Is Being required to strip naked for medical check up common?

I think the most important take-a-way here is that when you leave the medical office, you know you received a complete physical examination. Especially when you see an dermatologist for a full skin exam. Skin cancer can occur, even where the sun don't shine, so gentlemen, man up, strip naked, and don't worry about it. Your doc has seen it all and doesn't care the size of your dick, even though you probably do. Chill.

Skin cancer can occur, even where the sun don't shine, so gentlemen, man up, strip naked, and don't worry about it. Your doc has seen it all and doesn't care the size of your dick, even though you probably do. Chill.

Some docs don't want to examine it all. I would say the majority of folks on this thread haven't been FULLY inspected.

Though I do agree skin cancer can occur anywhere, and do wish she would want to inspect my genitals.

I always had a strip down is a little kid for the doctor examinations

I have always got to leave my underwear on by I always get excited about anticipating that the doctor may have be get fully naked.

I don’t think I’ve ever been completely naked without some sort of covering or gown.

I have never been re quoted to strip naked, but usually to my underpants. Usually have had to lower them during the exam and sometimes have stepped out of them, ending up naked, but never been naked throughout.

I guess it depends on wheee in the world you lieve

it happened and still happens to me

No it isn’t. I do for my genitalia exams.

Psych the do. Especially the ER. Sometimes they give to you gown sometimes they don't . How much they trust you.

Then of course they keep the curtain open.

Somebody watches you naked.

Several years ago at my first appointment with a new doctor, the nurse would take my vitals and the hand me a sheet to use as a drape and ask me to get completely undressed. The doc would check heart & lungs, look in my ears, eyes, and mouth and then have me stand and touch my toes. From that point on I was naked for the rest of the exam. He left a few years later - the thoroughness of my physical exams has declined significantly since.

I saw my new primary doctor yesterday and didn't remove a single thing, and the only things she checked were my heart/lungs, and blood pressure

I'm actually surprised by how much discretion general practitioners seem to have in what to check during an annual physical… including whether any clothes come off.

After the clinic I'd been going to for years closed down, I was assigned a doctor in his mid-thirties, at the new place. His “physicals” have mostly consisted of asking questions, and even only involved auscultation if I had a nagging cough or something.

This went on for so long that I had concluded that it must be standard practice now for doctors to leave the patient clothed. I was surprised when a substitute doctor (much older) started my exam last time by saying, “Take off your clothes.”

In answer to my asking, “Everything?,” he said, “You can keep your underwear on, for now.”

I was surprised again when he followed up palpating my lower abdomen by scooping his hand inside my boxers and cupping my penis and balls, then stretching my penis inside the fabric, stroking and twisting it briefly, and palpating and rolling my scrotum. That hadn't happened in years.

I shouldn't have been surprised when he asked me to stand facing the exam table, pulled down my boxers, put on gloves, and picked up some K-Y to start a rectal exam.

Driving home with a slightly sore rectum, I was most surprised by my own passivity of years running. Why hadn't I insisted that my younger doctor do those things all along? This more invasive exam hadn't detected any problems, but that was luck, not prudence.

If my next doctor, where I'm moving, is similarly prudish / squeamish, I'll find one who isn't disinclined to open the patients' clothes… and actually do an examination.

Only been asked to strip to my pants,and if they want to check my genitals they ask me to push my pants down.

The only time I ever had to strip completely for a medical was when I joined the navy. Medical checks in primary school were never more than checking your hair for lice and pulling your briefs out for a quick visual check. I think the girls had pretty much the same. Never had medicals at high school or for college/work, other than navy and when I worked briefly for Marks and Spencer dept store in the 70s. Had to roll my pants legs up so she could check the backs of my knees. Never did quite understand that one. Only thing I could think of was she perhaps looking for needle marks from dug use? They had a full contingent of GP, nurse, dentist and hairdressers for their staff.

I don't think it was done much in schools in UK in the 40s and 50s. Certainly not the ones I went to.

My doctor has me ‘change out of your street clothes’ and supplies a gown and drape. So after she leaves I strip bare ,hop up onto the table and cover myself genitals and waist with the drape and put the gown on,open in the back. I usually take a picture of all of my clothing on the chair. It's a nice reminder of how much I had to remove.

When I got a new doctor last year I had to take off everything except my underwear and put on a gown. I got a different doctor recently and I'm not required to take off any of my clothes, maybe the previous doctor i had was more thorough? I dunno

Only stripped naked at school and when i joined the forces

I was never stripped naked in any school medical, only undressed to underpants

I don’t think it’s too uncommon, most of my physicals have been similiar.

In real exams I was never stripped naked, usually I was in my underpants and the Doctor moved them to my knees to check my genital.

In a play exams for me it should be mandatory to be totally naked at some point, the Doctor needs to see you naked, it's more easy to perform a complete examination if the patient is totally exposed.

I'd say it's pretty uncommon. Gown, with or without underwear, and I've never had the gown come off, it's as open as it is for the doctor to work around it.

I think it all depends upon the doctor, the practice and the insurance. I have only had ‘Wellness’ exams from my current primary doctor, never a physical. A wellness exam is pretty minimal and seldom requires undressing unless there is a specific reason. I have scheduled an annual physical. I think I will just mention to the nurse practitioner that I would prefer to be undressed beforehand rather then fuss with clothes during the exam. Fussing with clothes during an exam just irritates me. I mean really….if Michaelangelo had a problem with nudity we wouldn't have David. If a doctor has a problem with nudity, well then he/she should be selling cars.

If a doctor has a problem with nudity, well then he/she should be selling cars.

Remember, most people don't have fetishes for this and are going to be uncomfortable without a gown. It's for the comfort of the average patient. Futzing with clothes is pretty uncommon though I'd say, you're given a gown if any undressing is necessary and they're designed for ease of access.

Of course the "average person" is a sheep, whatever the norm is they will go along with it. So it actually makes them more uncomfortable to imply that they should have some discomfort which you are so graciously alleviating. Everyone did fine without gowns before, I think they're ridiculous. It would be wonderful if this was the kind of thing doctors could be rated on, at some site somewhere along with their background and training. If you hate your body, you can go see a doctor that hates skin too, otherwise you can see a normal one and know you'll be asked to undress.

Well all I can say is lucky you! That would be my ideal exam and I surely would get an erectionand would hope he eould examine my penis and foreskin more thoriughky!

Not exclusively but it is quite common as I have to have a works, insurance and annual medical and over here it is very rare to have a gown.

I used to always go through the strip down process, which I hated. It may still be standard protocol with some doctors, but I haven't had that experience in several years. These days, with my current doctor, I just answer a few screening questions, she'll listen to my chest, and then send me to the lab for bloodwork, if needed. It used to be strip off the clothes, bend over for the rectal exam, and deal with having your stomach pushed push down, like you were the Pillsbury dough boy. I'm thankful not to go through that. The worst part of the visit, is being pre-screened with stupid and invasive questions, prior to seeing the doctor.

I don't think it is very common these days but it does still happen. I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s and most of my physicals as a kid and as a teenager involved being naked for some of it if not all of it, even school physicals.

Last full medical i had i was stripped to my pants,then when he had done other checks,he asked me to pull my pants down

Used to have to drop the pants. but now with the updated guidelines don’t do much beyond taking off the shirt