Her woollen dress and corset pinched, and the woollen underwear made her itch like mad.
She's so shy that the slightest bit of attention makes her itch and scratch and twirl her hair.
For Ms. Shiono, as for many other Japanese who have come home, experiences like those have often made her itch to return to a life overseas.
She wraps her hands around the sides of her daughter's body and the warmth of it makes her fingers itch, her legs tense with desire; she lifts her out, cradling her head, and arranges her on her lap, pulling down the sleeves of her cardigan and the cuffs of her cotton pants, smoothing the bib across her chest.
Last year, its president, Muhammed Alhajie Lamin Touray, the country's most senior imam, said during a BBC interview that he had heard "on reliable authority that the clitoris makes a woman itch, making her want to scratch all the time, and that the clitoris makes water leak from her private parts".
"Apart from the religious reasons in favour of female genital mutilation, I have heard on reliable authority that the clitoris makes a woman itch, making her want to scratch all the time and that the clitoris makes water leak from her private parts," he said.
Sarah Silverman learned to swear as a toddler, and discovered that shocking people and getting their approval made her arms "itch with glee".
Does it seem to be causing the horse pain and/or making him itch?
But she realizes the wishes he grants her are worth her troubles, allowing Karou to make her ex-boyfriend itch in unmentionable places, eradicate her own pimples and cause a rival's eyebrows to grow unattractively bushy.
