When did you enter puberty?

@Medfan , why We’re you sad? Is it because you liked those exams very much?

Yes, i was hoping to get more of these physical exams. Loved the tension in the air on exam day.

@Medfan , how your exam was done? Did any of your parents go with you? Did your doc comment on your pubic first hair when Yuit was 11?

At 15 I was bassically fully grown. During my last school physical the doctor commented this would be my last school physical. there was no need for further follow up of my growth since my genitals had reached adult size (according to the tanner scale).

I went to (high) school in Belgium and from what I remember, students were given school exams according to which year they were in, no matter how developed or not they were. Sexual maturity or age was no criteria for getting an exam.

If you were in the grade that was scheduled for a physical exam that year, off you went.

I went to (high) school in Belgium and from what I remember, students were given school exams according to which year they were in, no matter how developed or not they were. Sexual maturity or age was no criteria for getting an exam.

If you were in the grade that was scheduled for a physical exam that year, off you went.

Correct agracier, I wasnt suggesting it was depedent on my sexual maturity if I would get any further exams. The doctor just mentioned that the exam at 15 was the last school physical during the exam. She followed this up with “There is no need for any further exams anyway since your genitals have reached the adult stage….”

sorry of it appeared i was suggesting someting different.

@Medfan , how your exam was done? Did any of your parents go with you? Did your doc comment on your pubic first hair when Yuit was 11?

Parents were not invited to go with us to the exam… so no parents. Exam day ussually followed the same patern. We would get on a bus to the medical centre. We would wait in a room doing some homework waiting for our turn. Girls were always examined first. When it was your turn you would change in a changing room, taking of everything except underpants and a t shirt. And wait in the halway for the nurse. The nurse would weigh, measure, do eye tests, hearing test,… Then you would wait for the doctor to finnish with the student before you. When it was your turn the doctor would have you sit down for some generaal questions regarding diet, exercise,… Next was the physical exam part, stethoscope exam, abdominal. After that she would take a stool and ask you to stand in front of her with your back towards her. Touch your toes and slowly rise to check the spine. Then she would have me turn to face her and lower my underwear. Then I would have to blow on the back of my hand while she did a hernia check. After this she checked my testicles and next see if she could retract my foreskin. Never got any comments accept “everything looks fine” … only the last exam.

I was almost 14 when I got public hair and first real ejaculations.

My penis and testicles started to enlarge just before my 12th birthday and I had my first ejaculation a few months after turning 12. Pubic and armpit hair started to develop at 13 and I had to shave for the first time just after turning 14.

I can Remember beginning to masturbate at 10, ejaculating around the age of 11 and started seeing pubic hair just before turning 12.

I started at 12 and my first ejaculation happened in my sleep and after that I began getting frequent erections then after an aching in my testicles. I remembered I had seen an older boy masturbating at an overnight camp a couple of years earlier and thought maybe I needed to do the same thing. The first time I wasn’t sure what I was doing but achieved the desired result. That was when I realized what older boys were talking about when they said you had to do it although my step mother and the nuns at school said it was sinful.

IIRC, I had not entered puberty at the start of seventh grade, if the locker room was any indication. That summer, when I was thirteen, I noticed facial hair, starting with under my chin. I do remember finding my female peers in eighth grade more “distracting”…

6th grade , got hair everywhere fast, and taller too. Genitals got bigger, and it all made me seem a little older than I was. All of the more mature than normal signs made me feel even more ridiculous getting RT taken into teen yrs sometimes. I even protested once, saying it was obvious I wasn't a little kid anymore and didn't want to do it but it didn't help.

My pubic hair/arm hair, and masturbation all started at age 11. I was shaving (my face), at 13. Unfortunately, I stopped physically growing at 12, and have a disproportionate body.

I was somewhat chubby in my childhood and then around the age of 12, I lost the chubbiness which for a brief moment in time, made me feel great. But, before I could relax, along came puberty which was anything but relaxing. One thing I distinctly remember and if anyone else had this happen, I'd love to hear it, was that I started having very itchy testicles due to chaffing. I remember being caught with my hand down my pants scratching by my mom on more than one occasion which was embarrassing as she told me to stop playing with myself. I used up a lot of Vaseline intensive care lotion back then.

I One thing I distinctly remember and if anyone else had this happen, I'd love to hear it, was that I started having very itchy testicles due to chaffing. I remember being caught with my hand down my pants scratching by my mom on more than one occasion which was embarrassing as she told me to stop playing with myself.

One of the first signs of my puberty was itchy testicles. This started around age 11 and was the first sign of puberty (more pronounced changes like enlarged testicles started around age 12 for me). My mom caught me doing it too. She had me soak my testicles in chamomile, which gave me some relief. Since then, my mother also began to pay more attention to the signs of my puberty. At the pediatrician's examination, she asked the doctor to examine my genitals.

14.5 years which was much later than my peers.

I was willing hair to sprout and the package to grow but it took its time

I went to (high) school in Belgium and from what I remember, students were given school exams according to which year they were in, no matter how developed or not they were. Sexual maturity or age was no criteria for getting an exam.

If you were in the grade that was scheduled for a physical exam that year, off you went.

Yeah, in the US, if you were in sports, you got a physical no matter what. However, I did have a few physicals that were very specifically about growth/development/puberty stages.

I think I was 12 or 13. Started growing body hair and was having erections a bit earlier. Had my first ejaculation when I was 13.

Yeah, in the US, if you were in sports, you got a physical no matter what. However, I did have a few physicals that were very specifically about growth/development/puberty stages.

@JakeNewYork That is the only "physical" I had while growing up and it didn't involve much for specific body parts or area exam.

For me, puberty ran its course from when I was 11 until 13 or 14. I began to have sexual feelings at 11. I had already known from an early age that it felt good to touch my penis, so I naturally discovered masturbation. I was about 12 when I had my first ejaculation, which I initially thought was pee. My voice dropped, and I then grew facial and pubic hair, among other places by the time I was through jr. high.

A better question is when did I finish? it's arguable the answer is never.

I honestly wasn't thinking about that at that time :-)

But I recall that it had to be between 13 and 14 as I was 'marked' as being a late developer and had to be followed during the development. Which was also done during an exam every 6 mths to evaluate the 'progress'.

What I do remember is that I started to really get pubic hair around 14 and from that moment onwards the change did go quite fast... But at 13,5 I still was almost bald...

The fact that I was 'later' was seen during school med exams, and decision of the follow-up was probably also taken around that moment. So, between 13,5 and 18 I did have quite some exams, most of them were done by Female doctors and I was almost always naked during the whole exam or at least during a big part of it. Med records were probably also taken into account during the military services draft exams in view of the extend of the physical exams as well as psychological interview/review I received there. The latter is off-topic, but it shows that also there you have action-reaction ...

I was around 13 or 14 years old ( between 8th and 9th grade). I also remember having wet dreams and sore nipples around that time which was a weird thing for a young boy to deal with. I also was mortified when my mother saw my pubic hair during a physical that year.

I thought that I should add more about my entry into puberty. I tried to edit my original post but it has been too long since I submitted it. To recap, I started to develop more body hair including pubes around 11 - 12 such that by 13, I had a nice bush. Wet dreams were occurring by then along with morning erections. Funny thing, no one told me what was happening so I was rather shocked and thought that I had begun to wet the bed. How does one learn if you don't have access to information. I learned during a physical examination. I suspect that this may have been the way for many teenage boys. I developed an instant erection while having my temp taken and loss of control ensued. The doctor kindly explained that I wasn't having a seizure - dreadfully embarrassing with mom present - and gave me a lesson on development. The path forward then included growing comfort making myself ejaculate. Surely medical themes played a role then and do now.

I often wonder what might have happened had I seen a different doc back then. While having a RT was a source of embarrassment, it clearly influenced my association to being penetrated with a thermometer and lying virtually naked, if not completely naked, on the table while others observed. Such was the routine back then and served to form many of my current associations. I am sure this has been true for many of us, male and female, and clearly a very affirming set of experiences.

Not until well after most of the posts here. I was very much a mothers boy

I did,when I was 15 years old(I know-late bloomer)

I really have no idea when it started. I recall my mother telling me that I had ruined my choir boy voice by shouting too much somewhere around 4th-5th grade (pretty sure I was still in grade school). I suspect that voice change may have been the start of puberty.

I was 11. I developed massive crushes on girls, and began having wet dreams at night.

13

I was quite late, but struggle to put exact ages on some things. Three things I can roughly date: my voice broke at about 15 (I was/am a singer, so was very conscious of this), I was well into the 6th form before I started shaving so probably 17 or almost, and I was aware of having reasonably decent leg hair by about the same age.

As for pubic hair, it was only in the summer term each year that I got to compare with other boys, when we got changed after swimming. I know there were quite a few years where some other boys had pubic hair and I didn't. I would guess I was probably about 15 before I was proud to have some myself.

Starting to get breast buds at age 9, pubic hair a year later, armpit hair came late, maybe 13-14..