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Dan, your son must be proud.

You know, for a pansy you sure are a pansy. That photo's not that bad. It's a little rash. Go to the doc. He sees worse every day. I see worse every day.

then don't fucking post them here

That just turned me asexual

Well... I'll need to be more careful when I check this website from work, from now on.

I was expecting something COMPLETELY different. This was a major disappointment.

If someone's too embarrassed to see their doctor they just need to go down to the clinic. Yeah, it'll take all day but do that or suck it up and see your regular doctor.

Hmmm... @5 may have a point.

It would be hard for me to 'splain this pic to the interwebs police at work. I typically never open anything that could even possibly have work-inappropriate images -- I don't expect a giant pussy picture when I click on, say, a monorail post but I sure wait till I get home to click on anything that hints of the sexual or lurid.

While this is merely a medical image -- and no one would bust me (I hope) for looking at picturesofasorethroat.com or similar at work, this is different.

Dan -- is Slog NSFW? Should we approach it with that in mind? What's your counsel on this matter, sir?

If you rode the bus more, you'd be less of a pussy about things like this.

So, no pit bulls then? :-(

If you're too embarrassed to see your doctor about something really embarrassing then you have the wrong doctor.

My first thought upon reading this post? Spring rolls sound delicious; perhaps I'll go to Roma Thai for dinner.

Nothing, nothing like this can shock or surprise anyone who attended medical school. Talk to your docs, people!

@1:

What? You make it sound like being a Nationally Syndicated Sex Advice Columnist and Best Selling Author is a BAD thing!

Hell, I would have killed to have either of those as a parent when I was growing up!

Hydrocortisone ointment. The highest-test stuff they can get OTC. It'll be gone in 12 hours. And yes, Dan, you're a woos -- it's a plain old, garden-variety rash. Most likely a reaction to stress.

and please dude, trim that a little bit- if you want a girl to go down on you please groom yourself so that she's not flossing her teeth with your pubes anytime she gets near your cock!!!

Ari beat this yesterday, this post was killed by the hype

man, sean nelson really dopesn't photograph well.

Bloody hell!

Excuse me while I dump my entire dinner into the dust bin.

ehhh... pretty tame, you should know that by now all slogites(slogsters, slogheads, slogfucks ???) are not easily shocked, in fact our souls are not unlike shriveled little prunes. We are this way, and damn proud to be the bitter minions we've become.

That said, good point about people being too embarrassed to talk to their M.D.s etc. , and thank you for filtering some of the ickyness from us, for everyones sake.

Where the hell is my unicorn chaser?!?

If he pounds too hard, do all of the zits create a new type of lube when they burst?

wow - we never see stuff like that.
it looks like the plague.
someone got that from making love? (that's for you michelle)

That looks like molluscum contagiosum, which is a common rash among pre-schoolers but in adults is considered and STD because it is transmitted through direct skin-to-skin contact. I also read recently that molluscum is a form of HPV (the virus that causes warts). Anyway, that's a pretty severe case, whatever it is. I'd be calling my doctor in the middle of the night, fuck, I'd be in the damn ER if that were me.

Gross Poe, pus as lube, now that would have been a disgusting post

Thanks for sharing your pain, Dan. Although I would still MUCH rather have your career, with the occasional pictures of diseased genitalia, than mine.

I'm just trying to fix the lameness that is this post.

Maybe she could suck them all off and they could snowball the pus.

Oh, and if it is molluscum contagiosum, BE is no longer disease free. As the name suggests, it is very contagious.

If you ain't gonna see the doctor, at least groom with some furious scratching. You don't want the girlfriend flossing with pubes AND world's tiniest creme brulees.

and it's ugly, but harmless:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folliculitis

It looks like molluscum to me, I had a similar problem in my early 20's and that's what it was. Itches like hell. Interesting about the HPV connection, I'll have to read up on it. See a dermatologist, they can freeze those things off with that cryo-spray stuff. I was seeing my doc for moles and I was like "oh, by the way", and he whipped out the can, sprayed the areas, and that was that.

Pray they're not on the unit.

@ 27, the post didn't put me off but "world's tiniest creme brulees" just might. Good work.

Meh. As long as there are no oiled ho's, my lunch is safe.

PS, this pic is considered the grossest pic in the world (by the BBC) not featuring Coprophagia: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/images/mind/disgust/morescience_disgust/teeth.jpg

SFWBNSFD = safe for work but not safe for dining. Those are fly maggots.

@27 - Why??????

@5 and @8, I'm with you. Slog is my constant work-idling companion, but for heaven's sake man, don't get me fired. I'll be in no mood to read Slog then.

And while we're at it, I could have done without yesterday's pit-bull story. Sheesh, Dan.

looks like staph

whatever that is, it's not caused by any form of HPV. that i can assure you.

Seriously, see a doctor.

If you are tempted to send a pic cause you don't know what it is ... see a doctor.

If you're embarrassed - try Planned Parenthood and ask to be a confidential visit and pay cash if you're that embarrassed.

and that pic is why we have under the fold pics and links, Dan ... seriously.

Molluscum contagiosum or herpes can look a bitlike that, but as Dan points out they don't show up 10 hours after exposure. Molluscum, for example, has an incubation period measured in weeks. My guess is allergy/irritation, though if the rash lasts more than a day or is extremely painful a trip to the doc might be warranted. I have to wonder, though, does Dan torture his resident medical expert with all things poo-related as some form of obscure revenge on those of us in the medical profession because we don't get sent as many pics like this as he does?

Mr. Poe, you're a sick fuck. But I think I like you.

MY EYES! THE GOGGLE DO NOTHING!

@33

That was Schmader's post.

@39

Slog Happy, Jan 10th. If you're lucky, I'll let you buy me a drink.

Tell her it's that thing that's turning that Indonesian guy into a giant tree/dust bunny, and that there's no cure.

Then stop answering letters with attached pictures.

Oh, yeah--and tell them to give up meth.

Just in case.

This is why I find myself addicted to the Slog. The sickest shit isn't in the post, but rather these comments.

Mr. Poe, you are one gross motherfucker. Fuuuuuuuuuck.

I'll put in my $0.02... ask what type of underwear he usually wears, if it's bikini briefs or tightie-whities then it's prolly' some new detergent he's using, the patterns go up and across the hips like the cloth and band were irritating his skin. Folliculitis is usually from shaving (NOT EVIDENT HERE - heh!) and as others have pointed out Molluscum takes weeks to develop.

Dan, I think this is going to discourage many readers from sending you gross pictures of their sores and rashes, for fear of having them posted on the slog. Your normal readers.

But do you realize that this is going to encourage a flood of truly disgusting images from your sickest, most infected, most far gone exhibitionist freak readers, right?

Oh, go ahead and post them. I already block all the images at work.

We need more Eydie Gorme videos, Dan. Or Judy Garland videos. . . .

When I first saw it, I figured it was a shaving/waxing rash, but as has been posted, clearly this person hasn't been doing either of those.

Time to go to the doc, man.

This is really only sorta mildly gross, not puke-up-my-lunch gross. (Poe, on the other hand, is seriously gross.) And NSFW? Pah-lease! If you work at a place that uptight, you probably shouldn't be reading SLOG at all.

I have no idea what it is either, but I can assure you that any doctor has seen far worse. Probably on a daily basis. The doc will not even blink twice at something like this. If people are too embarrassed to see a doctor about something as mundane as this, then they seriously need to rethink what they think a doctor is for. Fuck, people, get with it.

@45

Tell me about it.

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Oh, go ahead and post them. I already block all the images at work.

Now there will be no point for Dan to post them, because elenchos blocks all the images at work.

Poo!

DO NOT LOOK AT THE LINK AT @31!

BLEAGHHHHH!!!

Thanks! Now everyone will, heh.

I had a case of chiggers once that looked like that. They like to crawl under tight fitting clothing. They itch like mad. Had he been in some tall grass?

Yup, the maggoty gums pix is nasty (oops!). Flossing isn't going to help THAT. Just bare your teeth, doctorphobe, and get in front of a dog's paw while he's scratching a tick.

They ARE creme brulees, and the only way to fix 'em is with one of those little kitchen torches. Sizzle!

I don't get the embarrassment about going to the doctor, especially in the aftermath of some good old fashioned boyfriend/girlfriend fucking.

Now, if the guy had just fucked an inanimate object or a member of a different species, I would understand the embarrassment.

It's not Molluscum, you morons.

Molluscum doesn't present like a rash, and it doesn't itch. It also doesn't appear overnight. It's also not a pus-filled blister.

That said, I sincerely hope that "choked to death on my spring roll" isn't a euphemism.

From what I can see, it looks like Herpes Roster: shingles.

It's a re-activation of the chicken pox virus.

@59 Zoster, dude

@60

Gah, you beat me to the correction.

I always thought "Zoster" would make a nice name for a boy-child.

Zoster? I could see that in a mixed WASP/Zorostrian family. Kind of an amalgamation of Foster and Zoroaster.

It could work.

it's contact dermatitis i think--from sweaty/wet undies or something like that...zinc oxide usually clears/dries it up (lots of people get it from wet bathing suits against their skin)

/not a doctor either but i had something that looks like that every single summer when younger

I think in this instance you mean "Prescribe" instead of "Proscribe". Proscribe is to condemn.

Honest enough mistake; this is a blog and all. Just a head up.

Hmm... so this is where the images that make up "The Pain Series [NSFW!!!!!!!!!]" come from.

Seriously. Dont click that link unless you know what it is, exactly, that the pain series are. It is not at all work safe (but you wouldn't be reading these comments if any of this was work safe, would you?).

it could also be herpes...and the guy could have been developing it beforehand. why has no one asked what the guys history is?

Dan, someone should thank you for not posting a picture of a sore on someone's asshole. Thank you, Dan. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Geesh Dan, misery loves company?

I guess I should have taken the comment from the gay Iranian teenager post talking about the hanging picture was more disturbing than the other one a little bit more seriously.

I can only assume people send you pictures instead of going to the doctor because they can at least remain a bit anonymous where as a doctor is face to face. Or face to cock, labia, sacks or assholes.

The writers' strike is directly responsible for me (1)reading this post and (2) reading the comments and (3) commenting. Where the fuck is the good tv when you need it? i.e. when this shit is being posted on the SLOG. Maybe Dan's missing his tv too much too.

Gadzooks Man, I was just about to go bed, now I will be chased in my dreams by hairy monsters with ingrown pustules!

I'd much rather have a case of what this guy has, then what those gay teens got in Iran. That is the disturbing photo. Not this, which honestly, I think Dan stole off "Casual Encounters" on craigslist.

@66: You just scarred me.

@1

I bet that Dan's kid gets another few years before he realizes what a POS "Dad" is.

I suspect that a hardy rebellion takes place once it is clear who and what Dan is.

You reap what you sew. And as we all know, Dan thinks it's ok to yell and scream curses like "fuck, shit, and asshole" at your kid. It's ok according to Dan to call your children horrible names when you are upset. After all it's better than beating them.

Right Dan?

You certainly make other Gay parents proud...

Come to think of it, it isn't any wonder you have a sick facination with abused children...

please leave, ecce homo. you add nothing. ever.

You reap what you sew? That must be a pretty damn interesting harvest, what with all the newly hemmed Anne Klein slacks and homemade fragrance sachets coming right up out of the ground.

Also, gross.

Augh, Fnarf! Fuck! Fuck!

Oh, ecce. I love you.

Like I've said before, you only get combat pay if the photographs shoot at you. Otherwise it's just hazardous-duty pay.

@74 - It looks like ecce got into the scotch again. I can almost hear him slurring as he types.

Very probably molluscum. Molluscom can have several different forms. It's usually dimpled with a hard core, but can also have a state where it's blistered with opaque fluid.

No, she didn't give it to him the night before. It was in his system already, possibly exposed 1-3 weeks before, possibly much longer.

Freezing will work, though it might take several treatments. Lancing is faster, but there's a chance of spreading even further if it's done the wrong way. Either way, he needs to go to the dermatologist.

There are actually a lot of unknowns about this STI -- it's not serious and doesn't get much attention.

@Dan -- I'd also hate to see these pics when I'm eating, but I'm you'll get less grossed out over time (for whatever that's worth.)

ecce and dan are totally fucking.

@82 - And ecce got this weird rash.

Meh. That's not too bad. I'm indexing a book right now that about reconstructive surgery. Full color Genital and Anal reconstructive surgery pics of the elderly though....

ummm....http://www.qualitycondoms.com/media/mr_happy_balloon_kit

better link maybe?

http://www.qualitycondoms.com/media/mr_happy_balloon_kit

Sometimes I wonder if Ecce is Tagg Romney.

@81:

For fuck's sake. The only correct statement you made is that they guy should see a doctor.

Molluscum is a not a blister, you can't fucking lance it, and it's incredibly well-known. It's caused by a variant of vaccinia virus, which is one of the

...pox viri, and it's been characterized since the mid-1800s.

Please shut the fuck up, now. Thanks.

@88:

Respectfully, I disagree. I am not a doctor, and could be wrong, as I'm sure you'll continue to say.

But this photo looks exactly like what I had. My dermatologist is the head of dermatology at a major university. She knew at first look it was molluscom.

Treatment was freezing. But when new sores appeared, I used sharp tweezers to dig out the core. It worked.

At the time, I did my best to dig through all the literature I could find. There were unanswered questions the papers were discussing, including why it's rare to find the sores on the bottom lip.

In any event, the guy should see a doctor.

Peace