Nudity in the OB/GYN examination

I think most physicians respect female patient modesty. Some exceptions could be during child birth or other surgery. The videos on certain sites that show nude patients are sheer folly.

I believe as it has been stated before, it depends a lot on the location. I know my wife is always nude under a gown in most cases. When she was doing the twice a year, one of the two was nude from the waist down with a drape. Seeing that she is going back to the once a year ones, it will probably the nude with gown again.

Here in Italy no one uses gowns or drapes, the patients undresses from the waist down. If a breast exam is needed (not all the gynecologists include it as a routine part of the examination), the doctor asks to remove shirt and bra after (or before) the pelvic exam, when the patient is still dressed from the waist down 😃

I usually just remove my pants and panties

During the play exams that I conduct I have my patient first take off her top and bra for the breast examination and then after allowing her to put them back on I ask her to undress below the waist for the pelvic examination

I was only given a paper sheet for my exam so I had to stand up in front of my male doctor while inserting a diaphragm for fit. I felt like he was watching me the entire time.

My doctor gives me a cloth gown, and I choose to keep my socks on.

I'm naked from the waist down for my exam. I like that I'm stood with my slit visible to her while answering questions before she has me lie down to examine between it.

I’m asked to undress completely and put on a short paper gown. I’m never completely exposed in that my doctor will move and have me lower the gown as needed.

I am curious, how many women here get paper vs cloth gowns and out of those, which get a full paper gown as opposed to the vest and lap sheet combo. Paper is probably a higher percentage and I guess makes more sense since they are disposable as opposed to cloth, but just made me curious.

Is it necessary to make your patients complete naked for the physical.

How the hell do you get your reproductive organs examined if you aren't naked????

Medical Examinations - Almost everyone says they are nude under a gown, and that means "YOU ARE NOT NUDE / NAKED"! Great observation! It is a medical exam you are having! You travel to the doctors NUDE UNDER YOUR CLOTHES. You go to bed NUDE under the sheets, or you are NUDE UNDER YOUR PYJAMAS. You are NUDE UNDER YOUR NIGHTGOWN. I sometimes wonder if it is made up, but how can a medic exam a body unless that part is visible. NUDE, NAKED, or UNDRESSED you have to expose skin to be examined. You might have some sexual excitement and pleasure from it, but the doctors are just doing what must be a very boring job looking at so-called PRIVATE PARTS all day long. Lets get real and just expose the parts that the medical people need to see

My wife is also nude under the gown for the exam except for socks, which is exactly the dress, or lack thereof, for my patients in play exams.

My wife once went to her GP and had worn her panties under her gown when no pelvic was expected. He was pushing around on her tummy and ended up having her slip off her panties for a pelvic.

I recreate that experience often...

Naked under the gown once a year. If I have to see him for some minor complaint at some other time it will only be the bottom half.

Usually I perform complete physical exam when patient asks for gyn exam, so I prefer that she's completely naked from the beginning because the examination is more rapid and at the same time more complete because helps in giving a more overall vision of the woman. Sometimes if the visit is required for a specific problem or for a short time follow up control I allow the patient to keep on a t-shirt or a pettycoat but always without bra, panties, socks, stockings or pantyhose.

Have undress from the waist down. Just wearing a top or only bra for the gyn exam. No gown here.

My wife at Gyn have to undress waist down or completely if a breast exam will be performed also.

She may leave on only socks a and shoes....

She undress herself behind a curtain, but here, in Italy, we haven't that ugly gown like in US....so she have to walk all naked from behind the curtain to gyno chear.....very embarassing of course !

I enjoy very much too see that....

My gf has always had to take off all of her clothes. Everything needs to come off except her socks. She can leave those on if she wants. She then changes into the gown, but when the dr comes in, everything has to be exposed anyway.

For Karen other than the paper exam gown she is naked

I think doctors are getting lazier and are more rushed so they don't take the time to look at the entire patient for a physical. For a complete physical, the patient should take off everything.

In the UK it's always just skirt up or trousers off for a smear test. In a way I kind of think that partial nudity is more sexy.

My wife is completely undressed, then a blue paper gown with white paper drape sheet. I got a box of the blue gowns from her for Christmas!

My aunt said that during the obligatory gynecological examination in the 1950s she had to undress completely naked. Neither she nor any other woman protested against this. It was then treated as something normal.

My first real girlfriend (late 80's) went for the pill at the local gp's and came back in a real state of shock, she had to strip fully and had no idea that this would happen, this was also the first i knew of anything like that and quite probably was what started my fascination with the subject

My exams always start with a gown on but its usually mostly off by the end.

My doctor begins with a breast exam but never covers my chest when he's done, i think he can tell that I don't mind.

After that, he has me lay back and put my feet into the stirrups. He moves the gown up so its mostly just covering my stomach by that point.

Next, I can feel him part my labia and briefly pull back my hood. Then he'll lube up his fingers and do a quick internal before the speculum. My last visit I thouggt I was done, then he wheeled over a monitor and did a transvaginal ultrasound. Its awkward making conversation while the doctor is maneuvering the wand inside!

Complete nudity gives the best opportunity to observe the whole body and to find unexpected symptoms. And to have a global vision.

What's the problem with being naked to have a good exam. Especially for singles it is important: e.g. nobody else looks at their back and sees possible dermatological abnormalities.

The first OB/GYN that I saw did things differently than anyone else I have seen since. For my annual exam, he would meet with me in his office both before and after the actual exam, with me being fully clothed while we talked. After the initial discussion, a nurse would escort me to an exam room and instruct me to remove everything, lie on the table, and cover myself with a sheet that she would give me. She would return a few minutes later, have me put my feet in the stirrups and scootch my bottom down to the end of the table, drape the sheet over my knees and legs, and then let the doctor know I was ready. She stayed in the room throughout the exam. The doctor would begin by folding the sheet down off my breasts for the breast exam. He would then cover my chest with a towel for the rest of the exam. He would fold the sheet up from my legs to do the pelvic exam, then cover me back up when it was finished. He would leave the room, the nurse would help me out of the stirrups and to sit up, and then she would leave so I could get dressed. Every OB/GYN that I have seen since he retired has had me fully undress (socks can stay on), put on a gown or vest, and use a drape for cover. I have never been examined completely nude by a real medical professional, and cannot imagine that happening in the current culture.

I have only ever been asked to undress from the waist down. Then lie on the bed with a paper sheet over my lap. If I’m wearing a full skirt they say you can keep it on and just remove your knickers, but pull the skirt up.

I am from Germany. I have to be undressed from the waist downwards. Never complete nude. For breast exam undress from waist

upwards. It is different - sometimes first breast exam and sometimes first pelvic exam.

My wife and I have always been completely naked for physicals...always a gown and or drape, but no underwear left on.

And as thorough as our doctor is, that makes sense.

He looks at, palpated and probes virtually every are of each of us, as clinically appropriate.

Unless I am not with my wife when she goes...because then the good doctor seems to find reasons to palpate/probe all areas of her that are appropriate and also possibly those that are beyond...taking liberties, so to speak, like a long rectal when she is not symptomatic...and other procedures that seldom occur when I am there.

Wish I could tell him, “Dude, it’s ok...just let me watch.”