Is it normal that i enjoy squeezing whiteheads, blackheads, zits, etc.?

Often I find a new zit on my face, arm, leg, anywhere on my body, and if it's a red bump (especially one with a white head) I squeeze it and watch all the blood, pus, dirt, or whatever come out. Sometimes only a little comes out, but sometimes I see a blast of fluids come out and it pops insanely. I think it's cool when that happens, like a blasting off of a rocket. I've had therapists and they ask if I pick and squeeze because I'm nervous or insecure, and I say what it really is- I do it because it's cool to see stuff come out, especially when there's a lot of it. I even find myself browsing YouTube for videos of cysts being popped and I watch them for hours. When I see zits on people, I think about me popping them. I sometimes think of zit popping as a sexual fetish, despite no genital arousal coming from it (unless the zit popping has something else in it that arouses me, like muscular guys).

So is this normal?

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68% Normal
Based on 72 votes (49 yes)
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  • sillygirl77

    100% normal to me. I love the same thing!

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  • Koda

    When I was a teen, my dad told me that if I ever popped a zit, it'd scar. I scar really easily, so he probably would have turned out to be right. I was always scared to pop a zit after that. Luckily, I used to use this salicylic acid stuff that killed pimples over night. It's weird that I didn't use to get many zits, but the ones I did get would have really big, ugly heads... Usually they were either on my forehead, chin, nose, or upper lip. I hated nose zits. Glad acne is behind me.

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  • virgeesunflower

    I like to pop my bf pimples or squeeze out blackheads bt it grosses me out all to bt I might do it . I can't YouTube that stuff thought I can't look at all that its too gross.

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  • PiderS

    I love squeezing my boyfriend's blackheads

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  • drummerben04

    I use a needle instead of popping, much healthier for the skin. Yes though, I have looked on YouTube for cyst popping, infected noses, ear wax removal bunch of cool stuff. I like popping my pimples cause it's just a relief of pressure.

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  • golden_showers

    if you do this to your face it wares on your beauty. Let your face be pretty, don't do this shit.

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  • eccentriceel

    I like squeezing PEOPLE WITH black heads.

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  • pastor_of_muppets

    I very rarely get a zit anywhere on my body..but this one time I had one under my nose and I popped it and KABLAM!!! it shot out with lightning force onto the mirror. That was awesome.
    I wish all zits could do that because it is such a let down after experiencing on of those and the next one is just normal and boring and bleh

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