Myths about medical exams

When we had exams at school, there were a number of myths put about why the doctor performed certain tests or what should happen. The two main ones that went round our school were that the doc could tell if you masturbated when they pulled back the foreskin, and that when you coughed, your testicles should go upwards otherwise you were sterile.

Anyone else experience similar scare stories?

Yeah, with the girls too, a big one was that the doctor could tell if you mastrabated.

Our myth with the school nurse was that the doctor would we able to tell if you masturbated and would write and tell your parents whether or not you had masturbated.

We were afraid about the masturbation myth too, and that the doctor could tell if you had been having sex, and they would tell your parents.

And I've heard all the sayings, such as the one about going blind. I was told masturbation caused acne, but I never had acne, I was told masturbation would cause you to go insane, maybe that is what is wrong with me. lol I also heard that if I masturbated, it could cause me to become sterile. I have two kids, so I guess I didn't masturbate enough. 😜

In junior high I once told a classmate, who was leaving school early for a physical, that a doctor could tell from the weight of your testicles how recently you had masturbated. A light testicle meant it was empty, which meant you'd masturbated recently. He got this really worried look on his face. 😳 Priceless! 😄

The best part of this story was hearing this story told back to me weeks later by other classmates. 😁

Hehe, looks like there are a few myths here for mythbusters!

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We were always afraid that the doc could tell if we had fooled around and would tell our parents and our lives as we had known them would end

I could be wrong, but at the age of 45 I have masturbated probably a few gazillion times. It appears that my head (glans) does have a redish-pink color around the rim where the most friction has taken place. It does not have the same appearance as the rest of the head where there is normal(?) looking skin and nerver endings.

We used to think that the gas in ping pong balls was poisonous and if you broke one and inhaled the gas you were dead in seconds. What?? o

Oh yea, every time you masturbate god kills a kitten and Jesus can see you doing it.

I went through similar experiences in school, where we were told the doctor would know if u masturbated, just by inspecting the glans around the penis! It was one hell of an experience trying to look away while the doctor checks your penis...

LOL..........yea the doctor knew if you masturbated! If you had reached puberty, you masturbated!

We didn't have this masturbation myth but of course there were many other rumours what might happen. I guess the biggest myth was that the school doctor would measure the length and thickness of the penis. We were afraid of getting small hard-on during this exam. Fortunately, it was just a myth. The doctor examined only testicles then. This happened when I was fifteen.

Yeh! and then the square needle in the let testicle trick after he found out about the masterbation

One thing I forgot earlier there was also a rumour that a school doctor would put a cold spoon towards your testicles in order to find out whether it may cause an erection or not.

We had myths too. One time it went around that the doctor would do a full-scale exam. He would be checking girls to see if they were pregnant and guys to see if they masturbated. Of course, none of the exams were even remotely close to being so involved.

These myths sound nowadays very exciting and arousing to think about. During the years at school it was much different.

Hmmmm this is different.I remeber tho wen I was with sum friends "DRUNK" lol we were all in a bathtub and my friend put her hand on my ..... and i coughed and nuttin happened.Lol oh well I guess tht one was a myth :😃

I remember that there was a gossip that we were going to get a full rectal and genital exam including measuring the penis.

As far as I can remember we didn't have any rumours about rectal exams performed during school physicals. Perhaps such an exam would have been so gross then that it didn't even mentioned as a rumour or myth. Measuring the penis was otherwise very common as a rumour.

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One thing I forgot earlier there was also a rumour that a school doctor would put a cold spoon towards your testicles in order to find out whether it may cause an erection or not.

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I remember a rumour about cold spoons, now you mention it. At our school, the rumour was the Dr put it on your balls if you had an erection to get rid of it. Never happened though to me.

I remember hearing the one about going blind if you masterbated, and that one kid supposedly asked, "what if I do it just until I need glasses?".

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I remember a rumour about cold spoons, now you mention it. At our school, the rumour was the Dr put it on your balls if you had an erection to get rid of it. Never happened though to me.

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I have heard this version too but at our school it was just different. I think as a rumour it is more effective if it might cause an erection than get rid of it.

I am not so sure that this mastrubation rumor really is a myth.

Many societies want to controle the behaviour people and especially children in all ways, and register everything about their behaviour.

Myself I live in a society with very strong tendencies in that way - Norway.

I remember when I was 7 years old, my parents got a large formula to fill out about everything they knew about me. They sat up a whole evening filling out that formula.

One of the questions were: "Does the child play with his genital". They read that question load, and therefore I remember it.

I think they answared no, even though they knew that I indeed had the habit of playing with may genitals.

I allways had to be nude at the school physicals, and they allway checked my rectal opening, but did not usually touch my genitals.

But when I was 12 years old I was called in to a more thoorugh exam of my pelvic area.

The schoole health service in Norway are very eager to call in for "special exams", or "targeted exams" as they are called officialy. Of these, psycho-social exams, intimate exams and sensorial exams seem to be the most common.

Aquila, are girls subjected to the same level of exams? If there are any Norwegian ladies on the site could we please hear from them about their experiences.

In the 60eths and 70eths girls had a genital check in the routine physicals.

Now girls do not get a genital check as standard, but there are plans for reintroducing it as standrd.

But the health authorities are stressing targeted exams nowadays on very wide criteria, and I think that extensive genital, urinary and rectal assessments are fairly common both for girls and boys, but perhaps most for boys, but it is done individually and not announced publicly.

There are national guidelines for the school health service, and urinary, gentital and digestive assessment is mentioned as something that should be done on wide criteria.

In norwegian schools any kind of difference form the most average lead to psychological or physical assessments of various kind.

There is however great differenses from school to school and from district to district.

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Now girls do not get a genital check as standard, but there are plans for reintroducing it as standrd.

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This sounds interesting. Do you know what does it mean in practise? I would guess, it would just be a quick look or am I wrong?

Probably visual inspection by parting labia and buttocks aside at the age of 6-7 and 12-14.

And more thoorogh exams with functional tests or endoscopy at a health centre if someting is found. -And then individual extra exams during subsequent school physicals.

I read these stories and I feel thankful. I never went through those awful grab 'em and push 'em assembly line physicals in my school years. My folks always had me at the pediatrician's office because apparently the school crossed some kind of line with my brother that really pissed my parents off. Sorry I do not have the details but it must have been very bad. We were a working class family and I think my dad's insurance might have been bare bones 80/20 BCBS plan. I could be wrong, but most health plans did not cover preventive services and HMO's were in their infancy.

When I had sports physicals at school, it was always in a large group of boys so there was plenty of talking leading up to the group exam and sometimes during it too. There was talk about doctors being able to tell if we had been jacking off the night before our physicals by how red the tip of our penises were. Then there was the more embarrassing rumor that, if we got an erection during the genital exam, that the doctor would do a hard flick with his finger on the head of the penis to make the erection do down so we could pull our underpants back up. A friend in high school claimed that this happened to him when he was in the hospital and a nurse gave him a hard, painful finger flick to get his erection down so naturally those of us who heard that story were worried that it was standard during physicals to get a finger flick if we got hard. There were also rumors in high school about boys after puberty getting their penises measured during group physicals but I didn't believe those. I had been through several group sports exams by the time that I had those in high school and never saw anything like measuring. But it was fun to tell the younger boys in line those stories just to watch them sweat.

There was the disgusting rumor that if you couldn't poop, the doctor would find out and get a spoon up your butt to get it out. Yuk.

And later the one that the doctor can tell if you've been masturbating by the size of your labia, this might be true.