Talking about checkups with classmates

I recently recalled a conversation with classmates when we were all around 11 or 12. This would have been early 90's in Canada. The whole class of 20 was there, sitting around under a tree after school. Somehow we got onto the topic of what our checkups were like. Many of us were on the cusp of puberty, and rumours like "M wants to kiss S", or "I heard L humped her pillow" were common. Naturally the discussion quickly focused in on the attention our doctors gave to our privates.

All 6 boys said that their doctor checked and felt their penis and balls. For some of us it was pants and underwear down, for others the doctor just stuck his hand down our waistband and rolled things around. A couple of the boys joked about being told to "turn your head and cough". I know that is about checking for hernias, but even as an adult decades later, I have not experienced that. There was a little discussion about circumcised vs not, then we moved on.

The girls on the other hand had much more diverse experiences. Several of the 14 girls said the doctor never checked their privates at all, and a couple more said they put on a gown and the doctor only looked quickly. The rest admitted that they had to take their underwear off and the doctor touched there. They all agreed that it was embarrassing. Then to our surprise, one girl said something like "What I really hate, is when the doctor sticks her finger in my bum" Most of the class reacted with variations on "OMG, she does what? I would die of embarrassment! Every-time?" One of the other girls quietly admitted "Me too", but didn't elaborate. Another blushed a lot but kept her mouth shut. I too had had this done to me once, but didn't really feel like sharing.

(I've read some old medical texts and it does seem legitimate, that some doctors were once taught to include rectal exams on kids routinely. However this was probably uncommon in the 1970's and very rare by the 90's. Maybe my classmates' doctors were very old and never got the memo to change their procedures. These days rectal exams are still done with specific symptoms, but are increasingly being replaced at all ages by less invasive tests like ultrasound or ct. For the record, I believe that doctors and especially pediatricians giving more respect for modesty and bodily autonomy to their patients is a good thing.)

Does anyone else remember discussing checkups with friends or classmates?

I remember hearing a lot of comparison talk between my classmates, and in middle school I definitely had a friend who would lock us in her walk in bedroom closet to talk about so we could have privacy. We eventually started comparing bodies and played doctor a couple of times, taking turns as doctor and patient to both give and receive the same checks we did at the doctor yearly. Her father was a doctor and we used to take his stethoscope from the hall closet when we had sleepovers haha.

we used to take his stethoscope from the hall closet when we had sleepovers haha.

OT, but I think stethoscopes are under-rated as a play toy. There is something incredibly intimate about listening to another persons heartbeat.

We had conversations about med exams. But it was only between boys. I could not imagine how boys and girls together would discus such a delicate topic.

Aside from painful shots, I don’t remember anyone discussing physical exams at school. When I was a kid, a visit to the doctor wasn’t usually something to be afraid of. You were examined, and your parents might have had to pick up some medicine for you. Being admitted to the hospital, is another thing. I always felt badly for classmates who needed surgery, even if it was minor. Today, I’m sure that pediatrics is a far cry from what it was years ago. And I don’t say that in a good way.

Only between me & my bff. She & I shared everything about pediatric exams. Never dared to with other girls, or boys needless to say. Occasionally heard (eavesdropped) other girls discuss exam stories but thank god no one asked me.

A female friend walked into class late and handed the teacher a note. I asked her where she was and she replied that she had come from a doctor's appointment. A little prodding and she mentioned that it was her yearly physical exam. She had already developed rather large breasts, so I teased that the doctor must have loved examining her. She admitted that she had received a very thorough breast exam. I kept asking for details and she finally admitted that he had inserted his fingers inside her vagina. She seemed quite embarrassed admitting this detail. I remember trying to hide my erection as I listened to the details of her exam and imagined the doctor probing all of her intimate areas.

I don’t recall how the topic got brought up but I remember it getting brought up amongst a group of friends and all the boys had basically the same routine, it was the girls experience that varied from one to another…unless some here just hiding details out of modesty

I was in public school in the US when I was 10 or so. That as opposed to my usual Catholic school attendance. I mention this because in Catholic school, kids were apt to form exclusive cliques. Show up as a new face and you immediately knew you weren't welcome. Public school was different.

Anyway. One time during lunch break, I saw a rather large group of some 15 or 20 kids standing together and quietly laughing and giggling. I went closer to listen in. One student, a boy about my age, was talking about his recent medical exam. He was probably a natural public speaker because he wasn't shy and had everyone's attention. He was good at describing details, especially about being naked, no underpants even. Then he went to talk about being examined, with the ultimate embarrassment for kids our age, for getting a doctor's finger up his bottom. That evoked lots of laughter.

This really got to me for some reason and I felt myself blushing and feeling funnily excited, obviously with some kind of sexual arousal I didn't/couldn't recognize yet at that age. There was something that sort of obsessed me in the story without me consciously knowing what exactly. The nudity and the rectal exam mostly. I've never forgotten about this, even though all things considered it's nothing all that special in retrospect after all these years. I think that the shared 'intimacy' of the boy's story was also a factor that I enjoyed. That of a student I didn't know and with others in the group I didn't know, sharing and laughing at such a rather personal incident. It was also nice to be included, with other kids , even girls, looking and smiling at me while we both giggled and smirked at the story. Something that never would have happened in one of those dour other schools I was sent to.

Summer time was the common time for us to get our physicals for school and the guys in my neighborhood did talk about our exams. We would compare notes about all sorts of things but being naked in front of our mothers was a common topic. Also the guys in my prep school talked about exams and the topic of getting an erection during an exam was a common one.

When I was at school, a doctor's examination was routine. We would come to the medical facility as a whole class and go through the offices one after the other. There was little that was interesting. The boys' examination was straightforward: they went to the doctor, pulled down their underwear, the doctor did the examination, and that was it. There were several children in the office at once. and a couple of doctors. One was examining, the other filling out the paperwork.

It was interesting when I was preparing to send my daughter to school. There was a rectal examination, but I didn't understand what they were looking at. During the examination, I held the child in my arms, as if on an examination chair. It was very quick. The child didn't have any problems with it.

I understood that the child should be examined by a doctor, but I didn't know that they would do it rectally.

It wasn’t a topic that came up often, but I do remember in HS when one of my friends got back to school after a doctors appointment and he was in a bad mood (well…he was in a bad mood like, 75% of the time lmao). His mom made an appointment because he was having trouble sleeping, but he didn’t realize until he got there that she also scheduled his annual physical for that appointment too. So, while we’re hanging out during lunch, he’s grumbling the whole time about the fact that his doctor didn’t prescribe anything for sleep and just told him to make lifestyle changes, and the fact that he “got his balls touched.” lol

Not really. I recall that after a school physical in elementary school I briefly talked with other boys and we wondered if the girls had to pull their panties down as we had had to do to have our genitals examined. I don't think any of us dared ask girls about it. I certainly did not.

Ten years later, in college, we had (long story short) to take some kind of military examination, and a dude (who had it the year before) joked about having our balls felt.

And I think that's it.

We usually brought up the turn your head and cough part from 5th grade at least once or twice a year.

When I was a HS Senior I Informed my GF I was scheduled for my yearly physical exam in a few weeks. As the discussion progressed we discovered we were patients of the same doctor. She taunted me a little (all in good fun) about stripping down to my underwear (no gown) and getting poked, prodded and groped by the doctor. My GF informed me she also had to strip to her underwear- no bra and no gown as she was given a breast exam. Our Doctor was quite thorough and caring, treating us both exceptionally.

I remember some general discussion about this kind of thing both as a young kid and when I was in my teens. I think all of us are kind of curious about the stuff we all have done at the doctor when we are young. In my teens, I remember a lot of boys making locker room style jokes about it, particularly around the time of year when we were all getting sports physicals and I think some of the joking was just a mask over real curiosity.

I had a couple of friends with whom I would talk a little more about it, like at sleepovers. And I remember a girl, Tammy, who was OBSESSED with what went on at boys' physicals and talked to a few of us about it a LOT. She had some pretty wild ideas but was curious about the reality. I would not be surprised if she has a medical fetish now.

Sure, I did. Mostly my male friends. It was interesting to compare experiences with those that went to the same doctor as I did and those that went to a different doctor. I had a few discussions with female friends but it was limited to did you get a shot (and where) and were you naked for part of the exam.

Talked to exactly one male friend when I was in university. He wasn't that curious but loved to joke about it by exaggerating.

Aside from him, no, my family doesn't even know what went on during the exams. There isn't a rule parents must be present and out of respect for my privacy, they chose to mostly stay outside. We are also conservative, traditional family. I began gathering enough courage, and later just enjoyed telling people about them much later due to this site. For now, I can post on public discussion, but still have discomfort discussing it with a lady, even online. For those of you who were asked by curious female friends before, nope, I'd have just rudely walked away.

I don’t think I ever did at least about my own checkups. I know it was a common topic of conversation by others though. Mostly about hernia checks and wondering how females were examined

At school we always sat in pairs at the desks. It was a teacher who decided who shares the desk with whom and it would be usually a boy and a girl. For each subject it could be different arrangement. Our math teacher at one point made a decision that I should share the desk with a boy who fell behind in math hoping that it helps him as I was good at math. We were not close friends though. He was a kind of a bully and I was a kind of quiet boy always afraid of bullies. The teacher’s experiment didn’t work very well in terms of math but at least we became friends after that. So, one day during a break the boy told me a story about his recent visit to the doctor. He described in details how it did go and he even was not shy to mention that the doctor asked him to remove all clothes including underwear and a young female nurse was present. We were 13 at the time and it was very unusual for a boy to share such things.

School medical checks were a big thing when i was at school and they were regularly discussed, more so when the brown envelopes started to appear in the school register and were handed out to take home. The conversations were generally between same sex friend groups and teasing took place about what was going to happen to you. It was common knowledge amongst the whole class that boys always had an intimate genital exam with your testicles being felt and foreskin retracted. We never got to know for sure whether the girls has to take their knickers off and open their legs for the doctor. It may have happened but non of the girls every admitted it and rumours were that they only had to undress to underwear. Amongst the boys conversations were centred around what happened when all your clothes were off. Despite other explanations on here about procedures during such exams, non of us ever had our anus checked. Our bottoms were looked at either standing or laying on the couch as part of the spine check but we never had to bend over

and spread our cheeks open.

All of my school physicals took place in the sixties. Things were more authoritarian back then and you did what you were told. When you were scheduled for a physical you reported to the nurse's office or other designated area and to to strip down to your shorts. The school physician was a woman in her late fifties who was nice but business like. The exam was brief: heart , blood pressure, lungs and hernia check. You could usually hear the boy in front of you giving his "hernia coughs." Later the guys would joke about having they're "balls tickled." I do remember hearing two girls talking about the physicals they had. One said, "I hate having that thing wrapped around my arm." Well, she was fifteen when she said that and you just know she had the blood pressure cuff on her arm more than a few times in the years ahead. I think the girls were more apprehensive about getting examined than the boys. Loved those physicals!!!

Usually the conversations I had with my classmates about exams were very short and kidding about "having our balls touched and felt up"

Only a couple of times did we talk more only because we had doctors in the same practice...which happened a few times because we had a small town. I remember my one friend was pissed because I saw his doctor once and my experience with that doc was different than his exams with him, it was fun to imagine an exam with him and that specific doc.

It was also interesting to hear what happens at other guys exams who go to different practices.

My school doc exams weren't too bad and we all talked about his exams but no real details.

I was one of the first girls in my class to have a gyno exam so other girls asked me about it when it was their time to have the exam but I did not really dare to discuss it with them in details. Looking back, I wish I had been less shy back then.

First a question to "Jacana "

What was the physical examination that you have had during school years and which was performed in a military style ?

At what age did it happen ?

Secondly since I was in an only boys school, I never talked with girls about physical exalinations at middle school as well as at high school.

Between boys since we undressed all a class in groups until briefs before being in the nude in the examination room , it was not uncommun later to talk about it, never in the locker room because we were always supervised by one male Pe teacher even at 17-18 age who required a total.silence during waiting undressed our turn to.enter in the examination room.

Some related the way the physicals were performed on draftees for the military service by rumors or rather by descriptions of older brothers already inductees.

The talks were also sometimes jokes about the presence of the school nurse at school.examinations.

We were embarrassed by her presence as well as that of a young nursing student as assistant and the inspection of our genitals by the female school doctor completely naked like a draftee at pre military examinations.

There was also a relation of my school physicals to.my father who asked at me each year how we were examined and warned me about the group nudity at pre military medical.examinations mandatory for all boys. My mother was more discreet about it.

First a question to "Jacana "

What was the physical examination that you have had during school years in college and which was kind of a military examination ?

At what age did it happen ? And where ? , with whom?

Secondly since I was in an only boys school, I never talked with girls about physical examinations at middle school as well as at high school.

Between boys since we undressed all a class in groups until briefs before being in the nude in the examination room , it was not uncommun later to talk about it, never in the locker room because we were always supervised by one male Pe teacher even at 17-18 age who required a total.silence during waiting undressed our turn to.enter in the examination room.

Some related the way the physicals were performed on draftees for the military service by rumors or rather by descriptions of older brothers already inductees.

The talks were also sometimes jokes about the presence of the school nurse at school.examinations.

We were embarrassed by her presence as well as that of a young nursing student as assistant and the inspection of our genitals by the female school doctor completely naked like a draftee at pre military examinations.

There was also a relation of my school physicals to.my father who asked at me each year how we were examined and warned me about the group nudity at pre military medical.examinations mandatory for all boys. My mother was more discreet about my school examinations.

Same for draft examinations but if my mother was discreet and did not try to.embarrass me, an aunt who was a little younger than my mother and not married was very interested by my draft examinations and did not dare to.ask questions at family meets, she found very funny that all boys of 18 age were stark naked in group nuts to butts in front of a lot of persons for a long time, she joked about it and teased me about the fact that she would have liked to be a fly ou a mouse to.be in the examination room where we wre lining up in group waiting to.be examined one by one, she laughed at the idea that we were exposing our naked butts who were so cute !

Some of my classmates had the same pediatrician as me, so yes, we compared visits.

@esaterman It was an examination to check whether I was fit for enlisting in the military, I was 19. It was done in a nearby barracks by a female military physician. I also had to have a chest X-ray done in a nearby military hospital.

Yes, we compared the visit. But our girls don't wanna tell details.

The closest I ever got was talking to friends after we got our scoliosis checks in school. The school nurse did boys one year and girls the next. On the form there was an extra box for "other" underneath the scoliosis results findings. In retrospect it was probably in case the nurse saw any signs of abuse, but at the time we were intrigued. A few friends and I speculated some people might have their balls examined, but then we wondered whether the girls had their breasts checked, since we already had to strip from the waist up. None of us had the courage/female friends to ask any of the girls what happened when they were naked.