Speculum

[DevilRider13]

How many of you use them, what do you do with them, what turns you on about the use of them?


Just curious

 

[CNYCarol]

How many of you use them, what do you do with them, what turns you on about the use of them?


Just curious

It's a medical instrument!

I find it nearly impossible to even imagine owning one.

I have always described it as "A medical instrument that is kept stored in a refrigerator, used old perverts to torture young women".

 

[Cattypuss]

Pretty much what she said.

Now, I'm a very open-minded woman indeed who is usually up for anything.

But if I saw a speculum in a lover's hand I would NOT be a happy bunny. I'm a woman of childbearing age. Speculum = deeply unsexy, probably-painful-in-a-bad-way, not-fun time.

 

[SweetErika]

I have a plastic speculum. My doctor gave it to me in a kit for self-exams, and we've used it to look at my cervix on occasion.

While it's not a sexual tool for us, I can appreciate why some people find speculums and such intriguing. I'd imagine it taps into the vulnerability and/or humiliation that many enjoy, and medical fantasies/fetishes are pretty common.

 

[kaycee217]

Like SweetErika has already mentioned, there are probably those that have sexual fun with speculums.

However, I think the only time most women see such instruments is when they are getting a pap smear, pelvic exam, or other medical examination. It's amazing what associating can do to determine what a person likes or doesn't like.

 

[infinity706]

Speculums are fun. The sad part, though, is that most women seem to enjoy watching a speculum in porn rather than actually have it inside them. Quite a few seem to enjoy pictures and videos of a vagina/cervix doing its thing getting wet, during orgasm, cleaning itself, and of course, the blood. Of course, they are rather neat to play with. It really emphasises the urethra for one thing. It also allows you to actually play with the cervix in some ways.

 

[Cattypuss]

I love having my cervix played with - but there is no speculum required - just long fingers, very well pushed in.

 

[LusciousLoralie]

this is actually a short explanation

I'd imagine it taps into the vulnerability and/or humiliation that many enjoy, and medical fantasies/fetishes are pretty common.

Speculums are fun. The sad part, though, is that most women seem to enjoy watching a speculum in porn rather than actually have it inside them. Quite a few seem to enjoy pictures and videos of a vagina/cervix doing its thing getting wet, during orgasm, cleaning itself, and of course, the blood. Of course, they are rather neat to play with. It really emphasises the urethra for one thing. It also allows you to actually play with the cervix in some ways.

I'm a virgin without personal speculum experience, therefore have I no negative associations with them.


That being said, I'm one of the few. There's quite a variety of reasons, some much more logical or easier to explain than others. These are the ones that popped in my head first.


I've always been fascinated by my own lady parts and so naturally, I have a very strong fondness for seeing others.

Going all Kinsey and Freudian on your ass: some of it has to do with what I guess I'd call "gender worship" which is basically a fetish hyperconcentrated on some part of the human anatomy that is exclusively male or female. In this case, it's the cervix; part of the blessing/curse of giving life, part of what makes women so incredible, part of what makes women better than men.

It can be complete vulnerability at its purest form. Most people in general aren't very comfortable being nude or showing off their bodies. I know that a lot of women won't even let their husbands see them naked. If a girl is insecure about anyone seeing her pantiless, think how she'd feel having her pussy lips spread for the sole purpose of being viewed. Take that idea, put it in a medical setting and add that it's mandatory. It's the polar opposite of comfort zone. Not only would I like to see a girl that vulnerable, I'd like to be a girl that vulnerable.

It seems anything that can be taken out of its original context and be fetishized is generally a taboo. Everyone knows the effects of sexual taboos.

Anything that can illicit pain and/or humiliation is loved by sadists and masochists alike.

 

[satindesire]

Speculum=ouch.

 

[infinity706]

Speculum=ouch.

They actually hurt? I've heard that they're cold and clammy, but I've never heard of them being associated with pain.

 

[SassySheDevil]

They actually hurt? I've heard that they're cold and clammy, but I've never heard of them being associated with pain.

Depends on the woman and her insides. Mine never really "hurt" pre pregnancies and now cysts. Now I have ovarian Cysts and getting a speculum in now hurts. Trying to maneuver that thing around and in enough past the cysts to see my cervix is not fun.

 

[kaycee217]

Do any of you ladies still have doctors that use metal speculums?

 

[SassySheDevil]

Do any of you ladies still have doctors that use metal speculums?

Mine does

 

[satindesire]

They actually hurt? I've heard that they're cold and clammy, but I've never heard of them being associated with pain.

I have a narrow vagina, so the doctors have to use the 'virgin' speculum while examining me. And yes, it does hurt, because they're opening muscles in a direction and way they're not prepared to.

 

[Reba67]

I don't find that a speculum "hurts" but it is uncomfortable.

I have no idea if my doctor has a metal or plastic one, I just wasn't paying enough attention at my last pap test because I was trying to relax to make it less uncomfortable.

 

[DevilRider13]

I've seen them used sideways, rather the the up and down way the doctors use them, in porns, just thought it might be interesting...


Kinda has me scared now from all the negative comments

 

[infinity706]

Well, sideways, you couldn't open it as much since the gap in the pubic bone isn't as wide that way. They probably do it that way in porn, though, because it stops the handle from covering the woman's asshole.

As for what I've been told about the comfort, though, it's a hell of a lot more fun when you're turned on and it's part of sex play. Sticking anything into a woman's vagina when she's not turned on is uncomfortable as far as I know. Being nervous and/or embarassed at the doctor's office would just make that worse.

 

[Cattypuss]

Do any of you ladies still have doctors that use metal speculums?

Yep!

 

[Cattypuss]

Sticking anything into a woman's vagina when she's not turned on is uncomfortable as far as I know. Being nervous and/or embarassed at the doctor's office would just make that worse.

YUp - the whole situation and environment is ALL wrong. And the cherry on that particular shit cake is the anglepoise lamp they shine directly at your minky as you lie there with your legs akimbo.

 

[infinity706]

Yeah, but you'd probably like it a lot better if you did it with your lover.

 

[Berwyn]

OK....I have a lot of experience on the other side of the device. Worked family practice as a PA for years.
One of my best stories is about this particular exam....
Years ago I worked with a very young, very young LOOKING doctor. He was always up tight about how patients thought of him. One day his nurse comes down the hall laughing so hard I thought she was going to have a stroke. When we got her to stop giggling enough to talk she told us what just happened.
She was in the room with this doc and a patient, helping with a pap and pelvic. Well, doc was all set to do the speculum exam, women up in stirrups and all set. Doc goes to hook the roller stool with his heel and pull it under his butt to sit down eye level with the target area. Well, he doesn’t quite hook it, stumbles, and literally goes face first into this women's exposed privates. Nurse said the women didn't even blink, just asked him if that was a new part of the test and then busted out laughing when she saw the mortified look on the doc's face! The nurse then fled the room she was laughing so hard. So then the Doc comes down the hall, all red faced, trying to straighten out his bent glasses....
I prefer using the metal ones as, believe it or not, they warm up faster (and should be pre-warmed by the person doing the exam) and they have a much smoother working hinge. The plastic are better for viewing any potential lesions on the vaginal walls, but I hate the clacking plastic ratchet/hinges.
As for pain....it seems most women I have done em on find it uncomfortable but not painful, a few find it painful, and I have had a few that seemed to actually enjoy it (which made ME very uncomfortable).

 

[infinity706]

Well, if I were a woman, I'd probably enjoy it. Of course, I'm a major exhibitionist.

 

[kaycee217]

OK....I have a lot of experience on the other side of the device. Worked family practice as a PA for years.
One of my best stories is about this particular exam....
Years ago I worked with a very young, very young LOOKING doctor. He was always up tight about how patients thought of him. One day his nurse comes down the hall laughing so hard I thought she was going to have a stroke. When we got her to stop giggling enough to talk she told us what just happened.
She was in the room with this doc and a patient, helping with a pap and pelvic. Well, doc was all set to do the speculum exam, women up in stirrups and all set. Doc goes to hook the roller stool with his heel and pull it under his butt to sit down eye level with the target area. Well, he doesn’t quite hook it, stumbles, and literally goes face first into this women's exposed privates. Nurse said the women didn't even blink, just asked him if that was a new part of the test and then busted out laughing when she saw the mortified look on the doc's face! The nurse then fled the room she was laughing so hard. So then the Doc comes down the hall, all red faced, trying to straighten out his bent glasses....
I prefer using the metal ones as, believe it or not, they warm up faster (and should be pre-warmed by the person doing the exam) and they have a much smoother working hinge. The plastic are better for viewing any potential lesions on the vaginal walls, but I hate the clacking plastic ratchet/hinges.
As for pain....it seems most women I have done em on find it uncomfortable but not painful, a few find it painful, and I have had a few that seemed to actually enjoy it (which made ME very uncomfortable).

Funny story!

To be honest, if I were a woman, I'd insist on plastic speculums. This is because I assume they are one-time use only instruments.

 

[auslit]

berwyn that is a hilarious story

this has all made me even more anxious about getting a pap

arggggh

 

[Berwyn]

Funny story!

To be honest, if I were a woman, I'd insist on plastic speculums. This is because I assume they are one-time use only instruments.

Nah....We just licked em off and put em back in the drawer....
Just kidding of course. Yeah, the plastic one's are disposable.

Auslit: Why anxious? Never had one before?