THE STEREOTYPES – ‘MEN NEED TO BE IN CONTROL’ (INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES (IUCDS)-GENERAL INFORAMTION)
Medicine, and in particular contraception, is an intrusive business. In contraceptive work doctors frequentiy pick up echoes of dissatisfaction with a bad experience in the past. Either partner may have been to a genitourinary clinic, which can heighten their fear of infection, and often adds an extra sense of guilt to those who are not completely happy with their sexuality. Women may have had an unexpected instrumental delivery. These experiences leave scars, sometimes of an unexpected kind.
Mr F. is a hard-working electrician who often worked late. He said, ‘I wouldn’t like her to have a coil, she’d find it too embarrassing.’ He is a man who keeps an awkward distance from medical events when he is wanted. When his wife has migraine, or grandmother’s blood specimen needs taking to the laboratory, he is always too far away to help. Later he told me about his wife’s delivery. She needed stitches and he hoped to get out of the delivery room, but somehow he ended up holding the baby. The midwife and his wife said what a pair they made in the low chair across the room, but all he was thinking of was the doctor’s hand inside his wife, particularly as at the same time she was smiling. ‘No, no-one is going to give her a coil, thank you.’
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