Hi, I'm Alyssa Malano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry. So, I don't know. I'd like to think we're living in a more consent-aware world than we used to be.

We speak about the sexual ideal of

enthusiastic consent required before engaging in sexual acts, and yet recent

research demonstrates that in the medical community, what happens with our bodies

is often far outside that consent.

With almost 90% of medical students being asked to perform pelvic examinations on patients under anesthesia.

Our guest this week, Imagine Goddard, is a filmmaker whose new documentary at your

cervix examines how this happens in the effects of these exams. And listeners, be aware this episode contains frank discussions of these non-consensual examinations.

Unconscious, in surgery, and without your consent, a doctor in training practices, an intimate

exam on.

Calvick and Prostate exams are an important part of our basic care. Our doctors

making sure our reproductive organs are healthy and we know they're also an important

part of medical students training. But this story is about these intimate exams being done without consent.

Medical schools, medical students, and state legislatures are grappling with a little

discuss but sometimes common practice.

Performing pelvic and other intimate exams

on unconscious patients without their knowledge.

Conducting pelvic exams could be a very intimate practice.

Lawmakers here at the state capital want to make sure that health

care providers have your consent before they perform one on you.

My name is A Imagine and I am working to end medical sexual assault. Sorry not sorry.

Imagine I want to get into at your cervix, but first, will you please just tell our listeners a little bit about

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