At a clinic visit this week the Medical Assistant screens me. “Are you sexually active?”
I say, “Um, what do you mean?”
“Are you sexually active?”
“Um, I do not have a partner.” By now, I really want to laugh.
She still looks confused. “You are not sexually active.”
“Ok.” I try not to giggle. Apparently her question series does not cover um, solo sexual activity and I resist telling her about the downtown sexual health and toy store. The new multispeed, multipattern suction toys are, well, enlightening and INSPIRING and EXPLOSIVE.. Or, um, something. Snort.
Let’s just study the dome. This is from Venice and tells the story of Adam and Eve.
I have sent a message to my physician saying that they may want to rephrase the questions. “Do you have any sexual partners?” would be more enlightening as far as sexually transmitted disease risk. Heh. The whole thing cracked me up. My blood pressure was still 108 over 70. Ha, so there, heart disease. My English/Scots father’s family is adapted to tobacco and alcohol and my father ran a low blood pressure even with 55 years of unfiltered Camels in his lungs.
Heh.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: dome. This is the Basilica San Marcos, which has multiple domes. This one tells the story of Adam and Eve. I now want to paint one of my ceilings. The bathrooms have too much moisture. I suspect this will not enthuse future realtors.
Alone and lonely are not the same thing.
Fantasy is good.
KO Rural Mad As Hell Blog 
now that was a chuckle…
The title reminded me of a joke from years ago.
When asked if she was sexually active, the woman replied “No, I usually just lay there” π
Another great example of the need for English-to-English translation; as well as a great example of medical professionals thinking they are being clear when they are not. I heard a tale (possibly apocryphal) of someone being asked if they were sexually active. Looking embarrassed, they replied, “Um, no, I tend to just lie there.”
Well, I know a worse one than that. A survey in Washington, DC about “fisting” which male recipients thought meant solo handwork, which was not what the inteviewers thought they were asking about. There was some confusion.
YOU WERE A VERY NAUGHTY PATIENT… I hope you had fun!
Heh. But I mean, um, well, I couldn’t exactly say, no I am not sexually active. But she was not asking the right question, heh.
Semantics.
My sexually transmitted disease risk would currently be exceedingly low.