Girls: school physicals

I've always been curious as to the type of school physicals girls received.

The boys physicals were drop your boxers turn your head and cough and checking heart rate, eyes and balance.

At my primary school in England, we had a physical in our last year (aged 11), and I remember having to strip to my knickers and loosely put on my blouse. When in with the male doctor he opened the blouse and used a stethoscope and was also probably checking to see breast development. He also pulled my knickers open from the waistband, presumably to see if I had any pubic hair. I can still fantasize happily with this scenario, but expanding it somewhat.

When I was a kid, my physicals were always done by my primary care doctor, and they were all regular, complete physicals.

I had my last physical about two weeks ago, and yes I get physicals every year, as a girl my age should.

This might seem kinda strange, but my current primary doctor is actually my preceptor for my physical diagnosis class. I liked him so much, and I saw how good he was with patients, so I asked him if I could get my annual check-up with him and he agreed.

So, my physical is a standard, complete physical, along with a pelvic exam and Pap smear. It's the same physical as I do now, since I got my exam from the same doctor who is teaching me how to do them.

In the USA if you do sports you have to get physicals every year for sure. Sometimes in addition to other ones you may have to get outside of school. They varied somewhat from very quick and simple to rather complete.For sure during several top and bra were off and often times posture and scoliosis checks. If they did Tanner check they had to see more cos they check your development stage whatever that means.

In country where I live school physicals are very common. These exams are part of the public health care and financially supported and therefore everyone gets them.

You have some sort of physical almost every year either performed by a school nurse or a doctor. There are usually 3-4 exams performed by a doctor between ages 7 and 18.

What I have heard from girls, their physicals are quite the same what I have had as a guy. You have to strip to your underwear each time. Eyes, ears and spine (posture and scoliosis check) are thoroughly examined, height and weight are taken every time, and sometimes blood pressure. Palpation of abdomen is performed almost every time. You may get some vaccinations if needed. During your puberty the exam includes normally also the check of your physical development which means that a doctor may ask you to pull down your panties in order to find out any sign of pubic hair. Breast examination is not an essential part of the physical. Some doctors perform it to girls in high school.

I loved to listen when my step sister would talk to her gf about the physicals they had gotten. I would imagine what it would be like to be the dr. Many times while they were talking in her room, in my room I was doing a self exam on myself. Good thing she or her gf could not see thru the walls.

There was a nurse in the room when I had my school physicals in the UK. She would check your height and weight and then the doctor would do the rest.

I was present at my sister's check-up at primary school (in N. Ireland). It was slightly curious, because there were several other girls present at the same time: one or two, like my sister, with their male siblings.

I remember my sister being given some sort of interview or chat with the nurse before being told to "go to doctor!" whereupon she was undressed down to knickers and given a really thorough physical check (she had her spine, arms and legs felt, and a really thorough abdominal check).

Of girlfriends I've had at secondary school, one got examined topless at 15, another completely nude at 13, so there doesn't seem to be any standard for either sex.

No school physicals ever except for height and weight, they used to have dentists come in as well... i guess for people who didnt take their kids, but i never used the school dentist....

It seems that generally, there is a double standard between boys and girls for school physicals at least in the past, it may have changed in recent years as there are much less mandatory school physicals than in the past, not one by year, and I presume that they are performed for boys as for girls certainly with more respect of their privacy.

But in the past, a girl was generally more lucky than a boy if she was modest.

it was not seldom that the examination of boys was performed in group without any privacy in a large room as a gym or a hall, at least, they have to undress until underwear or brief or even completely naked in group in a locker room.

There was often one or several coaches or PE teachers present, of course, one or several female nurses of all ages, some young, others older, and the doctor was very often a woman too.

it could even happen that a shool adminitrative of both genders, male or female, was also attending at the exam or came occasionally in the exam room or the gym to just have a look and be sure that all was allright for the doctor.

nobody was really concerned by the modesty of the boys and they had not interest to complain because they were supposed to do exactly what they were told to do.

I doubt that girls were so bad treated?

Sometimes, they had to undress since the start of the exam for weigh in and height in public and it was very common that they had to be completely naked for one part of the exam, check of the spine (or if they were still in underwear, it was the time when the doctor pulled down it until their anckles before instructing them to remove it to walk a little naked to check the posture), also inspection of genitals, retractation of foreskin, check of the balls, check of hernia, sometimes visual inspection of the anus, cheeks wide apart.

At least, when it was not performed in public in a gym without any screen, it was in presence of a nurse.

During a long time, boys physicals in school were a little inspired by the militarian manners for physicals of draftees or inductees, so no privacy at all, no respect of modesty which is not a feeling that a boy under 18 age must have, no concern about who could see the boys and teenagers and rough manners during the exam.

So I have read several accounts of physicals and I am nearly convinced that those of boys are or were reallly much more embarrassing than those of girls and it was also my own experience in France when I was a student, but I recognize that may be there were or are some exceptions where girls were or are treated also very bad.

Where I grew up you were required to have a physical between sixth and seventh grade. Before you entered Junior High. We were all given forms to have the doctor sign. Mine was done by our family GP, but there were two days were a doctor was at our school , in the small nurses room, to perform the required exams.

One day for boys, and one for girls.

The examination form had boxes for the doctor to check off. Such things as vision, hearing, respiration, and much to my delight, genitalia. This of course piqued my interest immediately. I let all my friends know a doctor was “going to check our dicks.”

The nurses office only had a desk, chair and a small cot.. Now, I swear this is true., I made sure to pay attention when two of my female classmates were called to the nurses office on the day of the female examinations. When they returned one said to the other “He was nasty.”

Knowing that they had the same form, and that a doctor had to check off all the boxes, my imagination ran wild as to what took place in that small room in the front office, and I have never forgotten their names.

What is concerned school physicals, is very interesting for me, that when I asked some woman friend what happened during those any didn´t want talk about it. I do not know why? And at the same time about physicals at gyno of them never mind talk. That is why school physicals of girls stayed mystery for me.Thanks to all women which here truly said what is up during these school physicals. I was always very curious know it.

I only every had 3 which were in Europe as back home I just went to your physician.

The first two were pretty basic. All the girls (as were the boys at another time) went to the gym changing room, had a shower together and then lined up. One by one you would go up to the nurse to have height, weight and bp taken then you went before the dr who checked your heart, lungs and skeleton. Once finished you went and got dressed and left the room.

The first one really spooked me as I had only been in the country a few months and whilst we waited to be examined, pupils that had been playing sport were coming in and out, showering and changing whilst we waited naked to be seen by the dr.

Mind you it was the same when I was inducted in prison.

For the third and final exam before we left school. Like before the girls went to an office that had had it windows papered over and a teacher guarded both sides of the door we had entered through. We undressed, put all our clothes in a basket underneath our chair, sat down and waited to be called. When you were, you went in to an inner office and a nurse led you over to a sit by the dr table. He asked about any medical conditions and then you stood up while they did the heart, height thing and he looked at you. After that you had to lie on an examine table where you had your tummy, groin and legs felt. As I was on the pill they skipped the next bit, but my step sister and our friends had to bring their legs up and parted them so the dr could have a quick look and feel if necessary.

When my step bro had it done he had an hernia check and his foreskin retracted.

After that it was on with the dressing gown, out into the office where you got dressed and left.

For me, physicals at school weren't all that eventful. Usually done in shorts and a bra (most of us wore sports bras), and focused on heart and lungs. They checked eyes, ears, etc. and usually had a scoliosis exam (that was no different than the one we got in gym class if we hadn't had a physical that year)...that was really about it.

When I was at school we never had any medicals like I have read about in some of these posts. We did get a heart check some time when I was about 15 I think and I am sure I just had to open my blouse for that but there was no more undressing at all. We had our eyes and ears checked too I think and got asked some questions. But really there was nothing else and it was all just gone through so quick that I can not remember very much about it. When I was 14 and 15 I just looked like I was about 19 anyway so no doctor would need me to pull my knickers down to see if I was developing ok because it was just obvious I was developed already. My friends all just said the same things happened when they had their turns too.

I don't remember ever having a school physical. Which is probably a good thing as I was completely mortified by changing my clothes in a locker room with other people in it. You don't even want to know the things I did to avoid the post gym class shower or the trouble I got into doing so. Thank you to everyone who shared their experiences. I enjoyed reading them😃

@Outlaw_lil said

I don't remember ever having a school physical. Which is probably a good thing as I was completely mortified by changing my clothes in a locker room with other people in it. You don't even want to know the things I did to avoid the post gym class shower or the trouble I got into doing so.

Oh yes, we do want to know. 😁

I think I answered this in another post some time back. I never had a physical while at school. It was always at the doctor. My sister and I always had physicals every year before school. If you were going out for sports or cheerleading you were given a separate sheet of paper. It had pretty much everything a physical has on it. You would take it to the doctor and for every one who lived in my town she would check everything off and sign it. There was no undressing. Maybe because you had already had a physical I never asked anyone who did not get yearly physicals about it. I don't know if she charged the insurance company for doing this or not. I mean she had the monopoly as being the only doctor in town. I'm sure she was making a fortune.

. . . . You don't even want to know the things I did to avoid the post gym class shower or the trouble I got into doing so. . . . .

Oh yes, we do want to know. 😁

. . . . and if you aren't forthcoming with it, we'll beat it out of you! 😁 😁 😁

Lol....

Oh my gosh it's so embarrassing to tell y'all this, but here goes....

I did all manner of things from volunteering to pick up and put away the equipment we used that day (to stall, of course) cuz usually by the time I finished the locker room was empty.

I would also hide in a bathroom stall and wait for everyone to leave, dress and undress in bathroom stall. I would make excuses for why I couldn't dress for class or shower. Well, ummmm actually they were lies not excuses. Because of my actions I had been sent to detention, sent to coach's office to stand in corner for duration of class, notes sent home to parents (which magically disappeared) until they required a signature and then I would forge my mamas signature, I would fake sick and go to nurses office, ditch class, get sent to office, get punished by parents, had spankings by my coach, a guidance counselor, and many sound paddlings by the principal....that's how I went thru junior high and high school gym class .....

Let me be the 1st to welcome you to Zity, Outlaw lil !. With this post, i can see you are going to fit in quite well with many of us who began our medfet from awkwarditity (hope i just created that word) & developed it into the medfet we have today.

This coming from a guy who did not shower after gym in high school, mostly from fear of being seen nude by peers.

Let me be the 1st to welcome you to Zity, Outlaw lil !. With this post, i can see you are going to fit in quite well with many of us who began our medfet from awkwarditity (hope i just created that word) & developed it into the medfet we have today.

This coming from a guy who did not shower after gym in high school, mostly from fear of being seen nude by peers.

One of us, One of us...

I find interesting the kind of drama that many people here (e.g. Outlaw lil) recount about gym class... That's food for thought about education systems — why force kids to do something nearly useless if it makes them so anxious?

I find interesting the kind of drama that many people here (e.g. Outlaw lil) recount about gym class... That's food for thought about education systems — why force kids to do something nearly useless if it makes them so anxious?

It seems that in many (American) schools, far far too much emphasis and importance is placed on gym classes and athletics. It seems to have become a high pressure environment where low-end achievers are ridiculed and bullied by the better athletic types among them and especially by the figure of the semi-deified gym coach. I've never understood the stature a coach seems to enjoy in a High School in the US. He is, after all, not much better than a cross between a drill sergeant and someone with an instinctive grasp of trajectory physics.

Gym shouldn't be more than a timeout from regular classes when students can unwind and get to think about something else than math and conjugations.

I disagree, while certainly academics is more important to myself and my girls I still thick gym/ physical education is important not only for getting young people into sport and encouraging healthy lifestyle but a good pe class improves physical fittness, improves motor skills, teaches self discipline, can install a work ethic.

For some it can help develop leadership skills and promote value of team work.

To me academic achievement is most important but I certainly wanted a good physical education for my two.

As a physiotherapist / physical therapist I think there is lot of good in a healthy style and sport.

After a long run /swim race I get endorphins released and I feel less stressed and more focused.

There is a sport for everyone a good class will ensure cover a wide range. What a shame it would be if a child had potential talent to become high level or world class even and schooling did nothing to discover it.

This coming from a guy who did not shower after gym in high school, mostly from fear of being seen nude by peers.

I would have also done everything in my power to avoid the group shower. But that just wasn't an option for us. It was absolutely mandatory, unavoidable, and strictly enforced.

I've never understood the stature a coach seems to enjoy in a High School in the US. He is, after all, not much better than a cross between a drill sergeant and someone with an instinctive grasp of trajectory physics.

Yes, that pretty much sums it up. My P.E. teacher was an ex-military, vietnam-era, gung-ho, ass-hole who thought that sooner or later all of the boys he "taught" would end up serving in the military. So in his tiny little mind, he figured that his primary job was to toughen us up and prepare us all for military service. I'm sure he thought the local draft boards and enlistment offices would bestow some award on him for supplying them with such fantastically prepared young men. And it seemed that a big part of that was to break down our individuality -- we were now part of a collective, working toward whatever "mission" he devised for that day rather than looking out for ourselves. And he worked really hard at tearing down our inhibitions, our sense of modesty, and our self-worth with his strict policies on P.E. "uniforms", nude group showering and discipline.

I still thick gym/ physical education is important not only for getting young people into sport and encouraging healthy lifestyle but a good pe class improves physical fittness, improves motor skills, teaches self discipline, can install a work ethic.

And I also agree with that. If you just look around, we have a pretty severe childhood obesity problem in the U.S. A good old-fashioned P.E. class where the kids actually sweated and worked hard might do some good for these kids.

Gym shouldn't be more than a timeout from regular classes when students can unwind and get to think about something else than math and conjugations.

I do not agree with that, we know that exercise is very important. There are a lot of kids now who do not get exercise at school or away from it and they are kept indoors by their parents, just playing computer games. It is not a healthy lifestyle. If you see them try to run they are out of breath after a few steps because they are really unfit. Their parents think they are looking after their kids keeping them in but they kids could die very early because of how fat and out of condition they are.

I think @molliewhite is right too. People who are very good at a sport can not find out what their talents are if they are never given any chance to try doing anything.

Amethyst: When I grew up, there were compulsory classes of drawing/painting and music, then in the later years it was no longer compulsory, these were electives for people interested in such fields. This is how you get people to see what their talents are.

Forcing people to do something that elicits reactions as strong as Outlaw lil's (who ended up being punished, including physically) or those of other people on this site is probably counter productive. I bet they never set foot in a sports installation once they left highschool, whereas they might have if they had not been forced to do things they hated.

I repeat, I find it very upsetting that so many people on this site mention trauma related to sports classes.

I bet they never set foot in a sports installation once they left highschool, whereas they might have if they had not been forced to do things they hated.

Yeah. I think there are some people who are just not sporty at all and they will never play sport again after they leave school. I think a lot of British girls are like that, so many just get turned off sport and exercise. I do not think making somebody do a thing they hate makes them like it. Maybe some teachers just feel big ordering the kids around like @JimmyJohnson and @agracier were talking about. It just sounds like they do not really want to help any of the kids develop any talent for sport at all, it is just about ordering them about. I have read about some things on Zity like teachers beating boys with paddles just because they can really. I do not see how getting a beating with a paddle makes somebody better at a sport. That is just bullying.