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If you told me that men were more likely to be distracted in the presence of a naked woman I would say, duh. Though now I'm curious if there was a difference b

If you told me that men were more likely to be distracted in the presence of a naked woman I would say, duh. Though now I'm curious if there was a difference between the different procedures, and if it holds up across cities. Probably most importantly, did any particular surgeon skew the number?

PeterisP 5y ago
Let's just say that for the vast majority of people there's absolutely nothing sexy about a partially covered body where you're cutting in some body parts and focusing on tiny aspects of blood covered meat and vessels and bone at the exclusion of everything else. You get desensitized to a lot during med school. Also, surgery patients are disproportionally older and less healthy than the general population, which is correlated with attractiveness even before the surgery starts.
DoreenMichele 5y ago
Have a corrective upvote. I don't think it's a completely unreasonable thought and possibly not entirely irrelevant. But a more likely explanation is that it is easier for men to understand what is going on with a man's body and it's easier to have that conversation between two men. Medical research has a history of skewing towards investigating male health issues because men have historically been in charge of such research and because medical research has often been done on medical students and that population tended to be mostly male. A male doctor I was friends with told me once that the first time some woman had her brain scanned, everyone was freaking out because it was radically different from all scans on record. Then they realized all brain scans on record were male and they had no meaningful baseline record for a female brain, so they had no idea what this meant and they calmed down. It maybe only meant that men and women have brain differences. It didn't necessarily mean there was something pathological going on.

PeterisP 5y ago

Let's just say that for the vast majority of people there's absolutely nothing sexy about a partially covered body where you're cutting in some body parts and focusing on tiny aspects of blood covered meat and vessels and bone at the exclusion of everything else. You get desensitized to a lot during med school. Also, surgery patients are disproportionally older and less healthy than the general population, which is correlated with attractiveness even before the surgery starts.

DoreenMichele 5y ago

Have a corrective upvote. I don't think it's a completely unreasonable thought and possibly not entirely irrelevant. But a more likely explanation is that it is easier for men to understand what is going on with a man's body and it's easier to have that conversation between two men. Medical research has a history of skewing towards investigating male health issues because men have historically been in charge of such research and because medical research has often been done on medical students and that population tended to be mostly male. A male doctor I was friends with told me once that the first time some woman had her brain scanned, everyone was freaking out because it was radically different from all scans on record. Then they realized all brain scans on record were male and they had no meaningful baseline record for a female brain, so they had no idea what this meant and they calmed down. It maybe only meant that men and women have brain differences. It didn't necessarily mean there was something pathological going on.