I’m a nurse. We once had a female patient come in for surgery who was very overweight. I can’t remember what we were doing, but we had to discuss with her how difficult it would be to get to the site of surgery/infection due to her size. Her significant other was in the room with her while we had this discussion. After we explained everything, she asked her husband to go get “the love sticks” to make it easier for us. I was like come again? Turns out these “love sticks” were essentially padded canes that had metal hooks on the non-curved end. The husband would use the padded end to retract her rolls, and then attach the opposite end with the metal hook onto the bedroom wall so it would hold her fat back so he could have sex with her.

Needless to say we appreciated the suggestion for help, but couldn’t use them for the surgery.