It's important to note that the definition of "private parts" or "those parts of your body only suited for your husband" changes a lot over the years, and differs from culture to culture.
Not so long ago, being able to see a woman's ankle would be considered "arousing" for men. And there you get the problem with the "if society considers X to be a private part, doctors shouldn't be able to see/touch it". Should doctors be banned from seeing ankles, if the "ankle-modesty" comes into favor again? As noted, in some countries even the face is considered too arousing - should male doctors in those countries just be banned from interacting with women at all? (afaik, they actually are, but I don't think it's a good development)
Now, I understand your points and have had thoughts to the same effect. In a previous thread we were talking about breast exams, and we actually had a doctor there admitting that he'll sometimes have an instant of arousal when he first sees a 21-year old's breasts (before professionally just going to do his job). And yes, for others, that may feel a bit.. "icky". The whole "doctors are immune to women's bodies" simply isn't true I think. They may come a bit more choosy, but the "finest" women will probably still get a reaction (the inappropriate content comparison is actually valid I think. For a 14 year old who just discovered the internet, everything is awesome. But when you've seen 14234 breasts, you probably develop a specific taste and go "meh" or "blegh" for the majority of naked women).
But the thing is... not every male doctor is going to be aroused by breasts/vaginae. I personally don't find a vagina sexy at all. Legs, faces, shoulders, hands. etc can all be sexier if you ask me. So if I were to become a doctor (which isn't going to happen btw
), should I be banned from interacting with those body parts, even if only one in a hundred of my patients legs would inspire any "impure" thoughts?
And then you have the fact that many women are (slightly) bisexual, and capable of having impure thoughts towards other woman. Should they be allowed to examine semi-naked women? What if a doctor who thought that she was straight, suddenly experiences the tiniest, most fleeting sign of arousal when some super model fully undresses before her? Should the doctor go and call all her patients with a "sorry, turns out I'm attracted to women in extremely rare cases, I can't be your doctor anymore"?
So yes, I'd conclude. It's just a fact that human bodies can be considered sexy. There are two ways to deal with it:
1. The Taliban route of completely hiding the body, in order to remove any potential source of impure thoughts. This makes doctor's visits quite difficult.
2. Just accepting that those impure thoughts sometimes exist, and that most of them will go away as you're exposed to more and more body parts.
Not so long ago, being able to see a woman's ankle would be considered "arousing" for men. And there you get the problem with the "if society considers X to be a private part, doctors shouldn't be able to see/touch it". Should doctors be banned from seeing ankles, if the "ankle-modesty" comes into favor again? As noted, in some countries even the face is considered too arousing - should male doctors in those countries just be banned from interacting with women at all? (afaik, they actually are, but I don't think it's a good development)
Now, I understand your points and have had thoughts to the same effect. In a previous thread we were talking about breast exams, and we actually had a doctor there admitting that he'll sometimes have an instant of arousal when he first sees a 21-year old's breasts (before professionally just going to do his job). And yes, for others, that may feel a bit.. "icky". The whole "doctors are immune to women's bodies" simply isn't true I think. They may come a bit more choosy, but the "finest" women will probably still get a reaction (the inappropriate content comparison is actually valid I think. For a 14 year old who just discovered the internet, everything is awesome. But when you've seen 14234 breasts, you probably develop a specific taste and go "meh" or "blegh" for the majority of naked women).
But the thing is... not every male doctor is going to be aroused by breasts/vaginae. I personally don't find a vagina sexy at all. Legs, faces, shoulders, hands. etc can all be sexier if you ask me. So if I were to become a doctor (which isn't going to happen btw
), should I be banned from interacting with those body parts, even if only one in a hundred of my patients legs would inspire any "impure" thoughts?And then you have the fact that many women are (slightly) bisexual, and capable of having impure thoughts towards other woman. Should they be allowed to examine semi-naked women? What if a doctor who thought that she was straight, suddenly experiences the tiniest, most fleeting sign of arousal when some super model fully undresses before her? Should the doctor go and call all her patients with a "sorry, turns out I'm attracted to women in extremely rare cases, I can't be your doctor anymore"?
So yes, I'd conclude. It's just a fact that human bodies can be considered sexy. There are two ways to deal with it:
1. The Taliban route of completely hiding the body, in order to remove any potential source of impure thoughts. This makes doctor's visits quite difficult.
2. Just accepting that those impure thoughts sometimes exist, and that most of them will go away as you're exposed to more and more body parts.
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