Kathleen--
I seem to remember another irreverant analogy that I suspect came from you.
Hope I get it right. It centered around some (male) doctor attitudes towards
the "normalness" of sore nipples. The person telling the story suggested
that if men got sore penises every time they had sex, there would be an
institute set up to study the problem.  I think it really brought home the
callousness (no pun intended) of many health professionals--unfortunately
even women (I still have mothers telling me that the nurse at the hospital
told her that sore (even cracked) nipples were normal and that the nipple
would soon toughen up. Yikes!
Leslie Ayre-Jaschke, BEd, IBCLC
Peace River Breastfeeding Clinic
Peace River Alberta, Canada