First Genital Exam

First genital exams are usually within a few months of birth. First I remembered was somewhere in grade school, 10-11 years old. Turn your head and cough!

@roscoe "Obamacare" is about the insurance process not about the procedures themselves, isn't it?

That's a nice theory but insurance dictates what gets done. From my own experience and what I hear/read from others the doctors time seems to be about 10 minutes allowed per patient.

That's a nice theory but insurance dictates what gets done. From my own experience and what I hear/read from others the doctors time seems to be about 10 minutes allowed per patient.

My Belgian doctor of some 50 years going, also sets appointment times in slots of 15 minutes. Sometimes he finishes earlier, sometimes later, obviously depending on what the patients come to him for.

He asks beforehand why they asked for an appointment, maybe the better to gauge the time he thinks he might need.

For the past 10 years I have had a female doc who doesn't even have me take my clothes off. "Obamacare" I guess but she appears to be embarrassed to look.

"Obamacare" does not dictate anything as granular or specific to the individual doctor or clinic as what clothes to take off and it certainly does not have any bearing on the doctor looking at routine ordinary things. Come on. ALSO, even if a particular insurer did reimburse in such a paltry way as to reduce the perceived thoroughness of a routine examination, that has nothing to do with the ACA - i.e., "Obamacare," as the ACA is merely the market in which insurers sell their product to consumers. It is not itself a health service of any kind. ACA/Obamacare sets minimum requirements for insurers who want to be able to participate in the ACA marketplace. That's all and it is not honest to claim otherwise.

Finally, it speaks volumes, doesn't it, that your other supposition is that your doctor was "embarrassed to look" at you. I assure you, doctors have seen it all. If you were reading embarrassment coming from her, maybe she was, for some reason, specifically uncomfortable with you.

"Obamacare" does not dictate anything as granular or specific to the individual doctor or clinic as what clothes to take off and it certainly does not have any bearing on the doctor looking at routine ordinary things. Come on. ALSO, even if a particular insurer did reimburse in such a paltry way as to reduce the perceived thoroughness of a routine examination, that has nothing to do with the ACA - i.e., "Obamacare," as the ACA is merely the market in which insurers sell their product to consumers. It is not itself a health service of any kind. ACA/Obamacare sets minimum requirements for insurers who want to be able to participate in the ACA marketplace. That's all and it is not honest to claim otherwise.

Finally, it speaks volumes, doesn't it, that your other supposition is that your doctor was "embarrassed to look" at you. I assure you, doctors have seen it all. If you were reading embarrassment coming from her, maybe she was, for some reason, specifically uncomfortable with you.

I'll take up your last statement first. I had a rash next to my scrotum I expected she would look at it. I mentioned it after she was through pressing on my abdomen so my pants were already loose and I was sliding off the table. I missed grabbing for my belt and they fell to my ankles taking my underpants with them. She did turn around and look but it was like a guy trying to peek down a girl's blouse and she headed for the computer. After I was covered and walked over to sit she said "Oh thanks for showing that to me". That seemed strange to me as I expected her to have me pull them down while I was on the table. If they hadn't fallen while I was getting up she never would have seen it. Anyway, I accompanied my wife at her "wellness check" a couple weeks ago as I needed a note from the doctor so I could go back to work. I noticed a confidence about her that had not been there before. My wife told her I was concerned about not getting certain areas looked at that I can't see myself (my exam is coming up in a month). She checked the computer and said she has me scheduled for a nude physical. I guess I'll find out then.

My experience is that insurance companies run this world now. I have a railcar and belong to a club that used to give rides at a celebration the town has every year, that is we DID until about 5 years ago when they were afraid of any liability and we lost our insurance. We tried to get on with several tourist RRs as a "tag along" on their insurance policy to no avail. Most of us have tried to buy insurance on our cars individually but to no avail. Personally I feel they are less dangerous than a snow machine. We only run on the abandoned rails the state specifies and not over 20 mph. My BIL runs his snow machine over 100 mph on open lakes where there is a definite danger of colliding with another one.

I was involved in building a drag strip where we had a national event. The sanctioning organization brings their own fire protection equipment that meets their insurance company's satisfaction. In my state the fire chief and police chief are kings of their domain, well until they ran up against the racing organization's insurance company. The fire chief used the fact we had fuel cars to get his men in free to watch by manning as many fire trucks as it took. The insurance company said they didn't want his trucks/men near the track. They had to sit out at the gate while the fuel cars ran. They also had their own diver with them to get the driver out of a burning car and the drivers didn't want anyone but him coming after them. It was a two day meet and they put on a fireworks show Saturday night. They brought their own shooter who was approved by the insurance company.

As far as "wellness check vs physical" My old doctor told me in 2013 he wasn't retiring when I asked him if I should start planning for it. Two months later in October my wife came home from hers saying "We need to find a new doctor". I had just read about a change that ACA had coming to our care that was starting January 1st 2014. Our doctor was closing his practice on December 31st 2013.

Hi everyone,

This thread has gone badly off-topic.

The rest of the world doesn't care two hoots about the rights and wrongs of the US health care system!

If anyone wants to debate 'Obamacare', start your own thread!

I suppose mine happened in infancy and I guess that's true of most people in developed countries!

I know I was examined for a diagnosis of phimosis that led to me getting my foreskin chopped off, but I don't recall the examination! I barely recall some examination briefs down during a school physical. I also must have been examined before the surgery to bring my undescended teste down.

Sorry guys and gals, if you ask me about exams that happened so long ago, I just don't remember.

What I do when there's a post I'm not interested in: I simply don't read it.

What I do when there's a post I'm not interested in: I simply don't read it.

It is a good idea to keep on topic though and this topic is not supposed to be about what American health care is like.

It is a good idea to keep on topic though and this topic is not supposed to be about what American health care is like.

In my opinion that seems to be the reason I'm not getting a genital exam now. From what I have read elsewhere, at my age I should be getting a genital exam once a year as part of the no longer existent physical or a TBSE. I have had two of the Total Body Skin Exams with two different providers and no genital exam yet.

​

It is a good idea to keep on topic though and this topic is not supposed to be about what American health care is like.

From what I have read elsewhere, at my age I should be getting a genital exam once a year as part of the no longer existent physical or a TBSE. I have had two of the Total Body Skin Exams with two different providers and no genital exam yet.

@roscoe - But your complaints about healthcare in the US are not relevant to this discussion.

The thread title is "First Genital Exam", not "Difficulties Getting Genital Exams".

I had my first genital exam in the age of 13 as part of a general exam I think every teen in my country gets. The doctor told me to lower my underpants, told that he had to look for hernia. He placed his hand beside my scrotum and I had to cough. Then he told he was about to check if my foreskin was ok. He tried to push my foreskin back completely which was not easy, so he applied at least some force. He said that my foreskin was fairly tight but he would postpone his decision for circumcision to the next appointment, and meanwhile I should take care more about hygiene.

All in all this was a quite embarassasing and frightening experience and so were the follow-up exams.

All in all this was a quite embarassasing and frightening experience and so were the follow-up exams.

@Randomino Were these follow-up exams only to check your foreskin or are you talking about other general exams?

@Woyzeck

@Randomino Were these follow-up exams only to check your foreskin or are you talking about other general exams?

As far as I remember it happened when I had to see the doctor anyway for other reasons. One definitely was a visit at the doctor's office for a vaccination when he tried to press my foreskin back again... again he complained.

The very first genital exam I can Actually remember was probably somewhere in early elementary school. I dont remember wearing a gown, just laying on the exam table in my underwear. After my doctor finished feeling my stomach ( I was Very ticklish back then), he asked me if if it was ok if he looked inside my underpants. The exam was quick; he pulled down the front of my underwear with one hand and pressed around my groin with the other. He made sure to tell me that only doctors were allowed to touch me here and that of anyone else tried to, to tell my parents. That was a very appropriate and well-meaning thing to say to a child my age but it set the stage for a more nefarious doctor several years down the road.

I was 12, actually maybe 11. Lovely pediatrician, he was my doctor through age 18. But he always did a thorough visual exam, parting my labia for a look. And my bottom. I was so so so horrified and excited at the same time. I think those exams really started my sexual awareness. The memories remain strong and even had quite an influence on my early sexual life with my bff.

The very first genital examination I really remember was when I was 12. The doctor asked me to take off my pants, first looked visually, ran his fingers through my pubic hair (which had come out a few months earlier) and then palpated my testicles and unclasped/clasped the glans several times, causing an erection.

Sports physical late summer before 6th grade. I had an early puberty and was the only one among my peers that displayed a natural bush and extremely hairy legs. Ten guys standing side by side in our white briefs. My hairy legs had already earned much attention. Dropping my underwear and revealing a good amount of pubic hair was only icing on the cake! Those were the days!

When I was really young, under 5, I had a male pediatrician that looked every year while I was in the frog position. Then I had a female doctor that just looked under my panties.

However, once I turned 12-it was panties down, gloves on, and knees open at the end of the yearly physical. I'll never forget that first year.

I remember going to the pediatrician for my yearly check ups and being stripped done to my underwear. When it came time for the genital check. The doctor would just lift up the elastic of my underwear and slide his hand inside feeling my penis and testicles. As weird as it seemed, I kind of enjoyed that feeling. It wasn't until I was about 24 that I went for a complete physical after not being to see a doctor in years. Things started off pretty much as I remembered. Me in my boxers while the doctor examined me. When he started palpating my abdomen, I felt my penis begin to stir. I tried to stay calm until he said that he needed to check me for lumps and I needed to lower my boxers down to my knees. I reluctantly did as he asked and then layed back on the table with a full erection. I was embarrassed as ever as he felt my testicles but I also enjoyed what he was doing. Finally the exam was done and I could get dressed. I think that's when I began to realize my medical fetish. 30 years later I still see the same doctor and still look forward to him examining my testicles.

I don't remember if what I'm about to talk about was my first genital exam, but it is certainly the first and only one that has remained indelibly imprinted in my memory. I was about eleven years old and my mother took me to the family doctor. In reality this doctor (about 60 years old) had recently started a private practice as a paediatrician, receiving patients in his home. I was told to remain in my underwear and was listened to and made to lie down on the table. The doctor was on my left, palpating my abdomen, while on my right, a few centimeters away, was my mother who was carefully observing me. At one point the doctor firmly pulled down my underwear, exposing my genitals. At the time I was extremely shy and at that moment I felt so humiliated that I was about to cry. It was then that the doctor said peremptorily: "Don't be ashamed!" (for those who are Italian like me: "Senza vergogna!"). Then he took my penis in his hand and retracted the foreskin several times, showing everything to my mother. My shame was absolute, both because it was probably the first time it had happened and because I remember that that day I really didn't expect the visit to take place that way. In hindsight I thought that my mother, who while I was growing up saw that I had problems retracting my foreskin (problems that only disappeared as an adult) and who hadn't seen me naked for at least a year (that is, since I washed myself) had wanted to have an opinion in this sense from our old family doctor.

... I needed to lower my boxers down to my knees. I reluctantly did as he asked and then layed back on the table with a full erection... 30 years later I still see the same doctor and still look forward to him examining my testicles.

@Boxers50 Do you still get an erection during the genital exam?

I was 12. The doctor had me lower my panties for a look and he spread me quickly, gloves on. Before that it was just a quick peak under my panties.

I was 9 years old, and decided to play football. They set up group physicals for the whole team.

We went to the locker room, and were told to strip down to our underwear and put our clothes in a locker. Then, we lined up. The first stop was the training room, where the nurse confirmed out name, collected vitals (height, weight, oral temp, blood pressure). Then, we went to the doctor, who was about 10 feet away, for a basic exam. I think it was just listening to heart and lungs. Then, we had to lower the front of our briefs, and he did a quick genital and hernia check. We pulled our pants up and went back to get dressed.

This was all done as a continuous line, so there was no privacy at all. You could see the boy in front of you pull the front of his underwear down so the doctor had access, but you really couldn't see anything. If I remember correctly, there were also a couple moms helping to check people in and direct traffic.

I repeated this for four years, until just before I turned 13. Then, I stopped playing football.

I’ve been too embarrassed about this to bring it up before now, but my female pediatrician would take me out through my fly to examine everything. There were only a few doctors in a few specialties in my small town. She was amazing as a doctor all that aside. She let me stay with her as a patient through college. She did say if I developed any adult problems I would have to go to a normal family doctor. She even let me follow her around when I was considering healthcare as a job in highschool.

My first genital exam (that I remember) was at the German "Musterung", a at that time mandatory physical exam before military service for all young men around the age of 18.

I remember sitting in the waiting room when a slightly older woman who worked there passed by with a smirk on her face looking at us young guys sitting there, presumably amused by what we were about to undergo.

I remember entering the exam room, seeing a young female assistant who looked me in the eyes and a relatively young male doctor.

I was told to strip down to my underpants right away, which I thought was crazy.. but I did it nonetheless.

I already felt naked at that point, since I knew those would be coming off too.

I was kind of pleasantly surprised at that time, that the assistant didn't look at me again throughout the entire exam.

After being told to walk across the room and doing some exercises, I was led into a separate room, so the assistant wasn't able to observe the exam, but she could hear everything that was said.

After being examined laying down I was told to stand up and pull down my underwear, facing the doctor.

He told me to cough and did the hernia check, while I was trying my best to not get an erection.

I was relieved when he didn't tell me to retract my foreskin, as I'm sure I would have at least experienced some blood flow in those regions..

Although I was very reluctant to the exam beforehand, I was strangely proud of myself afterwards and it felt kind of surreal to me, that someone had just looked at my genitals.

I was quite excited.

Nowadays I like to think of how it would have been if I was examined completely in front of the assistant..

I was 12, and was lying down on the exam table in my briefs. The (male) pediatrician pulled down my briefs and lifted my penis to check for size and groth. He then lightly palated my scrotum and penis. When he was done he pulled my briefs back up.

I have posted my experience on other discussions in the past, but my first genital exam was a school medical when i was around 7 years old.

At the time no one in my class knew what these exams entailed. When my turn came on the morning of the exams we had not had the opportunity to discus with fiends what was taking place. Mid morning i was called to meet one of my parents outside the school's secretary's office where the exams where being carried out. One inside i was extremely shocked as for part of the exam i had to completely lower my underwear and was subjected to a very thorough genital exam. I can vividly remember standing terrified in front of the school doctor as they inspected me.