A while ago, a group of Italian doctors and nurses stripped down to their skivvies for a calendar in order to raise funds for, and generate public awareness of, the need for cancer research.
No Brad Pitts or George Clooney types. Just a lot of overly tight tighty whities and expanded bellies drooping precariously over boxer short elastic waists. The best picture from the article (Cancer Research in Boxers: Italian Doctors Strip to Reveal Funding Shortfalls - SPIEGEL ONLINE) is the two doctors studiously examining an MRI, while clad in their unmentionables. The nurses appear in the pictorials as well but their faces are not shown - just their backs as they sit in their bras and panties.
So the question is: Would you have appeared in the calendar for such a worthy cause? I'm sure our patients subscribe to the old adage," Turnabout is fair play."
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
I think a bunch of professionals willing to make a point is not necessarily unprofessional. In this day and age you have to do SOMETHING kind of radical to garner attention to your cause.
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Never in a million years. Not because I don't believe in the cause---with a husband diagnosed with cancer, I'm all for research!---but because my butt is the size of a washtub and would take up the entire photo. No one needs to see that.
Never in a million years. Not because I don't believe in the cause---with a husband diagnosed with cancer, I'm all for research!---but because my butt is the size of a washtub and would take up the entire photo. No one needs to see that.
Fat bottomed girls make the rocking world go 'round!
After actually looking at these pictures, I am not so sure that it is unprofessional. There are actually no nurses seen from the front, only the shoulders. This is really not meant in a sexual way. I am completely ok with these photos, and do not find them offensive at all.
Never in a million years. Not because I don't believe in the cause---with a husband diagnosed with cancer, I'm all for research!---but because my butt is the size of a washtub and would take up the entire photo. No one needs to see that.
Haven't you been keeping up with fashion? The bigger, the better. You got one sexy butt!
If you strip down and enter bikini contests for personal gain, it is something you could get fired over according to that camming thread. But if you strip down for a calendar for a good cause, its all ok? Unfortunately, public perception changes depending on whose body is being judged. Older, less attractive bodies are viewed as comical while attractive bodies are sexualized.
Would it be wrong or unprofessional to pose as a bikini model for a calendar if you donated your earnings to that same cause? I'm not exactly sure where I stand. Just trying to spark an ethical debate.
Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN
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As long as I wasn't the only one on the unit doing it, sure!
But I would cover all my tattoos so I'm not that easily recognized