Well, now here’s a job description you don’t hear every day: “professional vagina”
The linked page is an article written by a woman who works as a live pelvis model for medical students who must learn how to perform pelvic examinations as part of their training. While med students start out with plastic models similar to the one in the picture above, eventually they have to move on to examining real women — first, female cadavers, and then live subjects. Medical schools began hiring women to act as live models back in the 1970s; in the article the author says that initially med schools ended up with hookers, drug users, homeless women, and other desperate people in need of the few dollars they could get for allowing themselves to be subjected to pelvic exams (similarly, they use live models, male and female, for a variety of procedures that must be learned with living subjects).
I’m sure that those of you who are female will totally empathize with this woman who spends her days engaged in one of the most uncomfortable and embarrassing aspects of womanhood with a bunch of nervous first-time gyno-wannabes poking her privates for profit. Male readers are highly encouraged to read the article anyway, try as best we can to appreciate the indignity of it all, and learn something I’ll bet you never even thought about before. Thanks to Les at StupidEvilBastard.com for the link.
Of course you have seen this video of Amy Sedaris….
http://okaycity.com/2008/10/28/things-you-never-thought-youd-learn-on-a-blog-written-by-a-gay-guy/
“Live pelvis model” is not something I’ve ever noticed on a resume, but I’ll be sure to be on the lookout for that in the future. Fascinating stuff (as was the Amy Sedaris video that Jo linked). *shaking head*