How did you ladies learn about the gyn exam?

How did you ladies learn about the gyn exam?

I just read one member who said that she saw her mom's exam.

Has any one else had this experience?

Would you let your daughters see your exam?

Reply I don't have a duaghter, just a son... But if I had a daughter I don't think that I would let her watch my gyno exam

I have 3 teenage step daughters ages 18 and 16 (twins). There is no way I'd ever let them watch my exam. However, I must admit, I am looking forward to taking them to receive their first gyno exam. They are all terrified and have already asked me to stay in the exam room with them. I don't find the thought of them being examined arousing by any means. But I am anxious to see their facical expressions and reactions as they are put into the stirrups and are internally examined for the first time. Unlike my own first exam, I will make sure that they know exactly what to expect. I had a realitvely good idea of what would happen; although I don't remember how I found out. The only thing that caught me off guard was the rectal exam. Whoever gave me my information left that out. The doctor didn't realize that this was my first exam therefore she didn't warn me.....and I was not exepecting her to put her finger in "there"!

From other girls at school who had older sisters or whose mothers would share things with them more than my mother did. When I was about 11 I got my hands on one of those magazines for teenage girls that had a section explaining what happens at the first gyno appointment. The photos were not too explicit (they always made sure to have the doc's back or some other object covering the girl's crotch) but I remember being kind of turned on by them--especially since the doctor in them was male. And I kept fantasizing about what it would be like to have one of those exams. I actually got my first exam soon after that--just a quick external one without stirrups--followed by a rectal exam. it was a bit scary and very embarrassing but arousing too. I've been hooked onto the med fetish ever since!

I'm the daughter of a doctor and I've known about them as far back as I can remember. My mom's very open about things and never tried to conceal them from my sis (5 years younger) and me.

Steffy

I found out about gynecological exams from other girls that had had them. I have boys, but if I had girls, I do not think I would let them observe the procedure, it would probably be too traumatic for them.

Wife said she really learned the old fashion way. By having one.

I believe with the internet boards such as askalice, many girls already have a vague Idea of what to expect when they are going for a pelvic exam.

At 15 and a half I knew nothing. The only stirrups were on my ridding saddle and those were quite different. Although both kept me from falling off. When I first saw them I though they were handles. My husband said years later when I told him that, they were handles, because they sure handled me.

My mom never talked to me about that stuff growing up. I had an older sister and she told me about stuff like that. She actually went with me for my first, since she was old enough to drive, etc.

I didnt know about the chair untill my partner asked me to get the i.u.d fitted .but even then i didnt get to actually get in the chair they askedme to just use the table and do the frog position 😳

Have talked to women who had a pretty good idea from their mother, or from sisters or friends, or read up extensively about it, but also some who didnt have a clue and were shocked and embarassed to say the least. Older women in particular, there wasnt as much information out there and it was not discussed as much "back then". Some were told to go their mother's gyn at age 18 and went without really knowing what was going to happen. I find it amazing what a range of experiences there are out there.

I went to my first exam, when I was sixteen, in order to obtain birth control pills. I had no idea what to expect, but I knew that I needed some form of birth control. So, I looked in the yellow pages, located a OB/GYN on a local bus route and took the bus there from school one day.

I never thought to change out of my Catholic high school all girl's, easily identifiable, uniform. I am surprised that the MD didn't call Sister Mary and have me picked up by a strict nun immediately. I am sure that I would have been expelled.

I paid in cash and my parents never knew. I had no idea what to expect and the entire experience was, overall, a terrible experience for a young girl. No one should ever have to go through that alone.

Lady Teddy

Read about it in a cosmo magazine!

Mom told me a little about it before I went for my first exam at 15, but she was very vague in her description and left out a lot of the detail. I really didn't know what exactly to expect and was quite nervous. I pretty much found out the details of it by going that first time.

I found an old magazine from my mother when i was a child.

the only thing i remember are the pictures. they were in black a white.

i was so facinated by it i think read it about hundred times.

My best friend in 11th grade told me about it. I almost died when she did. She told me the doctor put a finger in her asshole and I didn't know whether to be horrified or totally turned on. I knew then medfet was my thing (though I didn't know it existed) but I still get absolutely turned on just remembering this memory. I had my own first exam a year later, and it was not as good as my imagination, that's for sure.

I found out about them from my mum when she said she was going to an exam. Wasnt until I googled it later in life, that I found out

I had it done at 15 by an unsympathetic, uncaring doctor, worst day of me life.

Parents tended not to talk about "things done there" then and with no internet information was by word of mouth and very incorrect.

I have never seen anyone having a gyn-pelvic exam, my mom didnt tell me nothing really , but a common friend talked about it and the school nurse in high school also talked about it, then classmates etc, so I knew more or less what will happen during the examination.

Yes, my daughter had accompanied me to my gyn.-appointments, she is the only I would want there. and yes she can peek if she wanted lol

I learned when I went to the doctor. I was very surprised as I thought it was just a typical doctors appt and the only difference would be they knew more about the female organs. Needless to say after going I told all my friends so they would know what to expect.

I do not have any children of my own but if I had girls I would not allow them to watch my exam. I would share with them the process and what to expect.

I have been getting a lot of flack about this (only from here) , but I took my daughter to one of mine so she could see what it was like, and to dispel any myths she was being told at school.

Hi, what kind of myths was she told at school,and how did she react to the exam? What's your opinion about the exam?

N.

They did it in a room full of men, pulled your vagina so far apart you cried, kids ghosts stories.

I don't remember she did.

It's a life saver, well worth the discomfort.

I learned the old-fashioned way, by having one. The doctor I had was great, very patient and gentle. By the time they finally got around to covering that in one of those "girls only" lectures in school, I had already been to the doctor twice.

My mother never gave me a clue, and her discussion of birth control was strictly limited to the diaphragm so she wasn't much help, nor did she want to be.

I would never have taken my daughter with me to one of my exams, but I did fully and frankly educate her about the process. I offered to make an appointment for her and to go with her. Even though she chose the same doctor I went to, she made her own appointment and went by herself. She's always been pretty responsible about her own health care.

She's a good kid (26) and I'm lucky to have her!

I learned a lot about it from my best friend who got one a few weeks before I did. Once I lost my virginity I made myself an appt at the county health dept and had my boyfriend at the time take me to the appt

Although I don't have any children and I had absolutly no idea what was going to happen to me during my first exam, I have become quite accustomed to them in recent years.

If I did have a dughter, I would make sure that she knew all about the exam and what was about to happen long before she stepped into the reception area of the Doc's office.

It would of course be her choice as to weather or not I went into the exam room with her, but I would honored to have a close enough relationship with a daughter that she would ask me to come in.

If I were to have a daughter I would certainly do a better job of explaining things to her than my mother did for me. Once again it would be my daughter's decision as to weather or not she observed my exam. I would certainly encourage her to do so if she so desired. I can't think of any part of my body that I would ever want to keep from a child of mine.

I was at the lowest ebb in my life and i wanted someone to 'hold my hand' when i went to be examined so i asked my mum. it was no big deal and it helped me through it.

I heard about them from reading a playboy, and described it to a girlfriend before she had to go for one.

MY mom just told me one day I was going for MY first exam at her GYNO.I was scared but also thrilled at the same time for MY first exam.My mommy stayed with me the whole time!!