Full Physical-No Gown

Most of my physicals growing up and in my teens and then in college were undressed without a gown. There were a handful of them at the time for which I was given a gown, but generally without. One of my physicals at school for wrestling was with a gown. The others were in underpants or a towel or shorts that they had us put on.

Yes I have always had my physicals even to this day with no gown, just in my underwear. I remember one time putting on the gown but I had difficulty with it and it tore very easily. It seemed to just get in the way for the doctor because he removed it by the time he got to my abdomen exam. So now I just don't wear one at all and no one seems too bothered by it. I definitely think being examined with no gown is a lot more intimate and exciting.

I was had a college exam in my underwear a t shirt and the doctor made me pull down my underwear and lift my shirt when he did the genital and hernia exam. He just lifted my shirt to do the stethoscope and palpation areas. And then pull down the top of my underwear to check my upper groin area. It was def a different but interesting exam. Especially having him move my clothing around to examine what he needed to.

Thankfully I’ve been given a gown every time. I’m usually allowed to wear my bra, panties, and socks underneath too, and the doctor or nurse will ask to remove them when necessary.

I have only been given a gown when I had to move around the hospital, other than that i am naked or wearing a pair of knickers. The only exception is when a nurse has to play "hunt the tampon", and then I all fully clothed and just take my knickers off.

My pediatric exams up until age 18 were done with me in underwear only, no gown. However, as an adult I've been either given a gown (usually no underwear underneath) or remained fully dressed and just remove clothing if needed as the exam progressed. I would love to have another exam in my underwear only, just to have that experience again.

Prior to switching to the current doctor I have, all exams where done in just underwear. I agree the gown is so foolish. I'd rather sit there naked the whole time then wear a stupid gown that is hard to keep on.

Gowns are not offered to me and believe that is because my doctor male - I would imagine they are provided to women patients. I don't like the gowns and being small-framed, they do not fit me, but seem to swallow me whole. I'd much rather be in my underwear or naked if given the choice of wearing a gown,

In the pediatrician office, I would be in my underwear until after BP, height, weight, temp, etc. I would then be told to remove my undershirt, and it would stay that way until the end of the exam, when my underpants came off. As an adult, I would usually be told to take everything off and put on a gown, with the opening to the back. Like many people here, I think the gown is almost useless, since the doctor is going to see everything anyway. I guess they think it offers a bit of privacy for a moment or so.

In the UK I have never been offered a gown in the doctors office, you are just expected to strip. When the wife has a pap test, she simply takes her knickers off, pulls up her skirt and opens her legs.

This reminds me of a night sitting around with high school friends, all of us pubescent boys and girls who’d never had sex, awkwardly talking about personal experiences and asking each other sexual questions. One girl related how she didn’t like going to her doctor for her annual exam because the last two times, he didn’t give her a gown so she was naked from start to finish.

Understand that this friend was a gorgeous and already quite developed teen, so I spent a lot of daydream hours imaging that exam room scene!

When I was a kid in the 90’s, every physical the nurse would ask us to undress down to our underwear before the doctor came in. I stopped getting physicals when we switched doctors when I was about 10, so I’m not sure what age that went up to.

Nowadays all the kids I have taken for their physicals stay fully dressed, with clothing only pushed aside as needed. However, niece’s doctor has them change into gowns even as preschoolers.

In the childhood of 5-8 years old, I was examined naked. It was a dermatological examination. Then at the age of 10-15 years at the pediatrician I was examined in only panties, which were lowered at the end of the examination, to examine my genitals. On the military exam at the age of 18, I was in only panties. Then I was ordered to go behind the screen. There I had to take off my panties and undergo genital examination and then rectal examination. In all cases, there was no gown.

Depended on the doctor. When I went to a pediatrician, I was stripped down to briefs. In my adult life, I've had four PCPs, only one had me strip down to underwear from the get-go. One had me in a gown with underwear on. One would just have me take my shirt off and then I'd remove more as need be. My current doc has me nude under a gown. I guess given my age (mid-30s at this point) they figure there isn't much that should be wrong with me unless I'm complaining about something. No need to do much in the line of an intensive checkup? My dermatologists (I've had two) had me in underwear for my exams.

When I was young,about 6-7 years old. I was in a hospital pediatric ward. My male pediatrician entered my room with a group of doctors that I did not know. Some woman some men. I was alone in the room. the door was closed and curtain closed around my bed. All of them surrounded by bed. They removed the sides of my bed. My Dr., Dr. D started removing my gown, and pajamas. I was down to my underpants which he quickly slid down my legs infront of all these strange people. I was so embarrassed . Laying in the bed toatally nude. All the doctors starting examining different parts of my body. Some were using steths scopes, their cold hands.Some scopes placed on my chest, some on my belly. I was laying flat so all I could do is look straight up at the celling. I did feel my legs spread open wide. as one of the men asked my to open my mouth and say ahhh ! Made me cough. I felt some fingers feeling my penis belly balls and inner legs. I heard woman's and men voices. Dr. D was also examining me. I felt trapped. I could not get up and I was totally naked. I did feel fingers entering my back side. Slipping in and out. Some one was pressing on my belly, both sides and lower. They spread my legs wider and told me to please keep them spread wider. I was so embarrassed and scared. More fingers were going in and out. Doctor D had them stop to show them how he does his hernia checks. He felt my balls and pressed my belly moving 1 ball upward and then the 2nd ball upward. He finished patted my belly, and pressed my lower abdomen. He self picked a female to do a hernia exam on me. She was pretty smiled and said relax. as she squeezed my balls, and moved my left ball upward. then the right side. I squirmed. She finished patted my lower belly. The all moved away. I was handed my clothes and asked a pretty nurse to re dress me. After that I just layed there in shock.

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When I was 8-9 years old I went to my pediatrician's office with my dad.

The nurse took me into the exam room and left my dad outside. She closed the door and had me undress to my underpants.

she weighed me and told me to get up on the cold exam table. The doctor a male doctor came in a back door to the exam room. I was embarrassed and nervous. laying in my small white underpants briefs. No gown. The doctor washed his hand with cold water. approached me and looked over my body. he immediately pulled my underpants down to my ankles. and said that's better. Started by checking my belly with his scope moving it all around especially downward. He then had the nurse totally remove my underpants and socks. He would stop and using his cold hands he would feel my lower belly and check my penis. He would spread my legs and feel my balls. He would do a hernia check while I was laying there. Both sides I was embarrassed. My dad was in the waiting room. Some times the nurse would assist him by holding my legs open. Some times she was not in the room. He would then stick a finger in my butt.

Then wash his hands and start feeling my naked belly. He would put his scope back on and listen to my chest and have me sit up and listen to my back.

I was totally naked with out a gown. he then had me lay back down and feel my balls and penis with the female nurse watching. Probing and squeezing. he finished by squeezing my belly and giving me an eye exam naked standing up facing the closed door, with the nurse in with us. then he would leave to talk to my dad.

the nurse would smile and tell me that's it as she squeezed between my legs and told me to dress while she watched.

That is normal here in Germany

In my final undergraduate year I was given a mandatory full physical at the University Health Service with several boys in a room all at once, completely naked, circulating from one station to another for various parts of the exam that involved stethoscope & blood pressure, genital & hernia exam, rectal exam, overall examination of the skin, and finally a TB test for which we had to come back a few days later to have it read. I was nervous to be poked and prodded in front of the other boys and most of us had erections for much of the exam, even though I had no qualms about changing or showering naked with other boys for gym or swimming and rarely had an erection then.

In the 1980's when I was a teen this was fairly common. If the scale was outside you would be weighed in your street clothes but if the scale was inside you would be escorted to the exam room ,told to ‘strip down to your underpants’ and then the nurse (who usually stayed while your disrobed) would take you weight ,height and BP. Then you would get to meet the doctor in nothing but your briefs. Though undressing was something that was embarrassing once you were clad in only underpants you realized that the doctor was going to look under them ,so your briefs would cover your rear and genitals for a limited amount of time. That is there was a great tension of ‘when is the doctor going to check down there’.

The only time ever i am naked is when i see my dermatologist for a full body skin exam

Most of the time change into gown with underwear on Then doctor comes in and at the end standup bend over after

exam turn and cough. underpants down and after she gives me a tissue to wipe comes back after I get dressed and she talks to me about what I need to do or don't do.

For the guys who get a gown, is this at a clinic or a private practice?

I have only ever had a doctor who owns their own practice (no other doctors), so it has always been take your shirt off and the doc will be in shortly and then as things progress, the pants and underwear usually only lowered.

I’ve gotten all my physicals at my pediatrician like this. I’ll undress down to my underwear at the start of the exam and they don’t give me a gown.

I have pulled down my pants and had my penis out for the doctor to examine it but I usually just have my shirt off.

Up until 24 always just underwear when I moved to Florida I had a GP that had everything off and they gave a p and per drape to put over lap. He did all usual things and then just pulled the paper off to floor. I liked him he was very thorough and had a male nurse as well. He went to private practice and I couldn't afford to keep him.

When my wife and i were in college she had a book called, “our bodies ourselves.” it said that in most countries doctors do not bother with exam gowns, and that is an american idea. My wife is a rabid environmentalist, so the idea of not wasting a paper gown or having to launder a cloth gown sounded good to her. so we called around and i found a local doctor who said he did not use a gown if the patient did not want one.

It was awesome. My wife was terrified when we got there. Apparently she wasn't as down with the idea after all. when the doctor left the room for her to get undressed, she didn't move and looked really scared. she told me she didn't want to be naked. i said i would get her a gown out of one of the drawers. she didn't want that cause the doctor would know we had rifled through his drawers. he had not left a gown out since we already talked about her not wanting one.

She finally said, “ill just do it.” and she took everything off. it was AMAZING. She is simply adorable. she was 19 or 20 at the time.

the doctor was very professional but omg was it hot. he had to have an erection.

Never been without a gown (at appointments where any clothing was removed), not even as a small child.

This is highly dependent on culture. I've never had a gown for an examination in France. (There are hospital gowns but that's different.)

Always a gown in US ;in my experience. I think most physicians would insist on it except perhaps in some M/M situations. I know a nurse who moved to US from Netherlands as an adult and when she went for her first physical here, she completely stripped when waiting for the doctor and did not put on the gown. When the doctor came in, he freaked out and angrily screamed at her until he realized that it was an innocent cultural misunderstanding.

@kgf In France, I would say the common thing is to remove whatever clothing is needed for the examination. For a “physical”, such as work physical, one strips to underwear. I've had to pull down my briefs for a military physical, but the days were long gone when one was expected to strip completely naked for the full length of the military physical. Similarly, I'm told that in the old days women would strip completely naked for a gynecological examination, but such a request from a physician would be considered abusive nowadays.

Did that nurse strip completely naked, including no panties?