Being seen in underwear as a child

As a child were you required to be in your underwear for exams? How did this make you feel? At what age did you start to become embarrassed?

When I had school medical examinations as a child in the 1960's aged around 11 or 12 I was very embarrassed to be wearing only underpants.

Until I was 11, every annual physical began with me undressed down to my tighty whities and my temperature being taken rectally.

For all examinations at the school doctor (last one around 13/14 years old), undressing to my undies was required.

And of course during the examination they were lowered to check my groin, my penis (pulling back the foreskin) and balls (palpating each of them).

Always were a bit embarrassed by it. Also got a stiff one at one examination.

I rather enjoy being the doctor…

Yes, I was required to undress to my underwear for all pediatric exams. It wasn’t so bad when I was a kid, but started to get embarrassing when I was 15 or so.

YES, as a child growing up I was required to undress for an examination. Sometimes not just to my underwear, but completely nude. The first time I was required to undress until completely nude was when I was 8. The doctor was a male doctor, so it was not that bad. However, at the age of 14, I was examined by a female doctor and was required to be nude. My father was with me.

Today it does not bother me to be in my underwear or nude when examined by a doctor, either male or female. In fact, I like to be examined completely nude and get a complete going over by the doctor.

Only underpants initially and naked at the end of the exam

mit was strange but interesting

What underwear?

When I had school medical exams I had to be in my underwear, and also when I went to the doctors if they wanted to do a full exam I was stripped down to my briefs or boxers.

The only time I was embarrassed was when I was 12 and was in the exam room at the docs and asked to strip down and felt self conscious sitting on the edge of the bed or lying down in my boxers in front of my mother and my big brother who was smirking at me.

I was never ashamed that I am in my underwear during the exam. In early childhood, I was examined medically naked (dermatologist) several times from the age of 5 to 9. From the age of 10 to 15, I was examined regularly by a pediatrician. I was undressing to my panties. At the end of the examination, the panties were pulled off to examine my genitals. I was not ashamed that I was wearing panties, but that they would slide off. It took place in the presence of my mother and I felt treated like a small child.

I absolutely hated being seen in underwear as a child, no matter what the circumstances: in a doctor's office or anywhere else. There was something so utterly childish looking about white underwear, so humiliating and mortifying.

Yes, always undressed down to underpants. It never bothered me all that much. One time I got embarrassed was the end of an exam when I was 11 or 12. My underwear was down around my knees when the doctor's assistant opened the door and came into the room and saw me there. She gave me a look which I took as hey kid sorry you're lying there virtually naked but what are you gonna do.

At the pediatrician i was always asked to sit on the table and remove my shirt. When the doctor would come in he would say something like “ok young man, let’s get those pants off and get your true weight” and then I would be in my briefs for the exam. When I turned 14- the nurse started telling me to completely undress but leave my boxer shorts on and sit on the table.

I guess it depended where you lived in the U.S. in the 50's/60's. In my neighborhood it was 100% white cotton briefs….back then the material of boys briefs was thinner than what's sold nowdays..Boys anticipating a (next day) paddling from the Principal would put on 3 briefs to absorb the impact of the paddle.If you were caught doing this ---it meant you'd be expelled for 3 days and when you came back your parent(s)had to come with you…

I absolutely hated being seen in underwear as a child, no matter what the circumstances: in a doctor's office or anywhere else. There was something so utterly childish looking about white underwear, so humiliating and mortifying.

Yes, I remember those tighty whities very well. I wasn't too worried about being seen in them as the oldest of 9. I can remember the first time in gym class that we all took a shower and there were many red faces as we stripped them off.

Only for being weighed and measured, and then I protested enough that I didn't have to remove my t-shirt. Still hated it though.

When we were kids we were taught to accept our bodies. Strangely enough I felt more comfortable nude than with underwear. The hard part was just learning when and where it was acceptable to be naked or at least wear underwear. Because I was not comfortable being put into boxer shorts as a kid perhaps that is one reason why I have such an underwear fetish today.

I can remember the first time in gym class that we all took a shower and there were many red faces as we stripped them off.

Perhaps oddly, swimming nude at the YMCA was far less embarrassing, for me at least.

I often had a distinct uneasy, queasy feeling whenever I saw someone else in white briefs and the bulge or outline of their genitals showing through.

Once when I was 10 or maybe 11 we were in upstate New Jersey at a lake somewhere visiting. Most went swimming in the lake, but my mother hadn't expected an occasion for swimming so I had no swimming trunks. And no one else had spares apparently. Somehow my mother, always considering swimming a very healthy activity never to be passed up, convinced me to go swimming in my white underpants. Did I ever feel humiliated and sorry I had accepted, especially when coming out of the water and everything was all tight and clinging around my groin. I felt like the complete and utter fool and baby.

My whole life I've always worn tighty whities. At the pediatrician's I was told, by the nurse to remove everything, but to leave my undies on for now. As soon as the doctor came in, he would have me sit up on the table and he would pull my undies all the way off and put them on the chair, with my clothes.I was always a little embarrassed to be seen in my tighty whities by strangers!!! Most embarrassing age was definitely when I started puberty!!

As a child I think all of my yearly physical exams and or Dr. visits when I was sick had a distinction of being asked to remove clothes. You would have basic height and weight taken and then ushered into the exam room. The nurse would ask to have you strip down to your underwear so the Dr. could exam you faster and possible see the problem.

I've always worn brief underwear, but can remember having to strip down to just these whenever going to the doctor every year for annual school physicals, and having to sit on the exam table with crinkly white paper. The worst part was when I had to stand up and drop my underwear to my ankles so the doctor could examine my penis and scrotum in front of Mom.

I don't think I became embarrassed to be in my briefs until I was 13 or so. Before that nudity did not really bother me. When I was examined before I was 10 (this was the 1970's) I was quite routinely naked in a room with my mother and it did not bother me as my pediatrician did all my physicals with me completely unclothed. Disrobing only became an issue when I began to explore my body and masturbate. I felt like it was a secret that I touched myself to get pleasure. Then when I was 13 I felt intense embarrassment to get undressed before my mother and the nurse who was watching me strip out of my clothes with only a tiny pair of briefs covering my penis. But when I was examined I felt great,being embarrassed and turned on at the same time. The doctor was touching me in places that only I had before and it really made me happy to be nearly naked and submissive.

I was never in my underwear at the pediatrician. He honestly didn’t perform much of an exam. I was never stripped down to my underwear until I went to a different doctor starting in junior high. I never felt embarrassed in front of him. If his nurse came into the room, I probably would have been embarrassed but I don’t remember her coming into the room after she did wright and vitals.

Disrobing only became an issue when I began to explore my body and masturbate. I felt like it was a secret that I touched myself to get pleasure. Then when I was 13 I felt intense embarrassment to get undressed before my mother and the nurse who was watching me strip out of my clothes with only a tiny pair of briefs covering my penis. But when I was examined I felt great,being embarrassed and turned on at the same time. The doctor was touching me in places that only I had before and it really made me happy to be nearly naked and submissive.

I think that's something that a lot of us can identify with. The simultaneous embarrassment of being seen in a way that you're not used to being exposed in front of others and also the excitement of being seen and touched like that.

The pediatrician that I had growing up always made me strip down to my underwear for physical exams and it was something that I dreaded. There were two exams that I had to get during puberty (ages 13 and 14) that I remember finding very embarrassing.

After checking my eyes, ears, nose, and throat, he asked my mom to leave the room. He then gave me the instruction “take off all of your clothes except for your underwear”. After I stripped down, he had me do a series of exercises in my underwear: touch my toes, swing my arms in different directions, walk across the room normally, walk on my tiptoes, walk on my heels, hop on one leg, duck walk, etc.

He then had me sit on the exam table and checked my reflexes and the strength of my limbs. I then had to lie supine on the exam table for him to visually inspect and palpate my chest and abdomen. When he was done feeling my stomach, he informed me that he was going to “check [my] penis and testicles”. He slid my boxers all the way down to my ankles and removed my right leg from the leg hole. I was completely naked for the genital exam apart from my boxers hanging around my left ankle.

During the genital exam, he looked through my public hair and examined my penis by inspecting and palpating all sides of the shaft and glans and pinching open the urethral meatus. He also examined my scrotum's skin and palpated each of my testicles. After that, I was informed that the exam was over; I sat up on the exam table and pulled my boxers back on, then hopped off the table and walked over to my clothes to get dressed.

Fond memories of being examined as a prepubescent child. I remember laying on my back, on the exam table, so the doctor could move my gown aside for the abdominal exam. I didn’t know it then, but I loved this part of the exam. The doctor would then move his hand underneath my underwear to check groin area. I remember being asked to move my hips up, so the underwear could be slid down. I remember feeling very embarrassed about this, especially because my mother was in the exam room, watching the exam from the chair.

As a child, I was either required to have my mom hold my underwear, or have them lowered for the duration of the exam; that depended entirely upon the instructions of my attending nurse on that day. Certain nurses had me lower them, some pulled them down for me for my RT, some required me to remove them entirely. At my usual clinic they of course came down or off for my rectal temp.

I was always instructed to leave them off or down until the doctor had the chance to examine me; that must have been his rule, because every nurse did that part the same way every time.

Age three was was when I started becoming very embarrassed about it. Earlier than that, I remember being mostly confused by it.

I felt very exposed, vulnerable, and humiliated about having to sit on the exam table with my underwear down for the ten to twenty minutes while waiting for the doctor to come in. It was excruciatingly humiliating!

I was always fully clothed.

I was only in underwear and shoes and socks for pediatrician visits apart from genital and rectal exams, where he slid my underwear down to my ankles. I was always told to take off all my clothes, but i always left on my underwear and shoes, so he would just take my clothes away and take the underwear away when it was time for the genital and rectal exam, which was very embarrassing as I always had an erection by that time. looking back on it now, the underwear probably wasn't hiding it anyway.

Every physical, my pediatrician would have me undressed to just my underwear. Typically, the nurses would simply say “strip everything off but your underwear.” I was never bothered by it until I was around 12, even then just a little awkward being in my “tightly whities” in front of my sister. Beginning that year, I would stand my pediatrician would grab the waistband of my briefs pulling them down to my knees. I was somewhat self conscious as my mom and sister watched him thoroughly examined my penis, foreskin, testicles and hernia. What I disliked was having someone else but myself to pull my underwear down. Before the exam my sister would also would remind me about having to pull down or removing my underwear.

I had a interesting and enjoyable experience during my physical when I was maybe 16 years old. While waiting for the doctor the exam room’s door was partially left open. In the hallway, there was a girl I knew from school who got a glimpse of me in my white briefs outlining my genitalia.

I don’t remember ever feeling uneasy being seen in my underwear like in locker rooms for gym class.