Naked at the REAL doctor

I haven't been asked to turn my head and cough in so many years I can't come up with a number, probably over 30. Maybe they don't think us old farts get those problems or don't care.

My doctor examines me naked. I strip down to my tighty whities, he comes in, tells me to take them off, and away we go !

I have been completely naked during a physical exam too many times to count. If I have been instructed to strip down to my underwear ... 90% of my exams ... I always completely remove my briefs for the upcoming genital and rectal exams. If I have been instructed to don an exam gown, my briefs have been removed on all occasions except one. When the time comes for the more intimate penis and testicle exams, the gown is usually already lowered to my waist. I simply stand up ... place the exam gown back onto the exam table before completely turning in order to expose myself! After the genital exam, I turn around, place my chest onto the exam table and then spread my legs. Knowing that my hairy backside is now fully revealed, I enjoy the brief rush of anticipation in knowing that the rectal exam is upon me!

I am commonly naked with drape across my lap at my PCP and the dermatologist.

I am commonly naked with drape across my lap at my PCP and the dermatologist.

I would think the dermatologist might be one of the few doctors where you need to be naked. I was never naked at my family doc. She was a frustrated skin doc because she loved to freeze things off me but would she would never send me to a dermatologist. She really liked doing it. I now see someone else in the practice so we'll see what he does regarding dermatologist.

I have never been naked (except possibly as a baby) at the Dr. - PCP, Urologist, Gastro, Dermatologist. My dermatologists have always had me undress to my shorts, once with a gown and once without - and then drop them for a quick peek for something abnormal. Same with my urologist.

I have never been naked (except possibly as a baby) at the Dr. - PCP, Urologist, Gastro, Dermatologist. My dermatologists have always had me undress to my shorts, once with a gown and once without - and then drop them for a quick peek for something abnormal. Same with my urologist.

Maybe you were cuter when you were a baby. Ever think of that?

For a lot of us the first time we went to the doctor for a school physical there was a surprise. After checking our heads and chests, we were asked to stand up and lower our pants and then our underwear. For me that was the first time a stranger had looked at my privates. I just stood there while he felt my penis and testicles. I wondered if this was going to take long and also wondered if I was beginning to respond. (I would have been really embarrassed if a nurse were present or if I had a female doctor!)

Next he stuck his finger up into my scrotum and asked me to turn my head and cough. That was the topic for discussion among us as we talked about the experience with peers. We all wondered what the ‘turn your head and cough’ thing was all about. It was years before I learned the reason for that procedure. I’m sure I wasn’t exposed for more than 30 seconds but it seemed like forever. It would have helped if the doctor had given a little explanation.

This experience made me wonder about what the girls had to do for their physicals. I wondered if they had to get completely undressed or had their privates touched like boys did. Again...it was years before I got the answers. I always figured it must be harder for girls because most of the doctors were men and having any man see you naked the first time would have been embarrassing.

Live and learn I guess!

Never for a physical examination or at a GP appointment. If the doctor wanted to examine me down there he or she just had me open my trousers and lower my underwear.

When I went to hospital for X-rays and a VCUG aged 4 I was stripped naked in a prep room before going into the X-ray room. Would come back through after, get cleaned up there if need be, dress and go be with mum, only to go back in and repeat, so naked many times that day.

There was a school medical check before Primary school, I know I had to undress completely but I don’t remember much of it, bar I could take you to the room where it was carried out.

Never completely naked. I have had to stand with my shirt and pants off and my underwear down around my ankles before for a physical. And I have had the gown pretty much completely off and laying on the exam table beside me but the string around the back of my neck was still tied so no never completely naked, not technically anyway.

As a 5 year old I do remember seeing other boys and girls coming out of the room from the doctor completely naked. We went in with our underwear on and had to get out of that in the room for the exam. Much later as an 19 year old I had to go for a pre-employment medical examination and was told by the doctor to at the start to take of my clothes, all of them including my underwear.

As a 5 year old I do remember seeing other boys and girls coming out of the room from the doctor completely naked. We went in with our underwear on and had to get out of that in the room for the exam. Much later as an 19 year old I had to go for a pre-employment medical examination and was told by the doctor at the start to take of my clothes, all of them including my underwear.

Many decades ago it was completely undressed at the pediatrician, but that does not seem to be the case anymore anywhere. Even skin checks at the dermatologist are clothed with only quick peeks at the private bits. We do seem to swing between extremes.

Personally, the only time I've had to get completely naked from head to toe is at the dermatologist's office.

I’ve never been naked for a physical exam. The closest I’ve been was when I saw a doctor that had me undressed to my underwear. When it came time for the testicle and hernia exam, i would slide down my underwear.

As a child (ages 5-9), I was examined completely naked by a dermatologist. During this time, I was also exposed to a quartz lamp completely naked for medical purposes. I was also examined completely naked during a military examination (age 18 ). First, I had to remove most of my clothes, leaving me in just my underwear. At the end of the examination, behind a screen, I had to remove my underwear as well, leaving me completely naked. There, I had my genitals examined and my rectum examined.

I was never naked again. At the pediatrician's (age 10-15), I was examined in my underwear. For the genital examination, the underwear was pulled down but not removed. As an adult, I had my genitals and rectum examined. But I was never completely naked. For the phimosis surgery, I had to strip almost naked (almost, because I was only wearing socks). Then, I put on a gown, which was only lifted up for the procedure.

Had to get totally naked once...was 19 and in between pediatrician and an adult doctor...I was in my boxers for the entire exam and then he had me stand up and pull them to my ankles and step out of them...was really embarassing as never had to do that before

Until the doctor stopped doing genital and rectal exams a couple of years ago, I would be completely naked (except for socks) by the end of every physical.

I never was one to wear a gown and I would just sit on the edge of the table in my pants and socks. Once the top part of the exam was over, I’d stand up and take my pants and underwear off and hand them to my wife to hold. At that point I was basically totally naked and the doctor would proceed with examining my penis then he would do the rectal exam. And, yes, I would get bigger but never sticking straight out. I had prostate cancer in 2021 and although I was radiated, I am still able to get an erection but not really able to keep it up as long as I used to unless I’m touching or rubbing it (which I still like to do).

Always, even for a sorethroat

Dermatologist will be most nude experience over here. Usually you keep your underwear on and they just have a short peek inside....

....and hand them to my wife to hold.....then he would do the rectal exam. .

This is what I got. The wife is watching her husband receive a rectal exam. This is something I never really thought too much about before. It makes me wonder what the husbands are feeling and the wives are thinking as this is taking place. As far as the dynamic of the dominant doctor / submissive patient.

I have been naked several times during real exams. Either from start till the end or during a part of the exam.

That happened during development follow-up exams between age period 14-18 every 6 months. Most of those exams I was naked during the whole exam.

I also was naked during the physicals for military services in 1988. That was also naked from the ‘dressing cubicle’ into the exam area, having the physical and then back to the cubicle.

Also have been naked during a part of a pre-employment exam in the early ‘90’s.

The last exam I was naked during a part of the exam was an exam for life insurances when I was 35. Afterwards, I haven’t been nked anymore during exams, so, it seems that that habit has disappeared …

It has completely changed in France since many years

Now the nudity for a private exam at a doctor's office never happened or it is just just for a short while if the doctor has to look at the genitals for a specific issue, and generally you are not stark naked but just under the waist.

Even for hemorroids, the doctors now dont' do a visual examination of the anus area, they give only the appropriate medication without a visual examination !

It is now very seldom to be completely undressed unless at hospitals but generally they give you a gown

But as a child and later a male teenager, it was still common either at a private doctor's office, and more frequently at mandatory examinations, first each year for school, (a form filled by the family doctor was not valuable), from elementary until last grade of high school and even after at colllege or superior school, also for summer camps during teenage hood or to practice a sport outside of school. The nudity from the begining of the exam to win time and because nobody cared about the modesty of male teenagers was often the rule or it was after the first part of the exam at the end. It could be in group at least for the undressing or for all the examination.

Of course it was also the rule for physical examinations before the military service wich was still mandatory at my time, the report in front of the draft board commission with a large group of draftees being examined in public as a group all undressed until nudity before the exam one by one in the examination room, or after in a pre-induction center also as a group.

later I have been still naked for job exams when I was still a young man until may be the last 90's, at mandatory exams also each year, and of course at the first exam for entrance info a job, more throrough but individual for undressing as well as for the exam itself, and then at a community medical center for routine exams like check ups every two years or every five years in the last years also individual exams, and they have stopped now since many years.

When I was young, my doctor would examine my stripped to my underwear, then, they would be dropped for genital/hernia/development exams. When I was in the Navy, some exams would be underwear then drop them for genital, and the rectal exam was introduced, and some were nude from the start. (Depended on the clinic, reason, and doctor preference) There were no gowns used for males at that time. When I went to the VA, it was hit or miss. Some doctors would have you in underwear, most were strip as you go. Eventually, I started seeing non-VA physicians regularly. Usually the exam is gown and underwear, genital/DRE hit or miss. Dermatology is usually the same, with brief looks in the underwear area unless there is a specific issue. Urologist is often stripped from the waist down.

There are two exams that stick out.

The first, I was admitted to the "locked ward" in a Naval hospital. First night I was naked. in the morning, I was given a gown and the doctor came in. He brought me to an exam room, had me remove the robe and did a thorough and complete exam on me, including my gait, a complete genital and thorough rectal exam.

The second was also with a psychiatrist, but at the VA. I was starting a clinical trial for a new anti-anxiety med, and she brought me to a makeshift exam room, had me totally strip, and also did a complete exam, minus the DRE.

I have never been completely naked in a doctor’s office, whether it is/was my pcp, urologist or dermatologist. Even back in the day when top-to-bottom physicals were still done I was either wearing a gown or only exposing body parts as they were actually being examined. More recently most of my doctor visits have dispensed with the gown. They examine me in my street clothes with instructions to remove them as needed.

I have never been asked to be naked prior to the doctor or nurse practitioner coming into the room even at the pediatrician but I did grow up before gowns so was usually in my underwear for routine or pre employment physical exams. I was asked to put on a gown after removing all my clothes by a few doctors and then was told to remove the gown once they were going to do an STD check or genital exam. Sometimes I was asked to pull up the gown or the doctor would move it to one side.

I have noticed a decently sharp decline in the more straightforward obligatory nudity of physical exams, as well as the lowering likelihood of an exam even being performed (once I had to have the doc inform insurance for me that I had NOT gotten a physical, during the visit marked 'physical' and thus I am still covered for a proper one). During Covid in particular, it seemed like they just wanted to get people in and out, and I understood that. I got maybe 3 physicals during that time, usually quite rushed. I've only had one doctor in my life INSIST on a gown, a woman with a very nasty disposition, that was way back in '12 when my health first went to shit.

But my most recent new primary care doctor was a sprightly and chipper young thing who agreed with me that, since I hadn't had an exam in 4 years, it was a good idea to be thorough. Never know if I might have skin cancer or something, since nobody ever sees me. Now, she did give me lots of opportunities not to undress, or to only do it partway or whatever, but I was like naw, I'm good. I haven't even owned underwear since college.

Declined the chaperone, declined her leaving the room (so silly that they offer to do that. Taking clothes off is the LEAST embarrassing part of being naked, for those with shame, since you still have some on during it). Didn't even get offered a gown, which I appreciate. Those are just nuts. She went over every part of me and checked thoroughly. Skin looks fine, maybe some scarring in one area. I was hoping I'd get checked more manually too, but she seemed content with the mostly visual check (and pressing in a few areas just to see if they hurt (they didn't)). Said the science has shifted again, and DREs are no longer really advised (but colonoscopies still are, when I get a little older). I was like "oh, like self breast exams? How they really only catch benign stuff" and she agreed.

Very intelligent young woman, I look forward to one or two more annual physicals with her before she departs for greater things, according to the plans she told me. My previous PCPs at that same clinic did the same, so I guess nobody wants to stay and be a 'family doctor' long. I get it. If you had a job fixing cars vs a job examining cars that are probably okay, and giving them the same notes about maintenance and oil changes, you'd probably get bored too and want to get something with more wrench action.