Does a person's comfort level with nudity affect their comfort level with genital exams?

I've been a nudist for years and I've worked as a standardized patient and male genital teaching assistant for the last 10 years.

Yes, I still get a thrill, but it's purely internal. It's not an attraction to any student, it's my own exhibitionist tendencies.

During my teaching sessions, I maintain an even demeanor at all times. Anything less would be unprofessional and could cost me my job. On the extremely rare times (once or twice) that I've felt myself becoming aroused, I've developed techniques to distract myself to alleviate the situation.

I've been practicing nudism for about 6 months, but getting undressed and having my genital examined at the doctor is still exciting.

There's something arousing about the fact that you're naked and exposed while the doctor is not. I enjoyed being nude at the doctor before becoming a nudist, so it hasn't really affected my comfort level.

(I thought that I would bring this thread back from 10 years ago for anyone who missed it.) Growing up, nudity- among others- was not the norm, except for gym showers, wrestling weigh-ins, locker rooms. I think that the being around others might be the key, were there many, few, or one person who was dressed, or also nude. In my bodywork practice, I was nude with individual nude clients. I was completely comfortable. When I, too, was a figure model with a dressed, male artist, it was a bit intense, perhaps because of the staring at my nude body if I was seated, not at all if I was, for example, posed in side view nude, 'diving.' It isn't uncomfortable around a dressed doctor, but the comfort level depended, in part, on the specific doctor.

I have made several visits to spas and saunas in Europe where nudity was the norm, and enforced. Visiting them has made me feel more comfortable about being nude around other people - but then they are nude as well. Walking around nude in the spa, or sitting next to a nude person in the sauna or steam bath is not the same as being touched. I still do not look forward to a genital exam, probably because there's the power dynamic of the doctor being clothed. On the other hand, I do not remember the last time I had a genital exam.

I always have a problem being naked. I admire people who can stay naked at home or on the beach or in the sauna...or anywhere else. And curiously, when I had to undergo an ultrasound of the penis, I did not feel any discomfort. I don’t know how the doctor managed, but this examination went through without me feeling any shame at being examined like that.