How and when did you learn what pelvic and breast exams were?

The first time I remember hearing about a pelvic exam was when I played softball in high school. The coach told us we needed to get a physical before the season began.

One of the more senior members then started joking about getting a pelvic exam.

“They make you get naked. You lay on your back and spread your legs…”. This was in the locker room. I remember someone laid on the bench and put their feet on a locker and mocked it out.

“They pry you open and put fingers in you”

I was mortified. They had to be lying, right?

Later on I had obtained a magazine with an article about your first exam. It intrigued me. I couldn’t stop thinking about it and reading it. I couldn’t get the idea out of my head. I couldn’t believe the older girls weren’t lying. This lead to me talking to my friends about it which turned me on, and now I’m here. Haha.

An episode of family guy. I looked up what a gynecologist was later!

When I was maybe 15 or so, I saw the words pap smear on a gynecologist card and then I googled it, except there wasn't a google back then. I probably asked Jeeves or something, but needless to say I soon learned all about it. There was a good website that I read called gyn101.com, I think. It's offline now, but it was educational at the time. Once I learned more phrases and terms associated with pelvic exams, I was able to find the speculum pages site and that's that.

Very similar story on my end. Being fascinated with medical exams coupled the curiosity of the opposite sex at the cusp of the creation of the internet!

I learned in the 8th grade what they were because my very close friend had ovarian cysts and explained to me what she had to have done to check for them. Was the start of my whole fetish!

I didn't know anything about breast and pelvic exams until 14, when I received the first one. I was in the ER because of my appendicitis and the doctors there decided that I need a gynecologic exam at the gynecology department. There the doctor explained what to expect.

It was shocking for me but also a tiny bit exciting afterwards.