Pulling down underwear for genital exams

I had a hernia exam in my teens where the doctor pulled my boxers down himself. I was laying down and after the abdominal exam he undid my pants, pulled the waistband of my boxers down and checked me for a hernia.

He didn’t even say what he was about to do before, I found that out by suddenly feeling a gloved hand between my legs. Just “invited himself downstairs” so to speak.

This reminds me of a discussion I discovered recently by some nurses here:

http://allnurses.com/nurse-practitioners-np/are-you-supposed-1054549-page2.html?s=68beb910ef2e721e5d32fe92548838cd

One response reads in part:

“... here's how me and the other NP at the clinic I work at do for boys from 8 to 18:

1. With one hand, pull down the front of the boy's waistband.

2. Make a mental note of the tanner stage of their genital development and pubic hair growth.

3. With the hand not holding the waist band, quickly feel each testicle (to make sure they've descended in younger boys and to make sure there are no masses in older boys).

4. If the boy is there for a sports physical, do a hernia check.

5. If the boy is uncircumcised, test how far their foreskin can retract VERY GENTLY (so it isn't harmed if it can't retract)

6. Release waistband.

This should take less then 5 seconds (10, if you have to check for hernia/phimosis).”

As a teen the doctor would pull my panties all the way down to my knees when I needed a shot. He'd ask me to bare my bottom and lay over the table and I'd just pull my pants down a little bit and he would come up and get them all the way down, leaving my feeling totally exposed and bare... it was kinda thrilling and terrifying... it felt quite gratuitous for him to expose me that much.

During all of my many school and Paediatric exams here in the UK (1960s), the doctor would always instruct me/ direct me / order me / ask me to remove my underpants (ie take them right off ).

I have only had 2 naked exams as an adult. During those I was 'invited' very politely to remove my underwear completely. Much more recently (just routine exam) I was asked by the doctor ( very politely) to just lower my trousers, underwear to mid ' thigh level (otherwise being fully dressed).

As a teen, the doctor would ask me to pull my underwear, tightly whities at the time, down to my thighs, and then check me for a hernia.

I've had a doc reach under my underwear and examine my testicles, but never pull them down for me

Every exam my brother and I would stand next to each other for our genital exam. He would pull my briefs down to my knees to do my exam and then when he finished with me he moved on to my brother and did the same thing to him.

Years ago I have had a Doctor pull the front of my underpants down without asking, but I'm sure this wouldn't happen now in the UK.

The first time was at a School medical aged about 14, then again at an employment medical exam at about 17, both without warning of what was going to happen, the Doctor just did.

When I was brought to the Emergency Room after a car accident the doctor came in and was checking me over while I was laying in the stretcher. He pulled my panties down and felt around between my legs and gave me a finger in my butt. Then he pulled my panties back up and left the room.

When I go for my regular injection I usually just undo my belt and slip my trousers and underwear down a few inches. There's one nurse, who I don't see often, that then says something like "let's slide these down a bit". She tugs them to mid-thigh, leaving me totally exposed.

I expect it now, but it definitely came as a surprise the first time.

I accompanied my wife also once in the doctor. This one auscultated it upright in support gorges then it has request to him to lengthen on the table and to open its trousers completely. Then the doctor before palpating his belly descended his breeches and its jeans then have to palpate its belly but also its ovaries and on each side of its vulva.

When I was a teenager my family doctor always had me lying on my back in my underpants on the exam table as he performed the abdominal exam. He would then tell me to lift my hips up off the table as he pulled my pants down around my knees. Then came the gloved hand checking my balls and penis.

My doctor has only once done it themselves. every other time I do. I know while I'm lying down they just go under anyways

Its quite unusual to pull down the underwear completely for an abdominal exam.

Anyways, if I was in a situation, where the doctor had to perform an exam with my underwear pulled down (which has not occured in like 10 years), they have always asked me to do it.

During my abdominal exam, my internist will lift up the waistband of my boxers so that he can feel and auscultate my femoral arteries. Growing up, my pediatrician did the exact same thing.

In many cases you find yourself with the option of having the doctor to ask you to remore your underwear or him/her to lower it. What's your preference.

I had the chance of trying both and I think that when the doctor continues his job and pulls my underwear down by himself it's more fun than the other way around. What's your take on this?

When I was younger, the doctors would often remove my underwear for me. I actually was never asked to do it....if they were coming off, the doctor was doing it. One particular instance is something I still regularly fantasize about today:

I was laying on the table in just my underwear. The doctor (female) was palpating my stomach and I was so nervous that when she touched my stomach I had an involuntary reaction and sucked my stomach in really far. She just stood there waiting for me to relax and I couldn’t because it was involuntary and I was so embarrassed. So then she finished palpating me once I relaxed. And then without warning she pulled my underwear to my ankles. I couldn’t believe how suddenly I was just laying there exposed, and then she immediately put her hands on my knees and bent them up. So for a second my legs were together and bent straight up and I was relieved because I thought maybe I wasn’t going to be looked at. But then she pulled my knees apart and put me in the frog leg position and I was absolutely mortified. Then she reached in and spread my lips and called the nurse over to also look at me because I guess there was some redness or soemtning. And they were both just looking at my vagina as she spread it with her fingers and made comments about it, and my legs were spread as far as they would go. I just wanted it to be over but it felt like it lasted forever

When I have to be examined down there, the doc or nurse let me know in advance to undress completely and put on the gown.

I really find it hot when the doctor uncovers my body as needed for the exam, eventually exposing my genitals.

I had some testicular pain and went to see my new female doctor. After we talked for a bit about my symptoms, she said even thought we just met each other, apparenetly trying to lighten the mood, she needed to take a look. She asked me to stand and drop my pants, which I did. Then she asked me to lay down on the exam table. She gave me a thorough exam of my genitals and then asked me to sit up. I did that but my genitals were still exposed. We talked for about 5 minutes about my testicular pain. She prescribed some antibiotics and then said that I could get up and get dressed. She was very professional but I did enjoy dropping me pants in front of her, being examined and being exposed to her for a about 10 to 15 minutes.

When I was younger, the doctor would palp my stomach with their cold hands and then retract the waistband of my underwear. They would feel around for a minute or two. As I got older, I would be standing for the genital exam and pull my underwear down myself.

I've never had the doctor pull my underwear all the way down instead of asking me to do it, but I do have a few memories of doctors reaching underneath without warning for a testicular exam, or sometimes pulling the waistband forward for a quick visual check (especially in early puberty, presumably just to assess development).

As a very young child at school I remember having to stand in line with all the other boys. We had to drop our trousers, and our underpants would be pulled down around our ankles, whilst a nurse, and the headmaster would proceed down the line, looking at, and feeling everyone's genitals. To this very day I honestly don't know why it was done, but it happened once each year. About March or April time if I remember correctly. I used to hate it, and for some reason unknown they always seemed to spend longer with me than with the others, and would talk quietly to each other.

Ever since then , since growing up, everytime I have ever been asked to remove any clothes and especially underwear, I have always been asked to do it, and left alone whilst getting dressed or undressed

When I was younger the doctor would pull my underwear down. As I got older they we ask me to pull down my underwear.

As a child at my local clinic, the nurse pulled down my jeans and underpants prepping me for a rectal temp. After my temp was taken, I would be instructed to leave them down until the doctor had a chance to examine me. He always walked in and said, “go ahead and pull your pants up.” I don’t recall him ever examining my lower half. It was always ears and throat issues with me.

Never had it done. If the panties have to come off they're already off when the doctor comes in.

Always at my Pediatricians office ,when young, I was always naked he did not let me wear my underwear in the exam room.

My sister and I both had our underwear pulled down at the pediatric when it was time for the genital exam.

Usually, my doctor has had me only in my boxers before having me lay down and taking them off of me himself to examine my genitals. More recently, however, he’s instead snuck his hand under the waistband or the leg of my underwear to palpate my testes.

Growing up as a kid my pediatrician always had me fully nude for my physical exams, with my mother present in the exam room.

Later, my father took me to his doctor for my physicals and his doctor, who used to be a military doctor, also had me fully nude for my physicals.

It's just the way it was done years ago.

At all my School medicals the Doctor always pulled my underwear down with out any notice , and all my grown up exams to .

I only recall a handful of instances when the school doctor pulled down my underwear without asking, as happened to @schldr. Usually, the school doctor would ask me to pull my underwear down. The same for any examination I have had more recently. The exception was when I went to a walk in clinic suffering from a staph flare up on my skin. The nurse practitioner asked me to show him where the rash was so I took off my t-shirt and undid my jeans to show him my torso and legs and without warning he pulled my briefs down too.