I feel it necessary to express my unease at the groundbreaking Channel 4 program known as Embarrassing Bodies. I find the series compelling viewing to feed my need to be astonished about the fact that people are too embarrassed to see their doctor in the privacy of his private surgery but don’t think twice about flashing their deformed genitals to millions of people on national TV.
Last weeks episode had a feature on hernias and they employed the services of a ‘model’. Dr Christian thought it not good enough to indicate on his own clothed body where a hernia might appear but felt he had to point it out on a naked man. They chose a model with zero body fat and a dong from here to next Tuesday. Cue tuneless whistling and staring at the ceiling from the male viewers whilst their female partners waste no time in saying ‘Jeez, I really did draw the short straw’.
‘There’s no shame, we’re all the same’ is the show’s catchphrase. It’s wrong though isn’t it? As far as I know, my rectum does not look like a raw plum, I don’t have penile papules or open sores on the back of my neck
We are certainly not all the same are we Dr Dawn? You, for example have a face like a plastic bag in a fire. And Dr Christian is a self confessed boob dodger and chooses to go on television to prod a naked man right next to his porn grade gentleman’s sausage. I found the whole thing a little unsavoury.
davesimba 