Stealthy bandit or Prude making a statement? You decide.

As I've said before, I work in a fertility clinic. We deal with all aspects of infertility, both male and female. While we are not a clinic that sells donor sperm, we do have a full service lab that does semen analysis and sperm freezing for patients. We also have two "collection" rooms where the men can "produce" a sperm specimen. These rooms look a little more homey than your typical exam room. While they do have tile floors (for obvious reasons), they have art on the walls, a bed, a side table and a lamp for low lighting. In the side table drawer are what we like to call "visual aids". They are a various assortment of dirty magazines - some tame, like Playboy, and some a little raunchier, like Hustler. These are to be used as tools (no pun intended) to help the men give us a sperm sample. We've had complaints about our porn on both sides of the scale - some say too nasty, some say not nasty enough. But most of the time it gets the job done.

This morning a patient was put in the collection room. A few mintues later he went into the lab and said, "Um, this isn't going to do it for me." and showed the lab technician the magazine - Woman's Day. Someone had stolen all the porn and replaced it with typical waiting room magazines - Good Housekeeping, Parents, People. The nastiest thing in the drawer was the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.

This is the second time this has happened in the space of about a month. Either someone is making a statement by getting rid of the dirty magazines, or someone wants porn and doesn't want to pay for it. I think it's the latter.

But who would want to take those home? Don't they know where, and in whose hands, those magazines have been? Icky.