Talking about checkups with classmates

We had routine school medicals in the 1970’s, girls and boys were examined on different days, nobody ever really talked at length about it, certainly the girls didn’t, not with the boys at any rate.!!

It was all pretty routine stuff, eye chart test wit a nurse then you went one at a time to see the doc, who always seemed to be a stern middle aged female, she would have a quick listen to your chest and back then a hand down your shorts for a quick “rummage” of your cock and balls😬

I grew up in a small town so many of my friends went to the same pediatrician. There was always talk about getting naked and having your genitals examined. If someone went to a different pediatrician you would most likely compare notes about those things. Friends were always curious about how girls were examined so those of us with sisters were always asked a lot of questions. If a female friend went to the doctor I would always find a way to ask about her exam. The girls seemed equally curious about the guys exams.

I didn't want to talk about it, but a female classmate once asked me if i was not curcumcised. She was one of those student volunteers working at the school admin office for a semester, collecting the annual physical exam forms that students turned in ,and I think she was checking to see if it was properly signed. Problem was, my doctor wrote comments about my circumcision. She probably read it and found out about the circumcision status and told her friends about it. Not sure if she was properly disciplined.

Due to my very early puberty, and checkups at my gp every 2 months, not only did I get a lot of attention over my development, but quite a lot of the boys were also very interested to hear what the gp did to me.. Several, who had older brothers, would make comments that my exams were similar or even more detailed than their brothers 😳.

I also remember a couple of friends who had older sisters who they obviously told about me, Those girls were also very interested in me - both the details of my exams, but also seeing my body as well.. Unfortunately, they would only give me brief details of their exams and only brief glimpses of them.

How early was very early.

I don’t remember any real discussions of exams. Just typical joking about the hernia exam and penis exam

As a youth, I don't ever remember discussing my physicals with classmates. As an adult, especially a senior it happens more often. Once you start talking about medical stuff, people chime in with their similar experiences. Get a lot of good info to ask the doctor that way.

I only ever discussed getting jabs with some of my classmates. There was one boy in particular who went to the same GP surgery as me and saw me coming out of my flu jab crying and squealing once… he’d never stop going on about it, but I was just as quick to wind him up

How early was very early.

@MedExams Assuming that question was related to my post, very early was age 7, when i was found to already be well into puberty. I've posted the details elsewhere, but was found to be large & very erect in showers after a swimming lesson & referred to my gp. Ended up having exams every 2 months until i was 18..

A friend in college came back from a study session with the guy she had a crush on with a story he had told her about a recent visit to the campus medical office; I don't remember what issue he was having but apparently the nurse told him that she might have to examine his prostate. My friend seemed to think this was his attempt to show her he wasn't interested, by treating her like "one of the guys" and telling her what she considered an embarrassing story. She was VERY straightlaced and heteronormative, and I don't think there was any recognition of a possible sexual element to the conversation- though in fairness I wasn't there to hear the actual story being told, so she may have been right.

I was not in a mixed school, so as a male student, I was not questioned by female classmates about my physicals, but some of my male classmates told that they were questioned by older sisters or younger sisters, their curiosity was rather normal, and it could be satisfied in families because it was common that boys ( certainly also girls ) were questioned by their parents during diners or other life family whiles about their physicals which were mandatory and known by parents since there might be a signed letter by them before the day of the exam.

I was myself questioned by my parents, even in presence of grand parents or an older female cousin.

It was not at all taboo to talk about them, even with details about undressing in group and all the exam after in front of the female doctor and the school nurse, my father had himself also mandatory exams each year for his job, so he knew about it could be...

It was also a subject of relation in family when we had the mandatory draft examination in front of the draft board commission like my father or other male siblings at 18 age, not very surprising for my parents since my father had often related his exam, and there was relations on TV documentaries or articles of newpapers or magazines.. Even the neighbors would know when you were submitted to report in front of the draft board commission, it was a casual talk between neighbors, even in front of girls, and sometimes you were asked to relate your exam in details, not only to tell the result, with embarassing questions ; were you examined all toghether a lot of boys without intimacy like it is told in newspapers or shown in documentaries ? were you stark naked ? in front of how much persons ? did it lasted a long time?

At university and superior schools where there was mixity and always an annual mandatory exam if you wanted to be allowed to follow your studies, it happened that some students of same gender or opposite one asked questions about the physicals and some boy students related them easily as a joke since the doctors were almost always of female gender and assisted by a female nurse like at middle and high school.

At school, we were told tb y the Pe teacher who supervised a group of 15 boys students each time to undress in just briefs in the adjoining locker room before entering in the exam room to stay quiet, we were never allowed to talk to each other during all the time of waiting, even after the exam when we might stay undress and wait until it was finished to dress again and get out all the group together, but later at a school recess, there was sometimes a talk between boys about the way we were examined.

I find rather funny that at a mixed school, there could be a few girls classmates who were students volunteers working at the school admin office for a semester, and had therefore access to the medical forms of all male students and knew what the female doctor had mentioned on it as a result of her exam, it could be pretty embarrassing for the boys students but I have read in some forums that it could happen also during a shadow day or week that a senior girl classmate could assit to the exams to help the school nurse, so it could be very embarrassing for all boys if they were naked !

They were certainly told to be perfectly discreet about the exams but it was impossible to be sure that they did not relate and talk about them to their friends.

In my time at school this topic seemed to be quite intimate and embarrassing to go around. So if we were talking about it, especially if we mentioned embarrassing moments like undressing to be naked or involvement of genitalia, that meant a special relationship with that boy, close friendship and trust. We were sure that none of us would go around and tell off the secrets.

Growing up, many times I was examined many times with a friend so we both saw everything going on. Doors were also pretty routinely left open so you could be seen, and could see others. Also, when home sick from school it was common for friends to visit. At some point my mom would come into the room to take my temperature, so a thermometer in my rectum would be viewed by everyone. I think I saw every one of my friends getting their temperature taken as well.

My classmates and I never talked about that. And certainly not with the girls.

However, in middle and high school, we wondered how they were examined.

I remember when I was 6 or 8 years old, one or another of us said that the doctor had pulled hard on their foreskin and that it had hurt.

Having had bowel issues in grade school, rectal exams became a part of my checkups earlier than usual.

One day at the lunch table in middle school one of the boys commented how he was getting pulled from class for a checkup so his doctor could touch his balls (hernia check).

This possibility sounded foreign to most of the boys at the table. Our polling showed that less than half got hernia checks, and even fewer had to fully step out of their underwear and be naked for it. I was in the minority on both counts.

Why one kid asked everyone "who's had their doctor's finger up their butt??" when he himself hadn't, I'll never know, but I should have paused to read the room before raising my hand and admitting I had. The whole table quickly recognized me as the lone receiver and a slew of embarrassing questions followed.

I was the youngster of the class, we all had medicals pre-school 4-5, 11-12 and 15.

Don’t recall any discussion around the earlier medicals, but there was around the one at aged 15 (around 1980).

Boys would discuss with boys, telling those of us still to have the medical what to expect. After the medical some boys would complain to others about what the doctor had done to them, often using crude terms. I can’t speak for the girls, never heard any girls talk about them at that time.

A good couple of years later we discussed our medical experiences together as a mixed sex group in a break room.

I distinctly recall a conversation with a friend in the school hallway where she mentioned she was asking her parents to switch her to a female doctor. She told me she currently had a male doctor and found the whole thing really embarrassing, though she didn't get into the specific details of why