Undressing Unnecessarily

When he asked me to remove my shorts (It was summer, so I don't mean underwear) we both objected

Anyway, the doctor got his wish, also inspected my groin for more hives.

Only later did I find out that, as a rule, (especially back then) the first time you see a new doctor, they have no baseline to compare your current health status against, so they do a complete physical instead of just addressing the problem at hand. .

Ironically when i saw a new doc this past Spring, she didn't check my genitals, if that last rule were true.

I would think in your case, it was probably a wiser and safer move to have the doc check, just in case there was a problem you didn't/couldn't catch. Why you or your caring mom would want to object to having a medical health care professional examine you to make sure everything's alright is a little confusing, but i respect your desires for modesty and right to priacy of privates.

but you should always feel free to undress as much as you like. That's why the rooms are private."

A very strange thing for a health care professional to say. That would almost be a dangerous thing for one to say to me.

I have always stripped down to briefs alone, whether a gown was offered or not, whether the instructions, as happened recently, was to just take my shirt off. When I was going to gay doctors, I would take everything off, including briefs.

The interesting thing is that a gay doctor is more likely to want to see more of your body, and therefore, i would think more self consciousness would arise from being more exposed to someone who was more predispositioned to enjoying what they were seeing vs a typical health care professional. Like pleasure vs business. Like I would \think one would would be less self conscious about being nude in front of a professional doctor than in front of someone who enjoys looking at male anatomy. Like a doctor is looking at you to examine you, and a gay male is looking at you with desire, lust, etc, which would invite more self consciousness to being exposed. Exposing yourself to be examined vs exposing yourself to turn someone on.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Heterosexually, i suppose the same could be said for pervo docs vs str8 respectful docs. I don't know.[/quote]

The interesting thing is that a gay doctor is more likely to want to see more of your body,

I've always wondered how to go about finding out if a doctor is gay. In most European countries, medical professionals are not allowed to advertise in any way beyond hanging out a plaque, and besides, even if they could advertise, I don't really see them openly admitting to their own sexuality anyway. What would be the professional upside?

I suppose knowing this about a doctor would be via word of mouth/gossip. For instance the veterinarian for my cat is gay according to one of the first non-essential things my mother-in-law just had to impart when we asked about a good one. I never would have noticed though.

Still, it would be nice to know about a gay doctor to consult now and again for less serious things. But I wouldn't know how to find one.

Still, it would be nice to know about a gay doctor to consult now and again for less serious things. But I wouldn't know how to find one.

If this were my objective, how would I go about it?

(Now, "not being able to advertise" may make some of these options difficult or impossible)

Go to Google "gay doctor". Among other things when i did just now, I found:

Gay & Lesbian Medical Association,

http://www.doctorsdig.com/gay-doctor-ga.htm

"gay friendly doctor"

In addition, many doctors have their own websites. You could check in case they disclose about themselveson it, you know, like their educational background to interests/hobbies, and their might be a brief family mention. "I'm happily married with a wife & 4 children". Well, one might say "My husband Harold & I have been together/married happily for over 4 years".

Not sure if craigslist works outside the US. "Seeking male companion, preferably someone in the medical profession, between the ages of x to y"

And of course, go the word of mouth route:

Reach out to gay friends and acquaintances, direct and indirect, who live local. One of them is bound to know someone, or knows someone who knows someone.

Chat on gay oriented websites. Chat rooms and profiles. Start a topic thread "Anyone ever experience or know of a gay doctor?" In the chat room, go "Seeking gay medical doctor for pvt chat", or "I love being auscultated !", etc. And.check out guys' profiles. Chances are....

Grant it, with some of these "methods" you may very well need to weed out phonies. But nowadays, there are so many avenues to find what you want, whatever that may be. There are ways around not being able to advertise in certain ways.

And you can always find their business numbers, call them up and just flat out ask.

Some of these ways seem crazy, flawed, and may take a long time to work at, but I believe if you ever want to find someone of a certain type of anything, dig hard enough, something WILL come up.

I saw a local chiropractor once. The first visit, he did the usual initial exam, but what alerted me something was up, was the poor man was shaking!! He ran the pinwheel thing all over me to see if I had equal sensations on both sides of my body. He was very hesitant in touch like he thought I was going to slap him. It got to the point where I got aggravated with us trying to supposedly provide"cover", so I just took it off. I thought he was going to pass out. He continued with him assessment and even took xrays. When he got to the actual adjustment, that was the most sensual adjustment I have ever had. Now I knew this was all highly improper He didn't have an assistant or anyone else in the room with us. Little did he know just how much I was enjoying myself. Unfortunately, he moved away, but he left me with a new avenue for my fantasies. I now get wet every time I see on a chiropractor's table!

Very interesting iMist.. who would have ever thought.

Did you just see him the one time before he moved away... or several times?

Doc Rob

Re: finding a gay doctor, metrosource a magazine has listings available online in its directory for NYC and LA.

Re: finding a gay doctor, metrosource a magazine has listings available online in its directory for NYC and LA.

Thanks for the tip. 60 years ago I lived in New York.

Now I've moved almost halfway across the world where that kind of information isn't really available in this manner ... might not be that bad an idea, but medical, legal and such professions have very very strict rules on how they are allowed to present themselves to the public - no ads allowed.

Most doctors, lawyers, notaries, architects etc are known by word of mouth and personal recommendation. That is why such professions tend to join more social and business organizations than the average person - not to make friends, but to get known and cook up custom.

In college I hurt my knee pretty bad at a sorority event at a skating rink of all places. (Beer and roller skates are not a great combo, I guess.)

Next day it was really swollen, could barely bend my knee and at roommates urging went to an urgent care clinic. I hadn't been to a doctor for a few years. Attractive nurse came in, asked me to get undressed and she'd be back. I took off my shoes and (carefully) my jeans. She came back in...

"Thought I told you to get undressed? I didn't mean just your pants."

"Uh, well guess I figured you just needed to check my knee"

"Nope it's just standard..."

"No problem. Not shy I just thought..."

I took off my shirt while she busied herself with paperwork or something, asking medical history questions. I stood up and lowered my boxers. I must have groaned a bit lifting my good leg to get them off and trying to put my weight on my hurt leg, because she turned around and looked at me in an awkward position with my boxers puddled around one ankle.

"Oh... I didn't mean you had to get like totally undressed."

I gave her an awkward smile- half trying to flirt, half in legitimate pain, "well would you make up your mind? This is kinda uncomfortable."

She smiled and helped me get my boxers back on as I got back up on the exam table.

Doctor came in and decided I hadn't torn anything or broken anything. I was hoping/afraid that the cute nurse would be back to give me a shot and coming up with flirty lines I could use when she did, but alas just got a brace and a rx for some pain pills.

Other than as a kid, as I said below, no. But can see that some medical situations where it might make sense for the patient to be undressed even if the problem appears to be in a spot that wouldn't require undressing completely. There are some medical conditions where the doctor needs to be able to see everything to make a diagnosis. Injuries can be like that where a person comes in with a broken wrist that they got in a fall. They might have some other injury that is not as obvious as the wrist and the pain from the wrist is more than the pain from somewhere else. I've never been in an emergency room with an injury like that so don't know if patients there are usually told to undress and put on a gown only. When a kid and sick, I remember being stripped down to my underpants even when what I had was probably obvious to the nurse and doctor. Those were the days of rectal temps too so being almost undressed made that easier maybe.

Well, when it come for injection, pants way down, full moon exposed, front too most of times. For exam, one day I had this pain in the base of my penis, and the doctor she pulled down my pants for a complete genital exam. I didn't argue, just loved it.

Other than refusing a gown once (due to my ineptitude at putting those damn things on), no - I just follow instructions. Though once, the assistant wasn't entirely clear on what to take off, saying, "Please undress and the doctor will be in shortly." Well, the doctor was surprised when I was in nothing but the gown...

In childhood usually my female pediatrician when called for home visit always made me remove pijama and briefs even If I only had sore throat and started every visit, independently from the reason of the call, with a long abdominal and genital exam, after that she asked me to remove also the t-shirt and concluded heart and lung examination with me totally nude.

Sort of... Last week I went in for an endoscopy. The nurse was very young and cute. She gave me a cotton gown and said to just take off my shirt. Then she stopped and remembering I had to have general anesthesia said that maybe I should undress to my underwear. I innocently said that they usually tell me to be completely undressed. I have these fairly often. She said that it would be unnecessary. Of course I fully undressed. After a few minutes she came back and said that she checked and I needed to be completely undressed. I guess I was right. :-)