Dear Exam: What Other Organ, Besides Our Lady Business, Is Self-Cleaning?

November 24, 2008

I learned something new on Friday while watching Oprah's second installment of sex therapy with Dr. Berman. While I knew that our lady business is a self-cleaning organ, I learned that there is only one other organ that has that same ability. Do you know what it is? Test your body trivia below!

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eastcoastgirl 4 years 25 weeks

I thought ears.

eastcoastgirl 4 years 25 weeks

I thought ears.

AlexE70 4 years 26 weeks

The eyes tear. This was an easy one. But "self-cleansing" reminds me of a corny poem: A Self-cleansing Dichotomy The angered predicament; From an unfathomed embarrassment To baptismal transformations, And cleansing mitigations, Splitting the body and soul, Into non-intersecting parts of a whole. Inner elements in bipartition, A mutually exclusive reflection… Of me… in tacit dichotomy, soul searching… body, in earnest yearning… of a purifying sabbatical, And a rinsing meditation For the naked truth, To utter silent words to sooth; To achieve an inner peace, And hatred…to cease… I dunno...always liked that poem. :-P

AlexE70 4 years 26 weeks

The eyes tear. This was an easy one. But "self-cleansing" reminds me of a corny poem:A Self-cleansing DichotomyThe angered predicament;From an unfathomed embarrassmentTo baptismal transformations,And cleansing mitigations,Splitting the body and soul,Into non-intersecting parts of a whole.Inner elements in bipartition,A mutually exclusive reflection…Of me…in tacit dichotomy,soul searching…body, in earnest yearning…of a purifying sabbatical,And a rinsing meditationFor the naked truth,To utter silent words to sooth;To achieve an inner peace,And hatred…to cease…I dunno...always liked that poem. :-P

xopiperxo 4 years 26 weeks

i got it right!

xopiperxo 4 years 26 weeks

i got it right!

hithatsmybike 4 years 26 weeks

I kind of wanted to answer all of the above, but I figured eyes was what the quiz was looking for. Ears absolutely DO clean themselves and earwax is NOT for protecting your ear from things getting to far in (sorry krae). I always thought the main role of ear wax was to moisturize the tympanic membrane ("ear drum") so it doesn't dry out.. but I definitely know it plays a cleaning & antibiotic role too.

hithatsmybike 4 years 26 weeks

I kind of wanted to answer all of the above, but I figured eyes was what the quiz was looking for.Ears absolutely DO clean themselves and earwax is NOT for protecting your ear from things getting to far in (sorry krae).I always thought the main role of ear wax was to moisturize the tympanic membrane ("ear drum") so it doesn't dry out.. but I definitely know it plays a cleaning & antibiotic role too.

myystque 4 years 26 weeks

I thought about eyes but how can they be self cleaning if people sometimes get that gunk at the corners? I guess I don't know the definition of "self cleaning."

RaCheer 4 years 26 weeks

Easy!

RaCheer 4 years 26 weeks

Easy!

neonbible 4 years 26 weeks

35 points!!!

Hiding55 4 years 26 weeks

Ear wax can be bad. I remember when I was little I had to go have a build up of wax removed from one of my ears. It was huge and disgusting and apparently was f-ing up my equilibrium. BTW I guess right with "the eye". ;)

krae85 4 years 26 weeks

ears don't clean themselves, the wax is to protect things from getting too far into your ear. And I've seen plenty of people in need of q-tips to clean out the extra wax!

reactionary 4 years 26 weeks

yeah, simple. and ear wax isn't the ear cleaning itself, that's the ear preventing other stuff from getting into it, right? that's what i always thought.

elizabethsosewn 4 years 26 weeks

easy as pie

elizabethsosewn 4 years 26 weeks

easy as pie

momma tikita 4 years 26 weeks

easy points!

momma tikita 4 years 26 weeks

easy points!

ThePerfectScore 4 years 26 weeks

so easy! B/c we tear up....

ThePerfectScore 4 years 26 weeks

so easy! B/c we tear up....

ThePerfectScore 4 years 26 weeks

so easy! B/c we tear up....

omilawd 4 years 26 weeks

I learned this in high school biology. Aside from blinking and tears, eyes have a film of mucous on them that will eventually be washed away and replaced, hence "eye boogers" in the morning. The crusties are your eye's old layer of mucous. This also explains why when you're allergic to something, your eyes water and you have more eye crusties. :]

Fallen85 4 years 26 weeks

Totally karlotta, it's like itching a bad scratch or having someone scratch your back, mmmm :P

karlotta 4 years 26 weeks

That's what I thought too, Fallen - but I guess not!(I have been cleaning them anyway, I can't help myself - besides sex, I think a Q-tip in my ear is the most satisfying feeling in the world - LOL)

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