Between blotch and blok

(with apologies to Henry Reed for nicking his title)

When I announced to one lot of doctors doing their rounds that my stoma was called Stanley (as indeed, it is), someone commented that they were always given men's names. (I found it absolutely lovely that the naming of your stoma was a thing that folk just did and was unsurprising to the assembled healthcare folk.)

This got me wondering:

1. Do all modifications and prostheses get men's names? (See for instance MP Craig Mackinlay's Albert (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/21/tory-mp-craig-mackinlay-reveals-his-arms-and-legs-have-been-amputated-due-to-sepsis)) Is it just stomas? And what does this mean?
2. Why do we name some prostheses and not others? (Or is it just me that's failed to give spectacles names all these years?)

Also, some facts about Stanley:

• The name, in full Stanley McGurrigle, came completely unbidden. There was no conscious decision or thought on my part to give the stoma a name or what that name would be
• Yes, it's silly. It almost always raises a laugh. This is good, I think
• Stanley is the whole caboodle of stoma and attached stoma pouch. The naked stoma is something entirely different to that (and probaly the subject of another post when I've formed the words around my feelings about it)

[ETA: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/26/in-a-world-derailed-do-we-dare-to-have-hope, Boris Thyroid]