaay ahead of the rest of the herd -- we are practicing -- wait for it! -- auriculotherapy! Therapy through acupuncture of the ear. We have just taken it a little further than researchers are aware. Go here!
http://www.thecancercurevideo.com/auriculotherapy/

I have never been more relieved to find a blog like this in my entire life. For the past 22 years I thought I was the only person in the world who twisted their hair and put it in their ear for pure satisfaction. I can remember sitting in first grade the first time I was bored and tried it. At that moment I recall I even tried to get the girl sitting next to me to try it it felt that great. my mother gave me hell my whole childhood cuz she saw me do it I thought I was sneaky but it's hard to sneak something like that. I have 2 kids and they see me do it and it has come so ordinary because I told them that it's a bad habit but I hide it from my signifigant other for the past 8 years, I have no idea if knows but I still try to hide it. I feel like 1 day I might go deaf but I still cannot stop myself on a daily basis. I probably can spend up to 3 hours a day just twisting my hair and putting it in there its a very bad habit and sometimes I feel like I need to see therapy. I am so glad I'm not the only 1 and I could share my story with you the comments are appreciated I'm 30 years old and I wish that 1 day I can't just stop and spare my hearing my weird crackling ears and a life without twisting hair...thank u

ok I am definitely stoked to see this thread. I meant to google this forever but thought it would be futile. I am currently twisting a hair in my ear and enjoying it thoroughly. However, as a male, I could twist it when I had shaggy/long hair but now I pull them off individually. Tge problem is is that it's making me lose fair and I am starting to have small bald spots on my sides. I cover it but for how long can I keep doing that? The other problem is that I feel I am wasting my day just sitting around twisting my hair in my ear, and it makes me very late to things all the time because it's quite addicting. I have OCD (quite bad) and add (I think) and I live and look incredibly normal (23, male, Caucasian) but I always feel a little like its a flaw of mine that I constantly hide because I like doing it but can't seem to stop... it really is interfering with my life.... Looks and socially.
Any advice/help???

I was sitting at home watching TV twisting a hair in my ear and deceided to google it to see if anybody else did this. I have always felt kinda like a little weirdo with an odd habbit, or almost a fetish. I have read posts and see that most people that do this are girls. Well I am a guy and the funny thing is that I shave my head so I don't even have any hair. My wife just smiles and says how cute it is when I ask her if I can have one of her straight hairs. Lol

omg! Finally!! I am 30 years old and have wondered and wondered for many years if i am the only one! I started when I was 11 and I have no idea why i started. My grandfather would catch me doing it and one of my friends did catch me before too and I was really embarrassed. What I do is pull out a hair from my head (a single strand) and then i twist a little knot at the end of that strand of hair. then I insert in my ear hoping the hair gets a good hook on a hard piece of ear wax so I can pull the sucker out. It rarely happens but once in a while it will do it. Anytime my ear aches I also have to twist hair in my ear. I can do it for hours on end too. it is such a mind numbing and pleasurable experience but i feel dirty after-ward. I always have to clean afterward to make myself feel better

I dont think others CAN hear it -- just try playing with your hair OUTSIDE your ear. You can't hear anything. Someone just said that to try to break us of the habit. As if!

I have been putting hair in my ear since I can remember. .my friends tell me to stop masterbating my ear,
It feels so good. I do it without thinking about
It.

I am also glad I'm not the only one who does this! My mom says I've been putting hair in my ear since it's been long enough to reach. Half the time I dont even realizing that I'm doing it. I only take one hair and twist it in my ear until it makes that sound.....good times lol

I used to do that when I was little, although I didn't stick it way down, just to the start. I liked the feeling to had when you took the hair out of your ears, like I was attracted to its stickiness. xD

i put a small amount in my ears when im bored and feel like having a funny sensation :P

I do it too! I did it as a little girl and a few years ago i remembered and started again and i cant stop. I take a lock of soft hair and twirl it into a little kink and push in my ear and work it a little bit and rub my ear against a pillow when i do. I like to do it when im in bed. Im glad other people do it! Its just so....satisfying!

Agh, I always do it, my Nana did it too so maybe runs in the family! I did stop for a time in my early 20s but took it up again and can't stop and I'm 27. I don't do it in public, only at home but because my boyfriend never said anything when I sneaked a go, I started to do it all the time in front of him. 4 years later, he's never even commented. Only problem is, my hair breaks at the ends round the front, the main target area!
Other than Nana, I have never seen anyone in real life do it, though I caught a Big Brother contestant do it one time.
I do it all the time and cant sleep 'til I have hair in my ear! I'm weird I realise this, I have done it since my hair was long enough though so find it hard to stop without the actual need to!

yeah its sounds kinda sensational

Thats a kinda cute quark. a friend of mine does that, accept she likes to tick her ear canal with her hair while twirling it.

I also have done this since I was little! I do it because I am tired or bored or just out of habit.
FYI - I thought nobody knew I did this until one time I was doing it and the noise that you can hear while your doing it, newsflash - other people can hear it as well. Once I was doing it in front of my sister and she said,"stop twisting" ha ha ha she could hear it! My roommate finally confronted me and I had to tell her! We were laughing so hard. It was so funny because I did not expect her to say she could hear it! Beware! LOL

i cannot believe i found people who do this! i am 43 and have been doing it since i was a kid. i sleep with a piece of velvet, stick my hair in my ear and stick the velvet under my nails and suck my thumb. it feels so good. that is how i go to sleep. i have tried to help others stick their hair in their ears or mine if their hair was too short. ive never seen anyone love it like i do. a good way to have an eargasm is to ride the bus with your hair in your ear and put your head against the window. and the window vibrates... woooohoooo!

Oh my word! I am so happy to find you all!
I dont put hair in my ear but have done... instead I have a security blanket from when I was a little girl that has thin wooly fabric that I would twiddle in my ear to tickle.
Its the ONE thing that helps me relax and wind down.
I found hair sometimes could hurt because it was sharper and more coarse. Seriously get a baby pram blanket with tassle type fabric on the end.... its the way forward! xxx

U have an OCD.

PLEASE do not do this. I’ve developed tinnitus, hearing loss, ear pain, tensor tympani syndrome, eustachian tube dysfunction, vertigo, almost anything you can think of and now I’m terrified of going deaf. My greatest regret in life is doing this stupid habit. Please don’t. Please.

Lol, I feel like I have been doing this all my life as well. Yesterday though, suddenly I got a pretty weird headache and some ringing in my ears and this ringing (more like whooshing) hasn't stopped till now (more than 24 hours now). I am really freaking out that I might have caused myself tinnitus and that I might slowly go crazy if this sound doesn't go away. Help. Has anyone of you talked to a doctor about this e.g. ear, nose, throat doctor?
As far as I know the eardrum hairs are super fragile and once they break, they don't recover, so you could go deaf. Therefore, indulging in this horrible, but pleasurable habit might cause you to go deaf I believe, since we are touching those tiny hairs with the hair's hairs .. omg why we so stupid .. I want to cry.

😏😏😏😏 Im like this too. I feel relaxed and out of this world when I put my hair inside my ear 👂 I feel like it tickles. All dayy and day im 31 and still doing this. People just don’t understand 🤣🤣 I even sleepy

After doing this for nearly 40 years, I can’t believe I’ve not thought to Google it before. I twist my hair until it gets a little knot at the end and then stick that in my ear. The knot scratches around my ear canal and like the rest of you, it just feels great. I snap off the end of the knot too which means my hair never grows very long. I’m sure I must look like an idiot when I do it but I’ve been doing it so long, it’s very hard to resist. Sometimes I have to give my ears a rest because they get sore! I’m just glad to know there are others!!! Wanted to keep this thread going so people know we’re still out there.

Omg I thought I was the only one!! I’m 35 and been doing this since I was little...question though, is anyone experiencing hearing damage?? I feel like my hearing is constantly asking people what they are saying...wonder if this is doing damage over all the years...thanks!!

Guys!!! I do this too! And I hope to never stop. But here is my concern:

Health problems. Is there any chance of us harming our ears by doing this? Ear infections? Deafness? Germs entering via our hands/hair? Please help. It’s such an ungooglable question because our habit is so rare.

Thanks Guys! I feel so at home here!!I thought I'm the only one who does this. I'm 20 years old and I have this habit since childhood. I do this when I'm nervous, when I'm happy, when I'm sad, when I'm lost and when I'm travelling by bus. No one other than my family knows about this as I always tried to hide it from others. My parents tried to stop this by saying I'll get hearing loss if I continue to do this. They never allowed me to have long hair because of this. But I used to find out some other ways to do this. I am a student of Audiology and I know these things are not good for our ear but still I do this. This gives some kind of happiness. The reason my friends don't know about it is because I am scared of embarrassment. Even if you guys don't read this post, I finally could talk about it and thanks for that.

I'm like so glad that I found you all. I've been doing this my whole life. Never in a million years thought anybody else did this! I twirl it and then I like to get it like to a certain place and then use this index finger & thumb. Then I stick it in there. I love the crunchies the crunchy sounds for some reason to me is the ear orgasm. Sometimes I like to just stick it in there and leave it there and just listen to it crunch away, on its own. I can't believe you guys said eargasm that is flipping hilarious and true!! No we are definitely not alone! I lost my mom when I was a year old so I've always thought my thumb sucking hair twirling ear crunching was my way to comfort myself. Although I can't really say the age I started crunching it in my ear. 🤔 Must have been like seven or ten. It definitely had to be after the Dorothy Hamill haircut cuz, that was too short! Lol I also twirl my hair and snap it. I always thought it was better than a q-tip and that it was actually cleaning out the wax in my ear! Although I often wonder if I've got like this hairy wax ball deep down in there!! Lol I've been to the ENT and according to him my ears were perfectly fine. I noticed I definitely do it a lot more when I'm stressed so it definitely is a comfort thing for me. When I find myself just twirling and snapping and twirling and snapping then I know. hey, What's going on in my life? So in that way I think I use it as a trigger to help identify stressful situations. I don't know the long term of putting hair in my ears but I can tell you I'm 51 and I still do it and I can hear just fine!! To the parents that are all freaked out, it's called normal human behavior!! Oh my gosh my grandparents used to tie my hands up with mittens they used to put nasty stuff on my thumbs. None of it ever works because my human body knows what my human body needs and wants. I'm glad there's places like this because we shouldn't shame ourselves at all! I say shame on the doctors that freak out the parents for no damn reason!! So happy twirling and happy eargasms! Embrace your human self.

I do this too!! I posted story about it! The subject line is “I wet my hair and stick it in my ears as a habit”

I though I was the only one!! :)

I really cant believe there are other people that do this!! Im so happy that im not alone...But can other people hear it?? ive been doing this for as long as i can remember and i dont really remember other people hearing...

What a relief! I do not feel weird anymore!. I’m 37 years old and I've been putting my hair in my ears since childhood. The habit usually appears when I'm tired, or stressed, studding or reading or when I need to make important decisions…. it helps me to concentrate and to relax. I’ve always been afraid of causing myself an ear infection since I use leave-in hair products all the time, and dry shampoos which contain lot of chemicals. Not sure how this obsession could be stopped, probably by getting a very short haircut, but I love my long hair! I don’t see myself with short hair.

Of course I googled this because I have a sore ear which I am now worried is a result of my strange habit!! i had no idea there were so many others.
I'm 45 and have been doing this since I was about 9 - when my hair became long enough.
I too have to cough when I've gone too far!
Now for the real confession, if I ever become famous and this ended up in the tabloids I would be ashamed: after twirling my hair around my ears I smell it! TMI???? ALso, cats like it, my cats have tried to lick it.
My husband thinks I am insane - I sometimes offer him a smell, this is probably worse than using a friends long hair in times of short hair cuts when normally only a paint brush will do. I have also put my hair in his ear to offer him a glimpse of the levels of relaxation I experience, but he wasn't that enamoured!
Sometimes I get into an ear tickling frenzy.
This thread has really made me laugh! Especially the worry about being stopped by the police while driving thinking you have been using a mobile and having to explain one's odd habit!
Hilarious.

Wow I am shocked (and so happy) to see that so many others do this as well. I have always thought I was some sort of freak for doing this! I have NEVER told anyone that I do this because I thought it was that weird. I am 31 years old and have been doing this since I've been a kid. I think I accidentally did it once and enjoyed the sensation of pulling out the hair a little at a time and have been doing it ever since! I typically twist the hair first, stick it in there and then wiggle my finger around like I'm scratching my ear. Then, pull it out very slowly, and try and get the wax out of my hair without ripping too much out (I know, kinda gross). But hey...I never have issues with ear wax or really ever need to clean them out with q-tips. I usually only do this if I get an ear tickle or that terrible itch that feels like it is between your throat and ear. Sometimes if I am stressed I will do it as well. I definitely go into a zonel...it's just so satisfying. It is like scratching a really itchy itch! I do this in front of others but I have long hair and always use an inner piece so I can hide it. I don't think anyone knows, but I have "scratched my ear" for a really long time and my husband just asks " Are you okay?!" LOL! Nobody has ever mentioned hearing the sound so I hope they don't ever hear it. This is seriously one of the only things that nobody knows about me so I'm hesitant to share it. It's my dirty little secret!!

Add me to the list!
I'm 43 this year and I've been doing this since I had hair long enough to poke in my ear!
Curl it, twist it until it could on itself, pop in ear, use rest to make circle in small of ear... Etc etc etc
I make no secret I have a rather random habit.
It's calming and helps me relax and focus. I do it while driving hahahahaha
No idea why. Would love to know if there's some amazing scientifically proven pressure point inside the ear that a few lucky few have discovered...

I've done this since I've had hair! And before that I did it with the tail of a coon-skin cap! Until I was about 5 I would "play with my hair" and suck my thumb, as a kid I started poking it up my nose and twirling and poking around the edge of my lip and under the free edge of my fingernails, sin my teenage years I started poking it in the corners of my eye and on my wet-lids... that's typically my go to spot! I don't even realize I'm doing it sometimes! It's almost involuntary when I'm tired or anxious. Sometimes when I'm really stressed I will wake myself up at night by hair poking in my eyes or ears!
It has always driven my mother crazy! She will slap my hand down lol, my husband isn't phased anymore.
Only people who know me pretty well know what I'm doing, most people just think I'm messing with my eye-lashes/picking mascara off/pulling out my eye-lashes (cause all that's more widely accepted lol!)
Glad to know I'm not alone! I wish I knew a name for it or a cause or reason! I worry about the health of my eyes! I guess if starts really starting to damage anything I can always get a pixie cut ☺️

Wow! It appears to be very common. My daughter did that from about 5 yrs. old until she moved out to go to University and I thought it was just her but never really gave it any more thought.
She probably still does it but I just don't notice.

Just found videos on Youtube about Mimikaki in Japan, cleaning people's ears with sticks. They charge people to put sticks in their ears and clean out the wax and some people have it because they enjoy the sensation. The link I just posted didn't work but just search for Japanese ear cleaning.

Hi all, I knew that other people did this because my mother told me that she saw a girl in hospital doing it a long time ago, but never before have I found a community of people with this strange and lonely habit.

Like a lot of you I don't know when I started, except for it was when I was very young. My Mum used to tell me off and say I'd get earwigs in my ear. Then she cut my hair short to stop me, but during that time I just used to find other things to put in my ear like cotton wool. Then I'd be scared because sometimes the cotton wool would be so deep that I couldn't get it out. I'd use a toothpick to try and lever it out and hurt myself a few times, so it was better when my hair grew long again and I could return to that method.

Now I'm in my 40s and I've never managed to quit and don't really want to as like many of you I find that the eargasm sensation is amazing. I've googled it over the years and only found stories about people in the far east (it might have been Japan) who used some sort of modified chopstick to put in their ear and sometimes did it to each other! Not sure if that is still on the net. Also not sure that I could trust someone else to put something in my ear!

Anyway I told my doctor years ago and she wasn't that helpful or even that interested. She just said 'that's strange and I've never heard of that before,' but wasn't concerned either.

It seems like it's an impulse control disorder a bit like Trichotillomania (hair pulling), although it's also a kind of self-stimulatory action and it's comforting. I also sometimes rub the backs of my fingers against books that I'm reading, because it feels nice (and I've seen my Dad doing that too) and I like the feeling of hair in my nails too.

It's great not to be alone in this anymore. Someone should do a study of this, it seems that it's little known and not included with similar behaviours. Any biology students here?! :D

It's like sex in your ear: sometimes you go slow and just wiggle it around in the g-spot, sometimes you go for a furious pump for a bit, maybe you just let it marinate.

On occasion I'll have a threesome with both ears. But of course, a hair or two will go too deep every once in a while and it hurts.

28 years in the twisting game, cradle to the grave.

Omg I knew I didn't invent this...I look for the straightest hair and twist into position into my canal, and it's amazing, I'll hold out as long as I can until I'm forced to scratch it....I have had time where i touch my eardrum, lightly and with control, and it's just a crazy feeling, but I go months without being able to touch it again, and that almost the goal for me, but hitting that spot in the ear canal is orgasmic, I've never told anyone about this lol

Oh my god this is amazing I thought I was just weird or something. I'm 20 and I've been doing this since I was about 12 or so. Around 14 I discovered if you twist up the hair first it works a lot better.I honestly thought I was alone in thisI try so hard not to do it in public but sometimes I can't resist and sneak it in I find myself doing it a lot when I'm stressed. It's funny cuz my friends always wonder what the scratchy noise is and if it hurts and I can't really explain it, but in a way it calms me down. Sometimes I do it to friends who don't know about the habit just to watch them get frustrated when they can't figure out where the scratchy sound is coming from. My girlfriend hates it after a while cuz it gets annoying so I've been trying to stop but 8 year habit I don't think I can.

I am also a person who does this. I don't know what disorder it comes f on but it seems to relieve my anxiety. It used to embarrass my wife in public and annoy her at home. It was very shameful for me, but yes all the above the squishy noise the pain in the ear....

Wow. Like most of you said, I'm so happy I found this! Been doing this for years. Now, I'm not really sure how old this thread is but I've always been concerned about this... Can putting my hair in my ear be dangerous? I mean, every now and again I'll poke my drum in a painful way which is usually when I stop doing it. I'm wondering if a hair would be enough to bust an eardrum thus making me deaf in one ear?

I started a Facebook group for this: I twist my hair in my ears

I can't believe I found this thread! I've been doing this my whole life and no intention of ever stopping I love the sensation of the hair in the ear canal. I also do it lots of different ways but my favourite is just one single hair and if it gets a bit sticky and tugs on the downy hair that's inside the ear canal... That feeling!

I'm 35 and female by the way. I've noticed that a few people said they started it after a traumatic experience or stressful childhoods, I never had a stressful childhood so I'm not sure why I started. I'm a mental health nurse and I do believe it's a form of OCD although I would never have it formally assessed lol.

Did anyone ever make a Facebook page for people that do it? I saw it mentioned in an earlier comment... I'd love to join it if so

wow,,,,lol,,I didn't know,,am made up to find all of you,thought it was just me. yes others can hear it,,i just don't care.
for me there has to be a root attatched,,try it. Sometimes my partner lets me do it to her,,loves it but says its just so wrong

Hi I m 22
I pull out some hair from my bun... twist it and i put my hair in my ear ..nose... nd eyes
I m doing diz since 3 years old
I feel relax and satisfied ..
And m happy to find that i m not alone ;)

I'm turning 49 this year and have ALWAYS felt ashamed and embarrassed for doing this! I'm so happy to read all your posts and I truly felt like crying too. I especially love that I am part of the Ear Ticklers Club with fellow members that enjoy earganisms.. :)

Hi guys!

Wow! I've been doing this since I was a baby, and I'm 26 now. I thought I was the only one in the world who did this! I can't believe I came across this page.

**Group Hug!**

Mia

btw, in germany ear is called "Ohr" and orgasm is called "Orgasmus" - so "Ohrgasmus" fits very well

Hello everybody,

I´ve never found a german page about this topic - is this a local thing :P? Doesn´t seem so, because i do this, too since I was a child (I´m 25 now). I did this when i was i think 4 or 5 year old with a couple of hair -then i stopped it or forgot it- for over 12 years and then i start it again. And yes other people can hear this! A few people asked me "What is this strange noise?" - although they didn´t see what i was doing. I definetely want to stop this, because I´ve the feeling that my hair breaks. Do you´ve a tipp for me?

No it's not dirty! Stop cleaning your house and just enjoy. We could be snorting cocaine for heaven's sake! Others just haven't discovered what we have, or everyone would do it. Bliss.

hey this is sunflower again, just had a wonderful night of ear poking. It is so amazing and I'm so glad that I now have somewhere to go to actually talk about it! Ear poking helps when I have headaches. I don't know why, but it does. I feel like when I poke deep within my ear canal, it touches some nerves or puts pressure and fights the pain of the headache somehow. I am the type of ear poker that likes to poke really deep into my ear, but never want to touch the ear drum. Usually I go as close as to the ear drum as I can get it. That is why I like to have hard wax in my ear for my ear poking sessions, because it blocks me from actually damaging my ear drum. Anyway, by ya'll.

Wow, this post is amazing, and the amount of people who actually does this is really a surprise for me! I've been sticking hair into my ear as long as I can remember! This thread made me so happy and warm inside, since I had no idea of that there were so many people like me. This is probably my first time talking about it too. However, I had no idea that the scratching sound could be heard! It feels awkward because I've done it in public a lot of times, and next to people I know. As they've nrver said anything about it, I guess that they simply ignored it, or got used to it quickly.

I can not believe that I have finally found other people with this habit! I am a 17 year old female and I have been doing this for as long as I can remember. I normally do it when I'm tired, or while I'm watching tv. As a kid I sucked my thumb, and twirled my hair around in my ear. To this day, I still do both as I'm falling asleep. Most nights, I wake up to the sound of twirling my hair in my ear. I do it in my sleep!!! Lol. I wrap it around my finger and twist it up just right, and stick it into my ear canal as far as I can stand it. I rub it around my ear, then take the hair out, re twist it and do it all over again. I thought I was the only person in the world who did this, and I'm so happy that I'm not the only one. But I also have another weird habit that I do along with it. Sometimes when I twirl my hair I get knots in my hair, and I rip the knots out of my head. Not just a couple strands at a time, I mean I rip it out no matter if it's 10 strands of hair or 20. I remember as a child I would always get in trouble because they would find hair wads underneath my mat at school. Lol!!! Happy eargasms everybody! Thanks for making me see I'm normal! If anybody finds a name for this, post it on here. I have yet to find one!!

Hey, this is sunflower again. I left a message on this thread a few months ago.

I was wondering, do all of you ear pokers pull out a piece of hair from your head and then insert the hair into your ears? I do. I pull out a strand of hair, twist real good, I even twist a ball at the end of it, and insert into my ear and start poking. Does anyone else do this besides me? Also, I can do this for hours at a time. I can literally pull out about fifteen strands by the end of my ear poking session.

Also, does anyone else feel dirty after they do this? I do. I have to take a shower after I do it and clean the house, to rid myself of the dirtiness that I feel. I know , it's crazy...but I need to know that I'm not alone. Thank you guys.

Omg... im so happy that I can share my secret! Ive done the ear since birth my mum says I came out fingers in mouth (which I still do) and hands in hair twirling ear poking position! What a great relaxing feeling this weird habit gives us! Although I may be the first here to have real deafness through it? Im almost completly deaf in my right ear but
Im not sure if its because there is heredity deafness in my family or its the ear poking. Imainly do it when im tired or stessed and every night without fail in bed or I cant sleep if I dont. My boyfriend thinks im a huge weirdo seens as I also suck my two fingers but I dont care as I just love the feeling I get when I prod deep in my ear with my hair! I have recently taken up nail prodding too although pushing hair down your nails does no good to ur nail beds! So glad I found im not the only one who does this :-)

As everyone has said, so glad to hear I'm not alone! I have one weird thing to add it it though. Sometimes I'd stick my hair in my nose too. I've done some searching into this and especially from seeing the comments, I'm pretty sure this is a habit developed to comfort oneself. I.E. sadly most people who have it had rough childhoods (divorces, beatings, family feuds that ended in mental scars or physical) so it's probably an OCD as well as some others said (I have a lot of them, and this would be the hardest to break) I love it though, it's as many said an ear-gasm, lol. And as others said I also try to get hard ear wax once in a while out with either hair or an object like it (just did that a few hours ago. I usually don't do that often since it's not good to remove wax too much.) I've taken a liking to using just one thick or textured (wavy or non-straight, lol) hair and just twirling it or pushing in and pulling out slowly. Love the feel, it's calming and I do it when bored. I also lick it sometimes to make it hard as the feeling gets a bit stronger (gosh, that does make it almost sound like ear sex, LOLOL)

I also apparently make a dumb face when I do it and my mom and I had a good laugh when she asked if I still do that because I made the face while doing it. The face is brought about by me curling my tongue over itself and letting my jaw slack in consequence. I found out I also do that when I'm not paying attention. Apparently that's comforting too. Probably because I don't like the feel of my tongue moving all the time and folding it keeps it in place xD Very glad that anyone I told about my habit (except my old preschool (my teacher at the time threatened to chop off all my hair)) was perfectly accepting or even found it cute, like my boyfriend does. I still have an old Easter bunny present and I used to stick her floppy ears in my nose and ear. Above all though, I really hope this isn't a damaging habit because it would be the hardest thing to break. It's become so ingrained in my life and it's almost therapeutic for me as it seems to be for everyone on here, lol.

Oh and yes, others can hear it. I've gotten yelled at many-a-time because they didn't know how I was making that noise, lol. I even scared my boyfriend with the sound. Rub a bunch of hairs on your hand. It does make noise. Probably doubly so if it's rubbing against wax as it sticky things make noise when touched or prodded.

Like everyone has already mentioned, I am so happy to find others who do the same thing! I have been doing this since I was about 6 or 7 years old and I am 23 now. I generally take one hair, preferably on the coarser side, and stuff it into my ear until I hear a crackling noise. Then -- and this is the best part -- I slowly pull it out, savoring the feeling of the hair dragging against the ear canal and that incredible, soothing noise and anticipating the final POP once I pull it out. Sometimes, I pull the hair out quickly. It works best when my ear is completely dry, and not moist or wet from the shower etc. It also works best when my hands are cold.

I do this habit excessively, especially when I'm stressed...which is always. I want to stop, but I honestly just dont know how. I love the feeling and it gives me solace!

Wow! All the comments. I'm 43 & male. I rediscovered doing this about a year ago and can do it for a long time mostly to procrastinate. I finally told my councelor. I almost didn't. Never told anyone about it before. I could barely speak when trying to tell her, but I knew I should. Im glad I did as now I am going to show her this post! I think she will enjoy reading it. BTW, my hair is way to short now but i use strands from a feather. Works great! Thank everyone here!

dear mother of god!!!! i thought i was the only one!! hahahai too have been doing it since i was abt 7... im now 36 my partner says its disturbing and she can hear it lol.but it feels sooo damn good and it relaxing.. although i do go into a 'zone' when im doing it and can lose hours in a day!

I LOVE doing this and have done for years. I like to suck on a lolly then put a few strands of hair in my mouth so they will get sticky and then dry off becoming very firm. I then love the sensation of just twirling the hair in my ear. I just do it when I'm alone but it's so comforting.

i did this for many years. The pleasure is/was indescribably wonderful. It was difficult to clarify for even my closest friends what pleasure this gave me.

Really, the only reason I stopped, is I chose to have a short haircut.

I have been Googling for this off and on, and lo and behold, there are others. Somehow it feels good knowing that there are others.

Hahaha this is great for 22 yrs I thought I was the only one with this unusual habit. I'm so glad I'm not alone!! It just comforts m. I do iit when I'm tired , stressed, anxious, &bored. I to get embarrassed doing it in public but I just can't fight the urge I have to.

hey. same thing happens to me, I put my hair in my ear

Oh my God, I've done this since I was a little baby and just like everyone else I didn't realise how many people did it.

I suck my thumb and then curl my hair up and put it in my ear, not far inside, just in the first bit, and then I lie on it and go to sleep. I wind all my hair up in a ball tight and put it in my ear so it stays in place. I do it all the time whenever I feel tired, and sometimes I catch myself doing it in the morning at work, luckily I'm usually by myself!

For all those of you who feel self conscious about this I've never hid it from anybody, none of my ex boyfriends have ever said anything, or my boyfriend now, and if they ever did I would just explain it is something I've done since I was very small.

It is extremely comforting, and I never realised people could hear the noise it made either :S

OMG I thought I was the only 1!
I have been doing this as long as I can remember and I'm 40 now, and YES others can hear us lol as my husband is allways telling me to shshshsht during a movie. It's very close to an adiction for me and it's allmost like I get withdrawal symptoms if I don't do it at least once a day.
I had a very crappy upbringing and I have allway put it down to a comfort thing but even though I have a great life now it still brings me comfort. I could never cut my hair short coz there is NOW WAY I'm gonna give up my eargasms.
My doctor doesn't seem to find a problem with me doing this either as I was a bit concerned that I might be damaging my eardrum doing it. Though I have caught myself on a number of occasions and it has hurt the pain never last long and I just change the hair I was playing with.
Like @5parkle5 says I also pity anyone that has not had the pleasure of this sensation and I will not give it up for Love nor Money! I'm so glad to have found you lot xxx Happy eargasms to you all!

Group hug! I love that others have discovered the pure ecstasy of getting a hair on just the right spot.. I spend a few minutes running my hand through my hair then holding it up to the light so I can see any hairs I've picked up. not too short not too thin, then the search begins in and out of my ear with the hair looking for that sensitive spot.. There's only one person I've told, my current girl friend. I even tried getting her into it but she finds it annoying :(.. Everyone else just thinks I'm fiddling with my hair or ear, I also like to get a few hairs under my nails..no where near as good as a tickley ear eheh. I do it while I'm driving always worried a cop is going to see me and think I'm on a cell, and give me a ticket. I do it when I'm in deep thought, if I'm stressed. I do it when I get in bed, to relax and drift off to sleep..or I nod a bit and drop the hair.. then its a cycle of tickle, nod, drop hair, wake up find new one, repeat... I guess we shouldn't be ashamed, we should feel pity for everyone who hasn't felt it!

My whole life I thought it was only me. I think I might be more of a severe case then most. I have an obsession with my inner ears. I pull out a strand of hair , twist a ball at the end of it and stick it in as far as it can go. Keep in mind I cannot do this unless there is hard ear wax in there or else it would not feel good. Nobody wants to actually touch the ear drum. Anyway, I can literally twist the hair in my ears for hours and nothing excites me more when it grabs onto a piece of hardwax and you pull it out. I like the feel of the pain when it pulls on the hard ear wax. Its the whole reason I twist the hair in the ear is either to pull somthing out or to satisfy an itch deep with in the ear. Most times I just do it out of habbit because I really like the feel of it. Espeically if I get a migraine because when I get one, my inner ears will start to hurt, so i have to put hair into them and push it all the way in to releive the pressure from the migraine. I was abused when I was younger so maybe this was a way to escape for me, but in adulthood, I still have this need and it will never go away. Also, does anyone have the need to do it to someone else? I use to love twisting hair in my ex husbands ear. I would do it in anyones ear if they let me. I know, Im crazy! lol.

god! I thought I was the only person that did this! I don't know anyone else that does..I've been twirling my hair and sticking it in my ear ever since I can remember, I also pinch my hair and rub it around my nose and eyes and twirl it and stick it under my fingernails..my mum and dad have tried to stop me from doing it but I can't help it, I love the feeling in my ear I get when I have hair in it and and it's even better once i start pulling each individual strand out! I'm 18 and not a lot of people excluding my family know about it but I'm not ashamed or embarrassed about it, I wouldn't call it OCD either even if I get quite anxious when I can't do it. it's just nice to know there are others like me out there!

I do this too and every time I go to the doctor and they look in my ears, he always says I have scar tissue in there, I wonder if it is from doing this?

SO HAPPY TO READ ALL THIS!!!I have done this my whole life! I am 18 and have always wondered why I did this. So I actualy put the hair in my ear then move it around a bit and then I sniff the end of my hair with the earwax on it. I don't even think about it. It's just a habit now and hours pass while I do this. Someone needs to ask a doctor about this!! I know that doctors have told me that I have scratches in my ears but I've been too embarassed to say anything and also sometimes I do it too much that my ears are sore and I have trouble hearing :( so I do want help with whatever this is!!

wow.....when i was 16 i used to have an obsession with putting a paint brush in my ear, i just liked the feeling of the bristles it kinda soothed me. whenever i was stressed i do it without realizing it and i used to be ashamed and hide it. i still do even know, ive never told anyone about it and i still kinda feel embarrased by it

I've done this forever!! I'm 20 now.. My sister absolutely hates it when I would do it. She said it freaks her out bc she can hear it! All my friends try to do it but do not succeed! I think it's awesome.. Feels amazing and relaxing :)

I too have this issue. I think it started when I was a toddler, I had a teddy-bear and used to play with the fur on it by rubbing it between my fingers. I wore all the fur off of his limbs by doing this.
Then at some point I switched to putting my hair in my ears, pulling it out and slowly putting it back in. It's the going in part that I like.
I stopped doing this until I was in my mid twenties and picked it back up again. Unfortunately, I started losing my hair shortly thereafter. So now, the only hair I can get in my ear is the hair on my arm. Needless to say I look like a freak when I do it because I have to contort my arm in order to get the hair at the right angle to go in my ear.

And you thought you had it bad!

My friend does that..

WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND MY MOM CUT MY HAIR I USED THE TIP OF MY ENGLISH TOY TERRIER'S TAIL INSTEAD!
HA :p

ive got my hair short now, its sad. , btw i like to put hair under my finger nails too and in my fingerprints , :Z :R

I have done this ever since I can remember. I've only ever seeen one other person doing it and that was on the bus when I was a kid. I think since I knew I wasn't the only one, I kept doing it. It feels so good, and I guess I don't realize how often I am doing it. I also only do my left ear, now.

I've done this since I was a little girl! my mom used to 'tickle' my ears with my hair to get me to go to sleep. So now, I do it and don't even realize I'm doing it. Glad I'm not the only one!

I do it lots of different ways. I remember one time I had surgery on my hand so I had to use my right hand to do both ears.. that was hard! miss_emmy_13 I like to rub different fabrics underneath my fingernails. Especially stiff fabrics. Notsofast, you're right so many people accept abnormal things as normal but they question trivial things. I was just wondering if there was anyone else that did the same things as me. You know there are others with road rage.. we see it everyday, but I've never seen another person stick their hair in their ears. But ahh it feels so good!! Thank you everyone for letting me know I'm not alone!

It's funny how quick people are to question their behaviors as "abnormal" whatever that is. While the most repugnant behaviors,road rage, cursing, analyzing others,video game addictions, republicanism, judging, shooting, are widely accepted with really no shame or embarrassment whatsoever.

i cannot believe there are other people out there who do this. i've been doing it since i was a kid. when i was 21, i told my boyfriend at the time and he didn't seem too bothered, so now i tell people about it. its funny, i really was convinced i was the only one. i do it almost all the time. when i was a kid sleeping in bed with my parents, i would use my toes to try to put my mom's hair in her ear. i don't think she ever understood.

i just googled 'i twist hair in my ear' and that's how i found this. i'm 27 and i have been doing it my whole life, too. just one hair at a time. i agree with chapix up there. when my close friends [i don't do it in public] see me do it, i'm like 'it feels amazing!' and usually they end up trying it.
awesome.

I used to do that when I was younger, but I stopped after a while.

Haha, I do it occasionally, when my hair is overgrown. Just be careful that it doesn't hurt you.

Wow. I never heard of this. Weird.