And since the days of the women's movement, the tools are usually warmer, not freezing. But give me an old fashioned metal speculum and an old male gyno anyday - my last exam, a petite young woman kept coming at me with tiny plastic maracas that kept biting me - I don't know what she expected to see with that darn thing! the hankster was not happy, and she usually be cracking jokes in that context.