In reply to elsewhere:
Got well munched by bed bugs in a buddhist monastery in Ladakh once. My wife, being much more sensible, used her sleeping bag and was spared. Don't they itch!
Now, pubic lice are an altogether different ball game (scuse the pun). Got furious itching round the old John Thomas after dossing on a dirty mattress in a squat...well, itches need scratching, right? Noticed that I'd scratched off a wee scab...decided to examine it...while I was squinting at it, it started walking away! Freaky...made more freaky cos I was doing a lot of acid and mushrooms at the time. Went to chemist to get the medicated shampoo stuff, then had to call the girlfriend I had recently split up from (my call) and tell her that, no, I wasn't calling to get back together, and that she should probably get down to the chemist's...
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