Males: Position for Rectal or Genital Exam

Genital exam given with me standing in front of Doc. Prostate exam given at May 2017 physical with me kneeling on all fours. In the past Doc has used various positions for the DRE.

Rectal exams, I've only ever had still with trousers and underwear on, lying on my left in the sims position.

They've never been as part of a wider exam though, always just a visit for that specifically

Genital exam I always stand up with doc on a stool in front of me.

Rectal exam I am laying on the table with a knee up or bent over the table standing depending on the doc.

For the genital exam my doctor is on a stool in front of me. He does the visual inspection as well as the hernia exam that way. For my prostate/rectal exam he has me bent over the table. When at my gastroenterologist they usually have me on my side with one leg bent upward while laying on the table for my rectal exam. I was also in that position while getting a anoscopy.

For genital exam, standing. for rectal exam, bent over the exam table.

I have had only two physicals in which the doctor examined my genitals while I was lying on my back on the exam table. Same doctor both times. It was odd because he was the only doctor that I have had who did a genital exam like that. Every other time I have been standing and the doctor has been sitting on stool or on one knee while examining my testicles and checking me for a hernia. The one doctor who did it that way did not check me for a hernia because he didn't have me cough.

My physical concludes when my doctor instructs me to remove my underwear, spread my legs slightly apart and place my hands behind my head. She then examines my genitals and checks for a hernia. Then she asks me to turn around and lean over the exam table to check my prostate.

I have only had male doctors over last 20 yrs.

Only once had a doctor put me on my back on a table in stirrups. Felt odd.

Every other time, drop pants and underwear, bend over and done.

And never had my genitals checked.

Next week July 28, I am scheduled with a female doctor for first time for this exam. So will let you know what happens there. Thinking of taking some levitra a few hours early, Just to be sure a fuller apprearance.

This is a profound question. Let's take the various positions one by one.

Laying on the stomach == THE CLASSIC. Well, that immediately brings up the image of the boy in the Norman Rockwell painting, about to get a shot. Patient has ZERO power, no knowledge of what's coming. Doctor has free access to spread buttocks. Don't overlook the effect of a squirmy patient rubbing his penis-- accidentally -- on the table top.

All Fours -- I don't like this. Patient looks like an animal. No penis friction.

On side facing away. I like this, especially with knee drawn up. SO easy to reach around and trigger a quick orgasm if this is required. Mirrors on wall necessary, to see face during penetration of thermometer.

On side, facing towards. No. Awkward boner is possible here.

Standing: This has possibilities. VERY intimate to embrace a dude, spread his cheeks, and slip it in. That feeling when a dude . . relaxes and melts, from the emotional impact of the rectal thermometer...

1970s boy

Mostly I have been standing.

On one occasion I was in the ER because of some rectal bleeding--which turned out to be nothing really. The attending physician and later the proctologist I brought in both had me lay down on the ER bed and spread my legs under a sheet. I am not even sure I can remember being asked to scoot down.

All my genital checks have been of the drop your underwear nature with me standing and the doctor usually sitting.

Have only had my first two rectal exams these past few years. First one I was bent over the exam table; the second, with a different doctor, was lay on my side on a table and pull my legs up to my chest. I go to a rectal specialist in a couple months, so will be curious what her approach is.

Genital: standing in front, underwear at the knees, feet apart. Meh.

Rectal: Bent over the exam table, elbows resting forward, feet apart. It was a female nurse practitioner, middle aged and not attractive but she had skilled hands and fingers. Unfortunately it was "over before I knew it" and certainly before I could more thoroughly enjoy it...

PSA for all you lady doctors and RNs doing a DRE on a man: take your time. Be thorough, even very thorough. No, really...we won't complain.

Until 13 lying on table and frog, then standing nude

Done first female doctor for annual exam.

I did take half a dose of viagra, about 1.5hr before exam time, this allow my penis to be full while hanging.

She had me stand, sat in stool so she was eye level with my genitals. She used two hands and squeezed and rolled my testicals, pressing very firmly, checking for lumps.

She then kind of cupped my balls, while pressing up with her fingers, under them checking for hernia.

I have never had this done before, only the rectal part at urologist. This was an NP at my family practice.

She then left me standing and bent over to check prostate. She was only one in room, though I would not have minded a med tech or nurse in room too.

It was a nice feeling standing naked in front of her, will go back to her again next year.

I've typically been standing for my genital exams. I can only think of two instances when I've been lying down for a genital exam.

I have had two rectal exams lying on my left side and two bent over the exam table.

Welcome to Zity, KC !

What did you think about the experience of having your genitals examined while lying down? (That used to happen to me with a former plant physician during my annual physicals. i really grew to like it.)

Thanks JTMac. Been away for a while (wino69), but I'm back now.

Once was when I saw a pediatric urologist as a teenager. I saw him because of a cyst I have on my left testicle. Saw the urologist three times and he examined me in a different office in a different position each time.

A few years ago I was in for a physical. I was on my back with my shirt pulled up and my pants unbuttoned. When the doctor was finished with my abdomen, he went straight down into my underwear and pulled my penis and testicles out with an ungloved hand and proceeded to give me a very thorough testicular exam. I was as shocked as I was aroused. Sadly, I only got to see him once.

My genital exams are now limited to my yearly visits to my female urologist, as my GP knows that she is very through at my end of year cysto/exam. The exam is always after the cysto, I roll onto my left side, draw my knee to my chest, and she probes me very deeply, checking the area where I once had a prostate, thankfully, she has never detected any issue. I do enjoy the extra attention that she gives my testicles after the anal probing (they continue to produce semen, but some times get some little hard areas, I believe because the vas deferems were removed along with the prostate) so whatever is still being produced, according to my doc gets absorbed by the body.

Growing up in the US it was almost always standing in front of the doctor for the genital exam, then the hernia check, and finally told to bend over the table for the prostate check. In Britain it has been lying down on my back, then rolling over on my side for the rectal. I once had the hottest rectal exam ever in a GUM clinic in London on the table on my hands and knees. The doctor and nurse were both attractive men, which made it very difficult not springing a total erection with his finger up my arse. I often fantasise about that encounter!

In all my examinations I've been laying down on the table on my underwear. When it geets to the genital exam i simply lower my undies to reveal my genitals and they get checked.

Never had a rectal exam, I'm too young for that.

Personally, I have always received them standing in front of the doctor.

Would be a great loss, lose that maginifca contubre to weigh them in the hand to see how they hang

When I was growing up, the pediatrician would do a hernia check while I was lying down. It was very brief, nothing exciting. My PCP will do a hernia check with me standing up, dropping my boxers down a bit, and will briefly palpate my testes. I haven't had a DRE at a physical in a long time.

Play exam wise, usually my play docs will do the DRE with me on all fours on the table. Genital exam will be done both standing up and then lying on the table frog legs position.

Standing naked from the waist down, pulling the bottom of my shirt up, while she stands in front of me.

I've had all my prostate exams lying on my side with my legs tucked up towards my chest. My testicle exam is done with both myself & the Dr standing.

I had both already. My GP examined my genitals Standing.

WHen I go to my yearly exam at my urologist, she always cheks them while I am laying on the table. I prefer the secod one.

My female doctor made me stand and stick her fingers in my scrotum to check for hernia....i had to cough two times....and then she made me go to sims position and stick her finger in my bum hole...and here also she made me cough two times...

Laying on the table at my last one

Standing for the genital exam. Bent over the exam table for the rectal exam.

Typically until I was 11 or 12, only lying on my back with my underwear pulled down at the front. Since then standing in front of the exam table with my underwear at my knees for the genital exam. The doctor wheels over on his stool then examined my penis, foreskin and testicles including a hernia exam.

Never had a DRE, but he occasionally had me bend over and spread my butt cheeks just looked.

I actually had a mix of both growing up. Usually I'd be in my underwear (no gown - my doctor never bothered with guys) and the timing of the genital exam depended on whether I was lying down or standing. When I was lying down, after the abdominal exam, the doctor would usually lift the waistband of my underwear with one hand and examine my penis/testicles with the other. If I was given a standing exam, it would be after things like checking my gait and spine. Usually the doctor would still pull the front of my underwear down rather than ask me to pull it down myself. Interestingly, it seemed to vary back and forth every few years or so.