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Subject: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?

Author:
Inexperienced
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Date Posted: 20:15:03 06/15/09 Mon

This is a legitimate question about a procedure that has often been mentioned here and on other boards. It is about shaving for abdominal surgery regardless of whether a female caregiver does it or a male caregiver does it.
The question has nothing to do with any of the usual stuff.

I'm wondering about how the shaving is actually done. Do they use an electric razor? Do they use a blade-type razor?
Do they use shaving cream in an aerosol can? Do they use
a "home-made" lather worked up from a regular bar of soap?

If the shave includes the area from the nipple-line to mid-thigh, do they begin at the top or at the lower end? When they lather the skin, to they do the whole area at once, or do they lather in sections as they proceed?

Any other details you can remember would be most welcome.
As you can guess, I've never had any kind of surgery, so
I have no idea what happens except what I've seen posted here and on other boards, so thanks for any information you care to mention here.

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[> Subject: It Probably Varies Depending Upon Who and What

Author:
Sara
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Date Posted: 06:31:56 06/17/09 Wed

From what I hear, there are different ways of doing preps, depending upon the facility, and also who is doing it.
The procedure manual has instructions on what to shave with, say, a blade or an electric razor, and what parts are to be shaved.

The person assigned to a prep may have preferences, too.
For example we had a post here from a man who was shaved
without soap and water. He was shaved dry. We also had an exchange in the past among some caregivers who debated about whether or not to shave the scrotum for an abdominal prep. Some said they always do that, some never include it.

So, as you can see, there is no simple answer to this query.

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[> [> Subject: They Have That Much Say-so About Surgical Preps?

Author:
Fran
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Date Posted: 18:37:42 06/17/09 Wed

I am surprised to learn the the nurses and aides have so much decision-making authority when it comes to preps for surgery. They can decide what materials to use? They can decide if a specific part of the body will be included in the area shaved?

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[> [> Subject: Re: It Probably Varies Depending Upon Who and What

Author:
Rebelheart, the real one
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Date Posted: 21:43:58 08/02/09 Sun

If Woody Allen married Natalie Wood, divorced her and married Gregory Peck, divorced him and married Ben Hur, he'd be Woody Wood Peck Hur.

BTW, I'm a free spirit.

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[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?

Author:
Paul
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Date Posted: 19:35:25 06/17/09 Wed

Although i had shaved all pubic hair off the day before as instructed by a nurse. While waiting in the actual operating theatre for a hernia op one of the nurses shaved more hair from my abdomen and between my legs with a dry razor. While she held my testicles up to shave behind them, i embarrassingly joked with her careful you dont cut anything off, and she told me i was quite safe with the razor, it's the electric ones that can easily cut the delicate scrotum skin.

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[> [> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?

Author:
Paul
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Date Posted: 03:26:37 06/22/09 Mon

I have to say Laura that although I can remember starting to feel relaxed and drowsy, and one of the nurses asking me to count to ten, and passing out before I managed it. Before this, the nurses, and there was four of them, did uncover me literally the second I was wheeled into the operating theatre. So I spent a good few minutes, which felt like ages, before going under, laid out naked and wide awake in front of them.
So I would also agree with Cynthia, and old med staff. I was extremely embarrassed and the nurses knew it. They could have left me covered until I passed out and shaved that tiny amount of hair off, which took her maybe thirty seconds. It thought they were humiliating me enough keeping me naked, but no, I spent half of the time with my legs apart!
Although they were doing their job, I’m sure they were amusing themselves at my expense.

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?
Author: Clay [Edit]	Date Posted: 22:28:34 06/28/09 Sun Those disgusting perverts also LOVE to have that power over you. By doing what they did they were just taunting you and forcing you to feel powerless. Bitches! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Paul Was Lucky, He was Prepped Later Than Most

Author:
Laura
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Date Posted: 11:27:37 06/18/09 Thu

Paul's prep was done after he was brought to the area of the operating room. Doing it that way was better for him, and other facilities should consider doing it that way.

Why? Because at that point in time the patient has been given his preoperative medications. This medication is given to relax the patient to make anesthsia work better.
It also has the effect of reducing the embarrassment of being shaved down there.

Notice that Paul said nothing about feeling embarrassed when the female nurse was shaving his scrotum. If this had been done earlier, before the medication was given, it would have different for him.

This works best for the patient, but most places still do the preps well before the medications are given. I wonder why they all don't do it that way.

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[> [> Subject: Re: Paul Was Lucky, He was Prepped Later Than Most
Author: Cynthia, RN [Edit]	Date Posted: 17:32:29 06/18/09 Thu "I wonder why they all don't do it that way." Because nurses enjoy doing it the other way. Sort of fun to lord it over a naked guy, if you must know. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: The Real Cynthia Would Never Say That!
Author: Laura [Edit]	Date Posted: 20:56:49 06/18/09 Thu If you are going to post here, please make up a name or even use your real name, but don't use someone else's name. None of us believe that the real Cynthia would ever say that. So we know you are just using her name. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: The Real Cynthia Would Never Say That!
Author: Cynthia, RN [Edit]	Date Posted: 15:07:30 06/19/09 Fri Listen, little missy, Cynthia is my name, I am an RN and no other person with my name posts here. Got it? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: ewwww. shame on Cynthia !!!
Author: The Police Squad [Edit]	Date Posted: 23:21:12 06/19/09 Fri I always knew, those nurses are pornographic. And, they come equipt with hidden cams and video equipment. and they sell it to the hollywood movies [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Paul Was Lucky, He was Prepped Later Than Most
Author: old med staff to Laura [Edit]	Date Posted: 23:29:43 06/18/09 Thu You said, "Notice that Paul said nothing about feeling embarrassed..." but Paul did say, "i embarrassingly joked..." so it he did state that he was embarrassed. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Paul Was Lucky, He was Prepped Later Than Most

Author:
Paul
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Date Posted: 02:02:21 06/27/09 Sat

[> [> [> [> Subject: They Were Wrong, Paul

Author:
Laura
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Date Posted: 06:06:31 06/27/09 Sat

I agree with you now, Paul. You were not as lucky as I said you were earlier. They were wrong to treat you that way. The whole idea of the medications is to relax the patient to make the whole OR experience easier, mainly the induction of the anesthesia, but also the preliminaries.

I hope they were just in a hurry to get you ready and I hope they were not deliberately trying to embarrass you.
But the "hurry" excuse is totally invalid, anyhow.
But how can we ever know why they did what they did to you?

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[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: They Were Wrong, Paul

Author:
Paul
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Date Posted: 11:59:57 06/27/09 Sat

I don't know for sure Laura why they did what they did to me. But i think it's probably fair to say that they were 'making the most' of their position. Whether they were enjoying embarrassing me to extreme or always enjoy keeping their patients naked i don't know.
Before i was even wheeled into the operating theatre i was examined by nurses that seemed to have nothing to do with my op, and were nowhere to be seen when i woke after it.

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[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?
Author: Josh [Edit]	Date Posted: 20:58:55 06/18/09 Thu My prep was done with single blade dry razor. The nurse was very adept and changed blades 2x in process to minimize irritation. Thought I would end up chafed and with ingrowns on my scrotum but neither happened. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?
Author: Bobby [Edit]	Date Posted: 22:34:19 06/18/09 Thu My prep was done using an electric razor by a male surgical nurse during the Pre-OP prep time before the administration all the relaxant drugs. I was more interested in getting an IV started to get fluids since I had a two hour delay beyond the original scheduled time. RC [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?
Author: Snow [Edit]	Date Posted: 02:45:07 06/19/09 Fri Though I had had my girlfriend shave me, the nurse shaved me again with a dry blade. It was just my pubic hair as the rest of my body hair is just a very light, short fuzz. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?

Author:
Clay
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Date Posted: 09:31:38 06/19/09 Fri

To me it should be done exactly the opposite from what Laura said. She is obviously a nurse that doesn't care at all about men's modesty.

The point is that it is unethical for a female nurse to shave near or on their privates. Doing it the way that perverted bitch Laura described is going behind his back (whether he knows it will happen or not) and it doesn't make it any less unethical or immoral.

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[> [> Subject: Clay, You Criticized The Wrong Person
Author: Fred [Edit]	Date Posted: 16:22:41 06/19/09 Fri Cynthia, not Laura, was the one who said she enjoyed lording it over male patients, not Laura. It was Laura who suggested a way to spare men's feelings by prepping them after they are under sedation. Please read their posts above and you'll see you were mistaken. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Clay, You Criticized The Wrong Person
Author: john [Edit]	Date Posted: 16:30:48 06/19/09 Fri I think the subject is moot. In this day and age there is an ample amount of male nurses in any given hospital. A male patient can easily request and demand a male nurse do the shaveing. It is inconceivable that a male nurse would be chosen to shave a female patient. End of story. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?

Author:
Tom
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Date Posted: 23:41:12 06/19/09 Fri

Right you are John. A patient should have whoever they want to shave them, unless it's an emergency. The patient is the customer and the customer is always right. My Doctor did the shaving the last 2 times and it was very little just like he told me when we talked about what and when things would be done. Find yourself a Doc you can talk to and will talk to you. They are hard to find but they are out there and the more patients that demand it the more doctors will respond.

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[> Subject: You May Be Right, John
Author: Fred [Edit]	Date Posted: 21:01:05 06/20/09 Sat John, the subject may be, as you say, moot, but I thought I should comment regarding Clay's criticism of the wrong woman. I believe it was Cynthia who made the comments that Clay did not agree with. He thought Laura had said them, but she did not. I hope he checks both posts. above. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?

Author:
Clay
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Date Posted: 03:27:34 06/22/09 Mon

OK let's try this again.

Cynthia is so disgusting I didn't waste my time commenting on that bitch.

Laura said that patients should be medicated before the prep was done (by female nurses assumably). I said "The point is that it is unethical for a female nurse to shave near or on their privates."

What I mean is Laura is backwards because if female nurses are going to be gawking at and fondling mens penises they should do it to their face, not behind their backs. Quite often men don't even know that will be done so if a female nurse attempts to do it while they are awake the male patients at least have the opportunity to request that a male nurse or doctor do it, or to do it himself. Instead they wake up to see it had been done to them without their knowledge and either know or assume it was done by a woman and they had no choice in the matter. They feel completely blind-sided because they never had the opportunity to object to the unethical procedure.

Yes, Cynthia is the filthiest pervert and power monger but Laura's method doesn't sound much better. Either way the male patients lose.

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[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?
Author: Charlie [Edit]	Date Posted: 03:43:17 06/22/09 Mon John and Tom are exactly right. Every patient should have a choice, not just women patients. Are you guys familiar with Dr. Bernsteins blog on the subject? http://bioethicsdiscussion.blogspot.com/2009/06/patient-modesty-volume-19.html#comments [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Still No Complete Answer to My Questions

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Inexperienced
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Date Posted: 12:06:24 06/30/09 Tue

Despite all of the responses, my original questions have not really been answered. Since I've never experienced such a shave, I was wondering exactly how they do it, like the sequence of events from the time she person doing the job enters your room. Like what do they use? Where do they start? Do they use lather? Electric razor? Dry razor?
Anyone had experience with getting shaved, please tell us what happened. Thanks.

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[> [> Subject: Re: Still No Complete Answer to My Questions

Author:
M_A_M
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Date Posted: 10:52:43 07/01/09 Wed

Last year I had emergency surgery to remove my gall bladder, and in a prep room before going into the OR a nurse came over and said "I'm gonna shave your belly". She kept the sheet over my genitals, pushed the gown up and with a dry razor shaved an area around my middle. She did not go as far down as my pubic hair. When I awoke after the surgery I noted that I was shaved a little further down, which must have happened after I was under.

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[> Subject: Over-shaved For Gall Bladder Surgery

Author:
Barbara
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Date Posted: 08:34:04 07/02/09 Thu

MAM, you were lucky when she shaved you for your gall bladder operation. We had a man who posted here who was not so lucky. He also had gall bladder surgery.

When he went to his surgeon's office a week after getting it done, the doctor asked him how he was feeling. He said he was fine, except for the awful itching. The puzzled surgeon asked him to show him where he was itching. The man lowered his pants and the surgeon said, "Wow, someone got carried away with the razor".

He explained that since the incision was high, just below his right rib-cage, he had to be shaved from the nipples to just below his navel, just as you were, MAM. Instead, the girl shaved him from above his nipples to his mid-thighs, including his scrotum. The surgeon just shook his head, and he gave the man some salve to quiet the itch down there.

Incidently, the man said his shave was done wet, with a lather the girl worked up from soap and warm water, not a dry shave like yours was. She used disposable razors.

So, to the original poster at the top, you can see that it is hard to give you any real accurate information. How the shave is done depends largely upon the girl assigned to do it. And lately is seems to be a female most of the time, and each of them does it their own way, evidently.

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[> [> Subject: Re: Over-shaved For Gall Bladder Surgery

Author:
Ben
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Date Posted: 23:18:43 07/02/09 Thu

That's why it's not right to have it done while under. If you're conscious and not doped up you can have a little control over who does it and how it's done. You can make sure your genitals are always covered and make sure she doesn't go wild or do anything perverted.

Seeing as how it seems it's almost always a female, teenage or early twenties any patient who has the guts or intelligence should be able to keep the situation under control, but usually don't try. Don't take their crap! Make sure you're covered and don't let her do anything you disagree with! She's not a god!!!

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Over-shaved For Gall Bladder Surgery

Author:
Paul
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Date Posted: 03:32:23 07/03/09 Fri

I agree Ben, but it is quite difficult to tell the nurses what to do. In my experience they tend to be rather stern women and they do work very hard. I'm sure they would not take kindly to being told how to do their jobs. I don't like to get on the wrong side of any woman, let alone one thats about to shave my scrotum.
When i had my hernia op the nurses didn't explain anything they were doing to me they just did it. And i wasn't going to argue with four nurses all older then myself, "please ladies why are you making me lay naked with my legs wide apart?" I think they would have enjoyed making me look even more ridiculous than i already did.

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Over-shaved For Gall Bladder Surgery

Author:
Ben
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Date Posted: 04:51:58 07/06/09 Mon

Why did it take 4 nurses to shave you? That's when the word "unnecessary" comes into play, again.

The trick is to be more stubborn than the nurse. If I make up my mind that I won't be shaved there by a female nurse that's the end of the discussion. No amount of complaining, demanding or insulting will change my mind. They don't want to lose your business so eventually they will give in. At the very least you can demand that the three spectators leave the room. That's what I call "being a man". Don't be pushed around by those perverted bitches.

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Over-shaved For Gall Bladder Surgery
Author: Paul [Edit]	Date Posted: 10:54:06 07/14/09 Tue I'm sure all 4 nurses had their duties to perform once i had passed out. I know it was unecessary that they kept me naked for so long before i went under, but so what, they're not bitches, they're four women making the most of their position and having a giggle at a naked young man. They did a good job. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: MAM, At Least She Didn't Expose You

Author:
Leah
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Date Posted: 08:09:59 07/03/09 Fri

How about the guy who was shaved exactly as much as MAM was, down to just below his belly button? The difference was that the young woman uncovered him completely so that he had nothing on at all while she shaved him.

All during the shave he was fearful that she intended to shave him all the way down, but she never did. If she had a reason for uncovering him that much, she never explained it to the guy, but it did cause unnecessary embarrassment for him, plus the dread of being shaved down there.

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[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?

Author:
Richard
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Date Posted: 12:19:03 07/04/09 Sat

I had hemmorhoid surgery about 2 years ago. I didnґt even consider the shaving aspect until two nurses came in and very politely asked me to roll over onto my side so that they could "shave your anal area", thatґs exactly what they said. I was so nervous about the surgery and had already been examined in so many embarrassing ways by so many doctors and nurses at that point that it just didnґt matter.

They used an electric razor first and then a disposable razor. It took about 10 minutes. They were totally professional and gentle.

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[> [> Subject: Why Two Nurses? Were Both Necessary?

Author:
Wondering
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Date Posted: 15:53:31 07/04/09 Sat

Some men have said here that they are much more embarrassed to have two women present during any intimate procedure, like baths, showers, prep-shaves, etc., much more so than when one of them is doing it instead.

Were you embarrassed to have two of them shaving you? Were they both doing the job, or was one only observing? Would you have felt better if only one nurse did it?

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Why Two Nurses? Were Both Necessary?
Author: Rebelheart [Edit]	Date Posted: 18:29:35 07/05/09 Sun The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades. BTW, I'm a free spirit. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Why Two Nurses? Were Both Necessary?
Author: Richard [Edit]	Date Posted: 16:41:17 07/06/09 Mon One was spreading my cheeks, the other shaving. Like I said, at that point, I just wanted everything to go correctly and have the whole thing be over with. So it didnґt really matter, one or two. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Why Two Nurses? Were Both Necessary?
Author: Clay [Edit]	Date Posted: 11:59:56 07/10/09 Fri Perverts! I'll bet you made their day. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Clay, What Should They Have Done Instead?

Author:
Still Wondering
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Date Posted: 13:28:12 07/10/09 Fri

It seems as though the shave was necessary, and it also seems that two nurses were needed to get it done, according to Richard's explanation.

Yet, you seem to disagree with some part of the process.
What do you think the nurses should have done instead?
What could Richard have done under the circumstances?
I'm sure many of us would appreciate your input in case
any of us were to have a similar operation. Thanks.

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Clay, What Should They Have Done Instead?
Author: Clay [Edit]	Date Posted: 10:55:35 07/12/09 Sun Males of any medical occupation are as good or better than females at shaving. Demand a male or two. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?

Author:
m.
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Date Posted: 12:19:55 07/12/09 Sun

Ive posted this story before on this site. My abdominal shave was done by two nurses one was early twenties and the other late thirties. They both had long handled electric razors. They had me take off my gown and pulled the sheets back to mid thigh, leaving me exposed the whole time. They started at my nipples and worked their way down. By the time they got to my pubic area the older nurse took over. She kept pressing and releasing pressure on the base of my cock. That in combination with the vibration of the razors had me erect in no time flat. The other nurse was just shaving back and forth on my thigh watching the other nurse shave my penis. At one point the older nurse grabbed my erect penis with her hand and pulled my dick towards herself to shave an area on the other side. then she let my dick slip through her fingers. **BOING** went my cock as it snapped back to attetion. About this time a third nurse comes into the room to hurry them along. Shes standing at the end of my bed. The one nurse tells her they had alot of hair to shave and that they were almost done. The nurse that came in pats my leg and which makes my cock flinch and leaves. At this point Im incredibly stimulated. The older nurse then places her entire hand on my penis and presses down while she shaves up from my bottom and over my testicles and srotum. A very sensitive area. After shes done she looks up at me and gives me a big smile and says " Well thats just about all I can do". As I look down at my cock I cant believe how naked I look with no hair now. My penis is now throbbing and a reddish, purplish color. It has an unbroken string of precum dripping from the tip of my penis to my stomach. After all of this they both get out what looks to be basically scotch tape and run all over the areas they shaved to pick up any loose hairs. They put my gown over me and let my wife come in for a quick second before they took me away. It was obvious I had an erection to my wife under the gown. She asked me what happened but they took me away before I could say anything.

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[> [> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?
Author: Seth [Edit]	Date Posted: 12:30:02 07/12/09 Sun Give me a break! LIAR!!! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?
Author: m. [Edit]	Date Posted: 12:41:47 07/12/09 Sun Ive told this story before. Although I condensed it some this time. Maybe somebody remembers? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?
Author: Harry [Edit]	Date Posted: 18:05:39 07/12/09 Sun I remember it. And don't worry about Seth. We'll put him back in his cage as soon as we track him down. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: I Remember Your Earlier Post Very Well
Author: Observer [Edit]	Date Posted: 19:19:22 07/12/09 Sun Did you get the impression that they could have made the whole thing a lot less embarrassing? Or did you think at the time that they were trying to make the procedure as difficult as possible for you? And did you ever explain to your wife what happened? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Shaved Standing Up

Author:
Leah
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Date Posted: 06:10:44 07/13/09 Mon

Last year, in a topic on surgical preps, a man posted that when he was about 20 years old he had a hernia operation.
He was shaved prior to the surgery by a nurse, as usual. She did it after asking him to stand beside the bed on a towel while she sat on a stool and shaved him.

Doing it that way seemed unusual when I first read the post, but when you think about it, there is really no reason why not, provided the patient is feeling well enough to stand up for the time it takes to get it done.

Since that post I don't recall seeing another description about being shaved standing up. Has anyone else ever been prepped that way?

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[> [> Subject: Re: Shaved Standing Up

Author:
PAPPY
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Date Posted: 05:50:58 07/15/09 Wed

Many years ago I had a procedure where shaving was required. They sent in a nurse's aide, she was hispanic middle age like me. First she used electric clippers, then soap and a stright edge razor, I was standing up she sat on a chair, flipped my penis and balls all over the place, I was looking down her blouse and started to get a rise, She saw it and did some soaping up and down my penis.After getting a full erection she cleaned me up and left. I had blue balls after that. I havnt thought about this for years. JFL1940@VERIZON.NET

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Shaved Standing Up

Author:
Julia
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Date Posted: 07:03:55 07/15/09 Wed

Yes, evidently some nurses and aides prefer to shave a male
patient while he is standing up and the person doing the shave is seated on a low stool, but it is not that common.

My sister, who is a former nurse, recalls that a few care- givers over the years seemed to prefer that way, although she, herself, never chose that method. Of course. in the case of patients who are too old or weakened to stand would have to be prepped on their beds, regardless of what the nurse or aide prefers.

As long as it works ok for the patient, there is no reason that preps cannot be done in the upright position. Maybe some patients even prefer that it be done that way.

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Shaved Standing Up

Author:
Nicola
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Date Posted: 11:33:55 07/15/09 Wed

I did some voluntary work for a local hospital many years ago. A couple of the nurses i got friendly with there, both women and in their forties, would have young men in particular standing while they would prep them. They openly admitted that if a man is standing they could spend more time handling his penis and testicles, lifting and pulling them from side to side and quite often the men would get erections.

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Shaved Standing Up
Author: Laura [Edit]	Date Posted: 13:15:37 07/15/09 Wed What you said was interesting, but at the same time it was puzzling. Why would standing make more handling necessary? It seems at though it would be same whether they were on their backs of standing up. Did they explain it all? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Shaved Standing Up

Author:
Nicola
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Date Posted: 11:43:42 07/17/09 Fri

Unfortunately Laura i never actually witnessed either of them shaving any naked young men, but they did talk about it and although it sounds cruel they laughed about it. This is going back some years but i do remember them saying that with the man standing his penis is basically hanging in the way. So while shaving the scrotum they would purposely flip his penis about a lot, from side to side and sometimes they would get erections. And an erection on a man standing is a lot more prominent than when he's laying down.

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[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?

Author:
m. (To Observer)
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Date Posted: 13:15:28 07/16/09 Thu

I know they could have made the procedure less embarrassing. Looking back on it I think the older nurse was enjoying the whole thing. It was as if she was putting on a show for the younger more inexperienced nurse. The way she pressed and pulled on my penis until I was made erect. And then laying there exposed, stimulated and throbbing and on display. I didnt think about it at the time, probably because I was nervous about the operation....but looking back I feel I was kind of taken advatage of. My wife did ask me about it later and I told her what happened. She just laughed about it and said it must be a perk of the job!!!

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[> Subject: Wife Allowed To Watch Husband's Preop Shave

Author:
Observer
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Date Posted: 06:16:10 07/17/09 Fri

When this topic was being discussed on one of the former boards a woman posted that she had watched her husband get shaved by a young female nursing assistant.

The man was having a hernia operation. When the girl came in, the wife was at sitting there at his bedside. She got up to leave but the girl said she could stay. The girl, much to the wife's surprise, removed the man's sheet, untied his hospital gown and removed it, too. The man was then flat on his back with nothing on at all.

The girl proceeded to lather and shave the man from just below his armpits to just above his knees. The man became aroused near the beginning of the shave and remained that way for the whole time. According to the poster, her husband was acutely embarrassed, and she was awe-struck.

She had never expected that he would be shaved by a girl, that he would be completely nude, that he would get turned on, and that she would be sitting there watching it all.

Above, "m" said he thought the experienced nurse seemed to enjoy showing off in front of her younger colleague who was assisting her with m's shave. I wonder whether the girl who shaved the man in front of his wife was also showing off. Could she have been displaying the power she had over the man, despite the presence of his wife in the room?

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[> [> Subject: Allowing Wife To Remain Was Unusual.

Author:
Carol
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Date Posted: 09:33:56 07/18/09 Sat

Normally, family members or other visitors are asked to step out while the staff does any procedure. This being the case, I wonder why the girl invited the wife to stay.

An other unsual aspect of the prep was the tech removing the man's sheet and gown before she began, which left him completely naked the whole time. Normally, the patient is uncovered as the shave progresses, not all at once.

Either the girl was naive, or she was trying to embarrass both the man and his wife. We'll never know for sure.

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[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?
Author: bumper [Edit]	Date Posted: 22:57:54 07/18/09 Sat bump [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Re: How Is The Shaving Actually Done?
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[> [> Subject: Hey, Bumper, Why Not Say Something? Huh?
Author: Say Something [Edit]	Date Posted: 22:10:37 07/21/09 Tue Instead of bumping all the time, why not participate in the discussion? You seem to like the topics you decide to bump, so how about a comment instead of bump all the time? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Hey, Bumper, Why Not Say Something? Huh?
Author: Rebelheart [Edit]	Date Posted: 23:11:40 07/23/09 Thu Q. What's the difference between a lawyer and a trampoline? A. You take off your boots to jump on a trampoline. BTW, I'm a free spirit. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: The world's biggest lies ...
Author: Rebelheart, the real one [Edit]	Date Posted: 18:27:51 07/24/09 Fri The world's biggest lies ... 1) Now, I'm going to tell you the truth. 2) I never argue with a lady. 3) I'm on your side. 4) Don't worry, I can go another 20 miles when the gauge is on empty. 5) You must both come again. BTW, I'm a free spirit. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> Subject: Another Reason For Shaving A Standing Up Patient

Author:
Vinny
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Date Posted: 13:42:12 07/30/09 Thu

My sister, when she was in college, worked a few summers as a nursing assistant. I asked her about the topic recently discussed here, the one about having patients stand up while being shaved for surgery.

She said had heard of it back then but never tried it until she injured her back playing tennis. Not wanting to risk losing her job if she stayed out of work, she went anyhow.
One of her daily assignments was shaving patients, but she dreaded doing preps that day because of her back. Then she remembered the idea of asking them to stand up for the prep.

Of the four guys she was assigned to prep that day, she was lucky that only one of them was not well enough to stand.
For the other three, she spread a towel on the floor, had the patient stand on it, sat on a low stool, and shaved him that way. It was a great relief to her sore back to shave them standing. She had to suffer with only one patient, as she leaned over his bed to shave him in the usual way.

After that, even when her back was normal again, she did continue to shave some of her patients that way. She said in some respects it was a lot easier, and she didn't have to change wet sheets afterwards as she sometimes did whe n she had to shave a patient on the bed for some reason.

She added that she remembers wondering why standing preps were not taught as an option when she was trained, but she never did find out why it wasn't an official option.

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[> [> Subject: Re: Another Reason For Shaving A Standing Up Patient
Author: Rebelheart, the real one [Edit]	Date Posted: 21:37:11 07/30/09 Thu Q. How many divorced men does it take to change a light bulb? A. Who knows - they never get to keep the house! BTW, I'm a free spirit. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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