Sexual disfunction due to vaginal and breast exams

[realmeaning]

If Jake Gyllenhaal / Zac Efron / insert any celebrity crush you fancy was your private patient that you'd be required to see nekkid on a regular basis, of course it's entirely plausible you may get "excited." But to even consider, as the OP does, that routine medical exams on the average person (or watching porn) leads to some negative feedback/attenuation causing IMPOTENCE is crazy. It's the type of bullcrap that's taught by rightwing, self righteous, holier-than-thou loonies to maintain a completely unsubstantiated status quo. It's quite sad really.

Oh, I'm actually coming at it from the opposite angle-- like, say you work at a pizza parlor, and when you come home, you just can't bear to look at one. more. pizza.

Totally cerebral hypothesizing of course, and if I were in med school I'm not sure I'd even have the time or energy to eat said pizza after work.

FYI Zac E doesn't do anything for me, prefer post-pubescent men.

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[jcu]

Oh, I'm actually coming at it from the opposite angle-- like, say you work at a pizza parlor, and when you come home, you just can't bear to look at one. more. pizza.

Totally cerebral hypothesizing of course, and if I were in med school I'm not sure I'd even have the time or energy to eat said pizza after work.

But pizza is boring. A nice pair of knockers never get old!

FYI Zac E doesn't do anything for me, prefer post-pubescent men.

Ouch

 

[DrSnips]

Asking if working in medicine will cause sexual dysfunction is like asking if working in a restaurant will cause eating disorders.

 

[realmeaning]

Asking if working in medicine will cause sexual dysfunction is like asking if working in a restaurant will cause eating disorders.

Contesting analogy. We're all around copious amounts of food all the time-- in grocery stores, restaurants, etc., and most of us on this board are fortunate to have unlimited access to it.

On the other hand, being exposed to strangers' genitals in real life is rare (I hope), and is a novel and somewhat uncomfortable experience (initially, at least) for even the most mature medical student. Furthermore, sexuality is, for better or worse, more hidden and stigmatized than dietary lifestyle. All this goes to say that wondering if it'll be weird to give a stranger a pelvic exam is understandable.

 

[DrSnips]

We're all around copious amounts of food all the time-- in grocery stores, restaurants, etc.

I would say sexual imagery is almost as ubiquitous these days as food imagery. More so in Europe perhaps. The analogy is not so far off the mark.

Also, OP was not wondering if giving a stranger a pelvic exam is weird. That would be more reasonable. He was wondering if it will affect his sexual function. I'll leave it to you to decide for yourself if that's a reasonable concern.

 

[SouthernSurgeon]

I would say that there is some risk of a career in medicine causing sexual dysfunction...

Through chronic stress, emotional fatigue, and sleep deprivation.

I have definitely had months where I am so exhausted and burnt out from work I don't find myself interested in much of anything.

Now...from seeing patient's privates? Eh that is pretty much NBD after about a month of third year.

The disturbing images I come home with have nothing to do with genitalia...90% surface area burns, children who are victims of abuse, a dying patient's face while you are performing futile CPR...those things stick with you.

 

[sportsperson]

If Jake Gyllenhaal / Zac Efron / insert any celebrity crush you fancy was your private patient that you'd be required to see nekkid on a regular basis, of course it's entirely plausible you may get "excited." But to even consider, as the OP does, that routine medical exams on the average person (or watching porn) leads to some negative feedback/attenuation causing IMPOTENCE is crazy. It's the type of bullcrap that's taught by rightwing, self righteous, holier-than-thou loonies to maintain a completely unsubstantiated status quo. It's quite sad really.

None of those dudes have nice bodies anyway, what's so special about seeing them naked vs. just their face?

Then again, I'm a straight guy so....

 

[jcu]

None of those dudes have nice bodies anyway, what's so special about seeing them naked vs. just their face?

Then again, I'm a straight guy so....

I defer that one to google

 

[SpecterGT260]

If Jake Gyllenhaal / Zac Efron / insert any celebrity crush you fancy was your private patient that you'd be required to see nekkid on a regular basis, of course it's entirely plausible you may get "excited." But to even consider, as the OP does, that routine medical exams on the average person (or watching porn) leads to some negative feedback/attenuation causing IMPOTENCE is crazy. It's the type of bullcrap that's taught by rightwing, self righteous, holier-than-thou loonies to maintain a completely unsubstantiated status quo. It's quite sad really.

actually I think the crazy right wingers havent gone this far yet.... easy there quick-draw

 

[DrSnips]

actually I think the crazy right wingers havent gone this far yet.... easy there quick-draw

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/02/25/scientists-internet-porn-cause-impotence/

You were saying?

 

[jcu]

Ah Faux News. How I loathe thee.

 

[SpecterGT260]

I.. I stand corrected

however, a part of me does wonder if there is some sort of gyno PTSD for people who have worked in free clinics and the like.... A few days in something like that could be enough to make you turn to your partner and say "YOU GET AWAY FROM ME WITH THAT THING!"

 

[Kadava Reviva]

I am a first year student and we are learning how to do breast exams and vaginal exams. One of my concerns is that as a medical student / physician I will see so many breasts and vaginas that I will have less interest in my significant other. I am wondering if it may lead to sexual disfunction of any kind.

For what its worth: I would consider myself to be the very conservative type and have decided to limit sex to marriage. I am not married nor have I ever been married. I also avoid pornography.

I would appreciate it if the comments were limited to appropriate responses.

There is nothing sexual about those exams. The clinical aspect of them make 'em really non-exciting, even if your patient is hot as a pistol. If you get an sexual enjoyment out of per forming those exams, you already have a sexual dysfunction.

 

[OveractiveBrain]

umm...that is what a causal link is...


and I honestly don't get how a media form that glorifies womanly sexual attributes would in anyway make someone want something the exact opposite. It's like saying commercials for cars makes people buy barbie dolls... pre- and post-pubescent women look nothing alike...

Its a slippery slope. Beer, coke, meth, chicks with dicks, then jail (also one of my top favorite movies, the link is benign, albeit a pirated version of copyrighted material found on the YoubTubes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyT_TPzXZ9g

EVERYBODY knows it starts with the softcore X-art stuff, and ends with the BDSM DVDA Japanese Gameshow Bukake Child Porn on YouJizz. It is the natural progression of such things. You start with white women and end up with Japanese children. Duh. Its like scientology. Am I really the only one who made it to Japanese child BDSM porn? I should have known something was wrong when I had 6 browsers open all playing a separate clip from Star ****** 2, Pirates, and Justin Beiber's Live In Concert...

If only I had seen it sooner! If only I had the Hillside Kids early in my life. Then, I too, would "think its a little bit crazy" (this song is actually pretty creative, and catchy! Its better than Rebecca Black. Even though his best friend is his lord and savior) JUMP UP AND DOWN! HAY! JUMP UP AND DOWN! HAY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz9WBGJQ5Ks