Guys: age when doc started using gloves

Curious as to what age guys were when and if they remember their docs started using gloves during the genital and hernia exams. i was 19 when a doc first used gloves for the genital/hernia exam. all my exams up to that point were done with the doc bare-handed (he did wash his hands when he came into the exam room, and right after the genital exam).

I don't remember when my doctor used gloves to examine my genitals but I do remember the first time my doctor used gloves was for a rectal when I was 10 or 11. My current doctor does not use gloves cause she does not examine my genitals, of course my urologist wears gloves though. Even the nurse wears gloves there when she scans my bladder

Don't remember using gloves for genital exams, but when I was 18 pediatrician used glove for Rectal exam.

My doctor began using gloves when I was 12 and began standing for the genital exam. Before then, I was lying down for the genital exam and the doctor would go directly from the abdominal exam to the genital exam without putting on gloves.

I was 16 for my first exam where the doctor wore latex gloves for the testicle and hernia exam.

I don't remember if my first doctor used gloves or not, but I know my second pediatric doctor did because I distinctly remember him putting them on while telling me to lower my underwear.

I thinks he never used gloves for me.. One time he look at my penis, I have some little pain, he just look.

It was when I was 11, going to a pediatric gastroenterologist for a problem I had with constipation/encopresis where the doctor visually examined my bottom. I distinctly remember the fact that he was wearing purple gloves…that always stuck with me and has been my associations with intimate exams like that ever since.

I had a female pediatrician as a teenager who never wore gloves for the genital/hernia exam. It was always done by her bare-handed. I also had a few group sport physicals done at school as a teenager and those doctors always wore gloves. I think after the age of 18 all of the exams I had were done with gloves.

My recollection was about 12 after puberty started. And ever since then gloves have been used.

23 when I changed to an adult doctor

I don't remember my pediatrician ever using gloves back in the late 70s and through my teenage years in the 80s.

I saw a pediatric urologist three times in the mid-80s to diagnose and assess a cyst on my left testicle. I don't recall him ever using gloves, either.

I suppose the change to gloved exams probably started when I went to the student health center for an annual physical when I was in college.

I only recall one ungloved genital exam since then. I was lying on my back with my pants unfastened and unzipped (I always do that to give the doc better access to my lower abdomen) but otherwise fully clothed. After palpating my belly under my shirt, he unceremoniously reached into my underwear and pulled my penis and scrotum out without saying a word or putting on a glove. Absolutely bizarre, yet so wonderful to reflect on all these years later.

I was a kid in the 1970s and a teenager in the 1980s and doctors were almost always bare-handed back then. I even remember jokes about the school doctors for wrestling physicals about how the same hands were touching all of our balls.

@JakeNewYork same here. i dont recall the pediatricians I went to in the late 70s through the early 80s putting on gloves when they examined my brother and I. Im sure he washed his hands afterwards but I don’t even remember that.

My doctor never did as a kid. But as soon as I turned 18 they did

My doctor always wore latex gloves for that.

I don't remember the doc using gloves for any exam until maybe jt high, when he stuck his finger up my butt. I remember him putting them on, but didn't know why until it happened. He told me to roll over on my belly and felt him pull my cheeks apart. He put his cold (lubed) finger in all the way andvswirled it around for what seemed like forever. I remember squaling the whole time. I was mortified as my mom was sitting there and saw the whole thing.

I think my doctor first started around 13 when he saw my first signs of development/pubic hair. Before then, he would just wash His hands before and after, using hand sanitizer before and after taking a look below the belt.

My pediatric has always used gloves. She used purple latex gloves. When examined laying down she would only put on one glove and she used her bare hand to hold up my underwear waistband and then check my testicles and penis with one glove hand. Then when examined standing she had gloves on both hands which check my testicles and penis as well as the hernia exam.

Age 34, 2019. just as the Covid-19 pandemic was getting started.

I remember exactly the exam when my doctor at the time first used gloves. I was 12 and needed a physical exam for Boy Scouts. before then I had never had my genitals checked so there was very little need for gloves to be used during exams (besides nurses who wore them for vaccinations over the years). I was definitely into gloves by that point but as soon as I saw him reaching for them I got insanely nervous because I didn’t know what he needed them for. He wore regular latex gloves for that one, but subsequent doctors have almost always used nitrile.

I never had a doctor wear gloves when I had to be examined as a child, either for general check ups, sickness or hospital visits.

I was 10

I believe when I stopped swing the pediatrician, i started to experience gloves. However, I have yet to have adult doctors that gave genital exams as regular as my pediatrician….

None of my pediatrician used gloves for genital exam. Only when it came to rectal exam.

But my General practitioner always used glove.

@examined_teen really not sure , can’t remember if he examined me with or without gloves

My pediatrician never wore gloves. I think that skin to skin contact makes the exam more arousing.

The doctors that have examined me always wore gloves for the genital exam.

It's odd , I never thought about it until you're question . In 1966 I was very thoroughly examined for child abuse at the age of 14 . Three doctors , two nurses , I'm am very sure none of them wore gloves . I avoided Doctors with a “passion” until I was in a very serious motorcycle accident . In 1973 . Then only when I was handled blooded and bleeding being undressed and being cleaned after , they wore gloves but after my wounds were dressed I distinctly remember they made a point to glove up to change my dressing's . Again , In 1979 I broke my back in an work accident seldom did they wear gloves until my enema before surgery . In 1988 I was again injured in work place explosion that involved some very nasty chemicals {Methel bromide ,cyanide fiberglass etc} With all my burns and open wounds no doctor or nurse came into my room unless gloved and masked . And now at this late date , After my stroke earlier this year the first thing they did entering the room was put on gloves .

I think it is something that has evolved over time . But I have to say , In my experience it was more comfortable to be touched bare handed but times change .

For my pediatrician, never. He washed his hands before and after though