Strip Completly during physical exam when younger?

Male, He asked me directly to undress! I was surprised but to shy to say anything.

Just the doctor was present.

Most vivid in memory was when he asked me to undress directly completely.

By the way, it was a skin exam. So maybe it was not that surprising, but anymway it did not expect it.

Now I always remeber it, as it was very exciting.,

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Had to strip to my underpants first, then ended up with my underpants at my ankles or completely off at the end.

For groups physicals for sports in school, there were lots of other kids present as we waited in lines to be examined. There were also doctors, nurses, and school staff present.

For individual physicals at a doctor's office or clinic, I might be with the doctor and one of my parents or in an open examination area with other boys and parents at a military clinic.

Most memorable about having underwear off or around ankles and getting examined was the feeling of complete exposure, which was strange since we were use to being undressed in front of each other so not sure why being nude in a medical exam felt different.

As a child all the way up until I was about 10; I was completely naked from the very beginning of the exam until the end. I was first escorted by the nurse to the exam room. I was told to undress completely. I then jumped on the scales in my birthday suit. She would then take my vitals and jot everything down. My temp was taken rectally until I was about eight; I think. Then, it was taken orally thereafter; unless I was sick and running a fever. This was in the 50's and early 60's. The doctor was very thorough and the nurse was usually in the exam room. I was checked from head to toe. I do remember being self-conscious about my nudity in front of two adults I only saw occasionally; and not always the same nurse. At about the age of 10 years old until I was 12; I was able to keep my undershorts on for most of the exam. But, when it came time to check my genital/rectal areas; off they came and I was nude for the duration. I guess as you got older the doc gave you a little more dignity. If I had to receive any booster shots or other inoculation; they were administered in my bum; sometimes the arm. Always while I was still naked. You couldn't run away easily!

In my childhood I visited different pediatrician, mostly women: my usual office doctor used to start the exam with me wearing only White pants that went off for abdominal and genital exam; the young female doctor that used to make home visits when I was sick used to start exam making me remove pijama trousers and pants and performing a careful abdominal and genital exam, then lifting the upper part of the pijama for heart and lung auscultation (in a few cases she asked me te remove everything from the beginning, perfoming all the exam with me completely nude, not very nice if I had fever!!). Once I visited a pediatric surgeon for hernia check and he performed a General exam and a very careful abdominal, genital and anal exam with me completely nude from the beginning. In all the exam doctor and mum were present, in the Last described there was also my dad

No, I never had to strip completely from begin to end for a physical. It usually started with the nurse tell me to strip to just my underwear. Sometimes the nurse would have strip naked to be weighted then allowed me to put my underwear on while I waited for the doctor.

When I turned 10 or 11, that is when the exams changed and was naked towards the end of the physical. Laying on my back my doctor would pull my underwear below my knees. I would stare at either the ceiling or out the window until he was done. I remember, one hand would be holding my penis with the other hand feeling my testicles. The worst part was having my mom and sister in the room watching. Around 14, I also had to stand up in front of him and my mom while he checked my penis/ foreskin, testicles and then hernia exam. Very embarrassing doing the "cough, cough" looking at your mom.

Since college, my new doctor only has my naked at the end of the exam. As he puts on the gloves he tells my to " lose or drop your boxers to the floor".

Never had to strip completely during physical exam when younger. Was always in my underwear. As an adult I'd much rather just be completely naked without the annoying cheap paper gown that never cooperates! I laugh and tell the doctor, "you are going to look anyway so what's the big deal!?"

Yes in the 60's and early 70'smy pediatrician required me to undress completely. Lead to the exam room by the nurse and told to take every thing off. She weighed me and took vitals. Then she had me sit on the exam table until the doctor came in. Once he entered the nurse had me lay down on the table nude with my legs spread open.

"David west " : you are talking in your message of your school and sport physicals in group but you don't give us much details. Were you standing in line in the nude or in under-wears? Where did it take place, in a gym? You said that there were doctors, nurses and school staff present. Who were the members of the school staff present? School authorities like principal or vive-principal ? or Pe teachers or coaches ? or school secretaries ? How long did you stay undressed at these group exams ? and at what age? middle school or high school ?

"Paddle row" : you talk of physicals examinations in a doctor office with your mom present and also your sister but you did not say if your sister was younger or older? and if she was examined also in your presence or not? and until what age you were examined in front of your sister ? and in front of your mother?

When I was a teen I sought care from a female doctor in her mid 30's who dedicated her practice exclusively towards adolescents. During my yearly physical I stripped to my underwear. I was completely naked for the testicular exam. I had an erection every time without fail. I felt initially embarrassed but she really worked hard to gain my trust. Eventually the embarrassment factor lessened.

Esaterman, about your questions, I had group sports physicals in school every year l from 7th grade to 12th grade. it was required for all boys who were going to play any sports during the school year. The physicals were at the school, in the gym, and in the summer before the school year started. I think that they were held on a Saturday because the younger boys needed a parent to drop them off and many of the older boys probably had summer jobs during the week. The routine was that we showed up at the school, checked in outside the gym with the school staff there, and were told to go into the gym. Once inside the doors, there would be someone, probably a coach or student assistant coach or principal who told us to pick a spot along the wall, strip down to our underpants, leave our clothes there, and join a line of other boys. There were several lines as the physicals were done at different stations set up around the gym floor. Someone on the school staff, usually coaches or principals or teachers were standing by each line or directing us to the one that was next. The staff was all male. The only females in the gym were the nurses that worked for the doctors doing the physicals. The first station was the weight and height station and there a nurse and a coach would stand by the scale as we each got on. There was a blood pressure station that took a little longer. We were checked for scoliosis at one station but I remember that in junior high and not in high school. For the scoliosis check, each boy stood on some taped lines on the floor and bent over so that the doctor could look at his spine and pelvis. There was another line for a quick orthopedic check once I got to high school but I don't remember that in junior high. I think that a doctor may have taken a look in our ears, throat and nose but not sure now. The last station was always the hernia and testicle exam. That was the only place where we had to drop our underpants to the floor and be nude for the 30 seconds that it took for the doctor to check each of us out. Then we got to pull our underpants back up and were given the form to take with us to check out at a table that was the last stop. Once we gave that person, usually a coach, our form, he would tell us to find our clothes, get dress and leave. The whole process took at least an hour or two and depended on how many boys needed physicals and how many doctors had volunteered to do them. The lengthy time was not because our individual exams took very long but because there was lot of waiting in line to be examined at each station. It was boring to be standing in line for that long and there was some messing around, joking or whatever. By the time that I reached high school, the embarrassment of standing around in my underpants for a couple of hours was gone except in my freshman year when I remember feeling intimidated by how much bigger and older the juniors and seniors look compared to us freshmen. It was the same when I was a lowly 7th grader just coming into junior high and not use to group exams and feeling nervous and a little embarrassed compared to the 8th graders. The joke was always about who was going to get a boner during the hernia exam or whether the doctor could tell if we have been jerking off by looking at our penises.

Back in the day that is what most kids went through. It was a completely accepted norm. Think about it, though. A group of kids lined up stripped to their underwear being exposed, observed, touched and fondled by those considered to be in positions of authority over these youngsters. You can be sure at some point, somewhere and at sometime these adults treated these kids inappropriately. Some kind of incident actually occurred with my older brother during one of those school physicals. I do not know many details but what I can tell you is I never had a school based physical after that point- always at my own doctor. My advice to any parent would be if your insurance will cover yearly well child exams then take advantage of it. You are possibly endangering your child by subjecting them to school based group physicals.

Some kind of incident actually occurred with my older brother during one of those school physicals. I do not know many details but what I can tell you is I never had a school based physical after that point- always at my own doctor. My advice to any parent would be if your insurance will cover yearly well child exams then take advantage of it. You are possibly endangering your child by subjecting them to school based group physicals.

I had a somewhat similar experience, but not during a school physical. Instead it was by a supervisor during a sleep-over at a YMCA where nude swimming was mandatory. There wasn't anything endangering about it though, more in the nature of inappropriate behavior of a (mild) sexual manner.

But I never thought much of it until much later as an adult. And by then it had become a memory of a different sort ...

Agracier be thankful you are not a seriously screwed up individual because of it. Sounds like you have been able to deal with it. More power to you. One of my fellow old neighborhood kids was sodomized by a priest. He is a psychological train wreck. For what it is worth I would not consider any inappropriate sexual conduct between an adult and a minor to be considered mild.

Thank you for your detailed answer "davidwest"

I notice that ,except the fact that you were undressed in underwear for a very klong time, you said at least one hour, sometimes two if there were more students to examin which could be embarrassing, it was not so akward that I thought.

You were not naked except for a few time for the hernia and testicular exam and only female nurses were present in the gym, no school secretaries or female teachers

the school staff who could be present in the gym was only composed of coaches and Pe teachers , right?

and even if thre was a great group of boy's students undressed in line, it was not so embarrassing as it could have been

what was a little surprising because it was not necessary for the efficiency of the physicals was that the students were all summuned whatever were their grades at the same time

they could have summoned first the freshmen students at high school, then the sophomores and so on until the seniors, instead of instructing all of them to undress until underwears immediately after their entrance in the gym and to wait at each station for a long time

I assume that as you said the most impressive was when you were a freshman student and saw the juniors and seniors in the same state of undress and waiting like you their turn ..

but it was an other time and it could have been worse!

Just had a physical on 4/25/16. No gown, pulled up shirt for chest and abdominal exam, and pulled pants down, rolling over on right side, bringing knees to abdomen for rectal exam. MD asked if I wanted to defer rectal exam since PSA was normal, but I said to do the exam and his King, firm finger went up my butt in one swift move. No hernia exam.

Esaterman, that is what I remember. Only male coaches, principals and teachers at our sports physicals plus some nurses that worked for the doctors and of course the doctors. Some dads who have brought their sons for the exams would be in the gym but most waited outside. There were times when a mom or two might insist on coming in the gym but that didn't happen a lot. I remember that in junior high more than high school. Big difference. There was one mom that i remember really insisting that she observe her son's physical. A coach or somebody with the school tried to get her to wait outside but she stood her ground and watched all of us. I knew that mom because I knew her son and she spoke to me as she walked past me in the same line her son was in. It was in the 70s and for her I guess she thought nothing of watching a bunch of boys in their underpants get checked out. She had several kids so I'm sure she thought that seeing us undressed was just like home. It was a different time that way. I grew up in a family of all boys so it was easier for me than it was for others. My Mom sometimes saw me in my underpants even when I was an older teen as she didn't hesitate to come into our bedroom to wake us up or see us going into the bathroom in the morning.

yes, every boy in junior high had his physical the same day in the gym and the same thing happened in high school with all boys in all grades together. By high school, all of us were use to undressing and showering together in the locker room but it was different being undressed out in the middle of our very large gym where everyone else was. the only thing that I can say about it is that everyone stripped down to briefs only puts everyone on an equal level but it was weird to be freshmen in lines with juniors and seniors who seemed so much bigger than we were.

I still saw our pediatrician until I went to college. She was in her 40s at that time. I was always stripped to underwear for physicals. When she was ready to examine my genitals and check for a hernia, she had me stand up and take off my underwear. So I always ended up nude during exams as a teen, in front of the doc and her nurse.

"Davidwest" : thanks again for your detailed answer

I was a boy in the last 50 and 60's and like you I had a mom who had seen me undressed in briefs but it was not the same to be in briefs in front of his mom and in front of the mom of an other student in a large gym where a lot of male students were undressed and waiting in line with just a brief. And of course it was certainly still more embarrassing in high school than in junior school at least in my opinion.

I have no doubt that the mother was not a pervert woman and was not shocked at all by the sight of a bunch of male students just in briefs since she was used to that situation at home with her sons. And besides, at that time, nobody thought that a male teenager could be attractive for an adult woman and that she could be interested by the sight of the undressed bodies of male students, it was in a certain way like if she was a female nurse and nobody complains about the presence of a female nurse. It would have been considered as a bad reaction of a too shy boy, he would have been called "a sissy".

But nevertheless I think that the male coaches might have forbidden the entrance of the gym to the parents during the physicals because it could be embarrassing for the most shy students.

You don't remember exactly when it occurred but you think that it was rather in junior school. I presume that you are right on that point. Even his son would have been embarrassed if she had insisted to be present at his physical examination for sports at high school, not because he was in brief but merely because he was too old to have his mother as a chaperone, he would have been teased by his classmates.

As regards the principals who were present in the gym, did they were all men or also women?

I have read some relations on forums where the principal and vice principal were women in co-ed schools.

As regards the efficiency of the physicals, I think that you stayed a too much long time undressed in briefs, an other set up of the physicals could have been managed more respectful of the possible modesty of the students even if I have already notice that iit could have been worse.

I stayed also a long time in briefs in a locker room at each of my annual school physical examination before the examination but I was sitting for most of the time, it was less embarrassing.

Of course we were used at that time to change all together in a locker room and even sometimes to take showers but one thing is to be undressed in a locker room for a good reason and an other is to be undressed in a large gym for a long time with a lot of other students lining up while it was not necessary.

I don't think that the mom was a pervert. I don't remember much about her. It occurred to me that she might have worked in the medical field and so seeing patients undressed was not a big deal for her. She was definitely interested in her son's health I guess. I don't remember that he had any health problems but if he did maybe that is why she wanted to watch his physical. No different to her than if she had taken him for a physical at a doctor's office. She would have been in the exam room the whole time. But for the rest of us in line, having a mom see us undressed and lined up was embarrassing. Especially for me as I knew her and she knew me. I saw her occasionally after that for many years as her son and I were friends and it was just a little strange that she had seen that much of me. But she never said anything about it. Her son was more embarrassed than I was because his mom was the only one in the gym that time and he was red-faced from having her there in front of his friends and after the coaches had been unsuccessful in getting her to leave. I didn't think of myself as being modest or immodest. I had two brothers. We shared a room most of the time growing up. I stayed overnight at friends' homes, including this mom's house. It was not strange for boys to get up in the morning and go in our underpants only to eat breakfast in the kitchen or watch television in the living room or just hang out. That changed in our teens but not right away. To be fair, this mom probably thought that way too.

"Davidwest"

I am not so tough as "Turkent" in my comments about the presence of this mother at your school physicals for sport in a gym

I have never said nor thought that she was a pervert woman,but she was certainly too much careful about the health of her son but it was better than the reverse anyway and we do not know if her son had specific health issues which could have explained better her attitude.

Anyway whatever were her reasons to will to be present, I don't think that it was fair.

It was the same thing that if she had come with her son at a doctor office for a physical but I don't think that in the real life ( in a medical story totally made out, it would be different ), parents and especially mothers might come at school during physicals of boys or girls ( for me it would hav e been the same), they might leave the school staff manage the physicals under their rules or those edited by the health departement of the school discrict, they might not interfere at all nor distrurb the mset up of the physicals by their presence

So I am convinced that the school staff, principals or coaches, might have told her to get out of the gym to let them proceed under their rules normally as usual

The reason to refuse her to stay in the gym was not mainly in my opinion your embarrassment since like you said it was not so much a big deal, it was not so much different at home and you were not really naked except for a very short time (since at that time the sight of a line of boys undressed in briefs had nothing which could be so shocking!, it was to her to decide if she was shocked or not, if she found it undecent or not, if she was not shocked and found it not undecent, it was fine wathever the boys felt ) but the will of the school to deal the physicals examinations without the presence of parents. It was like for a lesson, never a teacher would have give his agreement to the presence of parents.

Like you said, if she wanted to know if her son was in good health or not, she could go with him to see a doctor at his office and she could stay in the office during the examinations, watch as closely as she wanted and ask all questions to the doctor. At that time, a private doctor was not surprised if a mother wanted to be present during the examination of a boy at least under 14 age but some "old school" doctors-men or women- agreed certainly to the presence of the mother even for an older boy until 18 age as long as he was at high school and lived at her house.

It was certainly her son who was the most embarrassed because he knew that his classmates would tease at him after the physicals if she was the only mother present, it explains why he was red -faced, I would have been also red- faced in the same situation.

you have not answered to me about the gender of the principals ...

Also do you know how the physical examinations of the students girls were performed if you were in a co-ed school ?

was it the same set up with a group examination in the gym?

And during your examinations in the gym, were curtains closed or were you visible by persons walking in the corridors or along the walls of the gym ?

No females at the sports exams in the gym, except the nurses that worked for the doctors and the rare appearance of a mom who had brought her son for his physical. Our principals were always male in those days. In all the schools that I attended in the 60s, 70s and 80s, no female principals. The teachers were almost always female in most grades even in high school. We never had a female PE teacher as PE teachers supervised the locker rooms and I doubt that parents would have approved of a female PE teacher in the locker room with a boys PE class, supervising the showers, or doing inspections for PE uniforms. The PE teachers were also the coaches of the boys team sports.

I paid no attention to the girls PE teachers except that they were always female and coached the few girls team sports that existed then. There were times during cold weather when the boys PE classes and the girls PE classes shared the gym. I remember the girls lined up for roll-call and calisthenics at one end of the gym while our boys PE class was at the other end lined up and doing calisthenics. As for physical exams for girls, I don't remember ever hearing that they had group exams like we did. The boys exams were publicized on flyers and maybe even a notice in the local newspaper. My parents may have even received a letter from the school saying when the boys' exams would be held. We didn't have any sisters so I wouldn't have known if there was anything for girls unless someone said something about it. My guess is that the girls who played sports went to their own doctors for their exams. The girls knew about our group exams and talked about them but I never heard anyone talk about group exams for the girls in my schools.

The gyms had no windows that I remember. A gym is like a three story warehouse. Double metal doors leading out into the hallways and single doors leading into the locker rooms but I don't remember anything other way in or out. There was a stage at one end of the gyms in some schools because gyms were usually the biggest place in the school to hold assemblies too. The only time that we could be seen lined up for physicals was when someone opened the double doors leading into the hallways to come into or leave the gym. The school didn't put up any screens to block that view so anyone waiting for their son or brother out in the hallways got a look if the doors opened. I learned to just keep looking straight ahead if I heard the doors opening as there was no point in looking out to see who was looking in. As boys were arriving continuously for the exams, the doors were always opening and closing. Not much privacy but most of the people standing around outside were dads with some younger kids and the occasional mom.

No just to my underwear.

"Miked " or "Davidwest" : it is certainly the same person

I presume that when you write in your last message that all your teachers were women, it was a mistake , you wanted to write the reverse, they were all men as were the Pe teachers ?

As regards the physicals of girls students, it is obvious that it would bave been more easy for you to know how they were managed if you have had a sister but unfortunately it is not the case!

I doubt that it was so different for girls who on the reverse of the boys would not have been submittedto group physicals or even one by one physicals at school for sport and instead wwent to see their family doctor.

Of course a double standard between girls and boys could have bee possible on that point in the rules applied for physical examinations for sport or may be the girls who did sport in a team were only a few ones and it was too complicate and it took too much money for the school authorities to make doctors and nurses come to school for so a small number of girls.

may be it was the reason.

When you said that the girls in your school knew that the boys students had a physical examination at school because there was flyers at school and possibly a line about them in local newpapers and that they talked about them sometimes, what did they say?

were they shocked by the lack of privacy or surprised by the set up and the group exam or did they found it rather funny that the boys were lining up in so much a large group wearing only their briefs in front of a lot of adults persons ?

As regards the double doors which were according to you permanently opened, giving to the persons waiting the end of the physicals in the hallway behind the doors a good sight on the inside of the gym and therefore on the line of students in briefs, I believe you but I assume that there were not so much persons just behind the doors and that the sight was not long and anyway you were seen only from back and not naked so it was not a big deal. At that time, to wear a brief was not very different of wearing a swim suit because the swim suits were rather short.

Never had to strip completely. Just had to undress down to my tighty whities.

I have been stripping completely for my exams since I was 16. All but one of the doctors I have had has me totally undress and has given me a gown. It seems like the gown is on only for a short time when he wants to check my lungs and heart and of course my breast exam. The gown seems to end up on the counter and I am sitting there on the exam table totally nude. It is really no big deal.

In my school physicals, we stripped down to our boxers in the changing rooms and then walked the short distance down the corridor to the gym where the exams took place. One of my best memories is a group of girls getting wind of what was going to happen and wolf whistling at us as they'd sneaked into the corridor, which gave me a hardon before even going in! Other than that I didn't have to strip completely other than removing my boxers for a minute whilst they did the genital exam at the end.

I imagine that this sort of thing hardly occurs today. Usually I get to be in my underwear. I have never been asked to be fully nude, ever. Since medical standards have changed, has anyone ever had a recent experience with it?

Im usually in my underwear until the genital exam. Then my doc asks me to pull my underwear down a little but I prefer to just take them off completely

I've always had on a gown that gets back covered up when the doctor is done with that part.

For a complete physical, I am completely undressed and in a gown, or covered by a sheet. The doctor or nurse uncovers whatever he or she needs to for that part of the exam and then covers me back up again (their decision). It has been the same for every physical exam I can remember for the past 40 years or more.