Funny, I just had been thinking about this very type of thing, the past couple days, for some reason. It’s not because of all the pantless people at home these days, because I’ve not done that, I’ve had to wear something below waist because I’ve got others around.
But, yes, I remember well a few times when I’ve had physicals where I was instructed only to take off everything below the waist. Sometimes it’s been for a considerable part of the exam. In some cases I was wearing a dress shirt which hung low enough that it was rather like a medical gown. Other times, I’ve only had a tshirt, or other pullover which wasn’t long enough to to cover anything below waistline. Once was in a physical where it was supposed to be a quick filling out forms, no need to disrobe, but then I got an unexpected prostate check, and ended up naked from waist down in front of doctor and med student, who was observing. For a good while longer than I expected, too, as something distracted the doctor for several minutes, so I was just standing there feeling quite exposed.
I remember a comic strip, from The Family Circus, where one of the young boys is standing on doctor’s exam table just in T-shirt, while his mother standsby holding his pants and underwear. I don’t remember this happening to me when young, but I always envied that kid.
In my modeling for artists, some of my favorite memories have been posing for a class in an open shirt, robe, or being draped with a sheet, but with below the waist still exposed. If done a certain way, it can easily cross the line from m ordinary, into territory which makes the scene much more intriguing.
There definitely is something about this state of undress which leaves me feeling rather more exposed than I would if I was totally naked. It also happens to me when I’ve been told to undress to only my socks, which has happened a few times, starting back at an early school physical, and that feeling always stayed with me.