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@allshookup
I had my ear hairs done with the flaming torch thing a few years ago at a Turkish barbers,don’t recall being asked if I wanted it. Anyway, after a month or so I started getting insanely itchy ear holes, like wake-up in the night have to scratch. Turns out this was otitis, or swimmers ear. I don’t really swim much, and to my mind this started shortly after the ear hair removal- those little hairs have a purpose to disperse water (to my distinctly non medical mind). Now I just trim off the longer poking out ones