Medical and exam play

Examination, instruments, and a clinical register — flat, unhurried, and narrated.

Why people do it

The clinical register is the appeal: nothing here is admiring or unkind, it is simply recorded, and being examined rather than desired is a completely different kind of exposure. It is also one of the few frames where being narrated in flat language makes something more intense rather than less.

Smallest way in

An examination with no instruments at all — laid out, gone over part by part, each finding said out loud in the flattest voice available. The voice is doing all of the work.

What to watch

Anything entering a body is clean, lubricated and moved slowly, and resistance stops the movement rather than being pushed through. A speculum is closed before it comes out, never withdrawn open. Nothing borrowed from a real clinic that you cannot clean properly, and sharp pain or blood ends the evening.

In the planner

5 different things carry this tag, and switching it off removes every one of them. The mildest of them sits at medium.