Post: #1

Well, actually, my pubic area just where the hair starts to get thin. My dick was spared from the assault, but I needed to get your attention somehow.

Read All About It

Molluscum is a highly benign, non-problematic condition that is in the 'kind of a sexually transmitted disease' category. You know how all the girls in junior high school got mono from the same water fountain? Well, it's the same thing here. Apparently according to Wikipedia and the rest of the internets you can get it from dirty razors and whatnot as well as from that two bit trick from the club. Furthermore, strapping up won't help you if she's got it, as it spreads from skin to skin contact like a real man's STD. So shave with clean razors and rawdog because it ain't no thang (but inspect the goods first).

As a counterpoint, kids also can get molluscum from other kids, and you can get it on places that aren't your genital region. The wikipedia article has a picture of molluscum on a fat lady's arm, the kind of fat lady you'd imagine delicioustacos writing about.

It has two things bad about it:

1) It looks like fucking hell. Dimply little bumps on the skin, usually a bit reddish (mine were). You don't want anything shady in the crotchal region, and they're pretty visible.
2) It takes forever to go away. Your immune system can take as long as a year or more to clear out the virus from your system.

However, there are upsides to it as well. (Well, as many upsides as you can give a pseudo-STD.)

1) It does absolutely nothing. You don't get sick, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't break out into scabs and pus. You don't get aliens bursting out of your chest. It's incorrect to call it the common cold of STDs because it's less unpleasant than a cold, until you have to explain to an HB9 who's blowing you what those funny bumps on your groin are. She's probably not going to believe it's herpes because she's never seen herpes before, and you probably don't want to admit it if you have.

2) It does go away on its own. Your immune system takes a long time in ramping up to eliminating it, but if you're in some self-imposed dry spell, you can just chill and let it go away on its own. In fact, Planned Parenthood even advised as such. Frankly, I don't like my junk looking like a candy speckled showcase, so I'd rather take proactive steps.

3) Again - it can't be stressed enough - it does literally NOTHING to you or to your prospective victims.

If I had to choose an STD at gunpoint, I'd take molluscum over HPV. It's seriously a nothing STD.

Well, then, if that's the case, why does my di... genital region look like a warzone?

Planned Parenthood sold me a cream for $200ish, and so far I've been unimpressed with the results. I'm working on an athletic HB8 right now and am in kind of a hurry to get back into the game, so I decided to try and remove it instead.

Molluscum is basically a series of tiny little waxy spheres just underneath your skin that house the molluscum virus. The virus isn't in your blood or bodily fluids like herpes or AIDS, it's just sitting in your body in its own little spaceship. The wax head looks like a pimple. The difference is that a regular pimple will usually have gooey or at least pasty pus, but molluscum will have a tiny solid core instead. Remove the waxy spheres, and you've removed that instance of the virus. Remove all the waxy spheres, and you're clean as a whistle.

The Ancient Way

Be advised that the procedure will require rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide (both for sterility), a needle, tweezers, and a shitload of napkins. I had a gruesome pile of bloody paper towels next to where I was sitting when I was done.

First, be sure that you are dealing with molluscum. A few good indicators for molluscum is a 2-7 week incubation period - so it won't show up overnight. When it shows up, you'll have persistent little pimples that don't hurt and don't go away after a week. If your little pimples haven't popped and started aching and oozing pus after two weeks, congratulations! It's not herpes.

The waxy bubble will sit near the surface of your skin, and you will actually pull it out one way or another. The article advises puncturing the pimple-like structure with the needle first before pulling the wax head out with tweezers. From my experience, I believe that this is better with larger pimples than smaller ones; I had the unfortunate luck to have many small pimples rather than several large ones. It would have been much easier with just a few big ones.

I tried a few methods, but none worked so well with the smaller pimples than just giving them a deep squeeze with the tweezers. The waxy head is significantly more dense than the thin surface of your skin, so give it a tug and it will pop right through your skin. You'll get the hang of it after about five tries. Sometimes the wax head will come up without even any blood on it. If you punctured a pimple and can't find the wax head,

My procedure took about two and a half hours. I had a lot of tiny pimples to visit and tried to do a one-pass job. A few things to note:

1) Despite being fairly minor, molluscum is serious business and is highly contagious. It has 'contagiousum' in its species name, for Christ sake. Be very careful with your instruments, and dip them in rubbing alcohol regularly. I wiped then dipped both my needle and my tweezers back into the rubbing alcohol after every pull.

2) After I was done, I rubbed down with hydrogen peroxide first. Several applications of hydrogen peroxide had left my wounds rather irritated and fleshy. I will have to examine the healing tomorrow morning. After the peroxide, I applied a coating of Bactine, then folded up a napkin to cover the area and tucked it into my briefs. I will investigate the healing progress and be sure to take care of it over the next few days.

3) Pulling the wax heads out is kind of interesting. Almost like fixing your own car.

4) I'm typing this just minutes after I completed the initial pull, so, results to follow I guess.

Molluscum is a pretty minimal and non-problematic disease, but any malfeasance on the genital region should not be tolerated, both for your own comfort and that of your lucky lady. Get diagnosed officially before you try anything, but according to the internet, you have a fix right in your own medicine cabinet.

Post: #2

I would recommend using gloves while doing the procedure, as the virus easily can infect your fingers. Never scratch the lesions no matter how itchy they may become, because you can infect your fingers and also spread the infection around wherever you're scratching.

Hydrogen peroxide is very irritating to exposed tissue and can mess up wound healing. Alcohol-in-water and plain old soap-and-water are also effective antivirals and won't irritate healthy tissue as intensely.

Post: #3

I caught this pretty badly a year ago, nearly shat myself thinking they were warts. Used Stieva-A cream which cleared 90% of it. Rest I squeezed like spots; they turned scabby and disappeared, no scars. It's not pleasant to look at and can understandably freak girls out.

Post: #4

Ahh thank god for this forum. Pretty sure Iv got this too but its not too bad. Had a girl have a little freak out but I told her it was a shaving rash (which I thought it was at the time). I've been using this deep cleaning astringent from clean and clear and its slowly working. I will give it a few more days and if they are still there Ill try ripping them off.

Post: #5

(03-12-2013 06:22 AM)Thomas the Rhymer Wrote:  I would recommend using gloves while doing the procedure, as the virus easily can infect your fingers. Never scratch the lesions no matter how itchy they may become, because you can infect your fingers and also spread the infection around wherever you're scratching.

Hydrogen peroxide is very irritating to exposed tissue and can mess up wound healing. Alcohol-in-water and plain old soap-and-water are also effective antivirals and won't irritate healthy tissue as intensely.

Good point. I actually washed my hands several times during the course of the procedure as well as dipped them in rubbing alcohol multiple times. Particularly when I touched one of the little waxy bumps.

Post: #6

MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM!

Post: #7

Self-surgery, eh? I gotta admit, I wouldn't dare.

Post: #8

(03-12-2013 01:18 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  Self-surgery, eh? I gotta admit, I wouldn't dare.

I teach the technique to moms to use on their squealing children. It's easier to do with a syringe needle, you can use the bevel to scoop the contents out.

It's not surgery. It's popping a wart, it almost the same as popping a pimple.

Aphelion was burning his wounds in hydrogen peroxide, which is probably what caused the bleeding, which is why he soaked a whole boxful of tissues with blood.

He also makes it sound a lot more dramatic than it probably was.

Post: #9

Nah, the bleeding started when I would lance the pimples with a needle per the instructions at the site. I'd give the area a squeeze and the waxy head would surface, making it easy to find with the tweezers.

I later figured out that I could largely avoid blood in the smaller ones with a good and proper pull with the tweezers - the missing skin would cause there to be an open wound, but it wouldn't bleed much.

And yes, it was a fairly minor procedure, but that doesn't make for very interesting reading now does it.

Post: #10

How common is this?

Post: #11

Do you have any idea how condyloma warts were treated at the STD clinic back at the turn of the millennium?

They BURNED them off with a solder gun.

Post: #12

(03-13-2013 05:14 AM)Vicious Wrote:  Do you have any idea how condyloma warts were treated at the STD clinic back at the turn of the millennium?

They BURNED them off with a solder gun.

Not the same thing as contagiosum.

We still sometimes burn condylamata off with a modified version of a solder. Sometimes the virus will then travel with the vapour and then the doctor doing the procedure can get warts in his nose and throat. Unlikely and rare but a known occupational hazard.

Post: #13

For those who have had Molluscum, are you guys raw dogging?

Post: #14

I had molluscum in 2010. I'm pretty sure it was from raw-dogging a slutty German girl. It was a scare and I didn't have sex for months because of how it looked. I didn't try to lance the pimples as they are highly contagious and can spread to other parts of your body.
I covered with them with patches of duct tape for weeks to keep them from spreading, but it didn't get rid of them.

From doing research online, I read that tea tree oil helps get rid of them. So I bought tea tree oil soap at Trader Joes and within a week or two they were gone.

Post: #15

(03-13-2013 06:36 AM)RonnieB Wrote:  For those who have had Molluscum, are you guys raw dogging?

I'm a fiend for anal (no homo) so I think I got it off one of two chicks I raw-dogged up the ass within a couple of weeks of each other.

I always wrap-up for vaginal sex. Well, nearly always.

Post: #16

It's the best STD to get. You see white pimples and it's "OH SHIT I GOT WARTS NEXT IS CANCER THEN DEATH". Then you go to the Dr and they freeze that shit off, in and out in twenty minutes.

I think the condom broke while I was fucking, then she said something bitchy so I put it in her butt. Not sure which hole I got it from.

Post: #17

This was the one thing I have ever caught. And when I first got it, it scared the shit out of me. Didnt get it on my dick, but i had about 3 of the bumps show up around my crotch. One swelled up and looked like a blister. I freaked, called my doctor and thought i had herpes. I had just slept with three different girls in 48 hours and didnt know which one to blame.

The dermatologist burned them off with acid which left a few marks for a couple weeks.

Not the worst thing to happen and not at all a surprise given the variety different fluids being smashed into my groins.

Post: #18

My dick creates war zones.

Post: #19

Go to a dermatologist. They use some kind of freeze type spray that takes care of it in 5 minutes. In 3 weeks or so you're good as new.

Post: #20

I had this. It's really not bad, they are like small pimples that appear in clusters. You can either wait for the virus to clear or go to the doc and have them burned off. I'm not sure if your body builds up immunity, but this was 5+ years ago and I never got it again.