One of the most relaxing and even orgasmic daily functions I do is cleaning my ears with a Q-Tip.  As a child I don’t think I cleaned my ears as much as I should have.  One day it caught up to me when I was about eight or nine years old and the wax buildup had clogged my ear and I could not hear very well.  This was very stressful for me.  Mother had to buy special ear wax acid medicine that ate away at the wax so that it could be cleaned out.  The noise, the pain, and the stress was unmanagable.  Once the passages were clean I was good and swore that this would never happen again.
I would also like to point out that in the mid to late 80’s they introduced the plastic shaft Q-Tip.  I am greatly opposed to these.  They are simply too bendy to be able to properly scrape the wax from  the walls of the canal.  The classic paper/cardboard shaft type Q-Tip is the only way to go for proper ear cleaning.
If we all work together we can rid this world of the evils of collective ear wax.  Thank you.

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