What % of women don't know basics of female anatomy?

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I had a wonderful daughter of an elderly patient assist with doing a minicath. I missed the first try, making some comment about getting the correct hole, and the confusion at times. The 60 something daughter said "2 holes?". I said something like, you know the pee and the baby hole?

The lady was shocked she had no idea there were two holes down there. I good naturedly covered up my utter surprise at her ignorance regarding this matter.

How many women don't know about this?

Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.
I used to work in a rural ER. Had a lady come in, c/o saw her doctor this week and was told she had an ulcer, and now she was bleeding "down there". I helped her into a gown and did a quick peek "down there". We were both quite surprised at the tiny foot emerging from her lady parts.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: I didn't know I was pregnant and it's a footling breech????

Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Boston FNP, the entire rest of the industrialized world - where infant circ has not been the norm for several decades, if it ever was at all - looked at the exact same evidence and came to the opposite conclusion. A sizable group of European pediatricians called out the AAP for their blatant cultural bias in their 2012 revised statement on infant circ.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2013/03/12/peds.2012-2896.full.pdf

You can drastically reduce a child's chances for appendicitis or testicular cancer by doing an appendectomy or an orchiectomy but we don't do it. We don't routinely do tonsillectomies anymore. In most of medicine, the default is to let nature do its thing until a problem arises. Surgically altering the healthy body of a minor child against his/her consent violates several ethical principles.

And about STIs, well....newborns don't get those horizontally. If a grown man wants to choose circ for himself to reduce his chances of HIV or other STIs, let him have at it, but he'll still have to wear a condom.

@smartnurse I know that it's a cultural thing and I'm not knocking it but What I'm saying is that as a health care professional you should KNOW that this carries health risks. How can you go to school learn anatomy and physiology at the college level and still insert a ball of chamomile flowers into your lady parts? I just don't understand how you can recommend something that will actually be risky to someone's health.

What the freak?

Where did I say i taught those things?

I was just making a statement.

Btw,i do not insert chamomile in my lady parts but I have used yogurt on a tampon,for a yeast infection.

What the freak?

Where did I say i taught those things?

I was just making a statement.

Btw,i do not insert chamomile in my lady parts but I have used yogurt on a tampon,for a yeast infection.

Lol! I was not talking about YOU personally. lololol I was referring back to my original post! Lololol I was originally talking about American nurses in Instagram who promote lady partsl steaming products and yoni pearls.

I should have said, "I don't understand how someone can..." but I thought it would be understood from context.

I had never heard of lady partsl steaming or yoni pearls, so I checked with my buddy Google. And now I'm horrified.

when will people stop coming up with bizarre new ways to injure themselves, create infections, all in the name of curing something that isn't wrong with them?!

Not to be gross,but some cultures like to steam and dry out their lady partsl lubrication for the benefit of men. Some use steam,others use peppers and spices.

It is called smoking the lady parts.

Benefit?

Well, I read the supposed "benefit" . . . but ouch! :eek:

As an older woman who is already in menopause . . . that dry "friction" is not pleasant for the guy or the gal. In my opinion.

Just sayin';)

This is why the goddess gave us Astroglide. Great stuff.

Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.
@smartnurse I know that it's a cultural thing and I'm not knocking it but What I'm saying is that as a health care professional you should KNOW that this carries health risks. How can you go to school learn anatomy and physiology at the college level and still insert a ball of chamomile flowers into your lady parts? I just don't understand how you can recommend something that will actually be risky to someone's health.

I didn't see that she was recommending or endorsing ANYTHING. Just making a statement about what other cultures do.

Yes, many people (male and female) do not know the names of their body parts. I think I would have said "Opening of the urethra, where urine/pee comes out and the lady partsl opening" in response to that family member.

Specializes in Hospital medicine; NP precepting; staff education.
This is why the goddess gave us Astroglide. Great stuff.

They even have it for sensitive skin with less glycerin or whatever the ingredient is that makes some more prone to yeast infections.

I didn't see that she was recommending or endorsing ANYTHING. Just making a statement about what other cultures do.

Sigh... Really? You really think I was talking directly to @smartnurse? Really? I'm going to give you a second to go back and read the thread. Go find my very first post on it and then let me know what I was referring to. I promise youll get it after you read the thread.

Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.
@smartnurse I know that it's a cultural thing and I'm not knocking it but What I'm saying is that as a health care professional you should KNOW that this carries health risks. How can you go to school learn anatomy and physiology at the college level and still insert a ball of chamomile flowers into your lady parts? I just don't understand how you can recommend something that will actually be risky to someone's health.

You directed your comment to "@smartnurse"

I bolded all the parts that made it sound like you were talking to HER.

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