Fingal counted eleven tick bites - that he could see. A few more could be felt: one on his left
arse cheek, for example, one on his scalp, and two in the perineum, or the gouch, the area of
skin between a human'
s anus and scrotum (some Australians, he'
d learned, also referred to the gouch as the as the aintcha, as in "well it aintcha balls, or your arse") Binjari ticks loved the gouch.