I note that all the comments are posted by men who oppose total nudity during medical examinations specific to women.
What does this position of fundamentalist ayatollahs defending a supposed modesty mean?
I fear that most of these reactions are based on repressed fantasies and an unhealthy imagination about how a consultation takes place. Is there an undercurrent of jealousy?
No, the male gynecologist is not a lecherous satyr who goes around groping himself in the evening while filming all his naked patients in the office. Whatever one might think, a doctor only sees a body (regardless of its appearance) with the gaze of a therapist with a diagnostic objective.
I can assure you that when patients are asked to come into the examination room, 80% of them undress completely of their own free will, even if it isn't an expressed requirement.
This is undoubtedly completely different depending on the cultures concerned; I am only speaking from my experience in France.
@Gauguin: You're mistaken about the reference to what was happening 50 years ago. We were in the middle of the post-May 1968 period, in the Woodstock culture. We were talking about the liberated woman. For the record, on January 17th of that year, the French parliament passed the law authorizing voluntary termination of pregnancy. Clothing was shaping the figure, and Courrèges had been importing the miniskirt for 10 years.
@DocteurMike: Rare examples of therapists who abuse are not common, and an honest doctor doesn't have to worry about being cautious. However, one must remain on one's guard, and it is now written in the code of ethics that procedures must be explained and accepted (particularly the insertion of a speculum or two gloved fingers for a vaginal examination), but no specific procedure specifies undressing.