LET'S PLAY DOCTOR CH. 3
When my husband and I were younger and in graduate school, we were poor students struggling to get by on his half-time teaching assistantship and whatever I could make doing part-time gigs. This meant taking on more student loan debt than we'd planned. In my second year I snagged a well-paying job as a Gynecological Teaching Associate (GTA). My role was to be a simulated patient helping to teach medical students to perform breast and pelvic exams. It was a much more professional role than just submitting to be examined by students. We GTAs learned the clinical protocols of those exams done properly, plus the appropriate sensitivity, demeanor, mannerisms, and dialog to have with patients. The job paid $50 per hour, so it was appreciated, and I did my best to meet all the professional performance expectations.
In addition to the pay incentive, I gained great respect for my role making the med students, especially the men, more responsive and respectful of the women patients' perspective in very exposed and vulnerable exams. And finally, to quietly whisper the honest truth, there was also a sexually arousing side to these exams. Their being done by multiple students added a snowballing effect to their seeing and touching my intimate body parts. I did this for my entire second year of grad school, and only had one episode of inappropriate behavior by a student. In my last session, one student performing a pelvic exam bore down on my G-spot and caused me to have an orgasm. While I tried to conceal any signs of the orgasm itself, I also squirted all over his hand which was evident to the resident instructor. The student responsible was dismissed for a semester and I learned a valuable lesson in knowing when to blow the whistle on inappropriate student behavior.
In the summer after my second year, both Dave and I had a class or two to complete during the summer session in order to graduate. Both my GTA job and Dave's assistantship ended in May, so we were financially on our own for the summer. I applied to be a nude model at the art school since it paid at least double what retail or fast-food jobs paid. Before the art school replied, I got an unexpected offer from my supervisor in the GTA program to help in updating their training and curriculum materials. The ones I had used were quite dated. In addition, she wanted me to help write the script and then "star" in the remake of their training film, now to be a CD, on how to perform breast and pelvic exams.
The project paid $3,000, so I immediately accepted. That pay level seemed appropriate for my being exposed to the resident instructor, a medical student, and the videographer for lengthy and very revealing footage of my most intimate body parts being inspected and examined. And who knew how many students would see me over the life span of the CD.
The materials and CD turned out to be exceptional, and the University decided to market them to other schools and programs through a third-party medical supply company. I had concerns about my exposed body being potentially shared with groups whose business ethics and personal principles I knew nothing about. The medical student appearing in the film with me had also received a copy of the CD. So, between him, and the marketing company I had no assurance the CD wouldn't make its way to any number of men engaged in the genre of "playing doctor" fetishes and fantasies. That would make me feel violated and exploited both sexually and financially. I knew the medical student performing the exams and receiving a copy of the CD, had already made at least one unauthorized copy which he shared with my Social Work practicum supervisor who had been in the same fraternity. My supervisor, Jim, viewed the CD, and was caught by his wife while jacking off over a scene of me with a speculum spreading my pussy wide open. She made him confess to me, so I would know the CD was vulnerable to piracy and re-copying. I struggled with Jim seeing me so exposed in the CD, yet our close friendship brought a conflicting element of some degree of arousal with it too.
Another GTA colleague of mine, Maria, told me she'd been approached by a questionable photographer about also making a breast and pelvic exam "medical training" CD and be paid $5,000. She suspected he was actually making a film for the "play doctor" fetish market, and he'd sought her out since she was skilled in the exam protocols and would be a credible actress. She turned down the deal, but her offer of $5,000 for a questionable purpose made my $3,000 for an honorable one feel very paltry and unfair. And if my CD were to get into the fetish market it would bring someone other than me a potential windfall by exploiting my body. This really infuriated me, and I needed to find way to resolve my feelings of angst, before becoming obsessed with the unfairness of it all.
I shared all these feelings with my husband, Dave, who understood exactly what I was concerned with. After me, no one else had a more proprietary interest in my body and its potential exploitation for others' profit and sexual pleasure. I had two issues eating at me: first was being so underpaid by the University, when a fetish vendor would pay almost double; and second, how easily my CD could find its way into that same black market to enrich others but not me.
As we thought through both concerns, we concluded we couldn't do much about the University's lower payment. I'd signed a contract and they'd paid me. But there were two ways to deal with the problem of my CD ending up in the fetish market without me being compensated. First, I could sell my copy to an underground pirate before the medical student or even another purchaser could do so; or I could try to contact the questionable photographer who had approached my GTA colleague, Maria, and offer to star in his film. If this could happen quickly it might preempt any pirating of the University's film. There's probably not a big market for two CDs of the same woman doing the same exams.
Dave pointed out we wouldn't want to get into copyright issues from selling my CD copy, so Option 1 was out. Option 2 would likely mean posing very sexually for and with another set of photographers and actors, none of whom would probably be medical professionals; and it would ensure my image would be circulated throughout the "play doctor" fetish community. That's a lot of exposure to an untold number of potentially unsavory and mercenary people. Dave reminded me that my CD might already be destined for the fantasy folks via the med student, someone he shared a copy with, or a legitimate buyer of the CD who wants to share or sell it online or to a pirate. And maybe the medical supply company won't be particular who they sell it to.
The more we thought about it, the more we realized my CD and graphic images were going to be sold on the black-market web, one way or another. I could maybe get the $5,000 offered to Maria, and possibly negotiate for more, or I needed to be satisfied with my $3,000 and knowing others will get what they can from selling unauthorized CDs of my naked body.
When we thought about it in those terms, it became an easier decision. I could sell the same degree of my privacy and intimacy for either $3,000 or $8,000 and maybe more. One way or another, there were going to be many more men than just Jim getting their rocks off over my tits and pussy.
We decided to sleep on it overnight and reassess in the morning. It didn't take long the next day to decide I needed to call Maria. I called her early to catch her before the workday began. She was surprised to hear from me, but when I told her why I was calling she was open and empathetic to my questions.
"What made you turn-down their offer to make their training film?" I asked. "That $5,000 must have been pretty appealing.
"Oh, it was incredibly appealing, and I sure could have used the money," she replied, "but I just knew it wasn't a legitimate scholarly training film."
"If the money was so good, weren't you tempted to do it anyway?" I replied. "Even if you were skeptical about the actual use of the film?"
"I'm single and I don't have a significant other who could have gone with me for the filming, and honestly, I didn't feel safe going alone not knowing who all was really going to be involved. Plus, I wasn't sure how far off our clinical standards and into really kinky stuff they might go."
"I can understand that." I said. "I'm not sure I'm comfortable with flirting so 'nakedly' with the fetish film market either. But I'm pretty sure my CD with the University is going to make its way to that market, and I hate the thought of this bunch profiting alone off my body. Taking the same offer made to you at least gives me some serious money for what's going to happen anyway."
She grasped and sympathized with what I was saying and gave me a phone number for the guy who approached her to perform in his film. I called right away and explained that Maria had given me his number and that I was an experienced GTA colleague of hers who she thought might be interested.
He asked me some questions to be sure I was in fact a real GTA. Then he told me the film was to show how to do breast and pelvic exams, and it would include a "doctor" and several "students" learning the procedures. All the right things to say. I explained that I'd already made a similar film for the University. While he was impressed with my having this experience, he asked why I was interested in doing it again. I told him I needed the money, since my husband and I had no income for the summer session, and I asked what the intended market was for the film. He tersely replied, "Let us worry about that." This was all the confirmation I needed that this film was destined for the fetish market.
He told me the pay would be the $5,000 Maria had quoted, and when I asked about the possibility of it being more, he replied, "Not for the basic training film, but we have some other opportunities that could provide additional income."
I wasn't sure I even wanted to hear what those opportunities could be. So, I told him I'd be interested in doing the training film for the $5,000 and taking Maria's advice I added that I'd want to have my husband present during the filming.
He hesitated, then replied, "We've found having 'significant others' on-site disrupts the subject's concentration on the filming, and the nature of the exams can make a husband uncomfortable and sometimes challenging."