School Medicals

Many threads on here discuss our respective MedFet origins. Many also refer back to school days as so many of our experiences in life, not just with being examined, started then.

Yet try as I might, and despite one vague early memory from age 5, which is so old it cannot be reliable, I cannot recall a single formal medical examination at school at any age. I went to the doctors if I was unwell, that was it. Which makes my MedFet interest all the more interesting. The fear of the apparently non existent medical morphed into a curious fascination!

I started school in the UK in the 60s: is this experience unusual?

What happened to you? in consequence then, how and where did your fetish originate?

I recall one formal examination at school when I was in elementary school, and I recall my briefs went down and my testicles were felt. I recall wondering if the girls had had to lower their panties and show something.

I later had two formal examinations for military service, and some for employment. Only in the first military examination I had to lower my briefs.

I don't recall other “physicals” (maybe there were some but I forgot). As you, I was taken to the doctor if sick, but there were no gratuitous checks. If mom had doubts about my state, she would check my temperature and that's it.

I had my first school medical when I was 7 years old. I remember this exam very well, while many other people have forgotten it. I was surprised not to have had an erection during the examination by the female doctor. So it wouldn't have bothered me to have one, but I didn't understand that an erection would have had a sexual aspect. So I certainly had a medical fetish at that age, without being aware of it.

I searched for a long time for the cause of my medfet, I never found it. Either it's innate or acquired when I was a baby, maybe my circumcision, or later during a doctor's visit at home when I was 5 or 6 years old. I was completely naked during the exam.

We had annual medicals in secondary school.

This consisted of a whole day.

We would sit in a make shift class room and do “ study sheets”

We were called out in pairs, had eye sight checked, back to class

Then same for hearing

Than the physical examination ( height, weight, BP check posturecetc) forvthat we went into a cubicle with a curtain either side. You entered through one curtain, stripped to bra and knickers and exited through other curtain into a medical office

Back to class and same for teeth and nits.

The order of exams was random so whilst some had eye test others had teeth etc. So all day we were in and out of the class room.

I remember hearing the boys tell how the nurse would lower their pants and “ grab” their testicles. Apparently the nurse had cold hands lol

I remember very vaguely a school medical when I was around age 5/6 but have no recollection of the details, and another when I was aged around 10. Again, I can't recall any of the details but remember the two girls who sat behind me in class giggling as they noticed to my embarrassment that my trousers weren't fastened properly. One of the girls said “you never know what you might see!" They were also whispering and giggling about their own medicals and although I didn't learn any of their details it did sort of interest and excite me. So perhaps that was the foundations of my medfet? The only school medical I do remember clearly is the usual one when I was 14/15 and the boys had to lower their underpants and cough while the stern female doctor felt their testicles. And if any boy got a hint of an erection, like my friend did, he got the ‘wooden spoon’ treatment! I think my main interest started later, in my late teens early 20's when I found out that girls had to have intimate breast and vaginal examinations if they wanted to go on the pill…

I presume that most of you are still pretty young because in my time of school in France in the 60's we had a mandatory annual physical examination and no way to escape it.

The set up was rather the same each year even if we could be more undressed with some school doctors, but we undressed always before being examined in an adjacent waiting room by group of about 15 boy's students in my only boys school.

The female nurse instructed us to undress all together in briefs normally or later at high school in the nude.

I have never been erected but if it happened I have never heard of the use by the school nurse of a wooden spoon, not even a rumor about it in my school? I don't think that it was common use in France, if the penis was erected, I presume that the nurse could instruct to the boys to put it in a glass of cold water. A slap on the butt was more common to make us turn around when we were back to the nurse or the doctor or to bend over or to climb on the scale or to climb down from it or even when entering in the examination with the nurse behind us.

A palpation of the testicles by the female doctor was a standard part of each school exam as well as the turn and cough exam.

At that time the nurse or the doctor did not put gloves to examin your penis and testicles so you could feel their cold fingers on your genitals, they washed their hands after an examination but there was no gloves as it is today at an intimate examination.

At pre-induction military centers, the male military doctors who examined us stark naked from head to toes face and back, and even the inside of the crack by spreading the cheeks of our butts at mandatory physical examinations before military service and also after induction at military units did not wear gloves, it was the same as with school doctors, they were bare hands to touch genitals and palpate genitals and washed their cold hands after each exam.

We stayed stark naked for a very much longer time at the pre-induction military center than at school since we had to walk in group in corridors and then to line up against the walls to wait before entering by small group in different examinations rooms, it lasted if I included the time of waiting in the nude at least two hours. At school, we stayed in briefs for about two hours also in the waiting room since the Pe teacher who supervised us in the waiting room did not let a boy student dress again after his examination by the doctor as long as all boys had not been examined but it was not the same being in briefs for a long time and being naked.

I had physicals at school for sports every year from 5th grade through 12th. In addition to those, at certain years, everyone, even non-athletes, got a fairly comprehensive school physical. I think those were 6th, 8th, and 10th grades. I still think about those a lot, as well as physicals that my parents took me to.

@Dr_Philip Wooden spoon treatment?!

@Secret_sub

can you provide some more details of what your exam consisted of? Could other girls see your exam?

I hated my High School Nurse. She was old, and we would have sports physicals by her if we didn't see our own doctor. She would check your heart, feel your belly, then have you lower your pants and underwear and bend over and spread your cheeks to check your ass, and I know not why. Then she would have you turn and check your penis and testicles. Ohh I hated that.

I began to receive school physicals when I was in high school for two reasons. The first was not having a private doctor for a year and the other had to do with receiving mandatory sport's physicals. Both involved using the school nurse's office and seeing a doctor hired by the school to conduct exams. He was an older man; likely retired but did this on the side.

Exams were held for male and female students; always separately. Basically, you were notified to report to the nurse's office to check in and then sent into an adjoining room where you would be greeted by other male students. It became obvious that you needed to strip to your briefs and then stand on line to go into the next room where the nurse and doctor were conducting exams. Only two at a time went into the exam room. One saw the doctor which meant having to remove your briefs, present to him naked, have him listen to your heart and lungs and then receive a genital exam while you observed. Before being examined, the nurse would weigh you and take a temp and then send you to the doctor. “Go ahead, take off your briefs for the doctor.”

It was very intense to see a classmate naked like that and have to go next. No one got hard; there was way too much tension and anxiety. Fussing when she took a RT didn't help!

In my school days K-12 (to 1969) neither Grade School or High School required physical exams. Both had a nurse's office in case of a student being injured or sick but physical exams or the like did not occur.This was the parent's responsibility/business to take care of..

@Dr_Philip Wooden spoon treatment?!

@Pecan_nutjob

The thought of a woman looking at him down there and touching his testicles caused my friend to become excited, and when he pulled his pants down he had a semi-erection and his penis bobbed up and down in front of her. She took one look turned around to her desk and picked up some sort of instrument my friend described as looking like a wooden spoon, perhaps it was an actual wooden spoon ready to deal with teenage boys full of testosterone? But she gave the head of his penis a sharp tap with it and told him to stand against the wall and cool down. He told us he couldn't get the hard-on for a week after that!

At my time in the beginning of 60's in France, there could be a lot of mandatory physical examinations, so I am a little surprised when I read that some of you have had only one in elementary school for instance..

Like I have already said, it was one year of school from beginning in elementary school since graduation at high school and even later at university or superior school.

At university it was one by year like at middle or high school and mandatory also if you wanted to go to the next year and be allowed to follow your studies. You had not to strip completely before entering in the examination room, and depending on towns, you were instructed to undress in briefs or to stay dressed to wait and you were generally examined alone in front of doctor and female nurse. But I have heard rumors about a university in a town where the set up was different, the male students were summoned all together in a large group in a big room and instructed to line up naked to be examined by a few doctors one by one but in plain view of the others and with female nurses to perform some exams and all the male students were always stark naked for all the duration of the exam. Officially this set up was decided by doctors to win time and be efficient because of the great number of students to be examined. After a few years, there was some complaints of students to university authorities and there was a change of doctors and of the set up for examination.

At superior school after graduation from high school, there was always an entrance physical examination which was rather thorough and embarrassing because the doctor -male or female- was generally assisted by a nurse to take notes or perform some exams and help the doctor, so it could be embarrassing even if you were examined alone and if you were not instructed to strip completely in the waiting room.

Besides school examinations, there was normally a lot of other situations where you had mandatory physical examinations mainly performed in group at least for undressing. For instance if you went to a summer camp, there was always a physical examination a few days or weeks before the departure, it was mandatory and annual, and you were summoned to report in a medical facility by group of about 10. Until you reached the age of 12 or 14, you might be accompanied by your mother and you were instructed by a female nurse to undress in briefs ( white and tight at that time) all together in front of all the mothers and to sit on benches to wait until you were called by her, then you entrered in the examination room with your mother who could watch all the examination which included always inspection of the genitals, palpation of testicles, retraction of the foreskin, cough and turn test for hernia, and chek of balance and spine with butt exposed naked. All the exam was performed by a doctor mainly a woman in front of the nurse and the mother. There could be also present a female secretary to watch all the examination to check identity and to fill the medical form.

After 12 age, or sometimes 14 age, normally you could come alone without your mother but the set up was the same with undressing in briefs in group.

A friend of mine told me that at 16 age he was naked in front of a female doctor and a female nurse and a female secretary sitting behind a desk on the side of the room and they made him walk naked forth and back in the room to check his spine and balance under the eyes of the female secretary. It might be one of her most funny days each year.

I have not been submitted to these physical examinations myself because I never went on summer camps, I spent my holidays with my parents, but I have heard several times relations by some friends classmates who had to go to these annual physical examinations.

Of course even if I presume that there was some official forms with mentions about how such examinations might be performed, I think that they let the doctors or summer camp authorities or community authorities when they were carried on in a community center decide how to proceed and how undressed the boys might be and how thorough the exams might be, because the official forms might not be too much detailed about the process of the physical examination for summer camps.

It was the same if you wanted to do sports outside the school in a club or be member of a sport team, you had each time to report at a physical examination before being allowed to do sport and be member of a team. Generally, according to relations of friends, the physicals examinations were performed in group when they were rather fast or alone in the examination room or behind a partition but always with undressing in group before when they were more thorough. The exams were performed by a doctor assisted or not by a nurse and possibly also in presence of a female secretary and more often in presence of one male coach ( or possibly two). A medical form filled by family doctor was not valuable. Boys might be examined by the doctor assigned to perform their physical examinations.

I did not like sport but I had to subscribe at a sport association to learn to swim at 15 age because I had not learnt it at midlle school, it was free of charge if you were the son of an employee of the society to which belonged the association but you had to report in the nurse office of the society facilities for a physical examination with other boys at the same time.

Each boy might be accompanied by his father or his mother. We were a group of ten boys between age 14 and 16 since we would be in the same group after for swimming lessons. At our arrival a female nurse instructed us when she thought that we might be all present to undress in just briefs ( bare chest, bare feet, no watches, no jewelleries) and then once undressed she did a roll call ( she could have done it while we were still dressed but she obviously prefered to do it while we were already undressed in briefs) and after we were called one by one and instructed to strip naked inside the examination room in front of a doctor, the nurse, and for me my father. I am sure that it was the most common way to proceed in such mandatory physical examinations, we could even be lucky according to relations of some friends in other situations to have been told to strip in briefs and not naked as it could be even in front of fathers or mothers.

@Rose75

Can you give us a little more details about the set up of your sports physicals at high school with a nurse ?

In France a nurse could not perform such a thorough physical examination but I know that there was nurses more qualified than others in the United States who could perform complete examinations including very intimate examinations

I presume that at high school, between 14 and 17 or 18 age, it was embarrassing to be examined by an old school nurse with inspections of genitals, palpation of testicles, turn and cough test, retraction of foreskin, may be exam of the opening hole in the penis, and still the worst visual inspection of the anus area while bending over and spreading your cheeks of buttocks. But If I have well understood you were not stark naked but you pulled down your trouser and underwear which was less embarassing than to strip naked immediately for all the exam and to have to stand naked and to walk naked in front of her.

@Nick321

Do you have to undress in brief in a small group or a large one ? ( you write only that there was other male students)

And apparently they undressed in the waiting room and you did the same ?

Why do you stand in line instead of sitting on chairs or a bench once undressed ? were you supervised by a Pe teacher or a coach in that adjoining room or left alone? How long do you stay here waiting in briefs? it seems that nobody told you to undress, you did it only because the other male students were already undressing ?

Once you went in the room of examination two at a time, it seems that you stand in brief for your weigh-in and taken temperature by the female nurse before being told to remove your brief to be examined by the doctor even for listening to your heart and lungs, is it right ?

it seems that your temperature was taken rectally by the nurse since it is what you wrote at the end of your message? I am not surprised because it was also the most common way to take temperature of boy's students at my time of school. It never happened to me during a physical examination, we had not our teperature taken . But I know by friends who came to see the nurse because they were sick or wanted an exemption for sport one day ( the Pe teacher sent always you to the nurse office to valid the exemption if it was a medical form filled by a private doctor)that she took alway the teperature rectally, even with high school students in the last grade aged of 17, and it was useless to try to complain or protest, she became a non sense person for that task. She did not let you explain your reluctance, she instructed you as a no matter of fact to turn around, to bend over and to pull down until knees your brief, if you did not low it enough, she pulled it down more.

What I don't understand is that she left you keep your brief before going in front of the doctor since if she might take your temperature rectally, it would have beeen more easyfor her if you had been already naked, and besides your brief was not protecting at all since you might pull it down to let her acess to your rectum ?

In the examination room, you were for a while in brief and after naked, and it was the same for the other male student. And each of you could observe the examination of the other in the nude? I presume that if you were the first to be examined, you might nevertheless stay in the examination room but in briefs again and had nothing else to do than observe the exam of the next student like he had done before during your own examination?

If I understand that the undressing in briefs in the adjoining room of all male recruits was required to win time, it was logical, I don't think that it was really necessary to win time and be efficient to have two students at the same time in the examination room being examined in front of each other, the gain of time might be very slow, it was certainly more to apply the idea that male students did not need a total privacy to be examined but might be examined by two to use them to nudity in group, may be that they would be less embarrassed if they were two to be naked which could be true?. And I doubt that girls students would have been examined naked by two at a time in the same way, it was only a process of exams applied to boys.

I am not surprised that no one got hard because as you said “there was way too much tension and anxiety”. I have often written that I have never seen a boy student with an erection at all my physical examinations, may be what could happen was a small bulge in a brief or a penis slighly pointing out while naked but not a real erection.

We were required to have a physical each year for school. I went to a private school and always went to my own doctor, but they did offer physical exams for those participating in sports who couldn't meet their own doctor in time. I have no idea what they consisted of other than what I over heard from those who went. Most went to their own doctor. I know it included doing things like jumping jacks for heart rate checks and included a hernia exam.

We had eye/ear exams in elementary and middle school but nothing more than that. I’m pretty sure that almost everyone went to a pediatrician to get their actual physicals though so the school didn’t do them as well.

We did the “exams” in small groups, maybe 4 or 5, mixed gender. The eye one was just reading off an eye chart and for the ear exam you would put on headphones and then click a button whenever you heard a beep. Pretty basic and only took a few minutes.

I don't think we ever had physical exams at school. The only routine medical things I recall are checks for head lice in primary school (age 4 - 10), vaccinations and maybe the occasional eye test.

We had every year physicals at school. Sometimes that was just a nurse exam with the basic stuff but sometimes it included also a doctor exam when she also checked genitals.

At school we had a medical check up every year. The first part was very general with a nurse recording weight, height, vaccinations etc and asking about diseases and operations. After that, if there was any problem marked in the file, you would go to the doctor that checked you more thoroughly. In this second part some of us received a thorough genital examination.

The only screenings I had were in elementary school. They were performing hearing, vision and scoliosis exams only. I have no memories of having to undress beyond taking my shirt off for the scoliosis exam. I have no recollection of seeing girls topless or even if they were screened at the same time. I’m pretty sure I would have remembered that!

My first school exam was in grade 1 i was 7 at the time we went in as a class the girls were sent to one side and the boys to the other. There where screens in the middle of the class to divide the room. We were then asked to strip off until our underwear. I remember a female grade 7 learner helping out to get all the boys stripped to there underwear. Then when your name was called you went forward to the desk were a nurse was sitting. She checked my eyes and ears. The nurse then listened to my heart and lungs. Once that was done the nurse pulled my underwear down to my knees. The nurse then felt my testicles and retracted my foreskin. The nurse then said turn around and bend over at the waist i then felt her part my cheeks she the felt my anus and pushed against it. The nurse then said ok go back and get dressed. I went back and the female learner then helped me to dress she even helped to get my underwear on again. Once all the boys were checked we went back to class i do not know what happened in the girls exam but i would like to know.

@BushVBWE

I have read your relation

I find that the girl helper for the undressing of boys was a little too young in my opinion, it would have been more logical to ask to an older girl student to do it or to one or a few volonteer mothers as it was often done according to other relations.

I presume that that girl assisted to the exam by the nurse and watched at you being examined since she helped after the boys to dress again including to pull on their underwear, not really an issue at your age…

How were the exams in older grades ?

I have read that one of you have had a scoliosis exam when he was in elementary school, it was certainly frequent but he was lucky since he was allowed to keep his trousers and was only bare chest.

In the relation of my numerous school physical examinations, I have forgotten to talk of two of them who occured one at the end of elementary school and the other at middle school at 14 age.

They took place in a community gym devoted to PE lessons in elementry school and in the gym of the school for the one at middle school, we were not informed before of these inspections to detect scoliosis.

At age 11, they were performed in a group with all of class undressed in briefs, not in shorts, under instruction of the PE teacher and a female nurse, we left our shorts, tee shirts and socks and sport shoes on a bench and we all lined up by group of six at the same time. Then the PE teacher at elementary school instructed to the first boy in alphabetic order to go forward where there was a mark on the floor and to stand with arms on his sides in front of him. The nurse and a female doctor, then to turn around and stand straight and to pull down his brief beneath his buttocks, and then to bend over and touch the ankles while the doctor came near the boy to see better and to slide her fingers along his spine from the neck to the crack of his butt which was embarrassing, she tapped a little the back then she gave the boy a slight slap on his buttocks while telling him to pull on his brief and she came back behind her desk and told to the boy to walk a little in front of her, at that distance on the left and on the right and then to bend over again and touch his ankles a second time on the side, then it was finished and another boy in brief was called…

It was rather the same at age 14 in the first 60's, except that the PE teacher was more strict and after the exam of two boys, like he was not satisfied of the reluctance of these boys to pull off enough their briefs and was bored to bark after each boy us to pull it down more. He discussed a little in a low voice that we could not hear with the female doctor and then suddenly he instructed us to remove our briefs since we did not follow the instructions to pull them down correctly, and all the boys after including me were naked with arms on our sides like we were instructed to do under threat of punishment.

First in the line and then going to the spot at a certain distance of the desk so that we stayed naked under their eyes and those of our classmates (but it was the same for each of us) for all the inspection, including the walk in front of them, it was also a female doctor who smiled while looking at the line of ten or more naked boys and seemed very pleased with that solution. The most embarrassing was when we might face the doctor, the nurse and the PE teacher while they ckecked our identity and asked a few questions before being instructed to turn around and at the end when we might come back frontally exposed but were so anxious and embarrassed that none of us had a real erection. I might add that it was also rather cold in the gym.

Each time a new boy was called the PE teacher gave him a sharp slap on his buttocks and same at the end when it was finished and he dismissed us to go on the bench and dress again in brief only, each boy might stay in briefs until all boys were inspected. I don't know why but I presume that it was to keep us silent and obedient. The inspection by itself did not last a long time but we stayed in briefs for a more long time!

Fortunately at high school we had no such inspection for scoliosis in a gym even if each year the doctor performed in the nude also an inspection of the spine during the mandatory physical examination.

Ours were pretty basic. Three girls went in the front room together and undressed to underwear to get our weight, height, blood pressure and eyes checked. Then one by one we went to the doctors room, where she listened to our heart and then asked us questions about school, sports, period etc.

She then had you walk up and down the room on your toes to check your posture. Then she had you bend down to check your spine and finally she had you lay on the table and check your stomach, moved your legs around and lifted your panties for a second to see the development.

I don't remember physical taking at school but if I was sick I remember my temperature was taken rectally up until 13 or 14

I went to school in the 1970s to mid 80s and had annual medicals. They were top to toe exams. My medfet must have developed from the exams. Pre-puberty I dreaded them, but from puberty I found them exciting and looked forward to them every year. The frequency of medicals was scaled back from the 1980s and they are rarely carried out now, I believe. It may have been dependent on the local authority area you were in as to whether the medicals were carried out, and their frequency. You seem to have missed out! I have heard from many people of a similar age to me on here who had medicals at school in the UK.

Well here in the USA in the 70s and early 80s not only did we have a “physical exam” yearly by our pediatrician but we also received vaccinations then as well.

Then in order to play school sports regardless of which one we all had to submit to another physical exam at school by a random doctor. Nurse practitioners were not very prevalent then as now. I think my med fet started because of these yearly physicals which always included a hernia check and at the very least a visual genital check but usually a physical genital check of looking everything over and feeling to assess development and to feel for lumps, and check foreskin.

My step mother switched me to my sisters female pediatrician at around 11 or 12 and I am sure that’s what started it as the doctor would pull my underwear completely off at the end with my stepmother and sometimes her nurse in the room looking on.

I went to a private school in Scotland and recall having at least two full medical examinations. One early in primary school and one midway through secondary school. These would have been in the late 80s and late 90s respectively. I believe these are the origin of my interest in medical examinations.

I know that a lot of state schools in Scotland had abandoned full medical examinations by the early 90s. The demise of school medical examinations is unfortunate as I believe that they can play a vital role in public health policy and in identifying health problems such as phimosis at an early age.