Do you feel vulnerable, empowered, or both during genital exams?

Neither of those thoughts have crossed my mind during any gential examination.

Im sure with gyne exams it can feel more vulnerable due to positioning etc not sure how it would feel empowering.

For me, neither.

I guess a lot depends on why I'm being examined. I have recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer, so the anxiety is very real but for a different reason.

For a more routine physical i find that it's exciting because of the power shift. I'm usually the guy in charge - whether officially or unofficially - I'm the guy folks tend to look to for direction and guidance. When I am undressed and/or exposed with the doctor - especially a female care provider - that role is reversed to some degree - and i guess that is the heart of my fetish. I guess it is the submissiveness and objectification to an authority figure - especially if that authority wouldn't necessarily extend to other settings… although that seems to be less and less so with primary care moving to a more consultative and less authoritative and less invasive model.

I have done some nude modeling for life drawing classes/groups - both when I was younger and again recently. I find that to be much more liberating - and for me it's the detachment of the artists and the objectification on my nudity

For me the it is not the genital exams that make me feel vulnerable but it is the act of disrobing that starts the embarrassment. Suddenly I have turned over control to someone else. When I was a teen and felt especially self conscious of my body when asked to undress to my underpants I felt like everyone in that room (usually my mother and brother who was also in his briefs waiting to be examined) would get to see my naked before I would be allowed to dress again. I realized then that I was wearing the smallest amount of clothing that would keep me from being considered naked. Yet I also realized that before I left my briefs would be coming off. Once I was lying down on the crinkly paper table and my pediatrician started palpitating my stomach I would be looking forward to when she grabbed my waistband. When she pulled them down I feet humiliated and embarrassed but when I got home I masturbated untill my penis felt raw, I loved those exams.

As an adult I still feel the same vulnerability when asked to ‘change out of your street clothes’. As an adult I am instructed to remove everything and given a gown and drape. I strip, take a picture of all my clothing on the exam chair and then hop up on the table bare and cover my genitals up with the drape and then put the gown on with the back open. When my doc does a genital exam she just flips the drape up ,looks and then puts it back over. I get a little thrill but not the same as when I was an teen.

I feel a little nervous and embarrassed. When I lower my underpants, I know the dr sees everything, and when they examine me, and talk about what they are doing, I feel very conscious of what they are doing.

I once had a full skin exam for which I undressed fully, and there was a nurse in attendance also. My genitals were inspected as well as my anus. It was necessary at the time, and I would say I did feel vulnerable.

I definitely feel much more vulnerable, having my most intimate parts on display and my masculinity in the hands of an older, authoritative man feels a bit humiliating and forces me to obey.

A very muddy answer: it depends on the situation.

The first genital exam by a new provider can produce a feeling of vulnerability, at least at the start of the exam. Otherwise, I guess there's more of a feeling of… confidence, rather than empowerment.

Vulnerable, but it's a good thing for me. I am submissive by nature and love the way it feels.

Ehhh as a kid it was certainly a bit awkward but yeah it turned me on knowing others probably got the same treatment. Not so much the two times I went as an adult. Was what it was.

The concept of nudity as being empowering is an intriguing question. I think if one has a history of going to a nude beach or recreating naked in one's home or yard, alone or with others, I can see how it might be invigorating and empowering. Even in a locker room, there can be for me that sense of pride, though not because I am a stallion, but that I am not feeling anxious when heading to the shower.

As for a doctor visit, it is very much the opposite. It no longer is due to the fear of a shot, which was a childhood issue for certain. Rather, it's the idea of being displayed, felt, and having the most private places examined. The doctor has the power when he says to remove my briefs and snaps his glove. It means only one thing! Just as surely as when he tears open the packet of KY.