My primary interest in medfet is, undoubtedly, about gynecology. I found this interesting post in a forum about nudity issue in french gynecologists' practices (gynéco: entièrement nue?):
My god how many stories to undress! I too am rather modest, like the majority of women, and we will leave aside, and the exhibitionists and the "stuck", that said without bad spirit. But these two categories remain in the minority. When the doctor asks you to undress completely, it is to do his job properly. We quickly feel whether we are in front of a pervert or not. In the first case, we change practitioner and that's it. The first category concerns, again a minority, and one should not cast shame on an entire corporation because of a few specific cases.
There are other points to note:
1 - How to ask the patient to undress.
2 - The place where it does it.
3 - The consequences of certain "precautions" which are considered a mark of delicacy, while in my opinion they may cause even more embarrassment.
I develop:
1 - A doctor who says "get naked" is suspicious. But he does not have to make verbal convolutions to give his instructions. He will simply say "Please undress completely, ma'am. He can certainly avoid the" completely "which is however not provocative and removes any ambiguity. This saves the patient from asking" how far "and driving. to a response which, by isolating the word, gives it an authoritarian connotation: “Yes, completely, please.” Simplicity is a mark of professionalism. Too much emphasis leads to even more embarrassment. It presupposes excessive modesty and by expressing himself concisely, the speaker eliminates any possible ambiguities. The "request" to undress is not an "order". There is no submission context. The patient can refuse and ... leave the practice. In other words, more drastic on purpose, to get naked for an exam is not to get naked! The result is the same, of course, but the mindset is completely different.
2 - We undress in a cabin, or behind a screen, in short out of the doctor's gaze. It is not the fact of being naked which is the most embarrassing, it is to undress ... in front of someone. This immediately creates a climate out of context. Once naked, we show up for the exam. The way the practitioner looks at the patient is also an indication of this climate: respect for modesty simply comes from the fact that he does not observe you in an unusually attentive manner BEFORE the examination itself. A little simple advice: instead of "modestly" lowering your eyes with the attitude of a humiliated woman, it is more salutary and frank to look the doctor in the face, without arrogance of course, but without shame. gaze gives assurance. It certainly takes a little effort, but it also amounts to affirming silently that you are not ashamed of your body ... whatever its condition. But in addition, this way of doing things allows you to verify that the doctor, HIM or SHE, lower his eyes, not modestly, but out of respect for the patient's nudity. To do: go get dressed and leave the office politely You don't even have to justify yourself: anyone who behaves in this way will understand very well the reason for leaving. Note also in passing that there are looks which "undress you" as they say, ie which have a way of observing your body as if you were naked, while you remain dressed! And there is an interesting paradox in noting that, once actually naked, this kind of gaze can't even be on you in the same way. But the following clarifies this point.
3 - The different procedures likely to be embarrassing really make me smile! And in more than one way. The first reason is that the feeling of nudity is even more intense when you are half-dressed (especially if it's upstairs!) Than totally naked. It is therefore perhaps less true when only the bust is stripped, but ... all these scenes of undressing the bottom, then re-dressing, to then pass above the belt only reinforce the importance of the clothes. , or rather their absence! To trivialize nudity is already to forget what conceals it. But there is worse: What woman does not know, even without having a particularly deep experience of physical "man-woman" relations, than being semi-undressed has a very strong erotic potential? Even if the doctor sees no provocation in it, it is obvious that this way of doing things refers to situations which precisely emphasize nudity. In order not to be “embarrassed” oneself, one must not create ambiguous climates either. You really have to be either completely naive or infantile, not to know the erotic load of such an outfit, that is to say naked only for the lower body. And when some advise to come with a full skirt, arguing that there is nothing more than to raise it after having taken off your pants, we reach heights of unconsciousness. Put it all in the first person and the reality appears: "When I go to the gynecologist, I put on a loose dress, so I just have to pick it up after taking off my panties"! What do you think? It is quite simply identical to an erotic text.
Some testimonials for "the top" are of the same ilk: "You just have to pull up the bra just long enough." !! Incredible, isn't it? Is it more modest than removing it completely? Everyone knows that the fundamental component of eroticism is to suggest more than to show, or to do it stealthily. We are in the same logic as some countries, brandished as examples, where, out of so-called "respect for women", special clothes are planned which only show ... the parts to be examined! A real "sexy" outfit contest, there is no other word! Because by only letting the genitals see, we highlight them even more. They become sexual, and in the end, we show them off. And to finish, the flagship: an Internet user who explains that she goes to the doctor in a nightie, thus, she says, "it is more practical for the examination, and I am all the same dressed!" So we can assume She's naked underneath, obviously, it's even better not to say so. Without comment, for the situation, noting that only at the level of the form of the testimony, we are again in the suggestion. It all ends up looking like a real striptease that doesn't confess. It's much more exciting isn't it! And we can only admire even more, the serenity of specialists faced with such a challenge, especially men. I even have a serious doubt about the absence of ulterior motives, not of the consultant ... but of women, young or older, who engage in these insidious practices. Indeed, we are led to wonder why all those who have a problem of modesty with regard to male gynecologists, do not simply choose a woman! It is clear from all these testimonies that the "problems" do not have the same scope with them. All specialists in the stronger sex should therefore logically find themselves unemployed. Unless.....
Conclusions: If requested, undress completely and I will not say "without embarrassment" because it is there, it is normal, and it must be controlled, but without complications. Obviously with the legitimate precautions regarding the conditions of execution that I mentioned previously. It is more honest and it preserves the medical nature of the situation as well as possible. I was also reassured to read several testimonials from women who spontaneously put themselves completely naked, avoiding the doctor many verbal contortions. They understood that it is the simplest, the most modest paradoxically, justified by the only need for an examination carried out in all mutual confidence.