In the 1960-70's at the Pediatricians were you required to be nude through out the exam

I had to be totally nude from start to finish starting with the nurses exam.

Even in the late 1980s, being treated for late development, I had to undress completely for the duration of my exams (about 20 minutes, once a month or so)

No. I was a 60's - 70's kid and It was everything off except underpants.

I was a kid in the 1970s and a teenager in the 1980s. You did not always have to be nude for a physical exam in the 1970s, but it was much more common than it is now. It was rare that a pediatrician didn't have me nude for at least part of a full physical and a few of them had me nude for the entire process. I even remember one time that my parents had me and my brothers at a doctor for physicals and we were told to take all our clothes off but we left on our underpants and tshirts and the PA told our parents “they're all getting physicals today, so everything has to come off.”

No. I was a 60's - 70's kid and It was everything off except underpants.

Same with me. I wore my underpants and sometimes my undershirt too. I never got the abdominal check or “turn and cough” treatment as I had a hernia repair operation when I was six months old. No need to check what was already fixed apparently.

I went to a female pediatrician during the 70's through early to mid 80's and was never completely nude (that I remember). When I had sports physicals for school I was stripped to my underwear until the hernia exam, then those were just lowered as needed. Most times when I went to the pediatrician I just removed my shoes and shirt. Toward the end of the exam, with me lying down, she would would unfasten my jeans and feel my lower abdomen and upper groin area, but would never actually touch or even look at my genitals.

It was not normal, but then not rare either. I had a male doctor and when I was younger I never gave it a thought, but as I got older I become more self conscious of my developing body and the fact that he was a man.

It was not normal, but then not rare either. I had a male doctor and when I was younger I never gave it a thought, but as I got older I become more self conscious of my developing body and the fact that he was a man.

We're you totally naked, in panties only, in bra and panties only, or what? Did you ever get a gown?

My shoes and trousers were usually removed immediately upon entering the exam room by my mother. My underwear would be lowered or sometimes removed by the attending nurse, once upon the exam table. My shirt usually remained on, or was unbuttoned if it wasn’t a pullover. My mother was always instructed to have me remain bottomless until the doctor had his chance to see me. I can remember more often than not, the long wait on the edge of exam table staring past my pink penis down into my fresh clean white underpants and socks.

I was always mostly nude, or a least very exposed for the entire examination. Being so sick as to not feel humiliated, often felt like a sort of reprieve from my naked embarrassment.

Yes absolutely. For me, it was the year 1970. I remember being so bored waiting for the doctor to show up that I got off the exam table and ran back into the waiting room to play with the toys stark naked!

No, I was just required to strip down to just my underwear

Never was required to be naked. I was told to strip down to my underwear which were tighty whitie briefs. The briefs stayed on until time for the genital and hernia exams at which time I had to slide them down enough to expose the penis and scrotum. From age 11 onward,I would go home and masturbate thinking about dropping my briefs for the exam.

I recall that my “annual” or “school exam” always meant being required to undress to my briefs and could expect that I would have to lower or remove them. RTs and shots were often my experience.

Not that I remember unless the body needed to be looked at.

I had a GP not a pediatrician. He was male, quite a bit older and, as I look back both a lousy doctor and quite likely abusive. I was required to be either nude or down to underpants which came off during the exam, or at least down. This was the 60’s and 70’s. In the late 70’s we changed doctors and I was no longer required to be nude, bra and underpants was it. I was a teen at that point - maybe 14 or 15 or so.

I had a GP not a pediatrician. He was male, quite a bit older and, as I look back both a lousy doctor and quite likely abusive. I was required to be either nude or down to underpants which came off during the exam, or at least down.

@Nurse_Phillips - Let's be quite frank here, the power of certain individuals like Doctors to strip naked almost any patient they wanted back in that era, with little prospect of complaint, must have seemed like a God-like power to those seeking thrills from children or adults. Chaperones for adults were likewise not required then, so even less prospect of a successful complaint . If a GP wanted to check a patient's breasts etc without prior warning, as my then busty partner discovered, he probably had his hands on them within seconds and unwitnessed. The Wild West era of medicine and other professions.

Many people believe that it is a lie but the truth is that it happened every year. Completely nude groups. Those were other times and doctors were not moralistic as they are today. There was nothing wrong either. we all had the same body

I was always told to take everything off except my “underpants“ at both the male pediatrician I had until around 10 or 11 and the female pediatrician I had after that but at the end of every physical they always came off. The first pediatrician mid 60s to early 70s the nurse did rectal temps but second was always orally while sitting in my underwear even as a teen. I don’t remember gowns being offered until sometime in my 20s unless I was in the hospital. Then it was usually everything off gown on although some physicians or NPs didnt offer gowns so it was underwear only.

All school sports physicals we’re done in groups wearing only socks and underwear which came down at the end. Fortunately that part was done privately but just about everyone wore briefs even in high school so there wasn’t much to the imagination with the school nurses taking height, weight and vital signs before seeing the doctor.

I went to a Pediatrician until I was about 13 or 14 years, I don't remember the exact age that my mother switched me to a regular doc. But each year at the Pediatrician for my annual physical, I was required to strip to my underwear, tighty whities, for the entire exam. When I went to the Pediatrician when I was sick, I didn't have to strip at first, it just depended on what part he needed to examine. But usually if the exam resulted in my getting a shot in the butt so I was laying on the exam table with my pants and underwear down to my ankles while the doctor gave me the shot.

I was a kid/teen in the 60s' and 70's.

First pediatrician had me strip down to my tighty whities but the would come off for the last 5 minutes or so.

In 6th grade we moved and my new pediatrician, I stripped down to my tighty whities again, but when he came in to the exam room, after a minute or two of small talk with my mother, told me to take off my briefs and step up on the scale. I was nude the rest of the exam with my mom sitting there.

I had friends who were examined nude, too, so it was not that unusual back then.

I know for me…in the 70's I was a kid…and in the 80's was my teen years. All the time going to the pediatrician it was always the same. My mother would check in for my appointment. Wait in the waiting room. The nurse would call back both my mother and I.

We were escorted into a exam room. Once inside the exam room, the nurse would close the door, my mother would take a seat next to the exam table. I was told to undress and just keep my undies on. Inside the exam room was the scale, the nurse would weigh me and take my height, and then was told to get onto the exam table, turn lay on my stomach and the nurse would remove my undies just enough to bare my ass, she would then take my temperature with the anal thermometer. After the temp. was taken she put my undies back up and then I turned around and the nurse would tell me to sit upwards, and take my blood pressure. she would write everything down and then tell my mother and I that the doctor would be in shortly and she would leave just leaving my mother and I in the exam room.

My mother and I would say nothing. I would try to relax since I was super nervous, anxious and just trying to be calm about what is going to happen once the doctor arrives. My mother would just be sitting there holding my folded clothes in her lap and her pocket book on the floor between her feet. It normally felt forever for the doctor to arrive, but then he would knock on the door, say hello to my mother and look at me and nod his head.

He would ask how I was doing and I would always say good. He would then turn his attention to my mother and ask her some questions. If it was for being sick, he would ask questions to my mother about my mood, sleeping habits, eating,sneezing or coughing and just common questions. If it was for my growth and development exam, he would ask about my home inspections, any stains in my undies and bathing habits, mood changes and such.

After all the questions, he would turn to me and feel my lyphnodes, my eyes, nose, and throat and listen to my heart and then tell me to lay down. He would continue listening to my heart and then palpate my chest, then my stomach and work his hands down to my lower part of my stomach, I knew at this point the genital exam was going to be soon so my penis would start getting erect through my undies and I would have a bulge in my undies, the doctor would ignore it and work his hands down my pubic area underneath the waist band of my undies and the remove my undies, as I would lay there nude with an erection at this point.

He would then thoroughly examine my penis, I would be erect and eventually ejaculate while the whole time, my mother watching and me being embarrassed throughout the exam.

I like others had a GP. The nurse would have me strip down for her to take my temperature. So yes I was nude for her, then the Doctor.