Men: Did you wear underpants at Pediatric exam?

To be honest, I have no earthly idea.

I probably was seen by a pediatrician a few times as an infant. I have no recollection of these visits.

From the time I was 3 or 4, I was seen by the family doc whose office was on the street behind our house. I have very minimal recollection of these visits and no earthly idea what was done with my underwear. It wasn't important to me. I suspect most kids didn't pay much attention to what was done with their undies. Expecting folks now to recall whether their undies were up, down, or whatever is a bit much unless something traumatic happened.

I only had the one exam at Junior School and I was probably seven or eight at the time, We waited outside the examination room in a corridor and boys stripped down to pants and girls to knickers and vest. When called in to the examination room with my mother I kept my pants on for most of the examination, It came as quite a shock when the nurse / doctor pulled my pants down to just above the knee, had a look and checked my testicles, She pulled them back up again afterwards,

I remember feeling really embarrassed about the whole thing at the time and was always worried about a repeat performance,

Growing up I never had to pull my pants down except for shots. The first time I was asked by the doctor to pull my pants and undies down was at the entrance physical for college. Even that was just down to my thighs.

Growing up I never had to pull my pants down except for shots. The first time I was asked by the doctor to pull my pants and undies down was at the entrance physical for college. Even that was just down to my thighs.

When you were in your preteen and teen years your doctors never checked your testicles or did hernia exams? This is really surprising to me but I have talked to a lot of men who have never had their pants down in a doctor's office. From the standpoint of medical care, it seems that the genital exam is important to evaluate progress with puberty and also to screen for testicular cancer. How is a boy supposed to learn to examine his own testes if the doctor is not doing it? From the standpoint of emotional development, learning to deal with the embarrassment of having someone see your genitalia is an important growth experience too. In my opinion, it is a rite of passage to manhood.

Early checkups meant starting out on the exam table in my white fruit-of-the-loom underpants. When I was little (up to age 8 ) the nurse would direct me to lie down on my belly and she would pull them down to take my rectal temp before pulling them back up again.

The doctor (male) would then examine me like that 'north of the equator'. When it was time to check the 'south of the equator', he would grab the waistband of my briefs and ask me to lift my butt off the table and then slide underpants off, never just lowered. He have me then spread my legs and would do the penis, testicle check, then have me get on my hands and knees to check my back door.

During those early years, it was very important to me what he did with my underpants when he took them off. If he put them on the exam table beside me I could relax because it meant that I could put them on as soon as the exam was over. If he handed them to my parent, it meant the nurse would soon be in to give me some shot in my butt.

Starting about age 12 or 13, I was examined in private (no mom or dad). The nurse would escort me to the exam room, instruct me to strip to underpants only and then step out. She might reenter and do the BP, pulse, temp and weight, but sometimes the doctor arrived before she had returned and then he would do that. Now for the southern hemisphere check, underpants were lowered (never removed) and he did his front check and then it was turn around and put your head or elbows on the exam table to check the back door. At age 15 I got my first DRE, wow!

I'm surprised too if many kids never got a hernia or testicle exam during a childhood physical. I don't ever remember an exam as a kid in which I didn't end up with my briefs around my ankles and that includes every sports physical in every year of junior high and high school. That goes for almost every adult exam as well. A hernia exam takes no time at all so why wouldn't a doctor do that every time? I also agree with whoever below that said that one reason that the shorts come down during childhood and the teen years is so the doctor can see whether puberty is happening at the right pace. A bulge in the briefs is not going to tell the whole story.

It would be done while i was laying on my back. the doctor would examine my abdomen and slide my pants or whatever down. It always surprised me.

Up until I was 16 or so I always undressed to my briefs. The doctor would have me pull them down to my knees for the genital exam.

Yes, I certainly did. And you probably did too.

But in your fantasy we are probably both butt ass anked.

Whenever I went to my pediatrician you undressed to your underware. It didn't matter the visit, first thing the nurse would said "everything off except your skivvies.". She stayed talked to my mom and sister as I stripped to my "tight whities".

Then to the physical, my pediatrician would slide his hands into the waistband of my underwear and pull them down for the hernia check/genital exam. He always did it with me laying by the time I was 12 my underware were down to my knees.

Then, one year he had me also stand up and then he pulled my underwear down for the exam to mid-thigh. The first time, it was a big surprise and then being basically naked in front of your sister and mom.

I have always worn underpants to a physical exam as an adult and a child

Yes all the time. Even now. The undies just go till the knees most of the time. Only on one occasion was it till my ankles.

The gown are not very popular in India with the doctors.

We wear them only in hospital.

Always wore pants when visiting the doc, but if they had to come of they were pushed down to my knees.

The doctor would have me pull my pants down just far enough to look at my genitals and do a hernia check, but then I would quickly pull them back up again. I think the most clothes I ever took off for more than a minute or two was maybe my shirt (and sometimes not even that).

Always undressed to my tighty whities. The just pulled down for the exam.

Always undressed to underwear and then doctor would ask me to lower the underwear for the genital check. Usually the underwear would fall down to my ankles instead of staying mid calf.

Always kept mine on, never had them down. not even for the genital check.

When i was a kid and teenager the nurse would tell me to strip down to my underwear. The doctor would examine me then he would ask me to lie back and he would take and lift the band of my undies and take a good long peek inside and sometimes he would put his hand down there and touch me above my penis and testicles. I remember one time he had me lay on my side out my knees to my chest and he took and pulled my underwear down to my thighs and he put his finger up my bum and felt around.

Usually I wore underpants starting a pediatric examination: after ENT and lung and heart examination, before abdominal exam underpants were lowered down under the knee or to the ankles and in most of the cases completely removed for genital exam. In some cases the exam began with abdominal and genital so I started the exam removing underpants, leaving only a White t-shirt in most cases removed later for heart and lung exam, with me completely naked

Always, although my briefs were pulled down for the genital exam...which were done at an angle which blocked my groin from my mother's view, Thank God. I would have been mortified if she had seen it.

When I went at that age I might have taken off my shirt. I remember there being 2 room attached. When it was time for dr to check for hernia. We would go around the corner to the other room. I would drop pants and underwear. He would do the turn your head and cough thing. Then I would pull pants up and go back to the room where mom was. The whole thing took less than 30 seconds it seems.

Growing up, the nurse would tell me to strip down to my underwear. She would remain in the room as I undressed then took my vitals while sitting in my "tightly whities" on the exam table. First, sitting at the end of the table up my doctor pull the front of my underwear down slightly exposing genitals giving them a quick look & feel. Then my doctor would ask me to lie back and he would take and lift the band of my undies and he would examine my penis, pee hole, testicles and feel for a hernia. At age 13, he replaced sitting with standing up for the genital & hernia exam. It came as a shock when he pulled my underwear down to just above my knees. I was so embarrassed stand in front of my mom and sister as had doctor examined my genitals. After checking for a hernia he pulled them back up and told me I could now get dressed.

From as early as I can remember, I stripped down to just briefs before the doctor came in. Before I was maybe 14, the doctor would just pull them aside for a quick check while I was lying on the table. Later, I would stand and pull them down to my knees for the testicle and hernia exam.

Just down to my knees. I vividly recall my high school physical when my doctor sat in front of me, unbuckled and unzipped my shorts himself, and pulled them and my boxers down with one swift move.

Was always stripped to just my white y fronts for all my school medicals. It was always a male doctor who pulled my underpants down to do the hernia exam and retract my forskin several times.

I have been undressed until briefs at all my annual school physicals during the last 50's and first 60's

like "Tinmy2002", the school doctor pulled herself my brief down to my knees and in high school, I was even sometimes stark naked for all the examination in front of the doctor and the female nurse who was here to assist the doctor

So I vividly recall these physicals which were embarrassing

"Just down to my knees. I vividly recall my high school physical when my doctor sat in front of me, unbuckled and unzipped my shorts himself, and pulled them and my boxers down with one swift move".

On the reverse I don' remember that a doctor in a private office had pulled down my briefs like it was at school physicals

I stayed fully clothed during my physicals with my pediatrician. For the genital exam he'd unfasten my pants himself and lower my pants and underwear just enough for a quick visual check and feel. Later on he had my stand and I'd lower my pants and underwear myself.

I never got even remotely close to naked with my pediatrician.

My panties were off for the whole exam.

Oh, sorry! I did not see that it said male when I posted!

That's quite alright. Any time you want to share with us experiences you've had with your panties off, it should be welcome 😉

Do you identify as male?

panties off

I think the word is used interchangeably according to region and time period. For instance, I noticed that in the movie 'Deliverance' when Ned Beatty is getting raped by the two rednecks, one of them tells Ned Beatty to take off dem panties ...

It sounded odd at first but I guess the word can be used interchangeably for male and female undergarments

I think the word is used interchangeably according to region and time period. For instance, I noticed that in the movie 'Deliverance' when Ned Beatty is getting raped by the two rednecks, one of them tells Ned Beatty to take off dem panties ...

It sounded odd at first but I guess the word can be used interchangeably for male and female undergarments

That was used in a derogatory manner to indicate lack of masculinity.