Update: 28 February 2005
You can find all pertinent information about eye drops on nipples on a new comprehensive post (page): The 'Visine on Nipples' Myth (debunked)
Disturbing Search Requests is an hilarious collaborative blog by people who share site tracking information on what people typed into search engines that wound them up at their sites.
I've mentioned before that every so often I check out BoingBoing's search engine query referral logs, because they're some of the funniest I've seen. Just today I saw that someone found BoingBoing by typing "VISINE ON NIPPLES" into the search engine. I read BoingBoing semi-regularly, but I don't remember an entry mentioning that. heh. I'm really not curious enough to go search for myself - besides, it's funnier by itself. heh.
Update: See full text of comments for full explanation of the "Visine on Nipples" or "eye drops on nipples" contemporary myth and its origins.
posted by Chloe | Saturday 28 September 2002 2:05 AM
okay, i've been getting a bunch of hits to my blog for "visine on nipples" too. i googled it and yours was the first that popped up. i'm glad someone was able to provide the csi explanation.
case closed.
Posted by tim | Tuesday 07 December 2004 11:46PM
Well, according to this transcript, the show never said anything about Visine being something used on nipples, generally. Though I suppose it may have been implied. "GREG SANDERS: No, it's scopolamine. It's a chemical used for motion sickness. This eyedrop bottle's a front. One drop of this stuff and she's out cold."
Posted by Chloe | Wednesday 08 December 2004 12:32AM
More on the "visine on nipples" discussion, in the comments here: Trish Wilson's Blog: A New Meme! Bizarre Google Searches That Found My Blog
Again, I have found no evidence that "visine on nipples" or any type of eye drops of any brand, on nipples, is truly any kind of widely used, if used at all, "sex trick". The only mentions of it I've found on the internet are comments on forums related to the afore mentioned episode of CSI. And the internet is certainly repleat with intricate descriptions of sex tips & tricks, but yet not this one.
Furthermore, I think there's actually warnings on things like this to "use only as directed". And using the product in a manner other than directed, could be potentially unhealthy or dangerous. Snopes.com - (Mickey Red Eyes) Pfizer | What We Do | Medicines & Products | Visine-A® Eye Drops
Pfizer recommends that Visine not be used, even as directed, if someone has a sensitivity to any ingredient in the product... And one of the ingredients of Visine is an antihistimine, which I believe some people are sensitive to, or have gotten adverse reactions from antihistimines. (I myself get some pretty frightening side-effects from 'over the counter' cold medicine containing antihistimines.)
In other words, the most cautious and prudent advice would be to say: Do not try this at home without consulting a medical professional.
If you wish to contact the Pfizer corporation about use of their Visine product on your nipples, you can find their contact information on this page: Pfizer | Contact Pfizer Consumer Products : 1-800-223-0182 : Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST
I'm sure they'd love to hear from you! ;)
Posted by Chloe | Friday 14 January 2005 6:52AM
I got the first "Pilot" episode of CSI from the video rental store last night, and watched it. Not once in the episode did they say that Visine would make nipples erect. They didn't even mention actual eye drop solution being used for anything. The women in the story line were using a drug hidden in an "eye drop bottle" , to put the drug on their nipples before their "trick rolls" - so the men would ingest the drug after putting their mouths on the girls' nipples, and fall unconscious, and then the women could rob the men. Nothing about any other reason they'd be putting anything on their nipples, other than to administer the drug, was mentioned in the episode. And no mentions of "Visine" by name either.
My next viewing will be the premiere episode of Season 3, where there's another episode involving eye drops. This time, it's caused an apparent surge of belief in the incorrect and potentially dangerous urban myth that Visine can be used as a quick laxative of some type. And also a belief that Visine can be used to give someone a stroke. Snopes.com - (Mickey Red Eyes)
The stroke part is unclear, though it's true that the product is considered a "poison" if ingested orally, since the warning on Visine states "If swallowed, get medical help or contact a Poison Control Center right away."
Posted by Chloe | Saturday 15 January 2005 5:55AM
I thought Visine's slogan was "Gets the Red Out". Which is not necessarily a desirable thing when it comes to nipples.
OK, this beats "cathy baker hee haw" (which only works for my site without the quotes.) But you basically OWN this phrase - enter it in quotes, and you get three entries for your site, plus one referring to your site. It took some doing (by me) to push my friend's site to the top of the "whores in Iceland" hit list!
Posted by Harold | Saturday 15 January 2005 9:40PM
I watched the Season 3 premiere episode. In it there is reference to eye drops on nipples. Which now explains why my site gets as many hits from this topic - it's not mentioned in one, but two episodes of CSI.
Though again, nobody ever actually says "Visine on nipples" or "eye drops on nipples".
From the episode: Greg Sanders (looking at a bottle of eye drops) "So we meet again. Lita Gibbons wasn't putting this on her nipples, was she?"
He said this to the character named Sara, and Sara responds as if he's made a sexual innuendo, when in reality Greg Sanders was simply making reference to the case in the Pilot episode (previously mentioned here), he even says "Sorry, old case.". And if you listen to the "commentary" option on the DVD release, you can hear one of the writers (or the director?) confirm that. The character of Sara of course didn't understand the reference Greg Sanders was making, because the character of Sara was not in the Pilot episode, and not involved in the "trick rolls" case involving a drug dispensed with an eye drops bottle. And so of course she assumed it was a sexual comment simply because it was a comment about nipples, and a comment made to her by him (since he's obviously flirting with her earlier in the episode).
Again, this does not imply that there is any reason to believe anybody really thinks of Visine, or any eye drops, as sexual. And again, Visine is never mentioned by name.
The woman poker player in the episode is simply using eye drops containing Tetrahydrozoline. Other than that they find out this woman was cheating with the use of a coloured contact, it's irrelevant as far as the story of the death, as it's not her brand of eye drops that was found in the dead guy's drink. The waitress admits she put her eye drops, another brand, according to the story, in the old poker player's drink, to try to give him diarrhea. The character of Sara calls it "server's revenge". Nobody in the episode bothers to specifically debunk the urban myth, but the characters sure seem to think that eye drops in a drink is potentially deadly - in some circumstances at least. But in the end, the story was that the Tetrahydrozoline in the eye drops was merely some sort of catalyst in the death of the old poker player, who had been giving himself lead poisoning for years by eating large quantities of chocolate from some part of western Africa where they drive cars that use leaded gasoline.
So finally, there's still absolutely no reason to believe there's any sexual motive to put eye drops on nipples. And there's still no reason to interpret either episode of CSI of asserting that there is.
One interesting quote in this episode: Grissom, upon another character referencing the eye drops again, says, "Irrelevant. We've been chasing eye drops to death."
I know the feeling. haha.
Posted by Chloe | Sunday 16 January 2005 6:27AM
Finally! 11 days since you posted your comment on my site, a Google search for "visine on nipples" finally shows Another Monkey among the results! It took long enough!
I tell ya, there ain't no justice. You now rank higher than me for the searches "cathy baker hee haw" and "whores in iceland." How can this be?
Posted by Harold | Wednesday 26 January 2005 10:39PM
Harold, I think you rank higher than me on a search for "cathy baker hee haw", but I doubt you could surpass me on the "visine on nipples" thing... But probably only because my site has a higher Google rank generally. And believe me, that happened awhile back... (Ridiculous phenomenon explained here). As for "whores in Iceland", I really could've done without you linking this page to that phrase too. haha. The funny part is, that I don't think "whores", nor "Iceland" is mentioned at all elsewhere on this site.
Posted by Chloe | Thursday 27 January 2005 12:46AM
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okay, i've been getting a bunch of hits to my blog for "visine on nipples" too. i googled it and yours was the first that popped up. i'm glad someone was able to provide the csi explanation.
case closed.
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I thought Visine's slogan was "Gets the Red Out". Which is not necessarily a desirable thing when it comes to nipples.
OK, this beats "cathy baker hee haw" (which only works for my site without the quotes.) But you basically OWN this phrase - enter it in quotes, and you get three entries for your site, plus one referring to your site. It took some doing (by me) to push my friend's site to the top of the "whores in Iceland" hit list!
Harold, I think you rank higher than me on a search for 
