The benefits of having a partner check your skin for dangerous moles outweigh the potential embarrassment, say researchers.
Common places to develop potentially fatal melanoma include hard-to-see areas where it is difficult to apply sunscreen such as behind the ears and knees, the top of the head, and around the swimsuit line on a woman’s bottom.
“These aren’t parts of the body that most females like to have examined by their male partner, but at some point, they realized they’re just looking at the moles, not the cellulite,” says lead and senior author June Robinson, research professor of dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
“We found as long as the benefit is strong enough, it overcomes whatever potential embarrassment there might be between the partners.”
