I am kind of shocked...but I guess that was the emotion you were hoping to achieve by your choice of a beginning statement.
I am actually surprised after I read your article that you are against routine pelvic exams for the emotional well-being of women, yet you choose to play on our emotions with such intense, violent and attention-seeking words.
You said you did not want to discuss the physical reasons for a pelvic exam, as your stance is something like, "well, yeah, pelvic exams may physically help women" but you think the cost (emotional trauma for the husband that sees this as cheating) is not worth the benefit (potential decrease in women's morbidity and mortality through early detection).
Interesting.
Do you also not see the benefit of men receiving prostate checks and are also against colonoscopies for men and women?
What about dentists, as the mouth can be used in sex as well, and if you are saying all doctors think they are "godlike" and want to insert their instruments into us...it seems as you are purposefully making every doctor visit into a sexual experience, or worse-- a traumatic sexually violating experience.
I actually find it insulting that you would dare compare a routine annual exam in which the woman CHOOSES her doctor, CHOOSES the time and place, CHOOSES to have tests conducted that may decrease her chances of disease progression....to a violent act perpetrated against the women in which she has NO CONTROL over the person, NO CONTROL over the time and place.
There are doctors that can help people get better. There are doctors that can help people maintain their health. These doctors perform tests and exams on people...and yes, people have different body parts. Some body parts are inside, some are outside. If a body part happens to be a vagina, anus, urethra, mouth, ear canal, nasal passage...something that is an opening to our body, you are suggesting that it is a violation...and even rape? Or, are you only referring to the "private" body parts of the vagina, anus and urethra? Or, are you only referring to the private body parts on women? Is this only for routine exams, and someone must wait until they are symptomatic before having these private parts checked by a doctor?
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I am kind of shocked...but I guess that was the emotion you were hoping to achieve by your choice of a beginning statement.
I am actually surprised after I read your article that you are against routine pelvic exams for the emotional well-being of women, yet you choose to play on our emotions with such intense, violent and attention-seeking words.
You said you did not want to discuss the physical reasons for a pelvic exam, as your stance is something like, "well, yeah, pelvic exams may physically help women" but you think the cost (emotional trauma for the husband that sees this as cheating) is not worth the benefit (potential decrease in women's morbidity and mortality through early detection).
Interesting.
Do you also not see the benefit of men receiving prostate checks and are also against colonoscopies for men and women?
What about dentists, as the mouth can be used in sex as well, and if you are saying all doctors think they are "godlike" and want to insert their instruments into us...it seems as you are purposefully making every doctor visit into a sexual experience, or worse-- a traumatic sexually violating experience.
I actually find it insulting that you would dare compare a routine annual exam in which the woman CHOOSES her doctor, CHOOSES the time and place, CHOOSES to have tests conducted that may decrease her chances of disease progression....to a violent act perpetrated against the women in which she has NO CONTROL over the person, NO CONTROL over the time and place.
There are doctors that can help people get better. There are doctors that can help people maintain their health. These doctors perform tests and exams on people...and yes, people have different body parts. Some body parts are inside, some are outside. If a body part happens to be a vagina, anus, urethra, mouth, ear canal, nasal passage...something that is an opening to our body, you are suggesting that it is a violation...and even rape? Or, are you only referring to the "private" body parts of the vagina, anus and urethra? Or, are you only referring to the private body parts on women? Is this only for routine exams, and someone must wait until they are symptomatic before having these private parts checked by a doctor?
December 2, 2010 - 10:47amThis Comment
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