Medical Cross Sections

[canadaski]

I've been looking at a few medical drawings for cross sections of certain body parts. Why do they draw them with hooks peeling back the skin? I was looking at a male penis/testicle cross section and had to cringe a little at the drawn hooks piercing and latching onto the skin with great tension. Does anybody know why this is a common practice?

[Dimitri]

Why do they draw them with hooks peeling back the skin?

So you can see the different layers of skin or the mesentery or the lipid layer (fat.)

I was looking at a male penis/testicle cross section and had to cringe a little at the drawn hooks piercing and latching onto the skin with great tension. Does anybody know why this is a common practice?

That would be a fetish thing, suspension or body modification is what it is called.

[CatFS]

It's probably because whoever was drawing the diagram in the first place was basing it off looking at a cadaver that was being displayed that way.

That would be a fetish thing, suspension or body modification is what it is called.I'm pretty sure they weren't making medical diagrams of fetish stuff. Also, i don't think suspension with hooks involves completely flaying the skin so you can see what's underneath

[Dimitri]

I'm pretty sure they weren't making medical diagrams of fetish stuff. Also, i don't think suspension with hooks involves completely flaying the skin so you can see what's underneath

Then if it is not that then it is the same answer as before, to see better...