Shaving pubic hair

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Registered: 04-09-2007
Shaving pubic hair
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Mon, 04-09-2007 - 6:24am
I am new here so I don't know if this subject has been discussed. If there are any shavers here, have you ever shaved completely right before going to the doctor for a check-up or physical? If so, did the doctor or (his or her)nurse make a comment about you being shaved. My wife has a doctors appointment today for a physical and I shaved her completely. I have a physical next week and I intend to shave also. We have a woman doctor.

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Registered: 03-31-2007
Mon, 04-09-2007 - 7:14am

Welcome to the board glock.

I've never shaved bare, but I think it's fairly common today for people to shave bare (or women have a landing strip), or to get waxed. I think the doctor has probably seen it all, and wouldn't really comment unless there was something wrong (like a razor burn maybe).



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Registered: 12-12-2006
Mon, 04-09-2007 - 9:08am

Doctors don't "comment" or "judge" their patients. They are there to look after their health. I doubt if they would care if you dyed it green! Being shaved is probably nothing compared to some of the things they see.....tattoos, piercings, etc.

You ask as though you're doing it purposely to see what the doctor will do or say, and I doubt if she cares one way or the other.

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Registered: 08-01-2006
Mon, 04-09-2007 - 9:35am
I shave. Doctor's and/or medical providers have seen and heard it all. They are there for your health, not to make judgemental comments. The first time the physician assistant saw me, she asked about it. She's always wanted to go bare but was scared. I convinced her to go for it.



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Registered: 07-30-2004
Mon, 04-09-2007 - 2:56pm

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Doctors judge their patients all the time. Doctors are just regular people and are susceptable to poor judgemnet, taste, and ethics just as the rest of us are. Do you really think that doctors can just turn off their social perceptions as soon as a patient walks into the room? Doctors are told not to make judgemental remarks or let their personal opinions of their patients' character affect their medical judgement. Lots of doctors can't even manage to that let alone strictly regulate their internal dialogue and opinions.

Not to say that a doctor will think badly of the OP for shaving. Lots of people shave and I think that is something that they see all the time.

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Registered: 12-12-2006
Mon, 04-09-2007 - 3:02pm
Of course they have their personal opinions, they're human, just like the rest of us. However, if I felt a doctor WAS judging me for any reason, he wouldn't be my doctor any longer. There are a lot of doctors, if you don't like one, you find another one.
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Registered: 11-22-2004
Tue, 04-10-2007 - 9:48am
The doc is there for you, not the contrary. The only time I ever elicited a comment was when I had had sex about two hours before the gyno. She said something about "I can still see him inside you." But she wasn't upset or anything. I was slightly embarrassed, but not that embarrassed about putting my vagina to its intended use! ;-)
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Registered: 06-07-2006
Tue, 04-10-2007 - 10:25am
I definitely agree with you, they're just people. I know of a particular doctor who doesn't treat patients if they're (females) not wearing any underwear (to his knowledge). I know it's different from shaved/unshaved, but I thought that was a bit weird.
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Registered: 01-16-2007
Tue, 04-10-2007 - 11:16am
I doubt the doctor will care either way. They have probably seen so much that they are desensitised to it. you seem like you are trying to impress this doctor when she really won't care much. I shave, because that is my preference not because I want to impress my boyfriend or anything x
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Registered: 08-01-2006
Tue, 04-10-2007 - 3:16pm
Yes, I agree that doctors do have their own judgment of patients but if it were not related to what the patient was being treated for, they would keep their mouth shut. I worked with many physicians (emergency room, obgyn, primary care, etc.) over 27 years and none of them ever had a complaint filed against them.



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Registered: 02-20-2007
Tue, 04-10-2007 - 4:52pm
Why wouldn't the doc see them if they didn't have any underwear on??
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