# nurses and erections question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 30, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-erections-question/551975 "2010-08-30T06:54:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-erections-question/551975/121 "2010-09-13T07:29:20Z")
In Japan, a non-profit organization, “White Hands,” caters to the sexual needs of the disabled. [JapanToday article](http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi-shukan-post/view/business-caters-to-sexual-needs-of-disabled) (English) [Official Website](http://www.whitehands.jp/menu.html) (Japanese) [Official Mobile Website](http://www.whitehands.jp/imode/englishpage.html) (English) ---
**Author:** ![dougjay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@dougjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougjay)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-erections-question/551975/122 "2010-09-24T07:43:57Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > Given the millions of nurses who’ve had to endure millions of erections I can believe that “the flick” has happened a few times. However, I won’t believe any individual anecdote without some documentation, which is unlikely. Actually there is documentation. In this case it’s even worse. [http://www.health.qld.gov.au/pahospital/history/docs/oral\_history\_williams.pdf](http://www.health.qld.gov.au/pahospital/history/docs/oral_history_williams.pdf) > [@](#): > > BW: (snipped section) > We had male orderlies who we had to call to pass a male catheter but we were allowed to wash male patients. There’s lots of little things that Charge Nurses of the Ward thought you had to deal with males if they were getting a bit randy when you were bathing them like the ruler trick and these you learned from the Charge Nurses and they told you that – immediately you walked in the Ward if you’ve got a male patient that’s trying to get fresh, you’d use a ruler and just hit it! > > SP: You’d only have to do it once, wouldn’t you? > > BW: You learned these things –Joan Garry in G4 the orthopedic ward – she was an > old Charge Nurse and she was one that told me because we had lots of bikies in and she told me that’s what you did. Hit it with a ruler. > > SP:Or a cold spoon? Princess Alexandra Hospital Oral History Project - Bobbie Williams; p. 29 ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-erections-question/551975/123 "2010-09-24T11:13:25Z")
Worse? The interviewee was talkng about “_male patient that’s trying to get fresh_.” Fifty years after that nurse’s experience (1957 if I am reading the article right) we call that sexual assault. Which is not the casual whacking of an erection during a routine examination (or as a standard procedure in a ward). ---
**Author:** ![dougjay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@dougjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougjay)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-erections-question/551975/124 "2010-09-24T17:16:13Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > Worse? > > The interviewee was talkng about “_male patient that’s trying to get fresh_.” > > Fifty years after that nurse’s experience (1957 if I am reading the article right) we call that sexual assault. Which is not the casual whacking of an erection during a routine examination (or as a standard procedure in a ward). True enough. I merely meant the ruler is worse than a mere finger. 😃 However, “randy” is open to interpretation. It’s quite conceivable that many back then would consider an erection to be “getting a bit Randy” in itself. Times were different and from the attitudes it seems very likely. My sister is actually a nurse so my goal isn’t to disparage nurses at all. But I think all the anecdotal accounts as well as documentation like this show it probably isn’t a mere urban legend. I seriously doubt it is done much today. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-erections-question/551975/125 "2010-09-25T21:48:36Z")
Found it. I was watching a rerun of the 40 year old virgin, and when Andy calls the viagra helpline for priapism, the person on the phone advises him to flick his penis/testicles until they hurt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-erections-question/551975.md?page=6)