Discovery that real-life medical nudity wasn't erotic at all

I'm recovering from a recent surgery in which an inflatable penile prosthesis was implanted to help counter severe erectile dysfunction I developed following prostate cancer surgery. You can read more about the IPP in another post of mine, if you're interested.

My question is this: have you had a medical issue that required you to be exposed in front of doctors and nurses of both mainstream genders and were you surprised at how NOT HOT the whole thing was?

When I was trying to have my first post-op urination (a criterion that had to be met before I was discharged) the very pretty nurse was holding on to my penis as I struggled to work up a stream and all I could think to myself at the time was "Man, this hurts!".

Seeing a doctor has never been erotic or hot. Once established with a doc, i am relativity comfortable. With new docs I am anxious and uncomfortable. Always, I get white coat syndrome symptoms. My blood pressure skyrockets and my heart rate heads up into the 100’s.

My question is this: have you had a medical issue that required you to be exposed in front of doctors and nurses of both mainstream genders and were you surprised at how NOT HOT the whole thing was?

When I broke both of my arms and needed to an have an EKG prior to surgery definitely was Not Hot.

It was 2 1/2 days after the accident with a rushed drive to a sudden surgeon appointment (I had no notice of the appointment.). So figuring out how to wear a bra was not yet on my "to do" list. We had figured out how to get me dressed, covered, to be out in public.

The poor female tech seemed a bit embarrassed to have to move my naked boob out of the way to get the lead to register what it needed to do. I apologized for my not being covered. I did get my strapless bra found once I got back home. It did not bother my right shoulder so worked for supporting the girls.

When I broke both of my arms and needed to an have an EKG prior to surgery definitely was Not Hot.

The poor female tech seemed a bit embarrassed to have to move my naked boob out of the way to get the lead to register what it needed to do.

With my wife in the ER when they decided to do an EKG on her. They sent in a young guy to apply those stickies and he had a hard time getting contact under her left boob. Didn't help that he was trying to lift it with the BACK of his hand so it kept sliding off his hand and falling down covering where it needed to go. I felt like telling him to just grab it and hold it up but it wasn't my boob. Apparently they teach them to use the BACK of their hand so they can't be accused of copping a feel.

Funny thing, he was one of her regular customers at the pet store so she knew him ------ kind of.

TWO broken arms? I'm picturing you eating out of the cat's bowl**************.

A few years ago, maybe 20 years, I found a new doctor to be my primary care. Recommended and with good credentials. And female, but I have used or been assigned women doctors before and thought no big deal. The examination was mostly routine and at the end she avoided having me drop my shorts for the traditional genital inspection and finger, She simply asked "is everything is good under my shorts". Sheepishly I said I think so and with much hesitation she asked me to drop the shorts and decided to take a look. Obviously the good doctor appeared more embarassed than I and kept looking away during the entire time. Afterwards, her office never called to schedule a followup annual exam. Weird.

A few years ago, maybe 20 years, I found a new doctor to be my primary care. Recommended and with good credentials. And female, but I have used or been assigned women doctors before and thought no big deal. The examination was mostly routine and at the end she avoided having me drop my shorts for the traditional genital inspection and finger, She simply asked "is everything is good under my shorts". Sheepishly I said I think so and with much hesitation she asked me to drop the shorts and decided to take a look. Obviously the good doctor appeared more embarassed than I and kept looking away during the entire time. Afterwards, her office never called to schedule a followup annual exam. Weird.

Ten years ago, new female doctor for me when Dr. Obama must have told my long time male doctor to retire. I showed her a rash near my testicles and I've never been able to decide if she was embarrassed or just didn't want to look, or maybe her superior, Dr. Obama, told her not to. I had to ask her to do a DRE which had always been part of my annual with my old doctor. It's been 10 years now and I haven't been able to find anyone who will do a real sit down naked for 30 minutes checkup. In fact naked checkups seem to be a thing of the past.

I don’t find anything erotic, or sexual about being naked in a medical setting. It’s not like you’re out on a date, or having sex with some hot babe. It’s very clinical and rudimentary , nothing more. The least exciting part is getting the medical bill.

These posts, this discussion, really get at the heart of what I've tried to convey in earlier comments I, and others of us in the health care professions, have tried to say. It is absolutely true for (most, anyway) patients that there is something very NOT HOT about examinations and interactions with doctors and nurses in what would otherwise be deeply personal and intimate areas. They're somehow depersonalized. The exact same thing is true for the providers. The interaction is depersonalized and not erotic in any way. That portion of our being seems to be disengaged. It's not that we're suppressing a reaction that we're having but don't want to feel. It's that we're just not having that erogenous response. My take on it anyhow.

@Pollux I never found any medical exam erotic. I have found I prefer females working on me though. For some reason I feel more comfortable talking to them and if they are going to be touching me I really prefer a female doing that. Of course there IS the thing about smaller fingers for the DRE. As far as the naked exam goes I have no thoughts except I hope they find everything is OK and they have checked EVERYTHING.

All through childhood when I had my GP exams for monitoring my early puberty, I was always naked for the entire exam; and while I became highly erect, I always found it extremely embarrassing. Not sure I ever found it erotic (although at that age I probably didn't understand the feelings and whether they were erotic). Even when I was in mid teens and had the same exam, I don't believe I found them erotic - although i definitely understood what the feelings were about.

When I was knocked off my bicycle and had my clothes cut off in A+E due to suspected spinal injury (discussed in other threads), the nudity and all the genital / anal attention was certainly not erotic - probably due to the extreme pain and associated meds. Even several days later on the ward, when my testes were being checked to see if the bleeding & swelling had subsided; and I became erect; I did not find it erotic. It most definitely wasn't in the slightest erotic when I was instructed to produce a semen sample so they could check for blood in it; and warned me it might be uncomfortable & the result might look discoloured! Well when I did manage to ejaculate, the pain almost caused me to pass out & the resultant semen was very red 😮 In all the furthest from erotic I can imagine!

RN here. Look, anything you do over and over gets routine and boring. Add to that you are trying to help another soul out of difficulty. I have to keep reminding myself of the Doc who said "I do this every day" and the embarrassed patient who replied "I don't". It seems like a patients personality is much more memorable than their body. (But, there was one.....).