Uncircumcised guys tell us if your doctor retracts the foreskin

My doctor usually does it, but he doesn't do it all the time. He asks if I've had any problems, and I haven't, so I guess he thinks it's okay to skip, if there are no problems.

I don't think it's particularly embarrassing either, if my penis is already out, retracting the foreskin doesn't expose much more, you know?

Unless I mention a genital problem, then at GP/Internist/Family Doc No, at Urologist Yes.

Before I was circumcised with 25 years, I have several examinations for different reasons.

Only by examination for Army I was told to pull my foreskin back by myself.

Normaly the doctor pull it back, only one femal doctor put it back over the glans.

I've never had my foreskin retracted as part of a regular physical, by me or the doctor (it's too tight anyways). They only ever touch my testicles.

The only times a doctor touched my penis/foreskin are when I was very young, like 6-8 years old. My mom took me to the doctor to have my penis checked out, because my foreskin was tight. I remember it only very vaguely. I remember lying on a table naked (I think my mom was in the room too), and they inspected my penis. I didn't really know what to think of it at the time, but I was nervous and scared. Thinking back, I'm glad they didn't recommend circumcision, because being that young, I don't know if I would have known what that meant, or could have stopped them from doing it. They told me to stretch my foreskin regularly until it was able to retract fully. I tried for a little while, but I gave up. My mom never checked back with me about it, and I still have a tight foreskin to this day. I don't have any problems with it at all, but it is not able to retract when soft or hard.

But, like I said, ever since I was very young, I have not even been asked about retracting my foreskin during a doctor visit.

If your foreskin isn't retracted and the doctor doesn't examine your glans and the opening of your urethra, you're not getting a complete exam. Find another doctor.

I always have my foreskin retracted for a genital exam. When I was younger, the doctor would usually pull back the foreskin herself. These days I am mostly asked to do it myself, though some doctors like to pull it back themselves.

Any complete exam of a man should involve the full retraction of the foreskin. A responsible doctor will make sure this part is not ommitted. When I bring my boys to the doctor, she always retracts their foreskin and checks the glans.

In my teenage time I always got my foreskin retracted by the doctors. But maybe that was because I have two moles on my glas, that the doctors always examined and because had a phimosis in my youth age and few times an adherence of my foreskin and glans because of smegma, what had to be dissolved?!

Any complete exam of a man should involve the full retraction of the foreskin. A responsible doctor will make sure this part is not ommitted. When I bring my boys to the doctor, she always retracts their foreskin and checks the glans.

Absolutely true. From what I have seen on instructional videos, it is crucial that the foreskin be retracted during examination of the uncircumcised penis to check for cancer and hygiene. I have examined several uncircumcised guys doing role play exams and always want to see that foreskin completely retracted. I actually found one guy with a foreskin that would not retract at all. He did not realize that was not normal and had never had a real doctor try to retract it. After I educated him, he saw a doctor and had it treated.

Instructed to do it and yes a bit embarrasing

Instructed to do it and yes a bit embarrasing

What exact phrases have been used to instruct you?

Before i had my circumcision when i had surgery or the time i went into a nursing home for rehab the nurses always retracted it to check it out , now my uroligist checks it every time i see him even tho i dont have foreskin,the nurses even checked it when i had a colonoscopy.

even tho i dont have foreskin,the nurses even checked it when i had a colonoscopy.

For a colonoscopy? Try as I might I can't think of a reason why ... unless the nurses were having some 'fun' of their own?

Checking your foreskin for a colonoscopy? What????

What exact phrases have been used to instruct you?

Back in the winter, when I went for my last STD exam, I was asked "Are you circumcised?" Strange to enquire if the doctor was going to have a look in just a few minutes, anyway! During the exam, "Please pull the skin back for me." I did, and she said "As far as it will go back".

Have had an examination of my privates only once - at least I can only remember that one time - and was asked by the doctor to retract the foreskin myself.

Agracier, liquidsky: I don't see any reason except perhaps if the penis looked so weird (maybe red?) that an infection was suspected?

I am a 66 year old American with a foreskin--which I LOVE! Some doctors retract it, some tell me they are going to, and my last visit during an erection cream study the nurse told me to retract it myself so she could inspect my glans. I find all of these variations very erotic and not embarrassing at all--they turn me on!!

An erection "cream" study???? Please elaborate.

Agracier, at least until the 1960's immigrants to Australia had a complete physical exam that included genitalia. The exam was completed in their home country.There are a few completed examples online. After the war venereal disease was a major problem so I guess that's what they were looking for.

After the war venereal disease was a major problem so I guess that's what they were looking for.

What about the troops coming back from service outside the country? Traditionally soldiers/sailors are important VD vectors, especially when part of a victorious army. All part of the spoils of war.

So, were they given thorough exams too upon release from service?

The rate of VD caught the armies by surprise in WW1. Country boys were unprepared for the brothels (and dangers) of Cairo and the like. In the Second the MO's were more prepared and the oddly named Hands Parade a frequent occurrence. I remember a veteran who woke up in Cairo next to a one eyed Sudanese prostitute. The highlight of his war but he was nervous for a few weeks. Troops returning by ship had an effective quarantine before discharge. VD seems to have been spread by the movement of large numbers of men during the war itself. Thousands of American troops were stationed in Australia and were highly popular with the ladies. During the Vietnam war American combat troops were given R&R in Sydney where the prostitutes plied a profitable trade but ended up with more than they expected. Or was it the other way? At the end of WW2 war brides going to America were thoroughly inspected for VD.

At the end of WW2 war brides going to America were thoroughly inspected for VD.

At least with the availability of antibiotics there was a cure for most types of VD, which certainly wasn't the case after the Great War.

The war brides thing is interesting. My Belgian mother wasn't technically a war bride, at least I don't think so, but she did marry my American father a few years after the war. He was in the Merchant Marine, which didn't get veteran status until many years later so i don't know what rules and regulations my mother would have fallen under when she came to the US. That wasn't until 1953 though, so maybe rules had changed. But what an idea if she had been subjected to such exams.

One thing I sort of regret was that my mother being the bride of an American citizen, didn't have to pass through Ellis Island. I was with her then and we would have been in last groups going in through Ellis Island. Back then there was maybe a sort of stigma attached to it, but now I am sure that many are proud to have entered the US that way.

There is an affiliated emigration museum in my city and I've been able to look up people entering the US through Ellis Island. And lo and behold, I found one my great uncles ... that was in the 1920s, before VD checks I bet ... ha ha

There are differing accounts of the examination of war brides. The examiners seem to have had a great deal of latitude. An English account is of lining up in dressing gowns only and opening the front for an inspection. On the other hand there is a bizarre account of an examination in Italy where the naked women lined up in an aircraft hangar and mounted a platform where they stood with their legs apart while the examiner standing below shone a light on their private parts. Most were probably quite straightforward.

Definitely. All the medical exams I have had, I have had to retract my foreskin for the doctor.

Most times, the doc has asked me to do it , but on one occasion after palpating my testicles, the doc just got hold of the end of my penis and slid the skin back without asking.

Some have asked me to retract it myself but my current urologist retracts it herself.

Every physical when my genitals are examined, my doctor always retracts my foreskin. At the same time they would check my glans and urethra opening. Both my pediatrician and GP always tells me before they start retracting my foreskin.

Even during sports physicals in high school the doctor checked for foreskin tightness. Usually, he would retract the skin back first then ask you if you any foreskin or penis issues.

After reading through this thread, I realise that what my GP considers a full exam is really rather perfunctory. At some point while I'm on the table, he will ask me to lower my underwear. He than palpates my testicles, but has never retracted my foreskin, or asked me to do so. Before someone suggests I find another Family Dr., I should point out that there is a shortage of GPs, and I am quite prepared to soldier on with him. He is from Austria, and probably uncircumcised himself, so perhaps seeing nothing unusual about my penis, and in the absence of any complaints, lets it be. He is the kind of physician who lets me dictate what I need done, or want done, and I prefer that dynamic.

I should point out that there is a shortage of GPs, and I am quite prepared to soldier on with him. He is the kind of physician who lets me dictate what I need done, or want done, and I prefer that dynamic.

Good post, and, good choice. You are correct about family physician shortage and I agree about the desirability of a physician who is willing to work with the patient.

Sorry it took so long to reply. I was asked about an erection cream study. Yes, I participated in a clinical medical study last year, where they were testing a cream to see if it gave men with ED an erection. The test was quite erotic, actually!