Preferred to Lay on an exam table naked or in a gown during an exam ?

I prefer a gown

I think I'm in the minority here when you look at the other males responses - but I do prefer a gown. Gives me just a little more way to hide and even more of a feeling of exposing when it's time to be examined.

I would also prefer a gown. Not from embarrassment, but I’d sorta feel like I was “flashing” if I were naked.

I have been examinated completely naked so many times. During urology and urodynamics nurses asked to remove everything under the navel. So no pants and no socks before getting on the examination chair.

Here also, I have been completely naked several times during exams. In some cases I had been told/asked to take off everything at the start of the exam. Other cases I still had my briefs on which were then oulled down and taken off bu the doctor or I was asked to remove them. Result being that i was naked on the exam table.

So, when I know I will end up naked anyway, I kin of prefer to be naked from the start of the exam.

For a physical examination such as a health check-up, medical visit or mole check at a dermatologist's office, I prefer to be completely naked from beginning to end on the examination table, whether it is a male or female doctor, because it facilitates the doctor's work, allowing them to examine the patient completely. A gown is not necessary, and underwear such as briefs has no place during a physical examination. So, for me, it should be completely naked.

II agree with @Adonfmatou. I feel gowns are unnecessary and just get in the way. And, strangely, gowns leave me feeling more anxious and exposed than I otherwise do when I am completely nude without a gown. I want to be examined thoroughly from head toe at my annual checkups, so I prefer to be in the nude from start to finish.

Nude is an option? That would be nice. Like Mr-S, I have an anxiety about gowns but it is different. I have some body image issues, so I would rather be naked. That may seem counterintuitive, but I am much more comfortable nude in situations where it is ok to be nude. If I have a gown or drape, I feel like I am going to offend the provider by having parts of me visible. It actually makes things more stressful.

It's not paradoxical, it's better to be naked.

Usually in my underwear; I have been offered a gown, but refuse. The gown is clumsy and gets in the way. Normally, I have never been asked to strip completely nude so underwear it is unless the doc says: strip off all of your clothes.

For real exam, a gown. it gets cold in there!

I never put a gown on when they give me one because I'm an exhibitionist and love it when the doctor comes in and finds me naked with my legs spread on the examining table.

I hate gowns Always nude since childhood

For a play exam, fully naked. For a real exam? I want to do whatever the doctor asked for. I figure the less flustered the providers are the better the care they’ll be able to provide. Service industry folks know that customers are part of creating an environment where work gets done at its best.

But again for play, fully naked so I can watch them examine me.

I prefer to wear a robe; it provides more privacy.

When a medical examination requires complete nudity, a bathrobe or gown seems unnecessary. It's an examination that necessitates nudity, so one remains naked.

For a real exam I do what they tell me to do.

They’re not your sex partner. If they want you in a gown, put the gown on. Consent.

Assuming we have a gown, we'll be completely naked underneath it because the doctor will have asked us to remove all our clothes and underwear before putting on the gown. In any case, at some point during the examination, the doctor will ask us to remove the gown. The doctor provides a gown so that the patient isn't completely naked for the entire duration of the consultation. I don't think it bothers the doctor if the patient is completely naked. But can we talk about consent? If the examination requires the patient to be completely naked and the patient refuses to undress, there will be no examination.

I don't think it bothers the doctor if the patient is completely naked.

Sure. You think. You don’t know. Do as the doctor asks. You’re paying them for a medical service, not a sexual one.

I said naked but at no time did I talk about a sexual act, I talked about a medical examination by the doctor and that this examination could require complete nudity.

I talked about a medical examination by the doctor and that this examination could require complete nudity.

@Adonfmatou - Normally I keep out of these conversations, but occasionally someone says something so absurd that I can't help myself. So I have to ask you - perhaps you can identify a medical examination that would require complete nudity, justified on medical grounds, not only that nudity is required just because that is the way you would like it. Even a skin examination that the Americans and French seem to go for won't require all clothing to be removed at once, but in stages.

Or are you simply pushing a nudity agenda without medical need? That's what it sounds like to me.

I like being stripped down to just my boxers until they come down for the genital and prostate exam.

I said naked but at no time did I talk about a sexual act, I talked about a medical examination by the doctor

Pish tosh. Exhibitionism is a sexual fetish.

I have never had a physical where those were the options given. I have never had an exam with a gown. When young, I was always in my underwear - white briefs when young and boxer briefs when in my 20s. After my late 20s I don't think I was asked to remove anything - the steth was snaked up under my loose shirt, and pants were lowered for the hernia check if that was required.

Having said that, I would like a nude exam for the experience. In some ways it might make me less anxious - if I start out naked, I would not be worrying during most of the exam about having to drop my drawers at the end.

At the risk of being too off-topic and repeating myself...

The predominant theory is that the patient is more comfortable in a gown. I (and others) am not. I disagree that we have to prioritize the providers' feelings above the patients'. The office is supposed to make the patient comfortable, and it is a poor practice and assumption, in the US at least, that a gown does that.

I agree with @Tevverer and the assumption is that the gown makes the patient more comfortable. I have seen practice exams on YT and the constant on / off and up / down with various ends of the gown seems like a waste of time. Also - why do some gowns fasten in the front, and others in the back? If it closes in the back and you sit up on the table, the gown could be caught under your weight. If it opens in the front that problem is avoided, but if it falls open the patient is exposed in the front.

My doc is in such a hurry that I am not required to remove anything - I doubt having a patient in a gown is more efficient that in underwear or nude,

I would prefer complete nude. Why bother with modesty?

I prefer to undress as far as necessary for the exam. For example auscultation requires to take the shirt of. A genital or testicular exam requires the pants and underwear to come off. The rest of clothes may remain in place. The concept of the exam gown feels unnecessary to me as what’s going to be exposed will be exposed anyway. So no need to pseudo hide my body.

As in a real and true medical exam, a gown is appropriate. Now for a play exam, both gowned and being naked have different pro's and con's. Just depends on the what the participants wants and needs are.

I guess it really doesn't matter to me because the doctor is going to see whatever they need to examine. I'm not embarrassed 😉