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Originally Posted by tidaho
Katie, a 32-year-old "Guiding Patient", insurance agent and mother of two who works part time helping to train medical students in breast and pelvic exams.
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They're called "Standardized Patients". Schools employ them to help train new health care professionals. You get paid, but obviously some people just like to get examined. Especially pelvics, rectals and so forth.
Which reminds me, a long, long time ago I was a pre-med at a very large state university. I got a part time job working in a lab. Large companies would hire the lab to test medical products. One contract we got was to test a surgical lubricant or actually maybe one of its ingredients. Now they knew that people used this stuff as a sexual lubricant also, so it had to be tested for that. So the lab hired a bunch of girls to basically masturbate with the stuff.
They were given a private room, sort of like an examination room, with a gynecologists couch. The lighting could be dimmed so it wasn't so "clinical". The doctor would explain to them what they wanted (they were asked ahead of time if they would do testing on private parts, so it wasn't a surprise). They were given a kit with lube and various sizes of vaginal dilators to use. They were given a pelvic exam, were instructed on what to do (i.e. use it is realistically as possible), and then left alone. The proceedings were unobtrusively observed (they knew this).
My job was to prep the kits the girls would use, collate data, and that type of stuff, but I did get a little bit of subject interaction. The girls would do questionnaires and interviews, some other staffers would review the observations and so forth. I never got to observe (too low on the totem pole - grad or medical students did that) but of course the staff would make the occasional comment, like subject 12 had a powerful orgasm or subject 23 did herself doggy style. After 3 or 4 weeks, they were given another pelvic and exited from the study. Obviously everybody knew that the lube wasn't going to hurt them, but it had to be "proved".
The funny part is that since the lab was sort of tied in with the university, a lot of the subjects were students just looking to make some extra money. A girl in my major that I was casually acquainted with was one of the sex jelly study (as we called it) subjects. I made sure I found a way to ask her a couple of questions! Even with me in my lab coat and us trying to maintain a professional demeanor, I could tell she was really embarrassed. She probably figured I got to observe (I didn't). I was hoping she would want me to take more than a scientific interest in her sexual responsiveness, but I guess that wasn't her thing and I didn't push it.
Here's a standardized patient instructing someone on the finer points of a pelvic exam.