Doctor Dick has written exclusively for The Bug for more than three decades and the world’s top sex therapist once again answers a vexed question to the very best of his professional abilities.

Dear Doctor Dick
Have you ever reacted to some topic or other and you desperately want to say something about it there and then but warning bells…

Silence is Golden, Perhaps?
Mackay, Queensland

Doctor Dick replied: Ring in your head?

Silence is Golden, Perhaps?: Exactly and even when you finally decide to express your view you’re still very much in doubt whether you should press the send button for the strife you might get into…

Doctor Dick replied: Tell me about it!

Silence is Golden, Perhaps? We’re on the same page, perhaps. Here’s what I saw on the evening TV news a little while back. A deputy police commissioner in Queensland had resigned after more than four decades of police service for calling a top gynecologist a “vagina whisperer”.

Our local Channel 9 news explained this top gynecologist and obstetrician’s nickname among his medial colleagues was in fact “vagina whisperer”. The Channel 2 news the same night said this doctor was in fact a friend of the cop who called him that. Look, I don’t know what forum this deputy commissioner made the comment at but, really, is calling a top women’s parts doctor a vagina whisperer a sackable or resignable offence?

To lose a career and presumably a sizable slice of a hard-earned retirement package seems quite unfair. Some counselling wasn’t recommended? The Commissioner – a woman – couldn’t have refused his resignation? I’m interested in your thoughts but can you understand my reticence in raising my concerns?

Silence is Golden Perhaps?
Mackay, Queensland

Doctor Dick replied: Do I share any fears you might have about having your – our – say on this issue? Well, all I can say is #metoo!

I’ve looked into this topic all of my professional life and the word “vagina” is not in itself an offensive word in any shape or form. A majority of Australians have one, after all, including that commissioner you mentioned.

And, personally, I think calling a top gyno a “vagina whisperer” is rather nice. Sure, this top specialist is whispering to a lot more than just a vagina but “female reproductive system whisperer” sort of loses its punch a bit, doesn’t it?

Now before the little ladies start protesting outside my treatment rooms up on Wickham Terrace, I do qualify my remarks by stating categorically that I am unaware of the thrust of the conference our now ex-senior police officer was attending? See how careful we all have to be, Silence is Golden Perhaps, in the politically correct 21st Century.

But I offer only this comment – and I do so with some trepidation – if that ex-cop’s mate had been a top erectile dysfunction expert, would he now be out of a job if he had talked of his “Penis Whisperer” mate or his “Willy Whisperer” friend?

Sorry, but I think I’ve said enough. I’ve got to go now, ring my security company and get them to double their rounds checking on those aforementioned treatment rooms of mine.