h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I bruise. Easily. This is a little incongruous with my appearance(I'm 6'5", 18 stone, generally large) but true. I gave blood once and got a bruise that met itself round the back of my arm.

An ex-girlfriend gave me a hickey once. ONCE. The damn thing covered the ninety degrees from directly under my chin round to under my left ear, and actually spread down to my torso. (and remember kids, this is one big neck)

Ever since then, I have thankfully developed a natural reaction to even the slightest nibble. Girls have found themselves on the floor 12 ft away before they new what was happening (unharmed of course - I'm really a nice bloke)

My girlfriend has a habit of giving me love bites. When she does it she goes all coy and says she didn't realise she was doing it or else she says she has to to stop her making too much noise! I think she's just marking her territory in some way. She tends to look at them and giggle, appearing very pleased with herself. Fortunately she does it low enough down that they don't show with most shirts.

I suppose once or twice in history an "accidental" hickey has happened, but guys, chances are, if your girlfriend gives you a hickey, you just got tagged. That hickey reads "MINE" and the girl who put it there probably rather likes it that way. I don't do that. I find that standing behind him holding a shotgun pretty much gets rid of the competition.

"I'm sorry, *sound of shotgun chambering*, WHERE did you want to take him after the show?"

I once made the mistake of putting a suction cup on my forehead. The circular bruise lasted weeks! I'm proud to say it only happened once though.

RSBohn/U37566 (File under 'RSBohn must be some kind of dork')

I was once on a residential weekend with a school trip or some other debauched reason. We all had a few too many one night and to of my mates decided it would be funny to do this to a semi catatonic friend. They proceded to take it in turns for several minutes and left the largest, blackest bruise I've ever seen. When the lovebitee awoke, a little while later he was somewhat unamused and we spent several hours giggling over the numerous bizarre treatments we persuaded him to try. I can therefore state from my little experience:
Toothpaste, vinegar and mayonnaise all sting.
Lager and wine are a waste

I was once on a residential weekend with a school trip or some other debauched reason. We all had a few too many one night and to of my mates decided it would be funny to do this to a semi catatonic friend. They proceded to take it in turns for several minutes and left the largest, blackest bruise I've ever seen. When the lovebitee awoke, a little while later he was somewhat unamused and we spent several hours giggling over the numerous bizarre treatments we persuaded him to try. I can therefore state from my little experience:
Toothpaste, vinegar and mayonnaise all sting.
Lager and wine are a waste
Shaving foam may bleach red T-shirts
Old tea bags smell awful
Nothing works!!!!

sorry about the double up.

totally agree. i think it's a territory marking thing. and i thought (bloody british education) that it wasn't ok to give/have one. but i asked her about it. and she said, well, it just says - we are doing it together.

ok.

this morning my secretary (who isn't 'she' in the above paragraph) came in with one. lucky i don't live in the uk, we would have had to consider sacking her. instead, she proudly showed it to me (we are good friends) and i was a little confused, embarassed. but she was so happy. i went along with it. i gave her a hug.

I play the viola, which means that I have an effectively permanent mark on the left side of my neck, frequently mistaken for a hickey. I have come to amuse myself by naming my viola Sebastian, so that when I am asked "What's that mark on your neck?" I can say "Ahhh, it was Sebastian..."

Accidental hickeys DO happen. I've done it. Okay, so I've relished them being there afterwards in some cases, but others not... b/f's mother recently requested that he "keeps me off his neck".

I have a birthmark on the side of my neck that very much resembles a hicky.

Hey, at least I always look popular!

I was giving a hickey to my girlfriend, but i was kinda worried
was she getting hurt, or am i going to bite her away. She loves it, but so i keep it up, but after a cuople of them theres a trick. You dont gorge into the skin, but take *sharp* bite, and voila (not viola ) its there, and shes up there...

Er... never really did had any special technique or anything. I just start off kissing his neck/being kissed, and twenty odd minutes/three hours later I look in the mirror and see these huge marks down my throat/chest...

I have a gorgeous necklace which I am unfortunately allergic to in 2 places. It leaves two perfectly symmetrical hickey-type marks, and since they can take up to three weeks to fade, gives other people lots of fun.
By the way, Sink-Plunger Victim, I laughed out loud at your admission- until I remembered I'm not really much better. Once, engrossed in a CD leaflet, I stood up under a very hot lamp, making contact with a part of my forehead not covered by fringe...

I'm under the impression that if you are "love biting" the goal is not neccessarilly to leave a scar. It happens to the best of us (not a scar) but it has always come as a surprise to me.
For instance, I had a date with someone that I believed I was very interested in. 1st date. I had a makeout session with someone the night before. Yes, I am a HOOKER! I was left with one of these aforementioned
marks and this by the way is impossible to disguise or explain. I had to have a coworker run to a shop to buy me a floppy hooded sweatshirt, in the middle of a New York summer and instead I just came off as sweaty and severly style confused.