Nudity for Medical photography

[perfectpeach]

I am a nursing student and there is a lot of nudity in my nursing books. I was just curious if it were immoral to “pose” nude for medical purposes.

 

[wabrams]

I would say it isn’t immoral; had nude models in my anatomy books and there was nothing erotic or enticing about it.

 

[CarmeliteGirl25]

I don’t believe there is a problem with medical nudity. You are a student who must learn about the human body in order to have a nursing profession. As long as the pictures are not erotic or stimulating (and they should not be, anyway, if done correctly), then it’s ok.

 

[Roman_Army]

I am a nursing student and there is a lot of nudity in my nursing books. I was just curious if it were immoral to “pose” nude for medical purposes.

Nudity is only immoral when one intends to lust over it or if one is an accessory to another’s lust. Example would be Playboy magazine, it is immoral to lust over it and also immoral to merely purchase it, publish it, distribute it, or sell it since one would be supporting a business whose intention is to incite lust.

But, medical nudity is perfectly fine. It is necessary for doctors and nurses to study the anatomy of the human body and be accustomed to seeing naked patients in order to treat them. Not all nudity is wrong, look at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome and Michelangelo’s statue of King David. They most likely had to look at naked bodies to find inspiration for those art works. The intention is not to lust over it.

 

[perfectpeach]

I am definately not lusting over the photography. I was mostly curious if it was immoral to be photographed nude for the use of a textbook. (not that I would consider…) just curious really.

 

[CFI]

I am definately not lusting over the photography. I was mostly curious if it was immoral to be photographed nude for the use of a textbook. (not that I would consider…) just curious really.

There is nothing immoral.

 

[Simon_B]

I am definately not lusting over the photography. I was mostly curious if it was immoral to be photographed nude for the use of a textbook. (not that I would consider…) just curious really.

There is nothing immoral in this work.
I am a medical photographer. I have been photographing men and woman is various stages of undress for more than 30 years and I also use professional models occasionally to pose for photographs to demonstrate how medical photographs should be taken. They are not photographs for anyone to lust over, they are professional anatomically-accurate images for medical personnel.
Interestingly, the last model I used also had posed for “glamour” work over the past year. She was fascinated by the medical photography work I was doing and said how much she had enjoyed the experience, said that she felt she was doing something of value, rather than removing clothes for someone else’s enjoyment.

 

[Cormacnl]

I am a nursing student and there is a lot of nudity in my nursing books. I was just curious if it were immoral to “pose” nude for medical purposes.

You say you are just curious but I wonder if we are in danger of getting caught up in knots if we assume concepts like naked or sex are always wrong.

You could as easily ask whether it is immoral for a doctor or nurse to see a patient naked or to touch the patient. I am no expert but I think experience has shown medical staff tend to get better results when they examine the patient both with their eyes and hands. And, one could image the examination will achieve the best results if the doctor/nurse has a rough idea what the patient should look like. Therefore people who pose for medical purposes are not immoral - quite the opposite in fact.

 

[Bluegoat]

What about the nude models for all of the art found at the Vatican?

I would say that no, there is nothing wrong with it, unless something specifically immoral went on at the time.

The human body is sexual, but I think that when we assume that all nudity is sexual, we are actually reducing the human body to tht, and it is so much more. It has beauty, power, holiness, decay, tragedy…

We need to learn to see the body as a whole and not reduce it to one thing.