What age did you stop getting physicals in your underwear?

My primary care is female, & i get my exams in an open gown with a jockstrap underneath. I've hinted that I'm "old school" & wouldn't mind ditching the gown, but i got the impression she'd prefer i wear it. And with her husband in the next room also practicing, i tend to just go along with it.

That said, i have a skin exam this Friday, and i plan to once again be in just my jockstrap, no gown.

I didn't get a gown until I started college. My pediatrician had me in just my panties and my first family doctor had me in panties and bra with no gown. My doctor now has me in a paper gown with nothing on under it.

I still have physicals in my underwear.

My first physical was naked. Very shy. and i love chat about

I can vouch for all males but I think a major of us get our physicals in our underwear. I mean as far as I can remember I have be examined in my underwear never in a gown, what a shame.

As far as I know in Spain no one gets exams in gowns. You only get one when you are staying in the hospital or if you have to be naked for a while, like having an X-ray. The exams are all in underwear or you get naked as it goes forward.

Jennifer S: Your doctors sound very professional, in which place of the world does this happen?

I was just answering another post and realizing that I don't think I ever saw a gown until I was about 17. All the physicals I remember before then were with our family doctor, or school physicals. At all of these I was undressed down to just my briefs, or just socks, or completely naked. I think probably after when I was 10 they just had me keep my briefs on. I always was told to undress right at the beginning of the exam, and I got undressed with the doctor and nurse(s), and maybe others still there.

Then, when our doctor retired, we then went to a small practice with three or four doctors, and there they had gowns. And, they would usually ask me questions, and do blood pressure, temperature, height and weight, while I was still dressed, then they would ask me to get undressed, take everything off down to my underwear, and put on the gown. And, if it was a female doctor or nurse they would leave the room, or there was a screen I got undressed behind.

Nude all the way through high school. never had the modesty of a gown.

Up to date no gown, never got one as a kid or as an adult for regular doc visits or physicals. Only gotten a gown when i been admmited to the hospital. Always been nude or in my unders but no gown.

I’ve never had a gown. I’ve always removed/moved clothes as-you-go. Inwas offeres a gown at a dermatologist once but declined. I would have looked ridiculous.

I had about the same experience as the OP. Maybe 16-17 was my first gown experience.

Always naked until 16. After that Age usually in my underwear.

Does anyone ever wish they could go back to how it used to be and get an exam without a gown on?

I never was offered a gown until I was in my early 30's. By that point I was accustomed to.stripping down to my underwear during a physical. I just decline the gown. I would assume it is a nuisance for my doctor. I want her to able to conduct my exam with ease. The gown just gets in the way I suppose.

It wasn’t until my late thirties that I was given a gown. Before that I underessed down to my underwear.

In my 20's and haven't had to go down to my underwear for seems to be a long time for a physical, only time is when we our playing and that is a whole other story:-)

I saw a pediatrician up to and including age 18, and all of those exams required that I undress to my underwear, and I was never offered a gown.

I got to wear a nice reusable fabric gown over my underwear at my first visit to a family doctor when I was 19. It was nice and made me feel comfortable with the new experience, though the doctor was just as thorough with his examination.

Does anyone ever wish they could go back to how it used to be and get an exam without a gown on?

Yes! Most definitely! It would be such a thrill to sit there on the exam table in just my underwear while the doctor methodically worked through the examination!

I lived in the UK for nearly a decade. In the summer I wear a jockstrap under running shorts. Instructed to undress, I did and sat entirely naked on table til GP entered. He never seemed to be disturbed. Room was always cold causing the shrivel effect most men are familiar with.

Go got exam yearly. Don't think shorts have been down since returning, except for a skin exam. Again wore summer attire. First year resident asked me remove all clothes and stand, when al parts of body were examined. Then the dermatologist came in and repeated exam including lifting penis, and scrotum to inspect, and spread butt cheeks. The doc was a female, and must admit touching had an arousing effect.

Standard exam seems to take 15-20 minutes including questions with underwear on.

My exams were always in my underwear. My school ones (which was like 3) was just my pants and socks off

For me, it was age 20, the last time I saw my pediatrician. I wasn't expecting to go but needed a physical at the last minute. That was the last time -- after that visit, I pretty much got clothed physicals.

First time I had a gown I was about 25. I had the same old GP since I was a kid. He always did shirt off for vitals with nurse, pants and underwear on. When the doctor came in to do the exam, pants came off. Moved and got a new, much younger female GP. After vitals nurse gave me a robe and told me to get completely undressed. Now always robe or drape.

I can remember the the doctor just reaching down and tugging your underwear down to your knees. Back then they never really told you or prepared you.,, they just did it..

I agree with Doctor Steve (his post above). My pediatrician did exam in undies, and if course as a kid you're sitting there shivering. Mine would say "lie back and relax," and then proceed as Steve said. The lying back and relaxing got more difficult every year as you knew what was coming...for me it did. He wrapped one meaty hand around my penis, other around my little sack, squeezed both twice, then would switch hands and do the same again. No wonder i wound up with this fet!!

I saw a pediatrician till I was 18 for my college physical. Growing up it was always given while in my underpants. When I switched to an adult doctor a year or two later, it was the same. Down to my underpants. Then I switched docs again when I was about 26, where they used gowns with nothing in underneath. So I was probably 25 the last time in just my underpants.

I didn't get a gown until I was 19. Before that it was either bra and panties or just panties.

I actually don’t recall getting physicals; skivies or gowned or otherwise. The first time I actually recall going to a doctor was when I was 18 and getting my first gyno exam prior to starting birth control the month before I got married.

I still get them in my underwear only. Nothing really has changed except for the gown option that I decline. It’s too bulky and feminine to an extent and it’s just easier to do without moving the gown around for various parts of the exam.

@Ant, what types and brands of underwear do you wear?

Actually for me it depends if I am seeing my GP then fully clothed, seeing my gyno for that yearly exam, gown with nothing on underneath. There was a long period of time when I didn't see a physician at all. Last time remember being examined in my underwear was back in my early teens.

I still get examined in just my underwear. I have worn a gown once, but I was naked underneath. There was one time a while back, however, when the doc did my examination while I was fully dressed. I quickly switched doctors after that, LOL.