As the 3rd year medical approached for the boys, rumours would abound that upon dropping your trousers, the nurse would encourage you to get an erection, then hit it with, depending on who was telling you the story, a variety of implements, most commonly, a big stick or a wooden spoon. What the purpose of this was meant to be, I’m not sure. And then to get you to lose the erection, she would use a cold spoon under the testicles. You would also have to cough as she generously fondled your bollocks, and if you didn’t cough then you were probably homosexual, which resulted in 13 year old boys coughing so violently they nearly coughed up their own spleens.