Nurses' Uniforms
By Fiona Duncan
Cross Dressing Desiresby Fiona Duncan
One reason people are frightened of hospitals is surely that a lot of people die there. I am reminded of the great increase in sexual promiscuity in the Second World War. (And we shouldn't forget, here, fantasies about wounded fighter pilots and their nurses!). There is a curious connection between death and sexuality - and also between fear of death and sexuality. That subject, however, needs a whole book to do it justice.
Turning from death to childhood, somewhere here we are almost certain to be reminded of children's games of doctors and nurses. These not only represent the first step towards sexual experimentation for many people - but also form a combined fantasy for both genders. As we shall see, women have their own nurse fantasies.
If we return to Florence Nightingale and the origins of modern nursing, the profession seems not only feminine but representing femininity at its best. During the Crimean War the boys mutilated one another while the girls (as represented by Florence Nightingale's nurses) did what they could to patch them up. Given the choice of these gender roles, which of us would prefer the male?
Indeed, the nurse as fantasy (which is, of course, what we are considering with transvestite nurses) is curiously feminine. Mills and Boon - surely exclusively female fantasy - treat doctor and nurse stories as a sub genre in their own right. Presumably, the readers identify with the nurses rather than the doctors. Mills and Boon certainly do not treat maids or school girls in the same way. Perhaps transvestite nurses represent one of our closest approximations to genuinely female fantasy.
When we come to consider fantasy, a great deal of it has to do with submission and domination. Clearly, this is true of both the ubiquitous maid and the schoolgirl. The maid is there to do the bidding of her master or mistress. The schoolgirl must obey the teachers, and abide by the school rules - otherwise it's the classic sub/dom situation with the head mistress cast in the role of the dom, a painful situation (but one which many TV's enjoy).
With nurses things are less clear cut. Certainly, in the doctor and nurse scenario so beloved of Mills and Boon and their readers the nurse is in a subservient position. The doctor is clearly in a position elevated above the nurse. The dominance, however, is more subtle than in either the maid or the schoolgirl fantasies. The doctor may give the nurse orders - but has no obvious disciplinary measures to hand should the orders not be properly carried out.
A more classically dominant figure in nurse fantasies is the matron. (None of the worst for being a dominatrix, perhaps). Hospital administration has changed a great deal in recent years - but we are surely all familiar with the fearsome matron as played by such actresses as Hattie Jacques in the old comedy films. (The likes of Carry on Nurse and all the other doctor films.) According to my sisters who trained as nurses, such awe-inspiring matrons really existed.
Mixed in with the submissiveness of the role, however, the nurse can also dominate. She can give orders to the patients as surely as the doctor (or matron) can give her orders. And what orders she can give!
...Off with your clothes now... come on, you can't leave those underpants on...
... Time for your injection.... just bend over now...
... Now, now, be brave... it may hurt just a little bit...
Indeed, bending over for the nurse to give one an injection in the bum (I mean an intermuscular injection, of course) is almost certain to remind one of bending over for the headmistress's cane. The injection may be over more quickly, but there are those who would prefer the cane.
A spanking, if not the cane, is surely available from the nurse's cousin, the nanny. Strict Nanny Stern appears in more than one TMC publication, wearing something indistinguishable from a nurse's uniform. (Plenty of starch!).
The adult baby theme, closely connected with the nanny figure, leads us back towards a sense of return to childhood which illness can bring. The nurse's patients and the nanny's charges have much in common. Nor should we forget, somewhere between the nanny and the nurse, is the school matron - leading us back in the direction of schoolgirl fantasies.
Nannies and school matrons aside, the nurse is someone with whom to be reckoned with in her own right, Injections, enemas (I've already mentioned them as being popular with some) - the nurse certainly has the power to do some remarkable things to her patients. her thermometer won't necessarily end up in your mouth, either.
Supremely, feminine, simultaneously submissive and dominant, is it any wonder that transvestites with a little imagination feel the urge to slip into the nurse's starched uniform? So pure, so stainless.... Isn't that a perfect description of me? Anyone who thinks it isn't had better watch themselves when I make my rounds tonight! It can be a lot of fun...
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