Premeds beware

[kimberkit]

Lesson of the day: learning anatomy can interfere with your sex life. For instance, when you're kissing up your sweetheart's thigh and thinking "that's adductor magnus... adductor longis... adductor brevis, deep to adductor longis... pectineus..." -- that just kind of damps down on the excitement in things.

And then, what's worse is that you've almost certainly been palpating and feeling along your own legs in order to locate muscles... which leaves them slightly sore, given that you've probably poked at them ten times. Which wouldn't be so bad, if it weren't such a pain to masturbate with sore legs... Sigh.

Yet through all this, keep in mind: I am learning all this because I'm supposed to be helping others. Right. Grrr.

Comments

[osirusbrisbane.livejournal.com]

Somehow this doesn't surprise me, given how engagement of humor on an intellectual rather than visceral level can remove laughter. But I imagine that, like humor, the study doesn't impair you overmuch in the long run; presuming you remember to practice what you know and let it become second nature rather than always thinking about it, it should serve you well.

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

Osirus beat me to it, pretty much. You have to get through the stage where you're distracted by the new way of looking at things and on to the part where you aren't really "thinking" about it so actively. Eventually you'll just "know," and I suspect it'll actually enhance those activities in the long run.

[wenchamuffin.livejournal.com]

When I did it for EMS training, I actually found it kind of sexy. Especially when you're focusing on organs..."here is your heart, I can feel your heart beating, it's valves opening and closing as it pumps blood through your body," "over here is your spleen. Your spleen is soft and squishy and easily damaged but it's so important..." It also allows you to describe the places your lover likes to be touched so much more accurately. It feels like a new way to know your partner intimately to me, by knowing each of his/her parts, how they're unique, how they're shaped and named.

Then again, I'm also a weirdo who likes to memorize things.

[kimberkit.livejournal.com]

*giggle* you are definitely a most awesome premed, Sarah.

[sir-graeme.livejournal.com]

Friends-cut recommended -- potential employers.

Other than that, it reminds me of when Lorenzo Albacete, a Catholic priest and astrophysicist, spoke to Williams a few years ago. He talked about the different domains of science and religion. He gave the example of a pathologist who works with people and bodies, but comes home and sees his wife in a light unlike any in which he sees the people he studies all day.

"I could not do that," continued Albacete. He would probably come home and say to his wife (in a high-pitched schoolyard teasing tone): "I know what's inside of you!"