Doctor play when you were kids

When you played doctor as children, did you lift your shirt or take it off completely to listen to your heart? How did the girls behave?

We pulled our shirts up, ads I recall. I only did play exams from about ages 4--6, when I got my first toy doctor's kit. I was always the doctor, except for once when a group of us gave each other physicals.

I played doctor with little girls and boys. Sometimes I played sick and had a girl visit me

Yes we had the girls topless and in panties. I was so curios to see that

Not sure if we actually listened to each others hearts, but we did some kind of doctor play and I remember taking my bikini top off, but we were children, so there wasn't really a difference between boys and girls in that regard.

We took off our shirts and were all bare-chested, girls and boys, but we were very young

We played dr ... examining eachother...

In my later childhood, between 8 and 10, I had a dear friend who was - already at this age - a now called cardiophil. Sometimes as we played hospital or criminal stuff with policemen etc. he always just lifted his shirt or stripped it off and asked me bare chested to listen to his heart to check whether he's still alive (after he had been wounded).

Being a cardiophil myself at this time, but never mentioned to anyone, it was always a pleasure to listen to his excited pounding heart by ear on this slender and skinny chest. His rip cage was nicely visible and his heart could be heard so easily and was pounding so hard and loud.

I agree with the opinion of the girl in the post above. Young children are not much different in this sense. Besides, at that age, it's nothing more than just a game.

At age around 5 or 6 a neighbor girl and I played doctor. Fully dressed at first, then top of, later everything off.

We were exploring each others differences. While touching intimate areas as well as taking turns having a good look, though it felt nice it wasn’t sexual. Perhaps a bit naughty.

I did it both ways, depending on the situation.

Always fully naked, like it was a general thorough exam. Trying to be as pro as possible, with equipment such as stethoscope.

When I played as a child shirts either went up or off. The more we played, the greater amount of nudity involved

The only reason children engage in "doctor and nurses" games is because they get interested in their own "naughty" parts and want to make sure that they are the same as everybody else. We dont like to be different at that age.

I rememeber when I played such games at 10, I didnt realise that all girls spots(clitorises) didnt stick out like mine did and of course they thought that very weird but still loved to keep looking at it!

I had to strip to my underwear and was put in a “hospital bed”. Then the other kids came to examine me and very quickly pulled down my underwear to examine my penis. My heart was not really the focus. That was when I was 7 or 8 and again when I must have been around 10.

Remember playing doctor as kids around five or six with my female cousins. We all took our underwear down and touched each other’s privates - I was the only boy in the group! My first introduction to the female anatomy!

When I played doctor with a female cousin, I was stripped down to my briefs when I was the patient, and they came off when she wanted to examine my "boy parts" and feel my "pee-wee". The opposite happened when I was in the doctor role, with her in her underwear then later naked.

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Almost all of us have had our first experiences of doctor play with our cousins. My female cousin was my first patient but also my first doctor and I was the same for her. My female cousin was two years younger than me and we played for a few years when we were older.

She has a brother five years older than me who had started studying medicine, but never participated in our games. He stethed us a few times, when he was 19 and in college, because my mother had given him a student stethoscope.

Kids defenitley dont play doctor „only to explore their naughty parts“.

roleplaying starts with 2-3 years and is part of their developement. with roleplays they process experienced situations and explore how others react. its kind of an exchange. they can see how others play the roles and share their experiences. they are often confronted with medical situations due to annual checkups and being sick often. therefor playing doctor is quiet common. but at this age the priority is the situation itself. learning anatomical differences and comparing eachother comes a few years later. obviously the doctor setting fits here as well. but even at this age. there is often a difference between playing doctor and playing „doctor“

I played doctor with my classmate at 7-8. We probably would carry on this for much longer time as we loved it but unfortunately my granny caught us. Somehow she thought it was a disgusting thing to do and she was furious and my classmate was banned from visiting our home for sometime. We never resumed that game later as we were growing up. When we were 15 I saw him naked and a feeling i had in the back of my head was that it was a shame we haven’t played those special games ever since. I smiled in his face and he did the same. I am sure he had the same feeling.

I played 'doctor' with two (well three) neighbor friends. It was first with twin girls who both received 'nurse' kits for their shared birthday. Being a boy and therefore having a 'different' body I was frequently their patient. Shirt, shoes and socks came off first followed by lowering and finally removing of my pants/underpants. I don't remember much interest in chest/heart sounds, but 'titties' were a subject of interest in addition to boy/girl parts and butts.

I also did doctor play with a neighbor boy. Our interest was more functional anatomy (i.e., how/why are bodies worked.) Peeing and pooping were our first area of study, followed by breathing (breath holding contests) and pain thresholds (we were boys after all, so 'toughness' was important!). We did listen to each others chest (ear to chest) to hear our heart beats and since I had mild asthma sometimes he could hear the air wheezing through my chest.

What I enjoyed was listening to our gut sounds (ear to belly). They were fascinating; sometimes quiet, then a gurgle or a squeak (like a mini-fart, but inside) then a blub-blub-blub. Quite funny for kids.

I played doctor with my classmate at 7-8. We probably would carry on this for much longer time as we loved it but unfortunately my granny caught us. Somehow she thought it was a disgusting thing to do and she was furious and my classmate was banned from visiting our home for sometime. We never resumed that game later as we were growing up. When we were 15 I saw him naked and a feeling i had in the back of my head was that it was a shame we haven’t played those special games ever since. I smiled in his face and he did the same. I am sure he had the same feeling.

We are the same age and therefore we grew up, although in different nations, in the same period and with the same cultural and moral conventions. I too was discovered by my grandmother while I was listening to the heartbeat of my female cousin, I was 10 years old. She had lifted her shirt and was bare-chested, but her breasts had not yet developed. My grandmother got angry and said that we were committing a sin and that Jesus would be angry. At that moment the only one who was furious was me!

I played Doctor with my grandma's neighbour when we were young. She was called Nicola and was in my class at school . I didn't realise I had an interest back then so it was usually her who wanted to play. I had a doctor kit that included a real stethoscope. She usually wanted to be the Doctor and would listen to my heart and chest.

I played doctor at every opportunity as a boy, always in the doctor role. While I listened to the "patient's" chest and looked in the ears, because that's what was always done to me, the only thing I really wanted to do was take the patient's temperature. And that was rectally, because that's the way I always had my temperature taken.

In my doctor's play kit the stethoscope was fake and you couldn't hear almost anything, so I put my ear on the "patient's" chest. One day I built a stethoscope with a rubber tube and two small funnels, I could only use one ear, but the heartbeat could be heard for real! Finally around the age of 10 my mom gave me a real stethoscope

I remember playing with my friend (girl). She was the patient and I was the doc. Next timeI was patient and she was the doc. We played wearing underwear and we took it off for steth exam. It was interesting to see the girls body and the other eay, too.

I would not underestimate the game of doctor among children, indeed I consider it an important moment of psychic development, it allows us to know how we are made, the difference between the sexes. Unfortunately in the Italian mentality, moralistic, bigoted and prudish it has always been considered inappropriate.

I would not underestimate the game of doctor among children, indeed I consider it an important moment of psychic development, it allows us to know how we are made, the difference between the sexes. Unfortunately in the Italian mentality, moralistic, bigoted and prudish it has always been considered inappropriate.

I'm pretty certain that a disapproving attitude towards juvenile doctor play has little to do with being Italian or any other particular nationality as such. Perhaps Nordic/Scandinavian nations as a cultural group have less problems, as in being more matter-of-fact and less emotional about about such things? An attitude that can be found in their more direct and no nonsense approach to matters like sexual education in school. I'm also quite certain that an average Dutch parent would probably approach juvenile doctor-patient play as just another part of growing up.

I know that I was once part of group of kids who were busy playing doctor (I watched, didn't participate). Apparently someone squealed to parents, naming names. A lady then came to our house and met my mother to complain, while giving me the evil eye. My (Belgian) mother sent her packing and never punished me or said anything except to stay away from those kids from now on.

It didn't do my mother's reputation much good I later heard, since she didn't play by the rules of being a scandalized, upset mother. But it did show she wasn't going to make a mountain out a molehill.

I too was scolded for playing doctor with a female friend when I was a child; this happened to me twice, the first time I was scolded by the mother of a classmate and the second time I was scolded by my grandmother. However, my mother was not worried, in fact she told me that it was right for me to play doctor and she told my classmate's mother and my grandmother to go to hell! My mother was also considered a progressive rebel.