Modesty rules

[cjsmith]

I don't have much body modesty, at least not about the parts I'm supposed to cover up. Community theater probably knocked out any seeds of this when I was in high school, and I honestly don't remember the last time I wore a swimsuit.

Last week a doctor told me to disrobe from the waist down, and there was some kind of cotton fabric thing waiting on the table for me. I'm so used to disrobing completely and then wearing the little gown that I didn't have a habit for this instance. So when she came into the room, I was sitting on the crinkly paper, bare-assed, with the cotton thingy still folded beside me. I honestly think she was mildly shocked. I almost giggled at the contrast between her not expecting to see me bare when she walked in, and her ten minutes later being up to the knuckles inside my anatomy.

I am grateful for clothing when it's cold out, or too sunny, or when I'm sitting in the dirt. Bras make my life much more comfortable, so when I'm wandering around the house I will often have one of those even if I don't have much else. I am also grateful for clothing when I'm in a mixed-gender mostly-straight crowd with men I don't know. But societal rules about what parts aren't supposed to show... those aren't me.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

When I was at my doctor's office having a small labial sebaceous cyst excised, the nurse, who was near my shoulder, whispered something to the doctor, who then asked, "Mind if _nurse's name_ watches from down here? She's never seen this procedure before." I said, "Yeah, sure!" As the nurse moved down to where she could see better, she said, "Well, I didn't want to intrude on your private parts." There I lay, on my back, feet in stirrups, and a very bright light illuminating my pinkest of bits, and I said, "They're hardly private these days." They both laughed.

I know it's polite, "right," that she asked, but still, she's a medical professional, I was being treated . . . It's not that I don't appreciate their concern. :)

And the paper robe thing before a major genital invasion has always struck me as a bit silly.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

"They're hardly private these days."

*chuckle* Yeah. I see that it's "right" that she asked, but it's still also a bit funny.