First Genital Exam

I was 8 or 9 when I had my first genital exam. My Mom took me to the old German family doctor when she noticed that I had a swollen testicle. I remember sitting and waiting in my underwear until the doctor came in. At this point, I had to lay flat on the exam table as he lowered my shorts and had me spread my legs for the exam. Then came a lot of attention to my area " down there" as I had surgery to remove the fluid on my testicle.

Connie: When I do physicals now, they have a trick for the "can't pee on demand issue". Instead of asking for the pee at the end of the visit and failing to get something, the nurse asks for it at the beginning. If unsuccessful, she points to a water cooler and asks to drink a couple of glasses. Then you do the physical. At the end, she asks again.

Simple trick but it seems to work every time for me (not that I get physicals that often, so it's not much statistically valid).

This is fairly understandable... I normally go to pee before leaving home because I don't like feeling an urge to pee while driving or in public transportation... and the same applies if I'm driving to or taking public transport to the medical place.

When I was a child, my mom got scared that I might have phimosis (a cousin of mine had to be circumcised for that reason). So she had a look herself, along with my aunt (my cousin's mother) for comparison. I indeed had a hard to retract foreskin but it was certainly not as bad as the cousin. I think I was taken to the doctor for that issue, but the examination I remember for sure is the one with mother and aunt. I remember lectures on pulling on it every evening to wash underneath with soap, otherwise terrible things might happen.

Then my mom, until I think puberty, would check once in a while that things still retracted. This foreskin thing was a bit scary, given what had happened to my cousin.

I think that in elementary school medicals, they would feel the testicles to see whether they were descended.

Fun thing: the next genital exam I had was at the entrance to the army. The (female) military doctor asked me to take down my briefs and felt my testicles. Apparently there was a regulation against accepting males with only one testicle, perhaps in case they injure themselves and become infertile.

Someone below indicated that there first genital exam was at birth. He is right. As long as I can remember my physicals always included a genital exam. Perhaps the poster was looking for people to share experiences regarding the first time they had a genital exam that they remember or felt "funny' about. For me that would be around 14. I was laying on the exam table and the doctor had just pulled my white briefs (the only thing I was wearing) down all the way to my knees. I was a late bloomer, but finally I started to get a sparse bit of public hair and felt very funny when the doctor ran his finger gently across the pubis above my penis. He then rolled my testicles gently between his fingers then held my flaccid penis and gently squeezed the tip to get my urethra to open up a little. He was clearly noting my development and I felt funny knowing that is what he was doing. It is not the first genital exam I ever had, it is not the first one I remember. Just the first one that made me feel "funny" No I did not get an erection, but today as I think back on it, it does excite me a little.

Not sure of the age, but I was less than 10 really I'd say more like 6 or 7. But it has been so long that I just can't remember the age. What I do remember about it is that it was the first time since birth that I was nude in front of a female medical professional. I knew then that I liked being examined by a female. It really didn't seem like a sexual experience though.

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Mine was between fifth and sixth grade when I was going away to summer camp for a week. I recall my mom being in the room, and the doctor talking to her more than me as I stood in front of him without my shirt on but my jeans still on. He was talking to her as he slowly undid my pants and slipped them down along with my white briefs ... without asking me to do it myself and giving me no notice about what he was going to do.

That was the last time my mom was in the exam room with me I think. I recall having a sports physical in seventh grade, and being very nervous about what would happen. It was the same doctor, but this time he directed me to take down my pants myself. I was very embarrassed how my dick had shriveled to next to nothing.

I believed around 16...there was a lady doctor who touched my balls for hernia...it was just for some seconds but it was really heaven....

Probably age 7 or 8, I had an undescended testicle which required regular doctor visits to check out. I was ordered to stand in front of the seated doctor, pull up my shirt and take down my pants and underpants (white briefs) so he could see and feel me closely. He spent a good deal of time touching and looking as I stood in front of him, my bare boy-butt clearly on display to Mother and anyone who might pass by the room.

Many years later, and thanks to DoctorExamKidFL here on Zity, there's a picture in the Schonfeld document (page 181) which clearly shows the exact examination for a missing testicle that I underwent. I watched the doctor very closely and now distinctly remember his fingers pushing the scrotum forward to conduct the examination.

Got to thinking back about how upset I got with the testicle exams. Not so much the exams themselves, but a conversation the doctor had at some point with my mother while I was present. Doctor advised mom that surgical intervention would be necessary if the testicle failed to descend on its own. No timetable, but "soon".

This really freaked me out! Probably because I had a hospital experience (tonsillectomy) only a couple years before, and really did not enjoy it....especially the idea of having to use a bedpan! I remember feeling so indignant about that: I'm a big boy now, and can go to the potty just like I'm supposed to. The experience of being asked if I needed to go, then being assisted with the placement of my body on the pan and a nurse holding my penis and cleaning my butt afterwards was over the top!

Fortunately for me, perhaps 6 months later nature finally took its course and my little right ball went to its proper place.

My first thorough genital exam was at age 11. I recall quite clearly because the doctor spent quite a bit of time explaining to me and my mom about changes that would occur as I entered puberty.

My pediatrician always examined my genitals...ever since I can remember from the time I was a child to my last exam when I was 18 years old. No matter what the issue I had...a genital exam was always part of my exam.

Practically everyone has had genital examinations they weren't even aware of, especially when they are children--mostly to ensure there aren't developmental problems to deal with..

I was probably first examined as an infant, but the genital exam that I really remember took place on the 70's, when I was 16. I'd been thrown out of school, and sent to a private reform school. On my second day there, I was taken to a local doctor for a physical exam. The exam seemed routine until the doctor told me to take off my tight-whities, and started to give me the most thorough genital exam I'd ever had. He examined my scrotum between his fingers; he rolled around my balls as well. He felt the shaft of my penis, the head, even spread open the tip to look in. He asked my questions about how often I masturbated, whether I was sexually active and, most particularly, about the shape and size of my erect penis. He asked if my penis straightened out when i became erect, and I was barely able to croak out "mostly," I was so embarrassed. Breezily, he said, "that's OK, a lot of guys hang one way or the other." Then he told me to turn around, bend over the table and turn my feet inwards for my rectal exam. While far quicker than the genital exam, the rectal one crowned my embarrassment with the surprise raging erection I'd been fearing during the whole physical. And yes, the doctor noticed it, saying "don't worry about getting hard, it's normal," then"you can put your clothes back on, we're finished." And that pretty much ended the exam.

Mine was when i was 13,it was all over in few seconds,very clinical.

The first was the summer I turned 10 (I don't remember if the exam was before I turned 10 or not, but it was that summer). Before that the most I ever had was a visual check either at school, the pediatrician, or camp physicals. That year was the first time a doctor actually examined my genitals. From that age to 13 it was hit or miss whether there was a genital exam done (school, ped, camp), but after I turned 13 I've had one at every physical.

My first genital exam was not by any doctor but by a nurse and the situation was not even planned for such exam. I was around 10 years when I got admitted to a hospital for my tonsillectomy. On the morning of the surgery, a nurse entered my cabin and asked me whether I had gone to the toilet and had a proper bowel clearance.I said to her innocently that I have not yet gone to the toilet. She asked me to come down of the bed and follow her.

She took me to another room where I saw another bed and another nurse standing beside that bed. She welcomed me with a nice smile as if she was waiting for me. She informed me that since I did not have natural bowel clearance, she will help me to clear my bowel by application of a liquid medicine. I thought it would something oral application. So I nodded my head in agreement. Immediately she asked to hop on to the bed and lie down. Before I could ask further about taking the liquid medicine, she smilingly told me that she will now give me the medicine through my rectum and for that she will have to loosen my pajama and pull it down from my back.

I was totally shocked by her proposition and blushed red in shame.But she was totally unaffected by my embarrassment and pulled the string of my pajama, loosened it and pulled it down right to my knees. The most shameful part was that she did not even ask me to lie on my side. I was still lying on my back and hence my whole genital was exposed in front of her.

She smiled again and then pushed my night shirt up, exposed my whole stomach and abdomen and then palpated it deeply here and there. Deeply ashamed in this exposed situation in front of a woman, I was expecting that she would ask me to turn so that she can give me medicine inside my rectum. At least my embarrassing genital exposure would come to an end.

But more shame and ordeal was waiting. After palpating my lower abdomen, she pulled her hand further down and tickled in my testicles and asked my smilingly, "My sweetheart, is there any pain here baby?" Before I could say anything, she said to me,"Not to worry baby. Let me check it for you OK?" That's it!! She then held each of my testicles in her fingers and then pressed, squeezed and poked them for a few minutes. But I felt those few minutes as few hours.

After finishing with my testicles, she took hold of my small penis and pressed the shaft from top to bottom and slowly rolled down my foreskin to expose my pee hole.She then moved her hand from my genital organ and squeezed my cheeks to show her affection. She said again, "good boy, everything is OK down here". She then gave another soft squeeze in my scrotum and finally pushed by buttocks to make me lie on my side. Before I could understand anything, I felt a gelled nozzle getting into my rectum and then entered a gush of water....

THAT WAS NOT ONLY MY FIRST ENEMA EXPERIENCE BUT ALSO MY FIRST GENITAL EXAMINATION

My first exam I think was about ten I went to a urologist with my mother because it was felt pain was phimosis

At school exam I was around thirteen.Old female doctor examined us boys in our under pants then did a quick hernia check.had to take down under pants to just above the knees.School nurse who about the same age as doc was also present.

My first "turn your head and cough" hernia exam was when I was 13. Before that, it was just a quick peek. My underwear never came completely off, just held out of the way. It really is over in under 20 seconds.

The earliest exam that I remember was the December I was in Kindergarten.

My first detailed genital exam was at a sports physical when I was sophomore in high school. Up until this point I went to a old pediatrician who would check my testicles through my briefs and at this exam my briefs were completely removed and I got a thorough testicle and hernia exam while laying down. Looking back it was odd to me that the nurse practitioner didn't wear gloves. At every physical after, the examiner did wear gloves and had me stand for the testicle and hernia exam.

Hernia "turn your head & cough" checks were done on me since i was in single digits at the family doctor during annual check ups

Examining/squeezing my balls for lumps/cancer began in my mid 20's during my employer's annual physicals. The first doctor would do it while i was lying down, never indicating he was going to do it. My employer's subsequent plant doctors had me standing & would ask if i wanted to have my testicles examined. When i would say yes, they would encourage me to do it myself once a month. Then i'd say i did, but that i thought that it would be good every once in a while to have a professional check in case i miss something.

Never had an offer to have me genitals examined until i was in my mid 40's by the nurse practitioner who liked to be thorough. Made me wish i'd have had them or at least the offer to, all along. I also regretted she left the company. She was in her 50's, i was attracted to her, & i enjoyed being exposed in front of her. Hope it doesn't make me a bad person.

My doctor always gave my penis and balls a quick look by just pulling the waistband of my underwear back a bit. That started when I was in single digits. Like everyone else here, my first hernia exam was ~13.

I remember that all the pediatricians that visited me since I can remembered used to check my genitals, more or less at any consultation, independently from the reason of the consultation. I remember in particular one female pediatrician that my mother called for home visit when I was sick, even if I had sore throat or respiratory problems, started the examination with ENT exam and immediately after she asked me to remove pijama trousers, briefs and socks and performed a long, careful abdominal and genital exam and only at the end she lifted up or removed the upper part of the pijama for the chest and heart examination

I was 6 years old and have to have a physical for kindergarten. The doctor had me lay down on my back and lifted the band of my underwear and looked at me down there and touched me just above my penis. I enjoyed the sensation of being touched down there and I discovered masterbaiton after that.

My first genital exam was right before I started 5th grade. I was going to play little league football and needed a physical exam. My dad took me to our family doctor for the exam. I kinda knew a little of what was going to happen as I had sat in on one of my dad's physical exams when I was in second grade.

I was nervous, but did my best to be dad's "little man". Dad didn't go with me to the exam room, but just told me to do what the doctor said and that he would see me when I was done. I'm sure my pulse and heart rates were well above normal, but the doctor never said a word. As I hadn't reached puberty yet, and my dad hadn't had the "sex talk" with me, I didn't have to worry about getting hard. But I do remember getting cold chills thinking about how I would have to stand up and "drop trou" in front of the doc.

Fortunately, the doc didn't do a prostate exam, like he did on my dad when I sat in on his exam. I was expecting the doc to tell me to bend over, and when he told me to pull up my pants and put my shirt on, I was relieved. I remember meeting up with my dad in the waiting room and telling him I did just what the doctor said. My dad and I never talked about the exam after that - or any of my subsequent exams. But I wish now that I would have taken advantage of that opportunity.

I was like 10, doctor just reached into my underwear and felt around for about 10-15 seconds

I was like 10, doctor just reached into my underwear and felt around for about 10-15 seconds

This was my experience until I changed pediatricians at age 11 and began experiencing full exposure of the genitalia with visual inspection, palpation, and hernia examination. It was quite a difference!

I'm not sure if it counts as a proper exam, but during my school medical when I was about 12 the Dr ( a large fearsome woman that some folk my like, but not really my type ) was palpating my abdomen with me standing bare chested but wearing underpants and trousers. Then pulled the wastebands and had a bit of a look but did not go for a feel. I have been asked a few times by mainly male Drs if I would like them to check things out, using euphemisms like, three piece suite. The first time I actually had a proper genital exam was when I was in my thirties and getting a vasectomy.

It's worrisome that you were asked if you wanted to receive a genital exam rather than it being a standard part of the exam. That's the equivalent of asking "do you want me to check your lungs?" or "can I have a peek in your ears?". Some procedures should simply be standard across the board for a physical exam and a testicular check for young men should be included in that standard.

As a child, I was examined by my mother and my aunt for possible phimosis. This was a bit traumatic, my mother pulled back my foreskin while my aunt commented (her son had phimosis and mom wanted her opinion, which was "it's not as bad as his cousin").

I have a vague recollection of having been taken to the doctor for an expert opinion following that.

Also of having to pull down my briefs at a school medical in elementary school.

The next one was I think during military induction, I was asked to pull down my briefs and my testicles were palpated.

using euphemisms like, three piece suite.

Maybe you or someone can enlighten me and explain how a three piece suit pertains to a genital exam? I'm really at a loss to understand the witticism by the doctor. I really don't get the connection ...

Bootboy1998: "Mine was like most everyone here at about 10-11 yo-----but the interesting thing was I had an 18yo exchange student from Sweden who needed a sports physical for HS sports----after it he asked why the doc grabbed his nuts and the turn your head an cough.----He as an 18yo had never had that happen----I guess (Swedish) socialized medicine dont think it is important to check for a hernia or testicular lumps."

In France, I think they check for undescended testicles when young. And then, when there was military service, I don't know whether it happened everywhere but they palpated testicles. Never had a hernia check.

The fact that some country thinks some exam is absolutely necessary while another mostly ignores it is perhaps sign that the exam is not that necessary.

Similarly, I read people from the US being forced to wear "jock straps" during P.E. - never heard of anything like that in France.