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OMIGOD!! I've applied ointment to Xoc's back!
Again, I think the GMC would have a degree of flexibility here, partly because it's accepted that doctors will occasionally treat friends and family. If it were a regular thing to the extent that one's spouse were not registered with a GP and depended on one for all their medical care, then I'd see that as more dodgy.
Well, if i was in a relationship with someone who had the necessary skills and knowledge to treat my medical problem, and the nature of the relationship was such that that person was the person i felt more comfortable with than anyone else about body-related stuff, the idea of going to anyone else for that problem would just seem bizarre, counter-intuitive and pointless. I am absolutely sure there are many people who feel differently, but i think it's reasonably intuitive that many people would feel the same way... why go to a doctor who is a stranger, if your partner (who in this hypothetical relationship i'm assuming is the person you're most open with about your-body-related things) is one?
Yes, it is. Perhaps you want to start a thread there?
OK, add that to the ever-increasing pile of Head Shop threads that i'm going to start eventually, when i have the time and mental resources necessary...
The logical extension of your argument is that it's absolutely fine for doctors to have sex with their patients so long as they're adult and consenting, the power imbalance of the therapeutic relationship counting for nothing.
Well, yes. I think it's absolutely fine for anyone to have sex with anyone so long as they're adult and consenting. And i tend to see the "therapeutic relationship" as (in its ideal form) analogous to one of consumer/supplier, much like the relationship one might have with, say, a plumber or a computer repair person, rather than one of "power over" in any way other than insomuch as skill and knowledge equal power. I guess i'm following Bakunin there...
I'm aware (all too aware, as a disabled person, from personal experience as well as that of loved ones and friends) that the relationship, in its currently prevalent form, isn't like that - but i think it's permissible to talk about how you think things should be, even if that contradicts how they presently are...
sex with what are essentially groupies carries a whiff of exploitation. For me, anyway.
Well, it may be exploitation in a sense, but i really wouldn't consider it exploitation on the same level as, say, that of wage workers by capital, of women's labour by patriarchy, etc. I think it's more parallel to, say, selling some in-demand comic or record for a ridiculous price on eBay being "exploitation" of the mug/obsessive collector who pays that price for it...
Mordant's points require lengthier consideration... and, as this is getting somewhat like threadrot, it might be better to split this discussion off into another thread (which Ganesh or Mordant are welcome to start, but which i don't know if i'll have the time for Head Shop-level response to in the immediate future)... |
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