Pediatric Genital exam: Touch or Visual exam?

When very small it didn't bother me at all, wasn't modest until a little older and funny feeling.

When hit the "tween and teen" age then naturally felt embarrassed.

You said you were a late bloomer, may I ask you when you did you develop?

When I was examined by the doctor when I was a kid I was on my back on the examination table, stripped down to my underpants and for the genital exam he would pull them partway down my thighs, palate my testicles, feel up and down the shaft and tip of my penis, and then have me cough several times as he did the hernia test.

When I was little the exam was purely visual she would just open my underwear and look at each side of my scrotum to make sure my testicles had desended. When I got into my teens for sport physicals they would do the turn my head a cough thing but saddly that was it.

When I was very small, like younger than 8, I was always naked during exam but I don’t remember any doctors touched my genitals. Sometimes they spread apart my cheeks briefly.

Later I was allowed to leave underpants and when they went down the doctors always retracted foreskin and felt testicles and did a hernia test. Roughly from 14 I sometimes had also to show my anus by turning around, bending over and spreading the cheeks widely.

From age 6 genital examinations were "hands on" no gloves back then,