WELL, WOULD YOU???

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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."

Well, would you???

The fashion industry and society in general does seem to be embracing the "larger frame."

They need both to get their arms all the way around!

Kidding! I was doing my cheeezball imitation!

"Hey, you're that nurse on the calendar. Can I have a picture with you?"

It would depend on who else would be in the picture with me. I'd be pushing to get a whole page to myself.

I'm not so sure that the calendar would generate an actual "following."

Only if I get to be Ms. June!

I would rather be Ms. November! (Isn't that the centerfold?)

Btw, definitely heard that on a movie lol.

Specializes in Forensic Psychiatry.

Heh... I'm pretty sure 90% of my unit would do it... even without a good cause.

Then again I come from a place where there is an annual naked bike ride through the city every year and I know a lot of healthcare professionals that partake in it (big, small, young and old).

Specializes in ICU.

Knowing how my hospital is, I would be fired for participating.

Knowing how my hospital is, I would be fired for participating.

Not if the doctors participated, as their Italian counterparts did.

Heh... I'm pretty sure 90% of my unit would do it... even without a good cause.

Then again I come from a place where there is an annual naked bike ride through the city every year and I know a lot of healthcare professionals that partake in it (big, small, young and old).

** gulp **

Specializes in ICU.
Is it an opportunity to indulge our "naughty" side without fear of being "judged" because of the worthiness of the cause?

I didn't think there was a single naughty thing about any of those pictures. I expected something more provocative. Instead, I found perfectly normal scenes you'd find anywhere in a lab or doctor's office, except the physicians were missing something they needed - their clothes. I didn't see sleaze, I saw art with a touch of humor. I would absolutely pose in something as tasteful as this.

Would I pose in something naughty/sexual? No way.

Can you point out exactly what about this you thought is naughty? I'm really curious. It kind of blows my mind that anyone thinks these are "naughty" pictures when there is absolutely nothing sexual about any of them.

Specializes in Hospice.

Can I be photoshopped

Can I be photoshopped

ummmm............no.

Specializes in Hospice.
ummmm............no.

Okay (sigh). Why the heck not?

The answer for me is 'no!'

Unless they offered to pay off my mortgage.

Then I think I'd find a way to live with posing (back to the camera, right?).

Yes, back to camera. But the doctors get the full view.

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