Oh, it's anecdote time is it? When I was in nursing school, the first patient I did an ECG on was a ~50 year old woman with a fungating breast tumor. First shower I did was a ~60 year old female stroke patient who was aphasic and couldn't even communicate whether or not she was comfortable. First male I catheterised was a state-level rugby player.

This was all WHILE i was still a student... so, I don't understand... I remember laughing at some of the A and P textbooks, but to be bothered by an IMAGE of a naked person while actually dealing with real-live naked people all the time seems a little weird to me.

How do you remember the textbook models at all? The only models from anatomy I remember are those in Gunther Von Hagens' anatomy videos and that guy was very fit, pretty sure the woman was too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbyUzsHP3Po&list=PL0Y7_5115Qe3cC5MSr99EMZhCtNXWIa74

Again... I really don't get it. It's probably likely that there are more fat, hairy men who are happy to pose as models than women. Aren't there millions of real problems out there without inventing ones like 'sexist textbook makers are putting patients at risk by using photos of attractive women'? I've worked with lots of female nurses who would be considered 'attractive', do they not exist? Should they not be treated because they are 'unrealistic'? I'm just imagining the paramedics rocking up to a music festival where some girl is ODing on narcotics and they're just like:

"Nope, sorry, she's attractive... too unrealistic, can't be sure we will be human after seeing her semi-naked. We only save fat, hairy or unattractive people."