How does this generation perceive exams?

Reading all of these stories and posts about various aged guys and their exam experiences makes me think about the current generation of teens/young adults and their exams. Do they actually get thorough, detailed exams from their providers? With all of the amateur porn and OF/JFF, etc. How do these young guys react if/when they actually have to expose themselves in such an intimate and personal setting? Or do they even get subjected to this anymore?

I'd love to hear thoughts/commentary from any guys under 25 and their more recent experiences.

I am 28, Just a littler older than what you might be asking for. I grew up in a conservative home. My annual physicals from age 11 onward were old school exams. I had to strip down to my underwear and had to remove them for a genital and skin check. I was involved with High School Athletics and spent much of my time in the spring and summer running shirtless ( I stll do) so a full body skin check was necessasry. I was OK with the level of disrobing because my doctor was kind, respectful and treated me age appropriately. I always left her office feeling like she really cared about my health and well being. By the time I was 15 she treated me like a grown man, she seemed to remember at every visit that I was wise beyound my years.

The key component is the doctor's demeanor, sensitivity and attitude. My doctor would always justify her actions by vocalization: "You are becoming so strong and athletic. and I want to make sure you are capable of performing at your best. I need to check your plumbing so you can have children one day. I know your kids will be great because you have solid genetics and without a doubt your character says "Great Dad"

I had a post employment offer physical a few months ago. Initially I was gowned up. The doctor was trying to work around it in a clumsy way so I spoke and said "It's ok, I am actually not used to a gown, I am comfortable enough in my boxer briefs". Off the gown went.

A few weeks ago I had a new patient physical. The dctor entered the exam room and noticed I discarded the gown. It didnt faze him in the least.

A little bit above the limit too, but if urologist exam is excluded, I had only one complete physical for college when I was 19. Doctor was older woman, around 50. She was very nice and pleasant woman, so I really felt good. She just normally informed me that she needs to examine my genitals, I put my boxers down, she palpated my testicles, and then took my penis in her hand, retracted a foreskin and took a look from all sides.

I didn’t feel uncomfortable at any moment, but I started feeling a slight start of erection nearing the End of exam.

At the urologist office, I felt mostly humiliated, especially after prostate exam.

First off, thank you guys for your responses. I feel like the patient's comfortability with their body is a big factor in how they perceive their level of disrobement/nudity in the medical setting. Also, a few follow up questions. @daltonclancy : when she was talking about your future as a "Great Dad" how did you perceive that? Were you completely nude during that conversation? I just feel like that's an odd remark for a practitioner. @Proton123: The exam you talk about, was it a family provider and how were you clothed during this interaction? You say that the urologist office is humiliating, care to provide more info? For both of you, if you'd rather DM your responses, I'm acceptable to that as well. Overall, I'm just intrigued on how the younger generation view nudity and modesty in the medical situation.

This generation is accustomed to the latest technology . Medical care has improved dramatically since I was younger. There’s no longer a need to poke around buttholes, and grab things, like in the past. Bloodwork shows many things today, and many illnesses have improved treatment results.

Older guy here (50s) but this is a great idea for a thread. I've often felt that younger people must think that the intrusiveness and embarrassment of physical exams - even school physicals - from the past are insane. But it really was not that long ago. Things changed a LOT in the past 20 or so years, in terms of technology and in terms of the growing and now pervading idea that patient comfort - including kids - is a critical element to be taken into consideration in exams.

@JakeNewYork: While technology has improved dramatically over the past 20 years or so, as someone who works in medicine, nothing can replace the art of actual hands-on physical assessment. I can gain so much from listening to my patient's history and symptoms and actually laying my hands (auscultating, etc.) on them. I feel like this is being phased out my insurance companies and legislative regulations to turn healthcare into an assembly line as opposed to actually caring for people. At least in the "great" USA.

First off, thank you guys for your responses. I feel like the patient's comfortability with their body is a big factor in how they perceive their level of disrobement/nudity in the medical setting. Also, a few follow up questions. @daltonclancy : when she was talking about your future as a "Great Dad" how did you perceive that? Were you completely nude during that conversation? I just feel like that's an odd remark for a practitioner. @Proton123: The exam you talk about, was it a family provider and how were you clothed during this interaction? You say that the urologist office is humiliating, care to provide more info? For both of you, if you'd rather DM your responses, I'm acceptable to that as well. Overall, I'm just intrigued on how the younger generation view nudity and modesty in the medical situation.

@jman882007 My doctor vocalized her comment just prior to removing my underwear. I was in foster care between ages 4-14. I had been severely abused and neglectrd until I was 11 when I went to my adoptive home. I don't find my doctor's comments out of sort at all she was paying me a compliment, which is something I really wasn't used to having until I moved in with my permanent family.

I’m 31, so not the younger generation anymore, but I did see my pediatrician until I was 19 (2013) and my youngest brother say him until about 2018. So I can say at least as late as 2013, this doctor was still giving very thorough genital exams to boys/young men. I both loved and dreaded getting testicular exams, because while I was very into medfet at this point in my life, I was sensitive about people actually touching me, terrified of doctors, and his exams were borderline rough. He would palpate my testicles so firmly that I struggled not to squirm, and spend about 1 minute on each. With my penis, on the other hand, he was very gentle. He would retract my foreskin so slowly. Which I now appreciate, after reading so many horror stories of forced foreskin retraction by American doctors. I say he was rough at times, but I don’t think I was mistreated…my testicles are just more sensitive than most mens’. These exams would take place with one or both of my brothers in the same room, but there wasn’t much exposure, since he would just put a hand down our underwear. I’ve run into 18-19 year old folks in communities like this, so there must be some doctors who still do thorough intimate exams. This fetish seems so niche/specific that I doubt that they get into medfet just by watching porn.

@jman882007 , it’s great to hear that coming from a medical professional, and I hope there are others like you. I hate how impersonal some doctors are. I’ve gone to appointments where the doctor never even makes eye contact with me when taking my history, just types away on their computer. Then they only have their hands on me for a few seconds, and I’m out the door in under ten minutes. I’m tired of being asked “so, any problems or concerns in your genital area? No? Okay then you can go.” One of these days I should respond “I don’t know because I’m not a doctor!” I’m not even speaking from a fetish standpoint here, this applies to all other areas of the body that they barely check.

The guy behind the channel Medlife crisis on YouTube said something interesting (I think in his video on the placebo effect). He said that he will check his patients pulse or listen to their heart even when they’ve had extensive imaging/tests/scans/etc just for the sake of human contact. Because otherwise, modern medicine is too impersonal and the patient feels like a lab rat. Hands on exams, like you said, makes one feel more cared for, which he believes has a positive placebo effect.

@Raresp You say there wasn’t much exposure. Were you fully clothed during your exams?

The guy behind the channel Medlife crisis on YouTube said something interesting (I think in his video on the placebo effect). He said that he will check his patients pulse or listen to their heart even when they’ve had extensive imaging/tests/scans/etc just for the sake of human contact. Because otherwise, modern medicine is too impersonal and the patient feels like a lab rat. Hands on exams, like you said, makes one feel more cared for, which he believes has a positive placebo effect.

Everything you said in the second half of your last paragraph is 💯 spot on.

I can't speak for women, since I'm not a woman. For boys and men, however- I personally believe that the touch of a caring and sensitive female practitioner all over their exposed bodies is one of the most comforting, sooothing, and life-affirming things that a guy can experience.

I’ve heard that now everybody gets a gown—boys and girls no matter age—that breast and genital exams are only done if indicated and are not routine anymore and that all teens get private time with the doctor with the parents out of the room. Tanner staging is self-reported by the patient—there’s no quick peek at the pubic hair. And almost no one gets a pelvic at the pediatrician except in special cases where it’s necessary. Even the ole hernia exam and testicle rollabout are not the norm for patients and a doctor would only look at the genitals if there is a specific complaint. Really interesting that doctors have come to trust patients to listen to what they have to say to ask questions and most importantly ask for consent before touching.

I'm 22 now, so I reckon I'm qualified to answer this question.

Short answer: Rarely have I had to take off a lot of clothes, but I don't think I would mind if I had to.

Long answer: These are the three exams I had over the course of the last few years from least thorough to most thorough.

My last exam in high school was with three other guys together, but we only got weighed, our height got measured the doctor asked us a few questions. We only had to take off our shoes, nothing else.

Where I live, everyone has to get examined before getting their driving licence. Like at school, I only had to take off my shoes. It was summer so I wore shorts and a t-shirt, but I've heard from friends who took the exam in winter that they had to take off their jumper. This time I was alone with the doctor. He also made me bend forward, and touched my spine pushing up my t-shirt. He also did an ascultation by moving his hand below the t-shirt, but I didn't have to take it off. Then some questions and I was done.

The only other exam I had in the last few years was my mandatory exam for military service, which is compulsory where I live. It was quite thorough, first they tested our hearing, then we all had to enter a big room where we had to take off our shirts. We had to do some physical exercises and they did an ECG. Afterwards they did an x-ray, and only after that we were allowed to put on our shirts again. Then they drew blood, which actually made me faint and panic, so they put me into a private room to calm down. Afterwards we got breakfast and then we had to do some exercises on the computer and answer questions there – it took at least a few hours. Then in the afternoon, after lunch, we had to go through various stations. Give a urine sample (complete privacy for that), we had to do a strength test and they tested the volume of our lungs with some device we had to breath into, they also measured and weighed us (only take off the shoes). The soldier who weighed me made fun of me being underweight, which was pretty embarrassing. Then I had a talk with a psychiatrist, who by the way was pretty rude. The exam continued the next day. We all had to wait in a big room with multiple exam rooms adjacent to it. Then, always one guy was ordered into each exam room. There, there were a doctor (a woman, not very friendly) and a recruit typing things into a computer. She asked me a lot of questions about my health and then told me to take off everything except my underpants. She explicitly mentioned to also take off my socks. Then she made me walk around the room, bend forward while she checked my spine, I had to lift my feet and she took a quick look, then she did the ascultation and afterwards she made me lie down on an exam table. There, she started palpating my belly, which made me laugh because I'm very ticklish. She told me to relax multiple times, but I just couldn't, which was a rather weird situation to me. She then lowered my underpants a little bit, but not enough to expose my genitals and she palpated this area. Again, I started laughing and she told me to stop. After that she had me stand up again and told the recruit what he had to type. Then she looked into her file again, and only after that she told me to get dressed and leave the room. Then, after a few hours of waiting, I was called into an office where some seemingly important military man told me I was postponed and I needed to redo the entire exam after two years. Thank god I had a good lawyer and knew an actual psychiatrist who could get me out of this by writing a serious complaint and threatening going to court. In the end, I was declared unfit for service.

Since then, I never had a physical exam again, except at the dentist, the eye doctor and my GP who vaccinated me and also froze a few warts on my feet, for which I obviously had to take off my socks.

Everything you said in the second half of your last paragraph is 💯 spot on.

I can't speak for women, since I'm not a woman. For boys and men, however- I personally believe that the touch of a caring and sensitive female practitioner all over their exposed bodies is one of the most comforting, sooothing, and life-affirming things that a guy can experience.

I immediately thought of this post when I saw this pop into my Instagram feed.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSBN6jnkpeh/?igsh=YTNrZXU1YXk3cTd3