your point (and agree with it) there's a male survivor of rape here who'd really really folks to really not push the anal rape analogies any further. Thanks. You might want to Google a little invasive procedure called a colonoscopy -- which would make the same point without triggering any male assault survivors in the neighbourhood. I'm Australian so this does not -- thank God -- affect me but I have had a number of transvaginal ultrasounds for medical reasons. They are painful and humiliating and, even with the best ob/gyn specialist doing it for entirely appropriate reasons and with my consent, I have felt violated. Congratulations to Dr Anonymous for speaking out. I hope that it will lead to others doing the same and these reprehensible laws will be repealed. Thank you, John Scalzi and Dr. Anonymous! Before reading this post I had not considered this perspective! Very eye opening. Thank you for taking a stand and fighting for your patients and their rights!! &gt;(I was going to propose repeatedly entering a single identical image in affected patient's charts nationwide, as a recognizable visual protest...but I don't have an ultrasound image that I own to the point that I could offer it for that purpose.) I will volunteer for this and give up all rights to the image if it will help. I don't have a uterus, ovaries or tubes so it should be interesting. I am also a physician. As someone above alluded to, a transvaginal ultrasound is