[Avodah] Habituation

[Zev Sero]

kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
> It is my understanding that the great majority of authorities (perhaps all of them) place very few (perhaps zero) restrictions on how a male doctor examines a female patient, even for routine checkups (and kal vachomer for a cholanis, and even more so for a cholanis sheyesh bah sakanah).

Correct.

> And if I am correct in the above, am I correct that the reason for such leniency is a presumption that the probability of the doctor getting significant (or any) hirhur or hanaah is negligible (or zero)?

Correct.

> If I am correct in all the above, then it seems that, despite protests to the contrary, habituation *IS* a widely (or universally) accepted heter for these halachos.

And here's where, AIUI, you go wrong: the heter is not habituation but
distraction.  He is busy with his work, and the context makes him see
the person before him not as a woman but as an anatomical construction
that is either functioning or not.  Similarly, a photographer sees a
female subject not as a woman but as an object to be manipulated so as
to properly integrate into the composition.

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