Getting Aroused by Reading Medical Textbooks

My physician mother had Callanders 'surgical anatomy' I looked at the drawings of female anatomy many times. When female doctor/nurse seeing or touching me became a fetish, I went to the local college library and read every nursing textbook sections on urology, catheters, external catheters, bathing patients. I like reading 'nursing assessment' books as these are primarily read by females, especially parts on male examination. Favorites: Photobook 88 Nursing Assessment where the complete nursing examination is shown step by step in photos, performed by a nurse in a white pantsuit and nursing cap. Companion Photobook on Urology Nursing.

My parents had a copy of the American Medical Association's medical guide and I'd frequently flip through the section on men's medicine--even though it was only line drawings. There were more procedures described in those pages than I ever could have thought of.

What we had for sex ed in school was a joke. Being resourceful, I'd got to the public library and read health/nursing books. Granted, they were more geared toward anatomy and physiology than what I was looking for, but I was able to piece things together, for the most part.

I surrepticiously photocopied a couple of pages regarding adolescent development in the school library, I can't remember what the title of the book was now, but the text and drawings were treasured possesions in my med-fet collection for a number of years as a schoolboy, together with a family planning association booklet on having "the talk" with your son, that I found at home, I never got the talk, but perhaps leaving the book where I would find it was a way of avoiding the embarresment

When I was a kid my best friends mom was a nurse and we would look at some of her nursing books and masturbate when she wasn't around. She never said anything but one day the books all disappeared from the shelf.

When I was a teen, I was in a bookstore reading a medical textbook and I came across the section on rectal exams. There was a picture of a naked man lying down on an exam table on his left side with his knees bent. The doctor was spreading the man's buttocks so wide that you had a clear view of his anus. I instantly got a huge erection.

In my late teenage, i would get hard looking at medical books in the library and worry that others would see my excitement.

It's understandable because you are viewing actual situations in which you can mentally insert yourself as doctor or patient.

I have some of the books you mention. I have always liked medical textbooks.

My aunt was a nurse and kept a range of books, probably dating back to the 40s or 50s. There weren't many pictures but I was fascinated by the descriptions of different types of examinations... not that I can remember much of the detail now although these books did contribute to my interest.

Absolutely! When I was in college, I remember being in the library doing research for a paper and while pulling a few books for my report, I stumbled upon a medical journal - steps of a physical exam (not the exact title, but you get the gist). It was an instructional piece with some pictures and diagrams. It was a fun/arousing read and served as good study break from my class assignment!

I never sought them out, but as a kid, I was given one or more books aimed at kids facing surgery, showing them what to expect. This is how my mask fetish started. I'd find a pic of a girl my age with a black beauty anesthesia mask held on her mouth and nose and find it arousing.

Now that we're in the '20s, with internet and all that, and now that I have knowledge of medfet, and sexuality in general, I will use Google to seek out pics and info related to my mask fetish, which has mostly transitioned to female patients in protective masks (N95, earloop masks, cartridge respirators, and occasionally Vogmasks/Respro masks/I Can Breathe masks, etc).

This will usually mean some sort of disease, like cystic fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, mast cell disorders, etc. I will say I've learned a lot about the broader medical community through medfet!

Yes! Dad kept a thick book of simulated 3D, fold-out diagrams of the human body. Parts of that were fun to browse! Later, l visited the Melbourne Public Library and, inter alia, browsed in the medical books section. I also found a thick textbook for nurses in a City bookshop, which l bought to further expand my knowledge, including of some surgical procedures.

Btw, some readers of this thread may like to visit the thread "Half-forgotten Ivy League photos scandal". I gather that Prof. Sheldon published some of the photos - of the male students - in a book.

- Ken

Yes for sure!

I found a textbook called "Mosby's Guide to physical examination" which gives a very detailed explanation of how to perform an examination of the male genitals. I always get aroused when I read it.

Absolutely--a great place to explore med fet without the overt sexual overtones...not that there's anything wrong with those... 😉

I have to second DrExamKidFL's reply about the article "Somatic Development of Adolescent Boys." - I wound up getting an interlibrary loan copy of the article -

I really enjoy those black and white "development" photos taken pre-1970. I have heard stories that many Ivy League schools required every student to be documented this way. And the idea of my favourite college sports guys getting a physical and documented at the same time is such a turn on.

Dr Nash is always willing to photodocument his patients - (do not ask for shares as those documents are the private property of the patients).

I really enjoy those black and white "development" photos taken pre-1970. I have heard stories that many Ivy League schools required every student to be documented this way. .

Have you seen this thread on this very subject?

https://en.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;msg=1067286

I have heard stories that many Ivy League schools required every student to be documented this way. .

This made me think of other venues where nude photos were taken of students or inmates. In a French book I bought a while ago and just picked up again a day ago, there was a chapter on what you'd call French reform schools for juvenile delinquents, this in the 1940's. There were some admittance photos reproduced in this modern book of the youngsters/teens who were sent to such reform schools. These photos were much the same as classic posture photos as done in the Ivy League universities, but with a special pose for the full frontal shot: the subjects had to pose nude with hands held behind their head, much like they were surrendering as soldiers or something.

This of course puts the frontal view into prominence. And if you think American reform schools were horrid places to be in, in 1940's France they really took the cake. Badass institutions, horrid places to be sent to.

I often went to the med library to do my research and generally got distracted by the sheer volume of books dealing with all aspects of an exam. So yes, it was an easy way to feel aroused.

I often went to the med library to do my research and generally got distracted by the sheer volume of books dealing with all aspects of an exam. So yes, it was an easy way to feel aroused.

My mother was an R.N. I found her medical text books very interesting during my pubescent years. It was my first opportunity to see genital photos.

Yes, as well as texts describing CPR

When I was in college I used to go to the med school library and look up the chapters on physical exam procedures. Reading the routines would make me think about real life physicals I'd had growing up. I'd usually end up having to duck into a men's room after reading them. Only wish they had pictures to go along with them. By that age even seeing a guy sitting on an exam table fully dressed would have gotten me completely erect just imagining what was going to happen.

I was in high school looking at books about Pap smear and pelvic exam.

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I heard the term "pelvic exam" when I was around 12 years old, and felt inspired to look it up in the encyclopedia. There was a full description of exactly how to perform one, complete with drawings. And of course my findings there lead to looking up the words "speculum" and "rectal exam" as well. I must have read that description dozens of times before turning to the internet to conduct more research. I also took many trips to the public library and would read books on puberty (for boys and girls) and the types of exams that doctors would perform, various procedures, and on different medical maladies and the treatments that accompanied them. Anything that required mild surgery or a painful procedure was quite interesting to read about.

Yep. Yep, yep, yep, this was -- no, is -- my obsession. It's like a compulsion by now.

By the time I was in junior high or so, I knew I was fascinated by whatever happened behind those closed doors. I wanted to know so bad, I needed to see it. And then I discovered libraries ... and bookstores ... had these books that would tell me. So I nonchalantly sauntered over to a certain quiet part of the library and sneak looks at books about Adolescent Development or Our Bodies, Our Selves. Then I found books on different kinds of doctors, even one entire kind of doctor that just looked at the girly parts of girls!

I didn't understand at the time, or almost ever, until recently, that my fetish was driven by that position of dominance and willing submission between a doctor and a patient. And I knew that I hated the stuff that doctors did, so I wanted to learn all about the really invasive or painful procedures, or humiliating types of exams because I wanted to understand just how much pain someone would willingly submit to be done to themselves by a doctor. At that time I still thought of dentists as torturers, and so this became my obsession.

Books at school libraries... Books at the local library... Books at college... That's an interesting one. I went to a large Ivy and so we had lots of libraries with lots of books. We had a medical school...but not in the same city. But I found all these historic books on how to do things to girls.... I mean, on early medicine... and I spent a lot of time "studying" in that library.

Even today, I'm finding ways to satisfy this obsession... So for those who are curious, here's a few resources:

1. Download "emancipated" books on PDF -- http://b-ok.cc -- I dislike this idea, but I'm OTOH I am not going to pay $175 for a book that will help me get my rocks off for a few hours or less!

2. Google Books -- lots of earlier textbooks and medical texts can be found here, sometimes in full, often times enough previewable that you can see the table of contents to know if there's anything you want to see. Then you go to (1) and get it.

3. National Library of Medicine -- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ -- great indexes on all books and journal articles. Find what you want, and get the reference number called the DOI and go to...

4. Sci Hub -- various URLs but they change as different countries shut them down -- http://sci-hub.hk and http://sci-hub.tw have been working for me lately. Some articles don't have a DOI, so the PMID works in a pinch.

Sci Hub was definitely created by a Richard Stallman "Information Wants To Be Free!" kind of hacker named Alexandra (https://sci-hub.tw/alexandra) who wanted to study Cognitive- and Neuro-Science and was shocked and appalled to see what a scam the medical journal publishers have pulled. To be successful, you have to publish. To publish, you have to go to respected journals. To research or know the current research, you have to pay mega $$$$ to the medical journals for reprints ... of research .... that entire other organizations did and paid for.

See what I mean? Obsessed. But, damn, I sure as hell know a lot more about medicine and doctors and "stuff" now than most folks walking down the street!

--Scott

Our university library had a section of health books way back in a corner where not many people went, so I would often sneak back to that corner and find the books which had information about pelvic exams. There were usually just line drawings showing the woman's genitals and speculum during a pap smear, but I enjoyed the descriptions of the exams and thinking about the girls I knew experiencing them.

I remember finding old medical books in my college library. I’d often scoffed at the library’s claim of how many tens of thousands of books they had, because I knew included in that figure were many very out of date volumes, but in this case I was glad to see these. I loved the black and white photos of the physical exams.

I once bought a thick medical textbook for nurses that I found in a City bookshop. (Have already mentioned this in post #103.) Various parts of it were of interest to me, of course, but what actually prompted me to buy it - and remember that I have a mouth fetish (call it odontophilia) - was a head-and-shoulders photo of a lad with a crewcut, and his mouth wide open. I think there was a tongue-depressor being applied. Anyway, you had an excellent view of his throat and tonsils. Given the rarity of such photos (e.g., in the media), I was grateful to have this one ...

- Ken

I visited my local library many times when I first discovered that I got aroused at the thought of women having gynaecology examinations. I also went to book shops to browse medical text books. All of this in the years before the internet was available. I attribute my interest in the more real material on line to those texts books and the knowledge that I built on the subject.

It’s been a while and I don’t go to libraries anymore in part because of Covid-19 and in part most of the same information is available on the internet. Back in the late 60’s and earlier 70’s loved to browse the nursing textbooks. A real turn on in the day