I’d like to thank both of you and the GP for posting this. As someone getting older, it’s important to know things like requesting no sedation is even an option

I’d like to thank both of you and the GP for posting this. As someone getting older, it’s important to know things like requesting no sedation is even an option. I’m much more concerned about damage deeper in than any potential discomfort “at the exit” … I’ve eaten some questionable food in my life and experienced a surprisingly diverse set of gastrointestinal sensations as a result… and the very idea of a doctor being sloppy with the technique pushing something backwards past those “corners, due to the majority of patients being sedated and not noticing, is genuinely giving me more mental discomfort than any sensation my guts ever had. Thank you both for the frank and valuable comments. Also I think you have an interesting point about the “volunteers”/“recruits” thing. I suspect it’s less of a taboo about butt stuff and more that the procedure has some small risk of a potentially very serious complications (bowel perforation is serious business) and therefore should never be done on a person unless necessary… which is a noble idea but it does have potential repercussions like the current scenario where lack of non-sedated patient feedback leads to sloppy technique which arguably increases the risks of bowel perforation… sort of creates a vicious cycle that doesn’t help minimise patient risk. I’m also finding it amusing trying to think about how they could thread the ethical needle on this if they ever tried such a thing. Any obvious sexual paraphilia that involves wanting to get the procedure done is sort of going to make the medial consent forms a little hard to rely on due to it being perilously close to knowingly performing a sexual act on them. Ive had a pretty good chuckle pondering legalese variations of “you swear that you are ok with having long objects inserted into your rectum and this is in no way a sexual fetish”.