Warning to readers: explicit material ahead!
January seems to be sex month at the College of Medicine in Rockford. First we learned about the male exam. Now we are learning the female pelvic exam and taking a sexual history. So, just wanted to let you know ahead of time that many of my posts for the next couple of weeks will reflect sex month.
The other day we had our instructor for the pelvic exam come in and orient us to this section and teach us about what we are supposed to be doing before the actually let us do it. She first just explains to us in words what we'll be doing. I can tell this is going to be interesting because some of the guys are a little red already. Especially at the point where she explains that the cervix feels sort of like the tip of your nose and then proceeds to tell the girls that we should practice finding it on ourselves (How many of you just pushed on the tip of your nose?). She then explains that we will be performing a teaching pelvic exam where the women have mirrors and are able to watch part of the exam if they want. She then said, "I know many of you may be like who would want to do that? But think about it, how many of you women know what your genitalia look like?" She then pauses. We're like are we supposed to answer that? No one volunteered. I do understand what she is saying though. Many women were taught that they should be ashamed of their "private parts" and not touch and/or look at them. This is a little ridiculous. Why should you allow a doctor or your partner to see/touch a part of you that you haven't seen? At this point I am reminded of last year when we learned the pelvic anatomy (for more details, see my Feb. 16, 2005 post). Some of the guys didn't realize that women had more than one "hole." They thought we urinated from our vaginal opening. I don't know how they thought that would work. Where did they think that opening led to? All I could think about is damn, bladder control would be a major issue if the opening was that big. It wouldn't come out in a stream it would be more like just a gush. Anyway, so then she proceeds to the movie part of the presentation. We are warned that this is a homemade movie so it hasn't been edited. Homemade? Who makes a home movie of their pelvic exam? Well, we soon discover what she meant by it not being edited. At one point during the "movie" when the doctor is showing the patient her cervix with the mirror, she says and I kid you not, "See that part there with the opening? That is your cervix. If we were tiny little men, we could walk right through there and get into your uterus." If that isn't a nice visual for you all...
Well, I'll stop for now and leave you hanging. Stay tuned, in a couple of days I'll write about my experience taking a medical history. And coming in two weeks, my first pelvic exam (one that I perform, not receive. sorry about that).
January seems to be sex month at the College of Medicine in Rockford. First we learned about the male exam. Now we are learning the female pelvic exam and taking a sexual history. So, just wanted to let you know ahead of time that many of my posts for the next couple of weeks will reflect sex month.
The other day we had our instructor for the pelvic exam come in and orient us to this section and teach us about what we are supposed to be doing before the actually let us do it. She first just explains to us in words what we'll be doing. I can tell this is going to be interesting because some of the guys are a little red already. Especially at the point where she explains that the cervix feels sort of like the tip of your nose and then proceeds to tell the girls that we should practice finding it on ourselves (How many of you just pushed on the tip of your nose?). She then explains that we will be performing a teaching pelvic exam where the women have mirrors and are able to watch part of the exam if they want. She then said, "I know many of you may be like who would want to do that? But think about it, how many of you women know what your genitalia look like?" She then pauses. We're like are we supposed to answer that? No one volunteered. I do understand what she is saying though. Many women were taught that they should be ashamed of their "private parts" and not touch and/or look at them. This is a little ridiculous. Why should you allow a doctor or your partner to see/touch a part of you that you haven't seen? At this point I am reminded of last year when we learned the pelvic anatomy (for more details, see my Feb. 16, 2005 post). Some of the guys didn't realize that women had more than one "hole." They thought we urinated from our vaginal opening. I don't know how they thought that would work. Where did they think that opening led to? All I could think about is damn, bladder control would be a major issue if the opening was that big. It wouldn't come out in a stream it would be more like just a gush. Anyway, so then she proceeds to the movie part of the presentation. We are warned that this is a homemade movie so it hasn't been edited. Homemade? Who makes a home movie of their pelvic exam? Well, we soon discover what she meant by it not being edited. At one point during the "movie" when the doctor is showing the patient her cervix with the mirror, she says and I kid you not, "See that part there with the opening? That is your cervix. If we were tiny little men, we could walk right through there and get into your uterus." If that isn't a nice visual for you all...
Well, I'll stop for now and leave you hanging. Stay tuned, in a couple of days I'll write about my experience taking a medical history. And coming in two weeks, my first pelvic exam (one that I perform, not receive. sorry about that).
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