Guys and gals being examined in underwear together

I can't remember if it was on here or on one of the now- defunct Voy forums, but one poster told a rather interesting story.

At his or her own school medical, the boys and girls were all gathered together into one room where they were all instructed to strip to their undergarments. The boys in one line while the girls stood in another, mere feet apart. All the non-invasive parts of the exam like the eyes, ears, heart etc. were performed out in the open, while the more intimate parts were carried out behind a partition. According to this poster, the boys' and girls' line each had their own separate doctor and / or nurse.

Has anyone else ever experienced or heard of this or anything similar?

Group physical by sex were done separately. A genital exam for males was required. Not sure as to what females had. There were a lot of nervous boys on exam day!

I didn't experience this as I went to an all-boys school. However the description of stripping to underwear and waiting in line is virtually identical to my experience. That was embarrassing enough being in front of every one else in the school year. Having to do it alongside female classmates would have been extraordinarily embarrassing, particularly when emerging from behind the screen still trying to force your erection back into your underwear - as you were ushered out for the next pupil before having the chance to cover up!!

Where I grew up and in the era I grew up, this would have caused WW3. Boys and girls weren’t even allowed to play together when I was in elementary all the way through high school. At both my junior high and my high school, the girls and boys locker rooms and showers were physically separated by the gym itself and the entrances/exits to both were guarded at all times.

Where I grew up and in the era I grew up, this would have caused WW3. Boys and girls weren’t even allowed to play together when I was in elementary all the way through high school. At both my junior high and my high school, the girls and boys locker rooms and showers were physically separated by the gym itself and the entrances/exits to both were guarded at all times.

I'll never understand some societies' obsession with shielding boys and girls from each other and putting up all kinds of barriers, both literal and metaphorical, between them. It's counterproductive, it's unnatural, and makes absolutely no practical sense. What exactly are they trying to accomplish by keeping the two genders naive and ignorant about each other? It's like they're trying to circumvent the natural order of things.

There's a handful of old photographs circulating around the web. It was taken sometime during the 80s or 90s, and showed a bunch of young German or Scandinavian nudist couples slow dancing at some big event in an apparent dance hall. It was one of the loveliest things I've ever seen.

The way I grew up, nudity wasn't a big thing. I was an only child of a single mom, and while we weren't in-home nudists, it wasn't uncommon for me to spend time after bathtime until bedtime or on Saturday mornings in just my briefs or in my bathrobe either in briefs or naked underneath - it just wasn't a thing. When I stayed over at the neighbor's house overnight, it wasn't uncommon for me to take a bath with their daughter that was my age (my best friend) up until about age 11 or 12 when she started to develop. Even then it wasn't unusual for her to be in the bathroom with me while she was in her robe and I was in the bath. Maybe it was just the times and the hippie influence in the neighborhood.

I didn't learn to be ashamed of my body until Jr High, and that lesson was brutal.

The way I grew up, nudity wasn't a big thing. I was an only child of a single mom, and while we weren't in-home nudists, it wasn't uncommon for me to spend time after bathtime until bedtime or on Saturday mornings in just my briefs or in my bathrobe either in briefs or naked underneath - it just wasn't a thing. When I stayed over at the neighbor's house overnight, it wasn't uncommon for me to take a bath with their daughter that was my age (my best friend) up until about age 11 or 12 when she started to develop. Even then it wasn't unusual for her to be in the bathroom with me while she was in her robe and I was in the bath. Maybe it was just the times and the hippie influence in the neighborhood.

I didn't learn to be ashamed of my body until Jr High, and that lesson was brutal.

What happened when you reached Jr. High?

Boys and girls weren’t even allowed to play together when I was in elementary all the way through high school.

You're right about that. This was the case in the Catholic schools I had to attend in the US. Reading this here on Zity brought it back, because, at the time it was the 'normal' way things were done in Catholic schools.

Nothing like that ever happened when I was in school. Guess I really missed out on a lot of fun!

What happened when you reached Jr. High?

@ILuvLadyDocs - Mandatory showers after gym class - that's what happened. .

Most of the guys had at least started to sprout pubic hair by then. Those of us who hadn't were teased relentlessly. By the time we went to high school, developmentally I was still a gradeschooler who got an erection at the drop of a hat and who got his ass beat in the locker room or after school.

All through Jr High and my first two years of high school I was called "Baby Dick" and other more offensive names. Then puberty hit with a vengence and I grew a couple of inches and put on about 50 pounds of mostly muscle - and the name-calling stopped.

I had the opposite problem as I was one of the first guys to sprout pubic hair. I found out in gym class all my buddies were still bald, so I shaved mine off so I wouldn't get teased.