This story is the first in a partly comic series featuring Dr. Dick Longman, ex-surfer boy and now gynecologist, and the unusual diagnostic and therapeutic techniques he employs in his medical practice. All characters are over 18.
"Good morning, Ms. Cummins. And how are we doing today? It's nice to see you. What brings you in, may I ask?"
Truth was, Lucy Cummins was happy to invent any reason at all for a visit to her gynecologist. Dr. Dick Longman was stunningly handsome, over six-feet tall, as lean as a rail but with the muscles and build of the California surfer boy he had been before studying medicine. Before he chose to specialize in the field that more than anything else drew his attention....
That field was, need I say, gynecology.
Women and their bodies.
Women and their always fascinating vaginas. Women and their breasts that inevitably needed examining along with their vaginas, since so much could go wrong with both of those important female areas, if left unchecked and unattended to regularly.
What was not to like about gynecology as a specialization for a lean, blond ex-surfer boy like Dick Longman?
No sooner had Dr. Longman hung his shingle out in the small Oregon town where he now lived and practiced medicine than new patients--women--came flocking to him like proverbial bees to proverbial honey. Their sudden complaints were endless: This seems to need checking out, Dr. Longman. Is that functioning as it should function down there?
Why is it so sensitive? Is that amount of lubrication normal or abnormal? Can you please manipulate my breasts to see if you feel anything that I'm missing when I handle them?
These were, of course, all very
valid
medical questions. Concerns about matters like breast cancer should never be taken lightly. But when patient after patient--woman after woman--kept arriving at Dr. Longman's clinic with the same sets of questions and no evidence that their concerns had real substance to them, Dr. Longman began to realize that many of his patients, many of the women knocking at his office door, simply wanted attention.
They wanted
his
attention. They wanted the attention of a hot, hunky young man dressed in a doctor's uniform. Which made it all right for him to be touching and tracing and manipulating and penetrating their vaginas. Doing all that clinically, it goes without saying. This is what a gynecologist does, after all.
And palpating their breasts, slowly, carefully, with gentle firm touches that sometimes "accidentally" happened to brush across their excited nipples. "Accidentally" more than once in any given breast exam. All in a gynecologist's set of daily duties....
So here was Ms. Lucy Cummins all seated up--lying back, feet in stirrups and legs spread wide--waiting for Dr. Longman to arrive in the exam room after his nurse had helped her undress, mount the exam table, and put her feet into the waiting stirrups.
"Won't be long, Ms. Cummins," Nurse Judy called over her shoulder as she exited the exam room. "Dr. Longman doesn't like to keep patients waiting. He knows it can get cold quickly as you lie back on that exam table."
One of Dr. Longman's special clinical practices was to ask all of his patients to disrobe completely prior to their exams. No need to fiddle with those skimpy gowns that cover very little and have to be removed anyway once the exam is underway.
Dr. Longman liked to find his patients ready and waiting for him, lying on the exam table in the altogether, feet in stirrups, when he came striding into the exam room, his handsome face wreathed in smiles, blue eyes twinkling as if the patient on the table was the most special of all of his patients, the only one that mattered at the moment.
So back to the beginning:
"Good morning, Ms. Cummins. And how are we doing today? It's nice to see you. What brings you in, may I ask?"
"Oh, Doctor, something just doesn't feel right. You know. Down there." Lucy Cummins signaled "down there" with a nod of her head and a tilt of her eyes.
"I'm sorry to hear that, Ms. Cummins. What in particular do you think is going on?"
Dr. Longman knew that Ms. Cummins was divorced. He also suspected that with no husband around and, as far as he could determine, no boyfriend in the picture, she might not be getting the attention that she needed "down there." She was, after all, a young, very attractive divorcee and definitely deserved attention. Especially down there....
"It's my - I don't know if I can use the word, Doctor, since it's slang: it's my cunny. It feels, well, funny lately."
"Or course you can say 'cunny,' Ms. Cummins. As I've told you before, since my job is to feel and prod your vagina, there's no need for us to stand on formality. I know a whole range of words--cunny, cunt, pussy, box, gash, quim, and so on--and am very comfortable using them with my patients. I want you to feel at ease."