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Multiple Sclerosis video features transwoman's anecdote of getting an erection

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crsacre · 01/05/2023 19:09

Video for Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, on dealing with emotions:
https://www.youtube.com/live/KDa0bNlUMk8?feature=share&t=3450

A transwoman with MS talked about the need to find humour in medical situations by recounting getting an erection during an X-Ray because the female nurse was attractive. This person is an educational psychologist at the University of Southampton.
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xm59k/doctor-cora-sargeant

MS is a debilitating disease with horrible symptoms. Why did the MS Trust feature this particular experience? MS affects more women than men. Even men who have MS are unlikely to have had this experience.

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https://www.youtube.com/live/KDa0bNlUMk8?feature=share&t=3450

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zibzibara · 01/05/2023 23:06

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LizzieSiddal · 01/05/2023 21:17

I hope this gets lots of publicity. The more times the general public get to hear about erections from TW, the better.

MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 01/05/2023 21:08

Leaving aside this being a TW, a lot of men do get involuntary erections during medical treatment, due to the physical contact. It can be hideously embarrassing for them, especially teenagers, so I don't think it's necessarily inappropriate to discuss this. However, I agree that there is a striking lack of empathy for the nurse. It's all a bit Benny Hill.

Fenlandia · 01/05/2023 21:03

Considering TWAW as we're repeatedly told, why does this anecdote sound so very very male?

ArabeIIaScott · 01/05/2023 19:33

I daresay it happens, but treating it as a pure laugh at the nurse's expense is gross. She's not a sex object; she's a professional doing what she's trained and paid and expected to do. But of course, nobody is paying the slightest attention to how that woman might have felt, alone in a room with an 'excited' male.