Website Sells Pubic Lice 319
A British website called crabrevenge.com will help you prove that there is literally nothing you can't find online by selling you pubic lice. A disclaimer on the site says the creators "do not endorse giving people lice," and the lice are for "novelty purposes only." The company also boasts about a facility "where we do all of our parasite husbandry and carefully considered selective breeding." Three different packages are available: "Green package - One colony that can lay as many as 30 eggs for about $20. Blue package - Three colonies to share with your friends or freeze a batch or two for about $35. Red package - A vial of 'shampoo-resistant F-strain crabs' which can take up to two weeks to kill for about $52."
Re:this isnt the 70's (Score:3, Informative)
Copy/pasting from wikipedia:
Fashion, Religion, Tradition, Sexual practice, Tactile sensation, Appearance, Discomfort, Personal taste.
Plenty of valid reasons there. Yours is a closet pedo argument if ever there was one.
Re:this isnt the 70's (Score:1, Informative)
Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever been with a woman that hasn't been completely shaved.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather my women didn't remind me of prepubescent girls......
So you prefer women with hairy armpits, mustaches and monobrows?
There are lots of way to groom, it is all personal preference, no need to cast out others for having certain preferences.
Unless you really mean it, and your a furry.
Re:this isnt the 70's (Score:4, Informative)
"Everyone i know shaves so I don't see how effective this would be."
Everyone you know? How/Why do you know this...? Of all the people I know, aside from my wife, I know exactly ZERO (0) % about their personal grooming down pubic region. Why in the world would you know this in your circle?
Re:this isnt the 70's (Score:4, Informative)
your tired response is tired.
There's a substantial difference between a shaved 30yo woman, and a pre-pubescent girl. Stating the obvious shouldn't normally be necessary, except when dealing with tired old responses like yours. The shape of a woman changes, they develop a pair of things called "breasts," and also something called "hips." Baby fat goes away. Etc, etc. But I guess if you're just focused on pubic hair, and that's what makes/breaks a woman for you, hey.
If a 30yo woman has a gigantic bush but still has the mindset of a 10yo, hopefully that would be more of a turnoff for you than if the same woman shaved, and started acting like a 30yo. There are benefits to grooming. Cutting to merely /short/ is too much work, and is uncomfortable.
Dead before they arrive (Score:3, Informative)
Lice are not very good at surviving without food (= blood). Half of them have died within 24 hours. A bedbug would be much better, because they can go for months without food and they are very difficult to get rid off, once you get them in your house.
IAAL but IANACL (But here's my view) (Score:4, Informative)
To be clear, I'm not a criminal lawyer. Crime is far, far away from my specialism. I am also not your lawyer. This is not a researched opinion. Cheers.
This would absolutely (in my opinion) be a criminal offence in the jurisdiction.
Common assault - includes any non-consensual contact or the causing of non-consensual contact through another object. This could easily be analogised to the cases involving leaving a trap or poking with a stick.
Much more serious:
Sexual assault - SOA 2003 s(3) - AFAIK this includes touching through another object, so the offense would be available
Infliction of GBH with intent - GBH requires common assault (see above) and the rupturing of membranes, which lice do when they suck blood (this potentially hold a sentence of lifetime imprisonment, and is an extraordinarily serious offence in the UK)
The Crown Prosecution Service generally charges less than the most serious crime chargeable, but it is quite feasible to imagine an assault or sexual assault charge being made if this were used. Also, the site owners are doubtless on the hook for all sorts of conspiracy and assistance offences, but I know little to nothing about them. Also, this may well come under the remit of Operation Sapphire (the London police operation on rape and sexual offences. I know some of the outstanding officers involved, they're like dogs with a bone once they get a suspect in their sights.) or could be viewed as domestic violence, which elevates sentencing in the courts (and opens up the possibility of elevation to Crown Court sentencing).
All sorts of wonderful civil options even if the CPS didn't prosecute, with trespass against the person and negligence high on the list.
Re:Other parasites? (Score:3, Informative)
Not that I'm aware of, but you can buy hookworm [autoimmunetherapies.com] to treat your asthma or other autoimmune disorders. Costs a few grand, or you can always get it from the source [kuro5hin.org].
Re:Is this "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters (Score:1, Informative)
> Slashdotters getting pubic lice? Not a chance.
Speak for yourself, bitch, and be thankful. Back around 1997, there was a nasty round of public lice going around South Florida for almost a year. Horrid stuff. Totally resistant to permethrin. I spent a month shaving my dick, ass, and balls more or less daily (I can assure you, any possible eroticism was gone by accidental nick #3), washing my bed sheets daily, and went through 4 weekly rounds of lice gel. Do you know what finally got rid of it once and for all? Frontline. That's right, fipronil (the active insecticide in Frontline). Totally harmless to mammals, utterly deadly to lice. And, unfortunately, aquatic wildlife, which is the reason why they can't legally sell it as a lice treatment in America -- fipronil keeps on killing for a long, long time after it gets washed down the drain, and there are quite a few federal regulations prohibiting it from being used in ways that would allow lots of it to get into lakes and rivers. Ergo, it's unlikely to be approved for use in situations where it gets applied, then washed down the drain 10 minutes later.
It's a shame. For killing pubic lice, there's nothing safer (to humans) or more effective (at killing the lice, and making sure they "stay dead"). Laugh at me now, but if you ever get crabs, remember this: fipronil works when nothing else does.
the domain isn't anonymously held (Score:1, Informative)
the result of whois crabrevenge.com reveals:
Registrant Info: (FAST-13628818)
Stephen Cunningham
24 strangford road
Ardglass, bt30 7sg
United Kingdom
Phone: +44.2844841268
Fax..:
Email: weefunker@yahoo.co.uk
Last modified: 2009-01-25 00:43:31 GMT
Administrative Info: (FAST-13628818)
Stephen Cunningham
24 strangford road
Ardglass, bt30 7sg
United Kingdom
Phone: +44.2844841268
Fax..:
Email: weefunker@yahoo.co.uk
Last modified: 2009-01-25 00:43:31 GMT
Re:Dead before they arrive (Score:1, Informative)
They ship eggs with an estimated time to hatch.
Re:Serious question (Score:1, Informative)
I don't remove my body hair in a regular pattern, but when I do it I like to use those chemical creams for it. There are some pretty nasty ones out there, but if you find the right brand (I use Pilca, German brand sold by Müller stores) and if you cut off what you can with some scissors, you can get pretty good results. You get less ingrown hair, too. Just be careful the first time, if you have very sensitive skin you might want to be careful about leaving the cream on for too long.
Remove cream and hair with running water (shower head) in a sitting position to not get it on your legs if you only want to remove pubic hair. You don't want your remaining leg hair in the way, makes cleanup much harder.