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[quote=Anonymous]I asked my mother to take me to the gynecologist when I was 14 because I had very heavy periods and had read in Seventeen magazine that the pill could make them much lighter and less painful. She took me to her male gynecologist and he examined me alone - this was in the early 80s before having a nurse in the room became the standard.

He molested me - I knew it all felt very yucky but I didn’t understand how wrongly he had touched me until I had my next pelvic exam a few years later. He very definitely molested me, and he then proceeded to shame me for asking to be put on the pill - he said I was far too young to be having sex and only nasty girls had sex at 14.

Yeah, it’s something that still disturbs me to this day and it most definitely altered my feelings about my body, about sexual, about doctors. I’ve only allowed one other male gynecologist to examine me in the 36 years since, and that was only a follow up breast exam with nurse in the room when my regular female gynecologist was called away to an OB emergency.

Don’t leave the room unless a nurse is present as a matter of office policy. There are far too many stories of pediatricians who were child molesters. I know this because I became a prosecutor who put child molesters in prison and I follow this kind of creepy stuff probably far too closely. [/quote]

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