Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site randvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!exodus!mhtsa!mh3bs!eagle!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall From: edhall@randvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: [fe]male doctors Message-ID: <1674@randvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 05:18:32 EST Article-I.D.: randvax.1674 Posted: Tue Feb 7 05:18:32 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 02:38:33 EST References: <6769@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 24 ------------------------------- Male doctors don't have a corner on lack of sexual sensitivity. When I developed urethritis a few years back, I went to my health clinic and was assigned a doctor who (incidentally to all but this discussion) was female. Since gonorrhea is always a possibility in such cases, she questioned me a bit about my sex life (which was quite monogamous at the time). She was certainly knowledgable, but when she wanted to find out whether to do a throat culture for gonorrhea she asked in stern tones, `you don't ever have oral sex, do you?' I said I did, and she shook her head and looked disgusted (and I don't think it was because she had to do an extra culture). I cannot fault this doctor for her competence, as my understanding is that gonorrhea should be suspected in any case of male urethritis. And she did give me proper treatment, both for the possible (so far as she knew) gonorrhea and for the non-specific urethritis it turned out to be; she also insisted that I have my girlfriend get treatment. But I'll never forget just how loathsome she seemed to feel about oral sex, and how she treated me as if I had done something so *dirty*. -Ed Hall decvax!randvax!edhall