Dean's Nurse/Doctor Fetish

It’s clear that Dean Winchester likes girls. Girls of any occupation, from strippers to rebellious angels. However, no girl seems to excite him more than the one in medical uniform. 

Medical personnel as well as law enforcement representatives are arguably the professional groups we see most frequently on Supernatural. Needs of their job demand that Sam and Dean address cops and physicians in the course of almost every supernatural crime they investigate. Yet whereas Dean seems immune to the charms of policewomen, nurses rarely fail to produce a loin-tingling reaction in him. 

A few random examples would support my point. In “Faith”, Dean morbidly jokes that he is “not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren’t even hot”. In “What Is And What Should Never Be”, his ideal dream girlfriend works as a nurse. In “Sex And Violence”, Dean attempts (unsuccessfully) to charm a femme fatale doctor who’s got a thing for his brother. In “I Believe The Children Are Our Future”, Dean thinks of a pretty nurse while jerking off. In “Changing Channels”, it is revealed that Dean’s favourite “guilty pleasure” TV show is “Dr. Sexy MD” and that Dean has got a man crush on its protagonist, the manly, unshaven, cowboy boots-wearing surgeon (as well as a few sexy female doctors from the same show). In “Sam, Interrupted”, Dean’s supressed fears and anxieties materialize in the form of a witty, confident and attractive female psychiatrist and. This episode also features Dean flashing his private parts in front of a nurse. When Sam played a Dr. Sexy in “My Bloody Valentine”, Dean explicitly asked him to be his “valentine”. (Dear Sam. Do wear white. Slashily yours).  

If I were to fathom the reasons for Dean’s obvious fascination with the women in white, I’d point out the two. To begin with, doctors and nurses and hunters of the supernatural have similar job descriptions: Saving people. They face the rough and dangerous aspects of life every day and save people’s lives and health on a regular basis. Medicine is a job that is not totally devoid of risk and is intensely humanistic. It symbolizes safety. And, of course, what hunter wouldn’t like a girl who’d stitch his fresh wounds in no time?

The second explanation is prompted by Dean’s reaction in “What Is And What Should Never Be” – he suggests that dating a nurse is “so… respectable”. For Dean, an outcast and outlaw working class boy, having a (literally!) white collar girlfriend may well be a challenge and reward. The very fact that he could keep up a relationship with a girl from a higher stratum of society could testify his manhood and tickle his pride. 

Additionally, I’ve also got a pet theory about Dean’s medical fetish. I think it’s genetic –the mother of the Winchesters’ half-brother Adam was also a nurse, as revealed in “Jump The Shark”. Seriously, why couldn’t Sam opt for a medical school instead of a law course? 

Finally, here’s a rhymed version of this little essay. And, yeah, it was meant to be tasteless.  

 

Of all the pretty girls

That Dean Winchester yearns

The prettiest are those

Who wear white uniforms

He’s got no remorse

To flash before a nurse

And jerk off – oh, that’s gross

While dreaming of a nurse

He wouldn’t even blush

Admitting his man crush

‘Cause a hot TV surgeon

Makes him shy like a virgin

One look at his own brother in a medical disguise

Dean offers him his heart and can’t avert his eyes

If little Adam lived to be a sexy intern

Dean would be the first to call him a real turn-on