Dildocam is actually more comfortable than Le Speculum (which I always think of as a spatula.)

"You might feel a pinch."
"Well, you might feel a kick in the head! Ow!"

Yeah, I'd ten times rather put up with the dildocam than a speculum. I have never, not once, managed to not be pinched by a speculum. My girlybits are cringing just thinking about it.

My girlybits are cringing just thinking about it.

Involuntary Kegel exercises.

I suppose I should eventually give in and read Death Note, shouldn't I?

I'm going to go with a yes. Because you will like Ryuk. I'm pretty sure of that. And you will also, I think, probably approve of Misa. (And Clovis will want her for a minion.) Clovis will approve of Mello and of Light.

Whether you will adore L beyond the telling of it, I don't know. Conceivably that's just me. (er, and all the L fangirls out there.)

Because you will like Ryuk. I'm pretty sure of that.

Hee, I love Ryuk. Hyuk hyuk hyuk.

I have never, not once, managed to not be pinched by a speculum. My girlybits are cringing just thinking about it.

Yes, this. ::shudders::

Yes, this. ::shudders::

The first time I got the dildocam, I almost wanted to cry just from the relief. Really? You can get in there and look around and see everything you need to without the misery of the speculum? Why do you people not always use this beautiful blessed completely painless thing of beauty and wonder?

God, I must hate the fucking speculum worse than I thought, to gush over the dildocam like that.

When I dated a medical student in the eighties she said there were very judgmental attitudes about cervical cancer taught at the medical school. That it was seen as basically an STD. I wonder how much that attitude has changed.

HPV causes many of the cases of cervical cancer diagnosed each year, and HPV is a sexually-transmitted infection (STI being the term of art now; STD isn't used anymore). That said, you only need to have sex once to be its lucky recipient, and there are plenty of cases of cervical cancer that can't be traced to an HPV infection.

I don't think the basic attitude of the medical establishment about women who develop cervical cancer is "what a slut!". At least I've never heard anything even remotely judgmental directed at women with HPV, and they are legion; almost all my patients have "abnormal Pap" in their medical history.

Edited: wow, the dildocam was WAY more painful than any spec exam I've ever had. I must have had a very ungentle tech or something.

The first time I got the dildocam, I almost wanted to cry just from the relief.

I've never had the pleasure. Um.

But once I had an OB give me a child-sized speculum, which made me all o.O because of the *need* for child-sized speculums, first, and also, that's the solution for me? It helped, though.

My first OB/GYN appointment (in my life) was way before I was ever sexually active; I was just old enough that it seemed prudent to make sure everything was working right. (Plus, I was old enough that becoming sexually active seemed imminent. [It wasn't.])

So I told the OB/GYN I was a virgin, and could she please use the smallest speculum. It was teeny, and plastic, so the AIIIEEEEE COLD SPECULUM!!!!! issue was nonexistent.

So when I "graduated" (as it were) to needing a larger speculum, it was metal, and I *so* hadn't thought about the temperature factor. Jesus! I'm surprised I didn't send that thing across the room.