Men: What position do you prefer to have a digital rectal exam?

Hand and knees on the table or legs in air and ass exposed. It will make me vulnerable for the doctor woman

I’ve been examined in all four of these positions during my play exams. I’ll also add one more position that was used by one specific doctor…I was Asked to stand on the exam table with my legs spread and drop onto a full squat while the doctor sat behind me so he was positioned almost underneath my bottom with my anus and genitals fully exposed.

I have been in position 2, on my back and knees pulled up towards my chest and, 4, on my back and placed in stirrups. Both positions experienced during real exams as well as play exams and I can say I prefer the one where I was in stirrups although the exposure is roughly the same, but the feeling in stirrups is that you're much more exposed as you're not holding your knees with your hands. It still gives you the impression/belief that you have some control...

My impression is that patients don’t really have a choice. It is not as though you can tell your doctor that you’d prefer to remove your shirt when he has specifically asked you to lower your underwear. The same goes for the preferred position, I think.

Both my regular doctor and the urologist I started seeing quite early prefer that I rest my chest on the exam table, but there is one difference. After my chest is resting on the table, the urologist asks me to spread my feet wide and then point my toes inward. This awkward position naturally forces you to bend your knees, spread your buttocks, and expose your anus for easier access. The urologist also probes inside for much longer, whereas my regular doctor gently presses on the prostate before quickly removing his finger.

I have only had it done bent over the table with pants pulled down and lying on my side with legs pulled up in gown. Would love to be on my back with legs in stirrups totally naked fully exposed.

Probably position 2 or 3 for me

If it is a male dr then bent over a table elbows down.....for a female dr then on my left side knees bent with l leg over the right

I've only had a couple of DREs, all of which were in position 1. I'd like to experience both 3 and 4, with 4 sounding great. Even though it's a standard experience for the doctor, I enjoy the exposure, and 4 leaves nothing to the imagination. They've likely seen my unimpressive genitals anyway, so why not have them front and center.

If it is a male dr then bent over a table elbows down.....for a female dr then on my left side knees bent with l leg over the right

@drdavid842 Why different positions based on the sex of the doctor?

I’ve only had “1” and “2”. It makes no difference to me. I hate them both.

I prefer feet on the ground as opposed to all fours on the table which seems to me to be the most humiliating position

I would prefer 4

Mostly bent over the end of the exam table. Only twice laying on my left side (once with my PCP, the other was a company physical). Stirrups sounds interesting! Options 2 & 3 too!

The hands and knees is supposed to be elbows and knees, with legs spread apart. If you picture a patient, you can see what that does for access. I didn't scroll through the posts, but there's also bent over, grabbing ankles, or bent over, with cheeks spread wide apart.

I have had at least 10 rectal exams performed on me in my life, and all have been while I was bent over the exam table

My last one, a number of years back was performed with me bent over an exam table. First by a male urologist, then by a lovely young female student doctor…under the watchful eye of the urologist.,

The best position, is to bend over a table, or been on all fours with heads on the table and butt pointing ahead, it is much more easy for the doctor to spread the cheeks of butt wide apart

I had exams in four different .. I think the better (less embarrassing) is laying on the bed on the side.. elbows and knees on exam table is humiliating but also lying on the back with legs up is quite embarrassing I was very exposed.. I don't know if you notice q preference by specialty, but in my experience elbows and knees on table was preferred by proctologists, laying on the back legs up by urologist and lying on side or bend over the table by other specialists including gp

To receive, just about any position my partner wants me in. To give I like my partner in the knee chest position. What is really nice is being with my partner, both fully nude and and lying face to face while giving each other a digital exam.

They never gave me a choice!

Just bent over the table, here we go!