Genital exam without gloves

Has anyone ever had a medical genital exam from a doc/nurse without gloves on?

When reading this site I learned about the mistreatment of girls in "reform schools" in France 70 years ago. I looked for extra information online. Some former inmates mentioned genital exams (little more than virginity tests) without gloves.

It never happened to me, whether it was real exams or medfet, all the doctors used gloves. I was lucky because I love seeing gloved hands.

Always the doc or PA (male or female) has been gloved for my exams. Looking at CDC and AMA guidelines, it seems for males it’s recommended but not mandated. Might be wrong on that, the articles I saw weren’t real specific. Just seems common sense to glove up for both the doctors and patients protection.

My pediatricians never used gloves for touching during physicals so it was kind of all I knew.

The doctors I had in the 1970s and early 80s did not wear gloves.

I think there is a difference in this respect between a male external examination and a female examination with a finger inside… which I think was the case in the testimonies I read.

@JohnTom, I do agree with you completely and even had the experience during the late 80's/early 90's.

At a certain moment in time, I don't know when it appeared that people did get affraid of socalled 'risks' (overrated) of touching other people without gloves during exams.

there is of course a difference between genital and rectal exams where in the latter case, there would definitely be a 'contamination' risk, but that has been generalised too far.

We're even trying to erase all the 'germs' from our kitchen at home. So, with all the use of dettol at home, etc ... I'm convinced that the next step would be wearing gloves when cooking at home. We're trying to get it all that 'clean' that it becomes rediculous in my opinion (and experience)

Another next step, having sex with gloves and 'germ-free' environment? ;-)

So, with all the hygiene we have at the moment, I still like to experience genital exams being done without gloves.

As far as I remember in the 70's and 80's I never saw a doctor put on gloves unless it was for a DRE. Maybe I am having a "senior" moment but, I do not ever recall that happening. Nurse only had gloves on for blood draws.

Yes. During my teen years, I had a female pediatrician who never wore gloves for the genital exam. I also had sports physicals at school were they always wore gloves. That would seem to make sense since they would be examining a lot us in a short period of time. Looking back as an adult, I wonder if they changed gloves between patients or just kept the same gloves on. I have a feeling they just kept the same gloves on to speed up the process.

Indeed my pediatrician didn't use gloves. I guess it's... not always necessary? A doctor I saw later on did though.

Yes, all my examinations, including genital exams up until the mid 1980s were carried out by doctors who did not wear gloves.

Between the ages of 10 and 15, my genitals were examined by a pediatrician. She never used gloves for that.

I was first examined with gloves during a military medical examination at the age of 18.

I remember the moment when the woman who was supposed to examine me asked me to take off my underwear. I took off my underwear, and she put on gloves. At the pediatrician's, my penis and scrotum were examined. However, during the military examination, after the examination of the scrotum and penis, I was examined for the first time in my life through the rectum. For that, gloves were necessary.

That's sick. You're literally touching a child's genitals. How can you not wear gloves

Same for me, when i had school medicals as a child which included thorough genital examinations including touching, the doctor never used gloves

In the sixties and seventies my Pediatrician and nurse never wore gloves when examining me. Hernia or belly exams.

This is another one of those things that younger people will think is crazy, but doctors didn't use gloves when I was growing up or in my teens unless it involved your mouth or rectum. I don't remember gloves for the genital/hernia check at ANY of my sports physicals.

I had a testicular exam glove-free once at a small private-practice in Japan. Personally gloves are a fetish, so in a play context I'd prefer them. As a patient I was kind of shocked and a little grossed out. The doctor was older, and there were no bodily fluids, so I guess it was how he'd been trained and there was minimal risk, but... it just felt weird?

I agree with some of comments from those who grew up in the 70s and 80s - the entire exam, including the genitals, was performed without gloves. As a young teen, physicals made me anxious. Obviously, he was required to touch me all over, and the palpation bothered me because no one had ever pushed, pressed, and poked all over like that. Genital exam was also uncomfortable, because of the manipulation of the testes and penis, again with his bare hands.

The last time I had a genital exam - and I cannot remember how long ago it was - gloves were worn. I feel that the small barrier of glove between hand and patient's body may make the genital exam less awkward. On the other hand, because I have had so many at this point, it just may not bother me like it once did.

No gloves until maybe 10 years ago. But the doc always washed his hands before touching my genitals. I never thought anything of it.

I dont Ever remember my doctors wearing gloves for the genital exam until I tirned 18 and stopped seeing my pediatrician. That was one of the things that gave me the most anxiety growing up in my teens; knowing the doctor was going to touch “down there” with his bare skin.

As an adult there's always been gloves as far as I remember, certainly for the genital portion of the exam.

As a kid & teen, I actually recall that my pediatrician did not use gloves. I remember that he had big, warm, almost muscular hands. Of course those exams were never internal, only visual.

For play exams btw I don't like to use gloves.

I grew up in the 1970s and ‘80s and never had a genital exam with gloves on until the end of the ‘80s.

Growing up in the 80s, gloves were rarely used in routine exams. I found it pleasant from an early age (that's how I wound up here)

I mostly remember gloves for genital exams in the 90s. During and after the ronas, I've seen a doctor use gloves even for stething and the basic palpation of abdomen and legs.

When i was a teenager in the early 2000s, my pediatrician never used gloves. Bare handed he would inspect and palpate my erect penis and tesitcles. I remember how weird it felt being touched there by someone else

When I was a little kid yes. But after 10 no.

My Doctors never used gloves whilst examining me until some time later in my life when it became normal practice to wear them.

In the 70s, family and school doctors didn't wear gloves. I've always preferred bare-hand palpation...but society no longer allows it...

I don't remember my GP ever wearing gloves when giving me genital exams. He did, wash his hands both before and after. Now days, though, gloves are always worn.