First time to be completely naked for a physical

I have never been completely naked. Over the years I’ve been told either to strip to my shorts, or if told to completely undress was handed a gown to wear.

I was always stripped to my underwear at the beginning of the exam and eventually they were removed. I remember one of my last exams at the pediatrician being different. I was handed a gown and told to remove everything including my underwear. I remember thinking that the gown covered more than my underwear so it was a good tradeoff. When the doctor entered the room, she said that we knew each other well enough and the gown would only get in the way. She proceeded to take the gown from me and examine me naked. This was the first time I was naked for the entire exam and not just at the end. The exam was very embarrassing. Normally, I was somewhat okay during the exam and only became nervous and embarrassed when it came time to remove my underwear. Being naked for the entire exam added a new level of nervousness, embarrassment, and anxiety.

Did that in my draft physical, while we out, girls go inside the same room, didnt see any dr walked out!

I was 12 and both my parents were there with the dr and nurse. very embarrassing for a girl that age to be nude.

Amy93 what doctor was it and why were you completely naked?

When young, always stripped to underpants for the exam. I's be asked to lower the undies for the genital exam, but being above my knees they were still technically on. After age 24, not so much - just lift shirt and/or drop pants, if needed. Now in my late 50s, the clothes stay on.

I always remember being stripped to the underwear, but eventually, they would either come off or at least down. First time I remember being totally nude for a physical was in boot camp. It happened several more times during my Navy career. Since then (40 years ago) I have usually been told to strip to my underwear, sometimes given a gown, but eventually, I would have to expose myself.

During my early visits to the doctor undressing to just my underpants was a given. Another given was having those underpants slid down toward my knees for a rectal temperature as I lay prone on the exam table. Once the thermometer was read, my underpants were usually slid back up in place. However, if I was due a vaccine my underpants were removed after my RT. I'm pretty sure I figured out this pattern during my year in kindergarten. That was the year I was having frequent tonsilitus which led to their removal at age 5.

In NYC, gay, or gay friendly doctors who do the whole exam have tended to have male patients naked from the start. One doctor brought me in to the exam room, pointed at the hook on the back of the door, and told me to take everything off. I wasn't expecting this, so kept my briefs on. He came back, took my height and weight, and said that I should take my undies off, so the exam was done with me naked. The prostate exam was on knees, and elbows. I heard that he started using an anoscopy later during every physical. The visuals in the waiting room were great because I could imagine each guy- only males in the practice- naked either before, or after me.

Two other doctors, who also did everything during the exams, starting with weights, themselves, left the question open. I made the decision to take everything off myself. Neither blinked.

I will point out that doctors who trained during WWII, afterwards going into practices, were used to male patients being naked as a given. If they had staff involved in the exams, they likely adjusted accordingly.

In NYC, gay, or gay friendly doctors who do the whole exam have tended to have male patients naked from the start.

Do straight men also go to these doctors ? Are they required to strip completely naked, too ?

I will point out that doctors who trained during WWII, afterwards going into practices, were used to male patients being naked as a given. If they had staff involved in the exams, they likely adjusted accordingly.

This was my experience, too, when at the end of high school my dad took me to his doctor for my pre-college physical exam. My dad was in WW2 and his doctor had been a doctor in the Army in WW2. When my dad and I walked into the exam room my dad told me to strip completely naked because this was going to be a "man's exam". When the doctor walked into the room he was not surprised to see me naked. It was the most thorough examination that I had up until that point.

There is no sign on the office door: 'Gay men only.' When I had a bodywork practice, I had gay, straight, bi-men as clients, all of whom were there for a prostate massage part. But, there was an unquestionable gay vibe at the Chelsea office. Any man of any orientation would be welcome. With one internal medicine doctor, yes, the exams were done with the patient naked, but not because the doctor's training came out of WWII. I think that he enjoyed doing the physical exams.

To your point, TWN, it would be interesting if there were female staff members. I believe that in one of your posts the (nurse?) instructed you to strip to underwear, but your father, who saw this doctor himself, as you wrote, said to take your underwear off. The doctor would possibly have been annoyed if you were not ready, not naked.

The details of your bending over to grab your ankles for the prostate exam comes directly out of WWII draft physicals at many locations. Others have posted the positions taught over the years by medical schools, and I have never encountered this there.

The male physical exam video series always included the 'doctor' having a conversation with the 'patient.' In one of them, a still bothered guy said that his real doctor, finding him, a real patient, in his briefs, told him to take his underwear off so he could start the exam. The real patient paused, not believing the order. The real doctor then commented about his not following directions.

My athletic director required a third form heights, and weights at the gym. His order was for taking everything off. My classmates resisted.

My athletic director required a third form heights, and weights at the gym. His order was for taking everything off. My classmates resisted.

Did you ever know anyone at a practice to examine guys in their jockstraps ?

Not in elementary school. I don't think that we had jockstraps at that age. We definitely had them in junior high because they were visible wrestling. But no coach checked them. Jockstraps were rolled with t-shirts, and socks at prep school, but no one checked them.

" Wrestler" did you refuse to strip if your athletic director wanted that you were naked for weight ins ? all wresters refused to strip completely?

The third form boys declined to lose their underwear for a one time Fall heights, and weights, with the exception of one classmate who freeballed. My prep school didn't offer wrestling. At the public school wrestling weigh-ins, no one hesitated about taking off briefs before getting on the scale. In the 1960's, you complied with authority figure orders, or directions. The seniors, or varsity, set the pattern.

" Tighty whiteis Now "

it was certainly not too much embarrasing for you if you had aggred to be accompanied by your fther to see that old school doctor but was it a requirement of the doctor that a young man even age of freshman college was accompanied by one parent ? or could you have come alone but your father wanted to be there for your exam and did not ask at you your agreement?

you say that it was nor surprised to see you completely naked when he entered in the room, I presume that like he knew your father he shared with him the idea that nudity ws necessary for a good exam like in the army?

Did he explained to you why nudity was necessary and how much male teenagers he had seen naked before?

you said that his exam was very thorough, did he told you or instructed you to do exercices naked to check musculature or posture and balance like at the army? were you instructed to walk in the room on heels or on toes? and squat several times ?

did you have a visual rectal exam, how was it perforned ? , not a DRE?

As a child at my pediatrician that was how it was done back in the 70s as I remember