# Nurses and Sex - Not a Myth?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 13, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317 "2010-03-13T00:49:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/1 "2010-03-13T00:49:42Z")
Always thought the stories about sexy nurses was a myth. The times I’ve been hospitalized there was nothing going on. Recovering from surgery, the last thing I wanted was physical activity. 🙂
Apparently things are a bit different in the Netherlands. 🙂
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> A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.
[http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62A5A120100311](http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62A5A120100311)
:eek: :eek: My mom’s a nurse. I can imagine her reaction to a horny patient. 😃 He’d be castrated.
We live in a funny world. Those Dutch guys actually expect sex in the hospital? Here’s your pills and a hand job sir. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/2 "2010-03-13T00:59:39Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> We live in a funny world. Those Dutch guys actually expect sex in the hospital? Here’s your pills and a hand job sir. :dubious:
Actually it would be funny if the female nurse steps out and , lol, Boris steps in to administer the required services.
Declan
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/3 "2010-03-13T01:04:47Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Here’s your pills and a hand job sir. :dubious:
[Punchline] Same condition, better health plan[/punchline]
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### Author:  [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/4 "2010-03-13T01:10:07Z")
If that’s socialized medicine, bring it on!!!
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/5 "2010-03-13T01:21:21Z")
The demands sound absurd, but Sexy Nurses isn’t a myth. Just about every woman I dated was in the health care profession, including my wife, Pepper Mill.
as one of my engineering friends said, _The Engineer’s Best Friend is the Nurse_.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/6 "2010-03-13T01:28:50Z")
So that’s why, when I was in school, the medical secretaries\* had their classroom just outside the electronics labs…and I thought the administration or fate or something were just taunting us.
\*medical secretaries and engineering technologists… it was one level down from nurses and engineers.
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/7 "2010-03-13T01:34:10Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> The demands sound absurd, but Sexy Nurses isn’t a myth. Just about every woman I dated was in the health care profession, including my wife, Pepper Mill.
> as one of my engineering friends said, _The Engineer’s Best Friend is the Nurse_.
'Scuse me? If you’re DATING a nurse, she (or he) may well be sexy, but on the job? Or for patients? You’re raving. And wrong. :rolleyes:
I’d say those Dutch guys have quite the nerve. Most male pts I have had have been civil, deferential and polite. I took care of one young guy who was beside himself because I had to catheterize him (why escapes me, but we cathed much more frequently back in the day). He was embarrassed and agitated about it. But I was the only nurse on duty (this was back in the day) at 0300, so we got through it. In my time as a nurse, I’ve mostly been hit on by male visitors to the hospital, usually they are either missing teeth or have plenty of gold ones. They also tend to reek of patchouli and have Bryl Cream in their hair. \
I have had male pts attempt to sexually harass the techs, younger nurses or aides, but if and when that happens, they get to deal with me; they tend to straighten up fairly quickly. :mad:
IF what this article says is true, those nurses are not acting professionally or ethically. I find it hard to believe that they would have sex with a pt, but odder things have happened.
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/8 "2010-03-13T01:38:32Z")
God I love the Dutch.
And for the record, I completely agree with them.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/9 "2010-03-13T01:47:20Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#):
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> IF what this article says is true, those nurses are not acting professionally or ethically.
Which article where, now?
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/10 "2010-03-13T01:49:40Z")
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> 'Scuse me? If you’re DATING a nurse, she (or he) may well be sexy, but on the job? Or for patients? You’re raving. And wrong.
Please read more carefully. I _said_ it was wrong.
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/11 "2010-03-13T02:09:04Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> The demands sound absurd, but Sexy Nurses isn’t a myth. Just about every woman I dated was in the health care profession, including my wife, Pepper Mill.
> as one of my engineering friends said, _The Engineer’s Best Friend is the Nurse_.
Nowhere does this say it’s “wrong”. What’s it and what’s wrong? You make it sound like Sexy Nurses (on duty) isn’t a myth. I know you’re wrong about that, but do you know it?
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/12 "2010-03-13T02:10:16Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#):
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> Which article where, now?
The article linked in the OP. 😕
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/13 "2010-03-13T02:15:19Z")
I thought the myth had declined as nurses changed from starched whites to scrubbies
A Google Image search under “nurse porn” semi-confirms this: nurse porn is alive and well, but the models all wear uniforms straight out of _A Farewell to Arms._ (and by the way, although that fellow seems to enjoy your finger inserted there, doing it without a glove is not proper aseptic technique, sister.)
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/14 "2010-03-13T02:21:03Z")
A lot of the work nurses do can be painful. I wouldn’t want to upset the person fixing my clogged IV, changing a surgical dressing, or other treatments.
My IV went bad twice the last time I was in the hospital. It usually takes several sticks to get a new one in. I was cursed with veins that are hard to find. So, I definitely wouldn’t do anything to annoy my nurse.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/15 "2010-03-13T02:31:52Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Always thought the stories about sexy nurses was a myth. The times I’ve been hospitalized there was nothing going on. Recovering from surgery, the last thing I wanted was physical activity. 🙂
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> Apparently things are a bit different in the Netherlands. 🙂
> [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62A5A120100311](http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62A5A120100311)
> We live in a funny world. Those Dutch guys actually expect sex in the hospital? Here’s your pills and a hand job sir. :dubious:
What about the head nurse?
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/16 "2010-03-13T02:55:28Z")
> [@runner pat](#):
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> What about the head nurse?
According to the story that’s told, when Bing Crosby was in the hospital to have his appendix removed the nurse gave him a blowjob. After he told Bob Hope about it, Hope arranged to have his own appendix removed, and at the same hospital, just so he could get blown by the same nurse.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/17 "2010-03-13T03:43:56Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#):
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> The article linked in the OP. 😕
The article says: “A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign Friday **against** demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.” (bolding mine)
You say: “IF what this article says is true, those nurses are not acting professionally or ethically.”
I totally disagree with you and am surprised you would be saying that. That’s all.
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/18 "2010-03-13T03:57:32Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#):
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> …I have had male pts attempt to sexually harass the techs, younger nurses or aides, but if and when that happens, they get to deal with me; they tend to straighten up fairly quickly. :mad:…
My mom’s in her 50s and she’d get harassed by some of her [del]patients[/del] clients (& being in home health she was often alone in the house with the patient). Apparently SOP is to document _everything_ in the daily paperwork; the supervisors will then contact the family and/or attending physician (I assume because of potential dementia). Depending on how that goes the next step is to only send male aids or nurses. Because there are far fewer males working at the agency this can translate stuff like the agency not being able to honor requests regarding the time of the visit (ie they the aid may only be able to come at 3pm instead of 9:30am) and/or fewer visits in general. The last case scenario is for the director to schedule a meeting with the familiy (at the office, never at home) and politely tell them that the agency can no longer meet their needs, and they’ll have to hire another agency.
I was surprised when she told me that almost none of the female clients or their families object to male nurses or aids, but they do get alot of older male clients who refuse to have anything to do with them. I wasn’t surprised to hear families tend to get really hostile when told find another agency. Hostile to the point of the director having to have security escort them out of her office.
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### Author:  [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/19 "2010-03-13T04:04:03Z")
> [@runner pat](#):
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> What about the head nurse?
Can’t miss her… She’s wearing knee pads.
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nurses-and-sex-not-a-myth/532317/20 "2010-03-13T04:05:08Z")
I just _knew_ that that one hot nurse wanted me. I KNEW IT!
I recently had an appendectomy, and hadn’t showered for a couple days…but when she was checking on my (she said surgical, I knew she meant sexual) scars , I just _knew_ she wanted a piece of my unwashed, limp cock. Having just had the catheter removed, I’m certain when she said “burning” she meant for me, not the feeling I was getting from pissing…
I mean, what woman wouldn’t? If it wasn’t in post-anesthetic shock (SHRINKAGE), it’d be almost seven inches long!
I’m a dream, a catch! Suck it in the ER, baby!
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