Group Exams

I've never had a communal exam. The closest i've experienced is the weigh-in for wrestling.

Part of me wishes I had a group exam, but another part of me enjoys the fact that the encounter is very private and personal.

I never was part of a group medical in school. The closest I came to that was being weighed in only a jockstrap for lightweight basketball in 7th and 8th grade.

The first three years that I was a teacher and coach, I was regaled with the responsibility of supervising the middle school boy's physicals for sports.This was not terribly unusual for the time period(middle 70's) because boys still wore jocks and showered after games and practices.

The boys, grades 5 to 8 would go the lockerroom and strip to their underwear. They would then sit in the bleachers of the gym with their classmates. This was a small school, so there were probably only between 30 and 35 boys there. The principal and P.E teacher stayed in the gym with the boys. I was assigned to be with the old country doctor in the coaches office. The other two told me it was for legal reasons, but I suspect that they rather enjoyed putting me through this because I was the youngest male on staff.

This doctor was a throwback to the fifties. The bys lost their underwear the minute they stepped into the office, and may I add for no apparent reason. They were weighed naked and examined in that state. He finished up with the hernia check. The fifth graders were mortified by all of this. The eighth graders had quite a bit more confidence and swagger.

To say the least I was happy when a new male staff member was hired in my fourth year.

I have only been weighed once, but we were all clothed....

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The closest I came to that was being weighed in only a jockstrap for lightweight basketball in 7th and 8th grade.

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Curious that you would have to be weighed for basketball, although I love the fact that you were wearing just a jockstrap. I'll assume this was in a group with other boys that were dressed the same way.

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The first three years that I was a teacher and coach, I was regaled with the responsibility of supervising the middle school boy's physicals for sports....To say the least I was happy when a new male staff member was hired in my fourth year.

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With your obvious interest in medical exams (since you're on this site), I would have thought that witnessing these physicals might be interesting to you. If I was in that position of authority, I of course would have kept everything very proper and above board. However, I have to believe that secretly I would have enjoyed watching it.

When I went for a required employment physical at my place of employment clinic I had a group physical. We waited in the hallway and they would call groups back for eye exams, to draw blood and for the actual physical. As we entered the room, about 20 males, we were told to strip down completely putting our clothes in baskets on the wall shelf.

We were then told to form two lines facing the front of the room. I tried to stay on the back line but was told to come to the front line. We were all standing there completely naked with our our soon to be classmates.

The male doctor began in the back going down the line, checking our body, doing the hernia check and then come behind us to check our spine and then have us bend over. He would have us spread our cheeks while he checked things out with a flashlight. We could then get dressed.

I was on the front row third from the end so I was examined in front of most of the others fully dressed. We completed the exam and after everyone was dressed we proceeded back to the hallway. I was in a classroom setting with these guys for a year before being sent out to different areas. I still think about that physical, exciting in many ways.

To Jimmy Johnson,

Your thoughts and questions about my post were very good ones.

Here is the answer about the weighing for basketball. In parts of Illinois from the 1940's to 1984, the Illinois Elementary School Association had two divisions for basketball and track called lightweight and heavyweight. The theory behind this was that smaller kids would get a realistic chance to play competitive basketball. This was great while in junior high school, but not terribly realistic by high school standards. The IESA governed this closely and lightweights had to meet weight, height and age standards. So four times a season, lightweight boys clad only in jockstraps were weighed and measured for height. And yes, we were all in the room together wearing only a jock. I remember being weighed before the county tournament and the district and sectional tournaments and there would be two teams being weighed at the same time. It amounted to 30 kids. We didn't really think much of it because our coaches told us to do it and it was how we dressed for games and practice anyway. By the way, the IESA had a rule in their regulations up until about 1975 that any boy participating in a sponsored activity had to wear an athletic supporter. I imagine at some point they started to get complaints about old men learing at almost nude adolescent boys. Anyway in the mid 1970's, by the time I started coaching, the weigh in process was done at the beginning of the year with only height and age counting. The process was done at one site with the players fully clothed. The final lightweight state tournament was held in 1984.

Your second question came about my medical fetish and my interest in observing the sports physicals of boys grade 5 to 8. I stated that I was uncomfortable with the process. I didn't say that I wasn't interested in the process of the physical being given or that I didn't look. I saw young men in various states of undress and coming to and from showering during my entire coaching career. My discomfort came from being a new teacher and being put in a difficult situation. When this first happened I had only been teaching about a month. I barely knew some of their names and there they were completely naked in front of me. There was no towel to wrap around themselves and no visible means of escape. It was also made clear to me that this was a job that the more experienced male staff members did not want anymore. And here is why.When in a locker room every thing happens in a fleeting second. At a sports physical for an adolescent, everything goes in slow motion. So you are an eighth grader and you are undressed and being examined by an older doctor . In the room is a young teacher who you want to impress with how cool you are. And in the middle of the hernia check you pop wood. Now the next day you as the student have to go to that teachers class for two periods of English and American History. That is where my discomfort with the process comes from. I also was not that far removed from my own pediatric hell, but that is another story. PM me if you want any other details that I may have thought to explicit for the forum.

So four times a season, lightweight boys clad only in jockstraps were weighed and measured for height. And yes, we were all in the room together wearing only a jock.

Thanks for explaining this business about lightweight basketball. I never really heard of that before. It sounds like the various Illinois sports associations and the IESA had some sort of jockstrap fixation. I can certainly relate. I went to H.S. in the early 70's and supporters were certainly a requirement for P.E. and sports.

When in a locker room every thing happens in a fleeting second. At a sports physical for an adolescent, everything goes in slow motion.

Yes, you're exactly right about the difference between a sports physical and just changing in the locker room. I think that's what makes group sports exams so interesting to me. It's the embarrassment and a bit of humiliation thrown in for good measure and the fact that it takes a long time. I have fond memories of my own H.S. sports physicals where we were all stripped down to just jockstraps. If you're interested, here's the story that I wrote that was inspired by some of those:

http://www.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;topic=18251.0

And here's a slightly different version of the story: http://www.literotica.com/s/jims-group-physical

It has much better formatting and was modified to be 18+ for their standards.

Group exams for sports were routine when I was in junior high and high school. Guys were in their underwear only for regular sports physicals. I had those exams once a year in the summer before school started. As for wearing only a jockstrap, that is all that we were allowed to wear for wrestling weigh-ins. We could ditch the jock and wear in nude if we were close to our weight but we couldn't wear anything more than a jockstrap for the weigh-in. Our weigh-ins involved a skin check by the tournament officials so a jockstrap was the least that we could wear so that our skin could get checked out. We all wore jockstraps so it wasn't as if this was weird to us. It was high school before more guys started ditching their jocks for the weigh-ins. Not sure why we did that unless we were really close to our weight limit but our coaches were nervous about us not making our weight. We were more concerned about not making weight than being seen nude.

Most of our wrestling weigh-ins were done in a locker room for local meets. A local meet might be one junior high or high school against another or there might be four schools competing. A regional meet would be several schools and the weigh-ins would be in a larger room that was close to the locker room and the gym where the tournament was held.

I remember one regional tournament on a Saturday where the weigh-in room was at another school and we had to leave the locker room and go down some hallways until we reached the right room which was the cafeteria. That time, I was in junior high and we undressed in the locker room and were told to put on our jockstraps and a pair of shorts only. Then we went as group through the school to the cafeteria. Once in the right room, we were told to take our shorts off and get in line for the weigh-in and skin check. It was strange walking through the hallways barefooted but I didn't feel too undressed to be seen by other people in the hallways. We wore not much more than shorts and a jock when we had PE class outside or played basketball in the gym. After weighing-in that time, we pulled our shorts back on and walked back to the locker room to put on our singlets, socks, and wrestling boots. Strange to be in a school cafeteria with a hundred guys wearing only jockstraps.

As for lining up for weigh-ins, we just stood in a long line in our jocks and waited our turn at the scales and with the trainer or doctor who was doing the skin checks. There might be some jock-popping and other horsing around in line, but most kids were nervous about making their weight and who else might be in their weight class. For one tournament, I remember one of our assistant coaches standing there with a paddle as a warning not to screw around in line. No one was excited about getting bent over in that situation.

We lined up by team but there were usually not separate lines. So the last person on one team would be in front of the first wrestler on the next team. The routine was about the same every time. You stood on the scale until the official got a good weight for you and he handed you a slip of paper with your weight class. Your coach and the other team's coach stood there and marked down your weight and weight class and your team number. I don't remember being nervous in high school about being seen by strangers that way. When we were first starting out wrestling in junior high, we were new to the routine and I remember being more uncomfortable with the number of grown-ups in the locker room watching us weigh-in. There were always some parents and coaches from other schools there too.

Wearing a jock worked well because most of us were afraid of popping a boner and a jockstrap helps hide those. Not perfect but it helps. This wasn't a big problem. That was the big concern when more guys started weighing-in without a jock in high school.

The skin checks were pretty thorough but quick. I remember only one tournament where there was a doctor who insisted on hernia checks during the quick skin exam. We were surprised.

That was a very vivid and somewhat arousing description of your weigh-ins, Miked. Thank you for sharing it with us.

These weigh-ins for wrestling became routine after the first few. I was having these during a time when nudity or almost nudity for sports and other physicals was expected and enforced. Not sure that this would be accepted today although i am not sure why. Compared to wrestling weigh-ins in a jock or nothing, we felt almost dressed to be lined up for group physicals in our jockeys or to be in a doctor's office undressed to the same. Some guys were nervous I guess but those of us from big families with brothers maybe didn't worry as much. The only thing that I remember feeling was cold when the gyms and lockerrooms weren't heated well in the fall and winter.

During Jr. High and High School our football and wrestling physicals were conducted in groups. The Jr. High physical was conducted in the gym immediately after school. We were instructed to change into our jock straps and shorts. Some only wore the supporters. Then the usual height, weight, bp, and heart monitoring. Then came the unveiling. We had to drop our shorts/jocks, bend over and spread our cheeks for the visual hemorrhoid check after which we were each checked for hernias. High school was done in a similar manner with the same doctor with the exams being conducted in the locker room at the stadium.

I was examined in a small group just once,and it was not a fun exam,just or back for some reason...no blood pressure,auscultation,no palpation....

Wrestler,

Our sports physicals were never in a school nurse office. There were too many boys playing school sports for that to work. The sports physicals were always in the school gym in junior high and high school on a Saturday. Maybe 2 or 3 hundred boys every year from 7th grade to 12th. Lots of parents present too although some kids were dropped off since it could take an hour or two to get through the lines to check in and the lines for the different exam stations. Once we were checked in outside the gym, we were given a sheet of paper with our names and the various exams to have checked off at each station in the gym. I remember walking into the gym with my paper and once inside the door a coach or nurse or somebody would be standing there to tell me to strip to my underwear and put my clothes in a pile along the gym wall. There would be several of us stripping down at once and dropping our clothes in a pile. I think that there were paper numbers on the walls so we could remember where our clothes were although I never could remember and after the exam would have to hunt for my jeans, shirt, socks and shoes along the walls. Then we got in our lines for the different exam stations. Not sure what else you wanted to know so ask if you have other questions about this.

What happened in detail when in and what were ur reactions

In my entire life I have never had a group exams. Although my opinion with the girls around should be very exciting.

When I was processing for entry into the military, they told the whole room to strip and line up for a hernia check. You had a room for of 17-18 guys afraid to look down or be labelled as gay. Looking back it was pretty funny.

For the group physicals in the school gym that I discussed below, I had several of those from 7th grade to 12th grade so my memory of any one exam is not that strong. The first time in 7th grade I can remember being nervous about being sent into the gym after my dad checked me in at the table outside and that was probably true of the first few group exams for sports. That first time my dad walked into the gym with me. There was someone just inside the door to the gym who checked to see if I had the form that the people at the check-in table provided to each boy and then told me to go to the wall of the gym, find a number, strip to my underpants only, and leave my clothes there. Although I had heard about the undressing part before that Saturday, it was still a little embarrassing to walk into a gym where there were already lines of guys in their underpants waiting to be examined and guys undressing out in the open like that.

I did what I was told. Found an open spot along one of the walls and stripped down to my briefs. There was another adult standing there to direct us into the various lines. I had PE in that gym and played other sports like basketball and wrestling there so it was weird to be stripped down in there. Lots of kids in various lines and it seemed like there were lots of adults too what with the school staff, coaches, doctors and their staff, and some parents. Still, none of us would have questioned why we had to undress in front of so many people or refused to do it.

I don't remember the stations exactly, but remember that the first one always had the scale for weight checks. We stood in that line, got on the scale, and the person running that station wrote our weight on the form that we carried. The next one might have been the heart check. The doctor listened to our hearts twice. The first time was for our resting heart rate. The second time, we had to jump in place for a minute or something like that. Then our heart rate was checked again.

Our lungs were checked at another station or maybe it was the same one as the heart rate check. There was a station for posture or spine checks where I remember being told to pull my shorts halfway down my rear, then bend over and touch my toes.

Eventually, I got in the line for the hernia check and everyone in line got to watch as each guy step up to a doctor who was seated on a stool. The doctor would tell the boy to drop his shorts to his ankles while the doctor had him cough while the doctor put a finger up into our scrotum. I remember that some of the doctors really put their finger pretty far up into our sack, which hurt and left me sore for a few hours, while other doctors just put their fingers up under our balls and had us cough once on each side (this was something that we guys talked about before and after these group physicals since both methods were embarrassing but one was a lot more uncomfortable than the other). Then the doctor would tell me to pull my briefs up, checked my form off, and told me that I could check out at another table.

If my form was completely checked off at all the stations, then I walked to the check-out table where my form was looked at and turned in. Usually, it was one of the coaches sitting there and he would tell the boys to find their clothes and get dressed. After dressing, I would go outside and hang out with the other boys who had just finished their physicals and were waiting for their parents. My dad was there waiting sometimes, although sometimes he dropped me off and my mom picked me up. It was awkward if some of the moms were hanging around waiting on their sons, especially when some of those moms came into the gym looking for their kid or to just to watch their kid get his physical.

When I got to high school, the guys joked around more about the physicals than we did in junior high, but none of us thought that they were fun.

I had one group exam that I can remember. It was in 7th or 8th grade; all the boys went to the boys' locker room and all the girls when to the girls'. I was too young to think about what happened in the girls, but us boys had to undress to shorts (remove shirt, shoes, socks). They would do some things in the open like look in our eyes and whatnot. Then we would go back in groups of 5 behind a curtain. We would remove our shorts (underwear still on, but still rather embarrassing for a 7th grader) then go behind yet another curtain. We would pull our underwear down to our knees and the doctor would feel for a hernia, then pull 'em up, put our shorts on, and wait for the other boys to finish.

I have never been involved in a "group medical", only maybe once when I had a group exam in the army but we didn't have to be naked together, we could keep our underwear on. Only doctor visually checked my pines and genitals in different room, but he do not touched.

I have been in a group exam for a pre-induction physical. Checking of genitals and anus was done in the open room with everybody. Wore underpants, doctor had everybody bend over and drop pants to look for hemoroids. One guy farted and the doctor kicked his butt.

Bill

Did that at the medical exam to military

I have had two. Once for a sports physical in high school. The second

was at MEPs as I entered the Marines.

Never happened to me...luckily!

Maybe i would die to embarrassment!

Once i had an ekg with an other guy. We where in the same room. I had a rest ecg when he was having a stress test. After we exchanged.

Actually, I've had three, all courtesy of the US Military. The first was at the pre-induction center, where there were about 40 guys. This was kind of a non-event, as several medics came around and took blood pressure and temperature. At this point, everyone is fully dressed. Next, a doctor came in and made the rounds with a stethoscope, listening to heart and lungs. Then all the guys were lined up down a long hall, where groups of five were escorted into a small room, where a medic and doctor awaited. The medic told us to "drop your pants and underwear", where upon the doctor examined our genitals (no gloves). That was about it. The next time was the first full day of basic training, where our Company of 20 men were marched to the base hospital and escorted into a rather large room. There, a medic directed us to "undress completely". Our Company Commander then had us fold our civilian clothes, put them in the box provided, and address the box back to our homes (after the physical, we were all outfitted in uniforms). So there we were, all 20 of us standing naked. Two medics came around, giving us all the required vaccinations (one in each arm; one in the butt). The military doctor then entered the room and started the examinations. Ears, nose, and throat. Heart and lungs. He then grabbed a stool and rolled down the line of naked men, examining penis and balls. Each man had to step forward for the hernia check. Keep in mind we're all standing at attention during this entire ordeal. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed one guy had popped a "semi" during the genital exam (still no gloves used by the doctor). Once that humiliation was complete, we all had to turn around, spread our legs three feet apart, and pull a butt cheeks apart for the rectal inspection, checking for hemorrhoids I guess . That was about it, as we then proceeded downstairs to be outfitted in uniforms. And then of course there came the day for discharge. There were about six of us scheduled to leave the military and directed to report to the base medical building. Upon arrival, a medic escorted us into an exam room and said "everything off." One guy objected, saying he wanted some privacy. The medic retorted, "look pal, you want out of this outfit or not." Point well taken. A military doctor come in, and proceeded to do all the normal stuff, including dicks, ball, and butthole. I guess the military does one "final pass" of men being discharged, primarily to avoid any future liability. Just as an aside, every Thursday night at 2000 hours (8pm) in basic training, our Company Commander conducted a "personal hygiene inspection", where all 20 of us guys would pile into the shower, shave, and brush our teeth. Returning to the barracks, we would stand at attention in front of our beds (naked), where the Company Commander would look us over. He didn't touch our "junk", but for those who were not circumcised, they were required to step forward and "skin it,"

Like blindside mine was curiosity of the military, a different country but sharing the need to humiliate its staff.

A group of us had to strip and the only clothing we were given was a short tennis skirt. When we were all ready we had to walk along a corridor and we went into the gym. The walk along the corridor was done in silence except for the sounds of our bare feet on the wooden floor. All that changed when we enter the gym, the room was full of dr, nurses and medical admin staff both male and female, mostly chatting waiting for us. We were told to wait in the corner, out of embarrassment some of the girls started to fold their arms (this was when being topless in public like on the beach was rare so the only men to see you topless was your dr & partner) but they were told to lower them and we stood there until called.

There were about 10 tables in the room and we had to go from one to another. One would be for feet, one sething etc. We all spoke afterwards and from what they said it was the ones with the bigger boobs who fared worse as their boobs bounced as they walked and they felt more self conscious.

On the final one you had to take your skirt off, hand it to the nurse, the dr would do a skeleton test and then you had to walk to the back of the room naked through all the people - really embarrassing.

I've been in a few group physicals when in jr high and high school. I was on the wrestling team and track team. Our physicals were always in the high school locker room. The locker room had two doors that opened directly into the gym.

We'd be dressed in our jock straps and shorts while waiting in a single line out in the gym. That's where the parents and siblings were waiting too.

When we entered the locker room there was an assistant coach waiting. He told us to drop our shorts and he checked our supporters for proper fit. After that we removed our straps and stood naked waiting our turn. There were always two docs giving the exams, one year there were three. You just stood in line waiting, and when the next doc opened up you stepped forward. He checked you out while you were standing in front of him. This was a pretty through physical. If you wrestled, he had you bend over a chair and checked your bottom for rashes and such. There was always in front of coaches, dads and all the other guys waiting. If you wern't used to getting your penis and scrotum touched while a lot of people watched, you got over that pretty quick.

The school preferred that the dads bring their sons, and the moms bring their daughters on their day. If the docs needed to ask a question of the parents, they could send a helper out to fetch the parent and the parent could just walk right in and talk directly to the doc.

I'd seen more than one wide eyed little brother watching the older guys get checked out. On at least one occasion a father had to bring a young girl into the locker room. She was standing and facing the wall, but she was looking out of the corner of her eyes and peeked more than once.

When we were finished, we put our jock straps and shorts back on and exited out the other door.

John Dough

I had to have an HSG once, where the doc puts dye up into the uterus to look for blockages. We had a patient waiting area where we all sat around in mostly backless gowns, waiting to be spread and shot up with dye. I was one of the younger women there (infertility issues), so I felt like at least my vagina would be younger. I know, snide but I was that way once. Lots of anxiety in one small, mostly naked waiting room!