Damaging Outcome of Examination of School Pupils

After reading on this site, what has become incredibly clear is the lack of dignity afforded to adolescent males in school medical examinations in years gone by. Why did schools, physicians and their administrators feel that a male pupils dignity and modesty should be completely disregarded?

Is it any wonder that the damage and childhood trauma can have an indelible outcome?

Has anything changed? Asking if Gen Z can respond?

I cannot answer for generation Z, but I can for older guys because when I was in middle school viet nam was in full swing so there was the need to "prepare" us for what we would have to go through if we were drafted. Fortunately the war was over by the time I graduated high school and the draft was ended even before the evacuation of troops from viet nam.

I feel like that's a USA thing that schools examine students, in Germany we usually just have a nurse room which you only get access to if you've hurt yourself.

Since it is my case In thought many times on it. I considere that is a heritage of older times when modesty totally was irrelevant. In my school medical exams were done as in the last 50 years where being completely naked in the doctor was normal. Also, things like data privacy were irrelevant. I still remember the guy that took our weight and height saying louder to allow the other guy write the report. I also remember the doctor “singing” the report to the assistant, saying things like”fimosis, report to paediatrician.” And it was normal….

I think its time that has changed things, society seems to be regressing back to repressive and hide away culture, with people being shocked and finding offence in what was once normal and accepted with a just get on with it attitude, I see this even to the point of changing rooms and showers being replaced with cubicles, totally ridiculous in my mind, to me how school children are dealt with be that in examinations, PE, or life in general is just how life is, man up and get on with it.

A number of posts from this thread have been removed as they were going completely off topic.

The past. I have heard and read so many things from there. As far as school exams and corporal punishment and the likes, the phrase "Make a man of you" is raised so often in literature, I laugh at it, thinking head masters must have been a pack of sexual deviants looking for any excuse to violate young men and boys. If that is what you're used to and think it worked for you great. I won't diminish your life's experience. I am happy it is in the past and want to keep it there.

Have things changed? Yes, these old Draconian methods of educating are now illegal. Children are protected from physical and psychological abuse by adults. Are things better? In some ways, in others, some would say not so much.

I had group shared showers all through school and semi-private medical exams. None of us waited naked in the waiting room or anything like that unless we chose to. We could wear a robe, a paper gown or go naked. We went as a class. It did not bother me any. I enjoyed checking the other girls out.

Well I was frightened my first exam it was a thorough nose to toes exam. After the first time, I was ok with it. I had never experienced anything like it. It was very revealing. First time in stirrups and with a speculum. He even stuck a thing up my bum and looked around. Warned me about anal sex. So embarrassed. Weeks later I was back with an infected bottom from my magic wand.

That was thirty years ago plus, so I don't know if the school is the same now. It was an all-girls boarding school. Great place.

Thanks for keeping comments on target. As for being psychologically damaged as a result of a physical exam, all I would say is that if this happened, please see someone, a therapist, to process and repair from this possible trauma. One thing is for sure, it is never the receiver's fault when someone breaks boundaries be they a medical doctor or someone else. Please take care of yourself!