Being seen in underwear as a child

Up until age 12 I was fine with it. But at 12 I got erect infront of my doc, this was new to me as I never thought of the doctors in a sexual way it just happened one day. Anyways my doc and I noticed my very erect cock, but he ignored it and continued normally. For the next 4-5 years I would get erect in my underwear and it would very much reveal itself to him. He payed no mind to it and just continued every exam normally. So after age 12 like it but hated it

Underwear would have been nice. But my pediatrician did exams without any clothes

I would have to undress down to my underwear from the start and then the doctor would remove it for my genital exam. Never got a gown.

I was fine with that. I start at queit a Young age to get aroused.

I always had to undress to my briefs right from the start of every exam. The doctor would be watching while I was undressing and most of the exam would be just in briefs and even completely naked towards the end.

For me, having to undress was a big part of the excitement of a physical exam, and as of the age of 12/13 I can recall that it typically showed through my tented tighty whities. I was not really embarrassed by having to undress, but obviously I was embarrassed by my erection which clearly betrayed my (inappropriate) excitement and arousal to the doctor.

I've always been in underwear at exams until the age of 20. Never had a gown.

Apart from a very few occasions it was knickers only even when my breasts started to develop and I was shy about my transformation.

It's really a shame that when I was young, kid's underwear came in white only. It looked so utterly childish and infantile. I hated being seen in it by anyone. It looked so undignified.

Too bad no one thought to sell it in different, more flattering colors like black, red or blue … it is a mystery to me why it took so long for manufacturers to catch on to this.

@SouthernAnn

at what ages was it the most embarrassing? Were you ever given a gown?

It's really a shame that when I was young, kid's underwear came in white only. It looked so utterly childish and infantile.

@agracier Funny, but I'm kind of the opposite now. All sorts of colours were available when I was young which may be why I don't remember being embarrassed about my underwear. But now as an adult white seems sexier and more grown up to me, probably because it's not what I had as a child.

My boyfriend chooses my underwear (not on a daily basis, but my underwear drawer is of his choosing) and it's the more colourful briefs (red with stripes, for example) that I now feel embarrassed and childish in. Although dark colours are fine. If I was going to be seen in my briefs, I'd wear navy, gray or white.

Always in underpants only for physio.

Along with the color white, there was also the connotations of the manufacturers name that was cause of both hilarity and embarrassment.

In the US, there was Fruit-of-the-Loom which sounded, and still sounds, very silly. You could make all kinds of stupid jokes with Fruit-of-the-Loon being one of the kindest perhaps and others using plays on fruit=homosexual (slang back in my day).

And oddly, when we moved to Belgium, the most known manufacturer of underwear was called Le Petit Bateau and that too caused endless sniggering if the words ever came up in a conversation or in a school textbook like 'Monsieur Duval went sailing in his petit bateau (little ship).

Odd how it was similar on both sides of the Atlantic …

I was always in just underwear at the doctor for every physical as a child. I honestly never felt embarrassed about it.

With our family doctor, it was never necessary to undress down to underwear. He had performed the physicals only briefly and quickly. Maybe everything was always fine.

Once, when I was young, I had to go to the hospital. Nothing serious, just a little medical treatment under anesthesia. But the physical before that was tough. Here I was supposed to undress myself for the first time except for my underpants. Had no idea I was going to be examined so thoroughly there. So I was very surprised how thoroughly my heart was listened to, for example. Since I had never experienced such a physical and had never had to undress for it before, I had experienced this feeling of embarrassment so intensely for the first time.

Yes, from childhood all the way into adulthood. I was never embarrassed, because I knew the doctor had to see my body as part of the examination. To this day I cringe if a doctor tells me to keep even my shirt on. I always take it off, even if he says not to.

@Marteen my bra was off already, I had been told to take off everything except underwear once the nurse left the room. So I was given the physical in just panties, then I had to remove them fully. The doctor asked me to put my feet on the sides on the table and my knees up, then she turned on an exam light at the end of the table. Once she had gloves on she opened my labia and looked at my vaginal opening and urethra. It felt like it took forever, but it was probably only a few seconds.

I remember having to undress down to my underwear for an exam at first school. My mum was present and there was a lady doctor. I was only 5 or 6 and not sure what it was for. I remember being asked to move about and I guess it was just a developmental check. I didn‘t feel much either way as I was too young to know any different.

Don't remember being seen and embarrassed in my underwear at doc visits. But do have a clear, vivid memory of when I was young in the mid-1950's when my family and I were all staying over for a few days visiting my aunt. She had a couple of kids and I long story short, I got sun burnt on my legs…. When I came in, my mom pulled my pants down, to check me out. So I was left just my underwear, to show my aunt; and of course my girl cousins all checked me out😳. It was very embarrassing! Funny how I remember that event so clearly.

It was common for me to undress to my underpants. The only question was how long would they remain on? I don't think that “my sense of modesty” developed until I was around age 11 as signs of puberty were starting. Prior to that, I had begun to dread having the nurse lower my briefs for a temp but I wasn't as self conscious regarding my genital exposure. That began to change when I began to have erections at night - age 12ish. It seemed so strange to have one while sleeping and eventually found out about noturnal emissions! Who knew??

I became more self conscious when in junior high and gym class involved use of a locker room, showers, and at times school physicals. Now I was being with other male students and seeing various stages of undress and all sorts of sizes. I honestly don't recall seeing anyone who was very big in the penis department then.

I do remember that having to submit to a school physical in junior and senior high school. It was its own degree of embarrassment and humiliation. No one seemed eager to have the doctor examine one's genitals in front of the others with the school nurse observing. By then my own doctor was doing that and having me naked on the table post RT. It seems to me that there was total exposure for more of the exam then than ever before. I wonder if this was true for you?

As an adolescent, the notion of an exam became a source of masturbation when alone in my bedroom. I don't know how this impacted my going for a physical. I don't think it made me less anxious to be seen at the doctor. Yet, the process of going, submitting and being examined has remained ever so strong. The discussions here reinforce this link as well as learning how others endured.

Yes being stripped to just my briefs at times meant being weighed in a hallway and seen in the exam room. In my mind is the indelible scene of me lying on my belly with my briefs down to my thighs waiting forever for the RT to register! So there you have. How was it for you?