I’m thinking if the flicking were true, you couldn’t do it to yourself anyway. It would have to be administered with a certain amount of unexpectedness.
sounds like a good planned activity for your next gathering.
As mine happened in the bronze age in the military where there was no law suits at that time, it was worth it to get that Doc. She was a 10+ in looks, 10+ in fun attitude & 10+ in medical ability.
In some ways the old days really were better.
Well played!
I asked my wife, an RN, and she said they were trained to ignore it.
and fantasize about it later
TreacherousCretin said:
You haven’t eliminated a source of embarrassment, you have created a second source of embarrassment. Sure, there’s no more boner, but it already happened and was witnessed. Making it go away doesn’t undo that. It might prevent more people witnessing said boner, but that doesn’t undo what was done.
Yes, because that’s not embarrasing.
I’m willing to believe that female nursing students were told this in order to make them less anxious about examining male patients. (As someone above said, it was a common concern of nursing students.)
I doubt it ever happened in practice. For one, the situation only happens rarely. Secondly, once a person has been nursing for a while, an erection wouldn’t faze them. Thirdly, I don’t think it would work. (Don’t ask me how I know that.)
If it makes you feel better to think that, feel free to keep on thinking that. But would that be more embarrasing or less, to imagine that your health care professional is having unprofessional thoughts about you?
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Well that’s my new favorite euphemism.
I’m OK with it.
This did happen to my husband back in the 60s. I think he had had his appendix removed. Pitched a tent…nurse gave it a flick. I’m sure that it doesn’t happen any more, but it certainly did back in the day.
Erections are controlled by your (at least partially subconscious) mind. Flicking yourself or being flicked by your SO as part of an experiment is not the same from a subconscious point of view as having an unwanted erection and being whacked by a disinterested nurse. I think it would work like any small unexpected shock might work. If you know what is coming and that it is being done by a friendly hand, the effect might be entirely different.
Seriously, I hope a present-day nurse/doctor would simply acknowledge “the event” by off-handedly saying “Don’t worry about it” and then continuing with the exam or whatever. Pretty much how they would react to any other involuntary body function.
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My uncle says this happened to him when in the hospital for hernia surgery. Pretty nurse, sponge bath, yadda yadda yadda. He was about sixteen at the time, so this would have been around 1965.
I’ve heard him tell the damn story so many times now, the last time he brought it up I told him that maybe she should have flicked it harder. :rolleyes:
We were never taught to do anything besides ignore it and go on. My mother, an RN in the old days, says that several “techniques” were informally passed from older to younger nurses as protection, back in the days when male patients (and doctors) felt free to grab and fondle female nurses as a way of displaying their “healthy” interest. The idea was to non-verbally convey an instant and unequivical message that this was NOT a sexual situation, bub.
Just as that kind of behavior is no longer expected nor accepted in a patient, the defensive behaviors of yesterday’s nurses would also now no longer be expected nor allowed. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that all male patients have gotten the message, and I have been once or twice inappropriately approached or touched, albeit only by older men. It’s scary and humiliating.
I am not talking about demented or psychotic patients - that’s a whole different story. You REALLY need to watch yourself with a hypersexual demented male patient, and, as a psych nurse, we worked in pairs whenever we suspected a bipolar whose manic state included hypersexuality might be more than we could handle.
Looking back at some earlier comments about a similar reaction to a female patient - first up, female patients (again, unless demented or psychotic) just don’t have an equivalent reaction in times of stress. In other words, the idea of a female patient becoming aroused during a pelvic exam pretty much only exists in male fantasies. Nipple engorgement, however, is an involuntary reaction to cold temperatures and occurs in both male and female patients.
Let’s let Scylla try it, he’ll try anything once.
Thank you, TanteLiz, that’s a different set of circumstances and a kind of justification I can see. If a guy feels okay giving a woman an unanticipated grope, then the woman should be free to give an unequivocal response.
My problem is with the people who somehow think that getting smacked on the weiner is going to reduce embarrassment. On what planet?
As for the female equivalent, you are correct there isn’t a clear parallel and thus the stretch for nipple arousal. The point was to reverse the situation, put the female in the context of an involuntary physical response, and the male medical professional applying a physical response to said patient.
An different not quite equivalent would be if a male is giving a woman a pelvic and she accidentally passes gas. Is that an invitation to stick a finger up there and “help her out”, or should he just politely tell her that it happens and not to worry about it?
To share another military anecdote…
I knew a man who was a POW in WWII. When his camp was liberated, all POWs had to be shaved (including pubic hair) to minimise the possibility of bringing disease/lice back home. I remember him saying something along the lines of “I’m usually a gentleman, but you see, it was a long time since I had even seen a woman and it went up. Without hesitating, the nurse gave me a quick tap with the blunt side of the straight razor”.
He told me that it instantly went back down and he didn’t try any funny business with the nurse.
In his case, I’m not sure if was the tap or that split second when he didn’t know if his member had been dismembered that caused the erection to subside.
A third-hand story (high school friend of Typo Knig) suggests this was still being done in the 70s. Involuntary reaction to some procedure (shaving) related to prepping the guy for hip surgery, nurse smacked the intruding erection.
Presumably it made it go away, but frankly the more respectful / professional reaction would have been to ignore it. I remember being shocked when I heard the story.