andrology labs are among the skeeviest places on Earth IMO

...yet somehow, in an abstract manner, this makes them kind of awesome? I mean, you've got a middle-aged nurse practitioner leading you to a quiet alcove full of DOCTOR-APPROVED PR0N in tasteful manila folders and a TV with a DVD running on loop featuring hardcore no-condom sex, all next to a sterile clinic bathroom with a door for your "sample" and about a bazillion signs begging you to remember to lock the door...

This is really a facet of modern medicine? Really? Yuck, but also... yay?

(lol ILX asked me if I was sure I didn't want to post this on a bell_labs birthday thread; thanks dude, I'm pretty sure)

Lol.

What constitutes DOCTOR-APPROVED PR0N?

Issues of Penthouse with "ANDROLOGY LAB" written on the covers in black marker, apparently.

The unsafe sex DVD really shocked me! Of all the things you expect to see at the doctor's office!

Maybe the safe sex versions didn't produce the, er, results they were looking for?

I was halfway afraid there was going to be a cabinet full of "what's yer pleasure" disgustopr0n like "EXTREME KITTEN FISTING" or some other nonsense. And now that I didn't see one but did see the unsafe sex video, I'm halfway convinced that there is one behind the receptionist's desk.

One of my genetics profs in college did andrology research. The first day of class, he mentioned that the gents in the class had an opportunity to make a bit of cash by donating their seed to his lab for research purposes.

Said donated seed was to be, er, harvested in the privacy of dudes' dorm rooms or whatever, then dropped off in a little cabinet in the hallway outside the lab. It looked kind of like an electrical box.

I was a research asst in a lab on the same hall. More than once I was in the somewhat awkward position of watching one of my bro classmates shuffle down the hall with a paper bag in hand, which he placed in the electrical box. The look on their faces was somewhat akin to look on my dog's face when he got snacking from the offerings in the cat's litter box.

lol

Is it just me or is andrology rife with comedy (at least until you hear bad news)?

okay, so I'm mad that I have to go back but I'm also somewhat amused because I might ask if they have anything more just to see what they pull out

I can't believe I'm wondering about secret andrology lab pr0n now.

so sad that this isnt about laboratories where they build ROBOTS THAT LOOK AND ACT LIKE PEOPLE

They should be building cylons instead of making people wank to kitten pr0n.

oh god, someone i know (he'll remain nameless) said he was shuffled into a dingy afterroom to "eject a little sperm" in a bottle.

(this was to check if his sperm was fertile enough. i can sort of see how they'd shove him in the seediest room - get it SEEDIEST - to see if it was still GREBT)

So the most recent place we went had, at the bottom of the well-thumbed stack of Hustler/Club International magazines, something that I don't really remember the title of but might have been "BIG BOTTOM GIRLS".

Also lolzy: the sign on the wall dated 2004 stating "DUDEZ SRSLY STOP STEALING ALL THE PR0N"