"unnecessary" nudity

Yep. From the time I was in my teens (50's thru the 70's) It seemed to be SOP for me. I have referred to a certain doctor and his army mother nurse in another discussion. He was our family physician for quite some time. It didn't matter if I had a cold/flu, ache/pain, etc. His mom would escort me to the exam room and promptly told me to strip before anything else began to treat my ailments. No gown and she hardly ever left the room while I stripped. Weight and vitals all done with me completely undressed. I got used to it over the years. I distinctly remember occasions when they both would check my vitals and do the standard RT's. Plus, my appointments were always scheduled after the office staff had left for the day and lasted 45 minutes to an hour plus; before I was told to get dressed again. Even consultations were done with me in the raw. The doc would escort me to the door and lock it after me, when I left. Odd. Can't explain that completely. He was married; but had other sexual preferences. I very often miss those days.

At the clinic I went to most often as a kid, my pants were immediately removed upon entering the exam room, (sometimes my underwear were left on- sometimes not). After my underwear came off or down for my RT, I was made by the nurse to keep them down while waiting for the Dr to examine me, which always took quite a while. He never looked at anything below my waist unless I had a specific issue in that area. Kids did not get gowns or even a sheet in the 60’s; it was cold crinkly exam table paper, and nothing else. Clinic visits continued on like that until I was almost 7. Considering my issue was almost always my ears and throat, I still find it to be odd that I spent so much time nude from the waste down.

During years 14-18, I had a female pediatrician who was very old fashioned. She made a point to have me completely undressed from the beginning of the examination, which I had to get annually due to participation in varsity spot. It would be just fine if she had me pull down the briefs when the private parts were examined, but for some reason she made me undress completely from the beginning. Sometimes the nurse took me back to the exam room and undressed down to the underwear for the preliminary exams, and she always told me to remove my underwear before she left. When I had to have some pus drained from the outer ear due to wrestling, I had to get completely undressed also, and she gave me a brief physical examination, even though I was not there for a sports physical.

The doctor who did all of the athletic physicals for junior high and high school sports and cheerleading in my small home town in Georgia back in the :60s was a local GP who didn't believe in gowns. He would come up to the school on two consecutive Saturdays One day for boys and one for girls. Boys in shorts/briefs only. Girls in panties only. He stethed everybody bare chested at his office so the girls who were his regular patients were used to it. He would line them up and go down the line. The girls referred to it as “showing our tits to Dr. Charlie”

In the seventies as an 18 year old I had to take a pre employment exam for my first job. Incidentally I was offered two jobs and was invited for an exam by two different doctors. During the first exam I was asked to undress to my underwear. This was what I had expected and was used to from examinations done by the schooldoctor. I did not have to remove or lower my underpants during the first exam. The only thing close to that was the doctor lifting the band of my underwear whilst I was laying on the exam bench. He asked me to blow on the back of my hand and laid his finger on my groin to check for inguenial hernia. The second exam one week later was totally different. At the start the doctor ordered me to undress completly, “including your underwear.” he told me explicitly. I was nude the whole time during this examination even when the checking for inguenial hernia was quite cursory. The only thing that did require nudity was his checking my anus when he ordered me to bend over and spread my cheecks. I had not expected that and was quite embarresed by it. All in all I cannot think of a real reason why this exam had to be done nude from the start. Maybe it was just the way this doctor was used also helping him in establishing who was in charge, underlining his authority.

My fiancee had to undergo a routine physical for her life insurance policy last year. After nurse checked her weight and blood pressure, she waited for the doctor. As soon as doctor went in the room (male in his late fifties) he instructed her to get topless and remove her shoes and socks. After she complied and remained in jeans only, he started with questioning her about her general health. So it is not actually unnecessary nudity, but having a patient semi-nude for unnecessary period of time. She covered her breasts with her hand.

After talking ended, he instructed her to put her hands aside. He checked her eyes, nose, ears, throat. Then he stethed her lungs and heart. He performed breast exam (she has a D cup) and abdominal exam after that. For a bladder palpation, she had to take her jeans and panties a little down, but not enough to expose her vagina. Finally he checked her feet and concluded the exam.

There really was no reason to have her breasts exposed for the whole exam, especially during questionning, but that added to her embarassment, and made thing sexier for us later.

In childhood. Until the age of 12, when visiting a doctor, they always undressed to panties. There was no screen. The child was undressed right in the office and even the presence of strangers was not an obstacle.

In childhood. Until the age of 12, when visiting a doctor, they always undressed to panties. There was no screen. The child was undressed right in the office and even the presence of strangers was not an obstacle.

undressed to panties, do you mean to underpants? was it like a waiting room or exam room? Were there other kids and their parents?

Being raised in the former Soviet Union, I was subject to unnecessary nudity on more than one occasion. Despite the society was not characterised as thinking free about nudity and nudity was discouraged everywhere, there were certain areas where nudity was an everyday usual routine. The most memorable situations for me were medical check ups at a military draft office. We, all boys, were supposed to visit military draft office first time at 14 y o for registration and for checking if we had a good enough health for a potential military service in future. Then it was the same at 16 and then at 18 for those who were unfortunate to be recruited into the army. Each time we had medical exam for which we removed all clothes and then went to see doctor after doctor, several specialists, completely naked. It was weird to be examined by an eye doctor it ENT doctor being nude.

@kulemh I think that in some contexts, unnecessary nudity is used as a means to ensure compliance and subservience.

undress to underpants, means to underpants? was it like a waiting room or an exam room? Were there other children and their parents?

I didn't understand the first question. No, there was no waiting room. Pediatrician's office. There may be children too. If you were expecting a doctor's note or something like that. And adults, even strangers, could easily enter. When they gave me enemas in the hospital, other people's mothers generally easily entered.

When they gave me enemas in the hospital, other people's mothers generally easily entered.

at what age did you get your enemas in hospital? What other mothers would enter there for?

At what age were you given an enema in the hospital? Why else would mothers go in there?

10 years. This is a hospital in the USSR. Mothers could easily come to ask the nurse about something or find out when to bring the child for an enema. In the klizmite, at the end of the office, by the window, there was a radiator, on which some children's things were often dried.

I tend to see a different lady doctor each time I go to the clinic for my medical. Usually the instruction is to take off all my clothes excluding my knickers and put the t shirt back on. A few times I have been asked to take off all my clothes and put the t shirt back on. My t shirts are short so they don't cover my vulva. It feels unnecessary doing the whole medical with my vulva showing. Mine is an innie but with a long slit visible from the front so I feel very exposed.

It's not completely unnecessary nudity as she opens my slit at the end to check my clitoris and minora.

@Annie204 Those times when you had to remove everyrhing and put back your Tshirt, you were botomless from the start of the exam if I understood correctly? So how did weighing did look like? Taking a walk for a gait check? Bending over for a spine check? Well, your vagina and ass surely were exposed for a long time.

I was in south america a while ago with my then girlfriend. We were staying at an air bnb type set up near a beach that was by a small town. Anyway, my gf gets stung by a bee and she wanted to get some first aid materials to treat it. We go into this pharmacy attached to a clinic and this older man comes over and looks at the sting and tells us to come to the back so he can look at her. So he introduces himself as the doc and asks her some question in broken english, then looks at her hand to see the sting. He asks her to hop up on the table, take out his stethoscope and listens to her lungs, then tells her (didnt ask lol) to remove her shirt; I could tell she was hesitant because all she had under was the skimpy bikini she was wearing at the beach, so she takes the shirt off and lays there in a red bikini. He moves the stethoscope around her chest and then moves it down to her belly, and asks her to undo the shorts she had on to listen lower. Proceeds to then palpate and tap on her belly and then tells her shes fine and theres no issue. Not being able to speak spanish and his english being limited, I wasnt about to say anything. But she felt kinda shocked he had her almost fully undress to make sure she wasnt dying from a bee sting; then proceed to prod and poke her while she layed there half naked.

@Annie204 Your experience reminds me of the way female patients were weighed and measured at my pediatrician's office. The scale was located in the hallway and patients were weighed and measured after undressing in the exam room. Boys were always weighed and measured in just underwear, but girls who were developed were allowed to wear a tshirt, no bra, and their underwear.

Yes. I had to have minor surgery to remove a screw from my foot that was just under the skin to help a bone heal. They were running way behind in surgery that day and because mine was so minor I was last. The scrub nurses came in and said we are going to prepare your foot and one held up my leg while the other scrubbed my foot. The one scrubbing noticed I still had my underwear on and said oh those need to come off. I said the admitting nurse said I could leAve them on and the scrub nurse said I’m sorry we would have removed them in the OR but it’s easier to do now. She said slide those down and we will take them over your feet. I took them down and they got them off and put them in my bag. They went back to working on my foot and at one point the nurse held my leg out and the gown came up and they could see everything. I turned kind of red as the admitting nurse walked in and looked and said oh let me get you a sheet. In post op the nurse there thought it was unnecessary because it was just conscious sedation but they make the decisions in the OR.

Multiple times unfortunately.

I got genital examinations during home examinations by pediatricians for a flu. One time when I was at primary school I was brougth to first aid for an ankle sprain after a bad fall during an handball match. Doctors required me to be completely naked. I remember they checked my ribs then the abdomen and also my genitals before examinating my ankle. It was unexpected and extremely embarassing.

Many years ago as a small child I was in a hospital observation ward. It was a roasting hot day, I was shown my bed and locker and told to undress which I did.

A nurse then told me to go out into the enclosed garden and play with the other young children out there with water. I point blank refused and she went to a drawer and got me underpants to wear, but the other children were naked.

Twice during the heat of the day the fire alarm went off, and we all ended up out on the street. I was so glad I was wearing underpants.