There are many reasons why people enjoy engaging in medical play. Here are a few of them…
It’s a form of power play we all find familiar
We’ve all seen a doctor at some point. It’s a familiar situation. And it’s one of the few familiar situations in everyday life where someone else wields a great deal of power over us.
Your doctor (hopefully) knows way more than you about the human body. If they say you need a rectal exam, an x-ray, a long period of sexual chastity … well, who are you to argue?
Medical professionals have power over us in a very real way. That’s something we know and accept… and so it can be a lot of fun to explore a darker version of that power relationship through fantasy.
It involves interesting pain
As a sadist, I’ve always enjoyed exploring forms of pain other than spanking. Don’t get me wrong: spanking is great. But there are so many other ways to inflict pain.
Dabbling in medical play opens up many opportunities to explore interesting pain. You can enjoy (or enjoy subjecting your partner to) needles, enemas, ice-cold speculums, staples, and many other things beside. What a lot of fun possibilities to explore!
It can be humiliating or embarrassing
In the course of a medical play examination a patient might be stripped naked, probed in every orifice, subjected to a series of intrusive questions, examined intimately, and discussed at length as though they’re not in the room. Medical play is a great vehicle for humiliation, degradation and dehumanisation.
You get to play mad scientist with your body
Your body is a strange, powerful, endlessly interesting vessel. By subjecting it to a wide range of experiences, you’ll come to understand it better… and may even discover some weird but fascinating easter eggs.
For example, you might find that needle play makes you drift off into a pleasant state of drowsy subspace… something you can’t access any other way. Or you might find that an enema is actually something you enjoy and want to do on a regular basis for entirely nonsexual reasons.
Exploring is good and worthwhile for its own sake… and medical play is an excellent way of exploring.
Gigi Engle is a certified sex coach, educator, and author of All The F*cking Mistakes: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life. The psychological side of a gyno fetish and other forms of medical fetishism make perfect sense to her. Like other forms of BDSM arguably been made more mainstream by films such as 50 Shades of Grey, gyno fetishism follows predictable power dynamics: “Gynaecological fetishism has a classic dom/sub power dynamic, with the patient in the submissive role,” she explained. “Like all intimate examination fetish, it’s about the thrill of humiliation and violation in a contained setting.”
