Pediatric Genital exam: Touch or Visual exam?

I was always examined in my tighty whities. At the end of the exam, I would stand in front of her for the hernia exam. I would push my underwear down to mid-thigh.

I was 12, & hormones kicked in, and aware of girls and women. At the pediatrician's office I undressed to underwear--no big deal as it's like a swim suit.

Doctor gets to the genital exam and pushes underwear to the knees, they drop to the ankles. She comments "My, you're growing. You've got some hair." I turned red. I'm not circumcised, so she asked if I wash underneath--it's a little tight so not always. She tried to pull it back, but the manipulation by now had cause a partial erection. She had to let me do it; luckily I'd washed thoroughly the night before. She felt both testes, and found on the left side I had swollen veins. She had me feel them too. Then she had me climb up on the table (I had to take off the underwear), and we both found they were not swollen. She had my mother--who is a physician--come in and examine me. Mom hadn't seen me naked for 3-4 years so I was very embarrassed. I remember having my hands over my crotch, tears in my eyes, and begging not to have my mother touch me. Mom said she'd changed my diapers, given me baths until I was eight, etc. They had to pry my hands off. When Mom examined my balls like the doctor had. When she was finished I was lying on the table with an erection. I was sure they were looking at it. The doctor wanted my mother to check me every few months, after I'd showered. The warmth would let my balls relax and drop. Mom followed the orders for 4 years.

I had both my pediatrician was an older Indian female doctor who was very rough and not being circumcised she would always retract my foreskin swiftly and preach to my parents at the end of each exam to allow her to circumcise me. Even when I was a teen she remained with a rough touch and the first time she checked my anus after I told her my stomach hurt she made my anus feel so sore I nearly cried on the table.

She always felt around my testicles but never touched my penis so I guess she just looked at that visually and emphasized on my balls

Both: visual and palpation/touching: scrotum, testicles, penis and foreskin

I realize that my first post in this thread didn't talk much about exams during adolescence. Those were all sports physicals, and part of them was doing a hernia check and making sure both testes had descended. No penile exam.

All of the pediatrician I met used to perform very careful visual and touching examinations of my genitals, at each visit, even if I saw the doctor for a cold. Almost all the exams concluded (and quite often started) with me without pants and often completely nude.

At the pediatricain it was only ever an external examination with visual glance between legs and brief separation of labia.

The spark for my Medfet interest I'm sure.

I had about three different Pediatricians growing up. The first one was when I was a young child and the other two where during my teenage years. The first one only did a visual exam while the last two always used touched during the exam.

During a Physical, I remember my female pediatrician would always lower the front of my underwear while I was laying down after palpating my abdomen and have a look at everything. She didn't start touching or palpating until I was 12 or so.

My testicles were always lifted and told to cough.

A few times my foreskin was pulled back.

As far back as I can remember, going back to maybe 5 or 6, the doctor always palpated my penis and testicles. I've posted in other threads that the doctor first started checking for testicular cancer around age 11 or 12, and my first hernia exam was 13 or 14. But as far back as I can remember, there was always some amount of palpation at my yearly physical.

Definitely a combination of both, dating back to my earliest memories. Mostly visual, but my labia was spread open in order to visually examine more thoroughly. I do recall her kind of palpating or feeling of my outer labia as part of that as well. My first memory of experiencing this was when I was 6 years old.

At my Pediatrician the genital exams were always looking and groping. Touching and feeling. Lifting my balls, and feeling them. always naked.

My pediatrician just pulled my underpants down a little for a quick look. Visual exam only, no touching.

At the pediatrician it was typically a visual exam, although as i got older and he did sports physicals, he did physically check me for a hernia and felt my testicles as well/

My pediatrician would lift my panties, look, and do a little pressing around in different place but never really felt much up in between my legs. She would also feel along the sides of my panties.

Usually a quick look under my panties and a little bit of feeling/pressing.

I was wondering what your exams were like as a kid. My exams might have been a little overkill in the genital portion, so I was wondering what yours were like. I mean ages 4-12, before puberty. Thanks!

They would always squeeze my testicles one at a time and then pull my foreskin back and ask if it was uncomfortable. My foreskin was quite tight looking so they were probably checking for phimosis.

My exams might have been a little overkill in the genital portion, so I was wondering what yours were like. I mean ages 4-12, before puberty.

How were your exams "overkill?"

I was wondering what your exams were like as a kid. My exams might have been a little overkill in the genital portion, so I was wondering what yours were like. I mean ages 4-12, before puberty. Thanks!

Inquiring minds want to know - how and why?

Pretty sure that's where my med fet first started...memories of my first ped exams and my first exposure to being exposed! My doc telling me to lie back on the table while I was only in briefs...he'd be touching lower and lower as my briefs slid lower and lower. Finally they'd be mid thigh after I lifted up, and he would briefly touch my genitals. The combination of his comforting while totally in control voice had a powerful affect over the years.

My entire childhood until early adulthood, the only thing I remember was "Turn your head and cough" while a couple of fingers poked around for and then pressed on the inguinal canals, which did not feel very comfortable.

A good hernia exam is uncomfortable, and I feel that I have missed something if it is not. The doctor needs to get his finger into the inguinal canal, which is a tight fit, and that is uncomfortable. I find that a good hernia exam can be felt the day after the exam.

This discomfort can be compounded by a cold room and/or nerves which tightens up the scrotum making entering the inguinal canal even more difficult. It's pretty much certain that the testes are going to get squeezed a bit during the hernia check.

A few years back I was the recipient of a rushed genital exam that seemed to be done just to check a box rather than to check for any abnormalities. If I'm going to set my modesty aside and expose myself to a complete stranger, I'd hope they'd have the courtesy to do a complete exam.

I completely agree, expanding this to the rest of the exam, I'll overlook any awkwardness or discomfort due to being undressed and exposed in order to get a full and complete exam.

I went to my pediatrician until I was about 17 years old.

I remember my last visit very clearly.

When it came time for my doctor, (Older, slim, bald man with glasses) to check my genitals, I remember him saying "Now just bear with me here..." as he unzipped my pants as I lay on the paper covered exam table.

By this age, of course, I was already completely developed down there, with plenty of pubic hair and at this moment sporting a very pronounced erection. This wasn't anything new though. I had gotten erections at this point in the exam for as long as I could remember. Only now, my doctor had to deal with a fully mature and very hard penis while doing his exam. After unzipping me, he pulled the front of my underwear down and felt my testicles with one hand while holding the band of my underwear just under my penis with the other. Strangely enough, I don't remember him ever wearing gloves. In fact, I remember the feeling of his bare, and fairly rough hands as he manipulated my scrotum.

When he was done checking my testicles, he seemed to be faced with the dilemma of what to do next. Usually, he just zipped me back up and finished up the exam, but this time he wouldn't be able to do that without excessive manipulation of my hard penis. So he just kind of hooked the waistband of my underwear up and over the head of my penis and left it there. "Alright, you can sit up now. Zip up your pants and we'll finish up the exam." I sat up, reached my own hand into my underwear, pointed my penis down and slowly and carefully zipped and buttoned up my pants.

Nowadays, I'm not so quick to get an erection during an exam, but if the genital portion lasts any longer than the usual 30 seconds or so, it'll happen. Back then, I would start to get hard the moment I would lie down and feel the doctor's hand on my bare stomach.

My doctor always use long time to check my penis. Use long time palpating my penis

While the exam itself always involved mostly visual inspection than palpation, there was always a lot of touching. Being uncircumcised, the doctor would always check how easy it was to retract the foreskin and take a good look at what was under it.

When I was very young, retraction of the foreskin was actually very uncomfortable, so the doctors had it noted in my history and always carefully checked the it was at all possible to retract the foreskin. The possibility of circumcision was also mentioned a few times, but luckily it was not necessary in the end and the problem resolved itself as I was growing up.

Still, I suppose that these type of embarrassing and a bit painful memories are the trigger for my medical fetish.