Ladies, where did you learn about the exam before your first exam?

My Ex Gf told me that she knew most things from girls magazins, but also her mother told her what exactly will happen the day before the Exam.

I learned about it in a book I read when I was about 13....I became obsessed with the idea after that, and talked with all of my friends about it. I was the first among my friends to have a pelvic exam, and I happily answered any questions they had about it.

I was 25 when I got the letter asking me to attend. I never knew a thing about it as my mum and sister never ever spoke about exams in the house. It was shock shock horror for me. But start ed my fantasy

My first and only physical was the mandatory university physical. Spoke to few friends from other colleges where the physical was already over.

Officially we came to know about the exam a day before through a notice from college authorities.

We were just told we will have a physical. We weren't told what all exams will take place.

It was on the day of exam the next day that we came to know that a ' Gyn Exam ' was also part of the physical 😄

In the exam room the words ' strip to your waist ' for the first time was a complete shocker

Little bit of everything, I remember a graphic of a speculum in a book I had growing up, I read it in teen magazines, and of course my mom told me about it.

I had an older friend that worked at the reception desk at an ob/gyn and she told me some about the exam. I mainly learned about the exam and what was going to happen on one of those websites about what to expect at your first gyn. appt.

I was fortunate enough to have a midwife for a neighbour and I asked her about a problem I had at the time. It was in the mid-seventies and there were many tales about humiliation, total exposure and being shaved by the hospital barber, usually a man. I was examined and I was naked and I was shaved by a man and I was totally exposed for all to see.

Without my wonderful bush those feminine secrets were no more. Yes ladies, in the seventies and eighties and before, shaving was something that a real lady would not consider, so I was told. Well in those days we really were proud to have a luxuriant bush of hair to show off our true femininity ! The greatest surprise came after when I saw my shaved vulva for the first time.

What can I say about that ? I grew to love the sight of it whenever there was a need to shave down there. In this day and age most women are shaved though and the vulva is now considered a thing of beauty. Whatever next ?

I am sure I was 15 when my mum had a talk with me about much to do with vaginal exams. I think she thought I would have to have a total strip off exam if I went on the pill when I was 16. She told me she had to have a speculum exam and a breast exam when she went on the pill so she thought it would be the same for me too. But I think they stopped doing exams like that for girls going on the pill a few years before I did, so I did not need to have any vaginal or breast exam. I knew I would have a speculum in when I was 25 and went for a cervical smear though. It was going to happen eventually.

Had a rough idea what it consisted of but only really found out when having my first at 18. Though the doctor was very good and talked me through it.

I talked a lot with my girlfriends but even respected websites differ on procedure because after all there isn't a nationwide rule. One thing I least expected was that in addition to a breast examination, my nipples were pinched to ascertain spurious lactation. What? Never even heard about that at 15. So we all learn the individual doctor's practices at the moment examination occurs.

@Barefoot_girl, I hate feet but I love your picture. I think it's about the most perfect picture I have ever seen on here for your fetish. It's super cute.

I learned about this out of a 17 Magazine. They outlined exactly what you could expect and some slightly different variances. It was quite helpful. I ended up going to my boyfriends Mother. That was embarrassing, trust me, lol.

Mashie

I was too young (17) when it came to my first exam. I was too embarrassed to talk to my girlfriends and the only thing my mother would say was that we were going to see a doctor that checked females. I was intrigued but terrified! I learned about it from a magazine of all places.

Teen girl magazine, I remember just talking to my friends about how scary we thought it would be.

I was about 14 or 15 when I first heard of such an exam! I guess I was a Sophomore. I was walking to choir with one of my friends (not Miss Raven, I hadn't met her yet! That wasn't until I was a Junior,) and she started telling me about this exam where the doctor looked at her "there" and stuck something in her and more details than I remember. I was shocked, horrified and scared shitless of that happening to me! I doubt that I talked to my mom about it or questioned her. I was probably afraid that she would decide to drag me off for such an exam (my mom dragged me off to the doctor all the time). There was noooo way I was going for that!!!!

Breaze: Did the girl explain why she had to undergo such an exam at such a tender age?

From a book about puberty. I must have read the exam description a hundred times, always at night with a flashlight and lots of nervousness/excitement.

@Pecan_nutjob , I think it was so she could get birth control. She either was sexually active at 14 or 15 or her mom thought she was. This was Los Angeles, CA, in the 80's.

The first time I went was when I was 18 yrs old, and no one told me what to expect not even my mom so it was a complete shock to me. By the end of the exam I was as red as a beet from embarrassment.

My first exam happened at age of 23. A couple of months before my first exam, my actual medfet interests started. I would check for medical videos online. I had seen videos how a gyn exam happens. But my major source of information was my mom. She explained me Whys and Hows of the exam. She rested my fears regarding pain I thought would happen when speculum would go in. She had told me about the sensation when the doctor would take the sample. Yes it felt weird but I was prepared. The most important thing for a first timer she said was that there's nothing to be embarrassed about being exposed down there to a gyn. Both, mom's talk and the videos had me fully prepared. I had a mix feeling of anxiety and excitement.

I watched a few videos online and read a lot of articles. There used to be a simulation called first GYN exam. I can’t find that now

My first exposure to hearing about the exam was when I was in high school. I was trying out for the softball team and the coach told us to make sure we got a physical before the season began. There were several girls on the team that asked what all happened at a physical. The older girls began teasing them and described a pelvic exam.

At first I was mortified. Around the same time I read a graphic description of an exam in a teen magazine. This for some reason piqued my interest a little more. I saved that magazine and became obsessed with the article. At some point my fear turned into obsession which turned into some sort of strange turn on (and here I am today lol).

My mom also told me about it. That was less fun and more ewwww.

I didn't know that a gyn did physicals before I went to one, I thought they strictly helped with pregnant women. But my sister told me that physicals with a gyn was different. That they feel your breasts, and put their fingers inside your vagina. I go to my sisters doctor and she warned me that the dr. does a through rectal exam every time... she was right.

But before it all, I was reading every article and watching every video on the details of the exam , I'd get super wet down there just reading about it.

During the exam I was very nervous, and just experiencing all the touching and palpating and then after , I masterbated a ton by reinacting the exam.

I first learned about it during my senior year in high school when a couple of my friends had their first gynecologist appointments. Both of their mothers had made them go. I had heard of the gynecologist before, but never really knew what takes place during a well-woman exam until I heard my friends talk about theirs.

I was 15 during my first exam. Even when the nurse told me that the doctor was going to look at my vagina, I still had no clue exactly how until I had to put my feet in the stirrups and spread my legs.

There's no way I was going to talk to any friends about that. I didn't even talk to my aunt about what happened and she was there behind the doctor watching.

I have no idea how my sisters or wife learned about it.

But I will admit to sneaking peeks at the Seventeen and Teen Vogue my sisters used to leave around the house back in the day. Reading those “what to expect at the Gynecologist" articles was as good as it got before the internet and discussion forums like this came along.

My mom took me with her for her annual Gyno exam and diaphragm fit check. It was a big help lessening my fears about my first visit which was a couple of months later. Mom came with me into the exam. It was her Gyno.

Dita

My mom took me with her for her annual Gyno exam and diaphragm fit check. …

How old were you Dita? The diaphragm fitting was quite in depth or mine were at least.

I think I had a good idea about it from movies and TV shows. When I was 14, my mother wanted me to have my first exam so in preparation I googled a bit too learn more about it. I would say I was prepared well when the exam came but it was still very embarrassing but there were no real surprises.

I learnt about it when my mom had an appointment and I wasn't old enough to stay home alone. Whether or not it was deliberately planned that way I don't know.

My friend and I found a “girls health” book at the library. it had a cartoon doctor holding up a giant speculum with a word bubble that said “I promise it’s not as scary as it looks!” We begged to differ.