TV and/or movies which contributed to your Medfet

What TV and/or movies do you remember helping get you started with your Medfet? Doesn't have to be a medically related show, of course, but whatever it was that got to you.

I think for me, while I like medical shows, in hospitals or doctors offices, they were only secondary in my Medfet, I noticed things in those shows after I already realized I was excited by other shows. It was more shows which had medical scenes, or sometimes just dialogue which discussed medical situations or procedures and treatments. I think some of it was seeing characters I knew who were in these situations, discussing their doctors visits or whatever. Sometimes just hearing about it is better than seeing it played out, it leaves a lot to your own imagination, which can be more fun.

Oh yeah baby. I grew up watching classic horror movies on TV and all the Mad Scientists are what turned me into what I am today. Off the top of my head, The Brain that Would Not Die, Metropolis, of course the Frankenstein movies, The Bee Women, The Mesa of Lost Women and the Mad Doctor of Blood Island come to mind. My parents weren’t that good at screening what I watched.

Not a medfet show but as usual my imagination turned it into one, the Brady Bunch. I used to watch it and wondered what happened when Marcia went to the doctor. Wishing I could witness her exam. Did the doctor spread her white cheeks and examine her undoubtedly pink little anus? I can only imagine the look on her face. That's a porn video I would gladly watch!

There's a list of shows that enhanced the interest that has always been there. Among two of the top have to be MASH and Trapper John, MD. There's something about a surgical nurse in a scrub dress - white or green!

@Nurse_Phillips, I never really thought of horror movies being sexual, but I can see how you say that. Like you, I loved horror movies a great deal, & watched all that I could. However, I can't recall ever having been "sexed" by a horror film, except when they had nubile young women who were scantily clad. Nearly naked women in see thru gowns were a favorite, as were the bra-and panty brigade usually present. I think every young man felt the same way. Unfortunately, the revelation of all the young women's charms was never available. Medical fetish play moved along a different track for me, as did enemas and anal play (which are both a part and not a part of Medical play, depending on the circumstance).

Ooh - Steve Kiley on Marcus Welby was a decidedly sexy heartthrob for me as a teen or preteen! Maybe that explains at least part of my attraction for the right sort of play doctor today.

@Nurse_Phillips , I forgot to mention this in my last post: Amazon Prime has lots of old movies, specifically horror movies. While Netflix has them, too, for some reason I like the Prime offerings better. Just watched a European movie, "Daughters of Darkness," an adaptation of the story of Countess Bathory. As badly plotted, poorly acted, but about par for European softcore horror. Contains BDSM, normal simulated intercourse, nudity, lesbianism, murder, all built around the idea that the Countess is a vampire who's been around a long time.

Not bad for a sorta sexy horror flick. Lots of material on Amazon better and more horror oriented. So if you have Prime, have a look. Similar material on Tubi TV, but Amazon comes just about the top of my personal list

Medical Center, Marcus Welby, Trapper John, MD, MASH, St. Elsewhere and The Lifetime Medical Channel. My interest is surgical procedures, so all of those had some great elements for my medfetish.

@Doctorh3e

I’ve Prime and Netflix both 😉

I forgot to mention St. Elsewhere. Dr. Wade could have operated on me anytime! When Sagan Lewis passed away, it felt like part of my fetish childhood died with her.

For those who do not remember her, see https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/women-unchained-episode-20-pictured-bruce-greenwood-as-dr-news-photo/140765741

I’ve been fascinated by all things medical for as long as I can remember. And a lot of my interest, I believe, was fueled by specific scenes or episodes of shows I watched as a kid. Any show that had a doctor episode in it was a hit for me, hahaha. Recently with Disney+ coming out, I was able to go back and find an episode of a show I used to watch when I was very young - called Out of the Box. In the episode they play doctor, and even sing a song about heartbeats and use stethoscopes. So I think I can at least partially blame my cardiophilia on that one. It was certainly interesting to go back and watch something that I know was a contributing factor!!

I always thought "House" was written by and for med-fetters.

I think the tv show "ER" helped contribute to my Medfet interest

I had no idea how many folks were into Medfet.

Many shows come to mind.My favorite all time show Emergency showed me many way's the medical field worked. Loved Johnny and Roy. Gained great respect for what paramedics have to do in the workplace. Enjoyed learning about the medical aspect of being a paramedic. Liked how Chet could get under Johnny skin. Then on a call be a total pro during there job.I was young at the time; but Marcus Welby made impact as well. I always wondered why more doctor's won't like Marcus Welby. He seem so down to earth. So caring. Most doctor's could take a lesson from him. Also ER was a great show to me. It gave a pretty real look into what a real hospital ER was susposed to look like. How it's was run. The pecking order of the doctor's. I liked St elsewhere. The doctors seemed to care; yet did a good job in everyday life. Not to say nothing of all the talent on the show. Fun, Enjoyable memories.

My medfetish emerged very early in life, before color TV. Before I knew what Medfet was... I just concluded I was weird and carried that with me through childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; through medical school, internship, residency, 30 years of practice in the ER and 2 marriages. It’s not like we had much training in Medical school. It was touched upon briefly during psychiatry rotations as “fetishism” lumped together within a broad spectrum of “psychopathology” under the label of Paraphilias.

Fetishes could be for any nonhuman object and were in general considered pathological, back in the day. Medical objects, situations and scenarios were not included with our training. We were taught that a fetish could be either egosyntonic (you could live with it) or egodystonic (you could not). Patients in the latter predicament were at risk for depression, anxiety and suicide. Those deemed dangerous or predatory were locked away. There wasn’t much psychiatric medicine had to offer back then.

I used denial to cope with mine! Psychiatry was the specialty in which I scored highest on my National Board Exams but I could never have been one. Now 63, I have at last found enlightenment in the realization of our great numbers, and that we are simply variations upon the incredibly complex theme of human sexuality. Now how will I integrate this into a life in which I pretended to be neurotypical?

It is hell of a deal, that’s for damn sure. To answer the question whether TV and movies contributed for me: probably they did but I can’t single out any particular TV or movie as a primary influence.

Any medical documentary involving scenes on, say, a transplant ward, where there would always be a cute girl who had to wear a mask because of her immune system.

I don't think I can remember any movies or TV shows that 'got me started' with my medfet - which, as some long-term Zity-ers must be heartily sick of being reminded, primarily concerns my 'odontophilia' (fascination with teeth, mouths!). But from the perspective of my medfet, I've long appreciated THE CITADEL (1938 ) which shows doctor Robert Donat examining the throat of patient Rosalind Russell ('Say aah!') - and later marrying her. (But of course! I suspect that the filmmakers deliberately meant that scene to imply Donat's being aroused by his attractive patient.) Also, I recall the original CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (1950, with Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy as the parents) in which, when one of the dozen kids develops tonsillitis, it's arranged that the kid get his tonsils out at home - along with all his siblings! That tickled my funny-bone, for a start!

Vaguely, I recall a Pedro Almodover film of a few years ago, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS? (1984), about a gay dentist. That intrigued me!

And, finally, I think of THE MAN WITH THE GREEN CARNATION/ THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE (1960, starring Peter Finch), which I saw as a teenager. It made me focus a bit on my own gayness, and I found it moving. (But, note, it doesn't have anything directly to do with medfet.)

- Ken