Reactions to and experiences relating to this quote from the images section under Examination?

"There is nothing like a man undressed to tighty whitey briefs ready to start his physical. The briefs provide very little body coverage so the doctor can scrutinize almost all the patient's body throughout the exam process and can get a good idea of the sight that awaits him during the genital exam. Another benefit of tighty whities is that often it is possible to tell a man's circumcision status from observing the outline of the penis through the fabric."

None whatsoever. Just someone's prose.

...and just someone's opinion.

I wouldn't necessarily disagree that briefs tend to show off more of your body than other common types of male underwear (boxers, boxer-briefs). On most days, briefs are what I wear. Although I do mix it up somewhat and I'll go through phases where I wear boxers or boxer-briefs instead. It all really just depends on my mood that day. But are briefs the very best thing to wear for a physical exam? Wearing nothing at all is the very best thing to wear for that! Full nudity allows your examiner to see every bit of your body. Short of full nudity, I'd suggest that wearing a jockstrap is best if you want to show as much skin as possible without being considered fully nude.

I, for once side with the majority. It is merely an opinion. Why do you ask?

I certainly have had many physicals which started out with me in my briefs or boxers depending on what I was wearing that day. I suppose briefs give a better preview of what's underneath but I always kind of liked the nurses looking at my bright print boxers. The best part of all is when they come off.

My reaction to that quote was that the doctor being able to immediately tell what the patient's circumcision status is from seeing the patient in briefs is probably not important to the doctor. Circumcision status is almost always circumcised in the US. Any standard physical exam will eventually involve the patient dropping his underwear so the doctor is not having to guess at whether the patient is circumcised from the bulge in his underpants. Don't know how important a patient circumcision status is anyway. It could be no more important than whether a woman has one breast that is slightly larger than the other or whether one guy has lots of hair on his back or chest. Is there a relationship between circumcision and penile cancer such that the penis must be inspected more if not circumcised? Do doctors record in their exam notes whether the patient is circumcised or not and if they do, then why?

My reactions to this post, here goes. . . .

"There is nothing like a man undressed to tighty whitey briefs ready to start his physical. The briefs provide very little body coverage so the doctor can scrutinize almost all the patient's body throughout the exam process and can get a good idea of the sight that awaits him during the genital exam. Another benefit of tighty whities is that often it is possible to tell a man's circumcision status from observing the outline of the penis through the fabric."

The entire post is asinine.

WHO CARES ABOUT HIS UNDERWEAR AND WHAT IT SHOWS?

You are going to be examined by a doctor.

I get it, but perhaps because I date back to when almost without exception guys all wore white briefs, and the brand of briefs was the only difference, which also pertained to the waistband. I have been intrigued that so often, when someone is photographed at a physical exam, he is usually wearing white briefs, even though this isn't true outside of them. I can point out that briefs as underwear came about at the same time that guys were swimming naked at the YMCA, whatever that means. When I was lined up with my classmates for a start of year weigh-in, all the boys who had come to the prep school from private first and second form schools wore boxers, while the few of us from public schools wore briefs. For anyone gay, as I was/am, briefs were incredibly hot because so much was visible at weigh-ins, physicals, in locker rooms. So it wasn't the doctor alone who could scrutinize.

I agree with some of you that a doctor do not need that you wear a brief to see what you have beneath your underwear, it is so easy to make you pull down your underwear if required.

if you are in brief, it gives to the nurse if they are performing the first part of the examination with you still wearing an underwear a better preview of your genitals, especially when you are standing on the scale or under the tape measure on the wall, but it is more easy for the doctor to instruct you to take off your underwear either a brief or an other one, so that your genitals would have no more secret for him.

Anyway, if I can now choose my kind of underwear before going to a doctor and wear a boxer or a boxer-brief if I prefer, when I was a child and a teenager in France, I had no choice, all boys except may be a few exceptions at that time like it is related by "Wrestlingpoet" were wearing white briefs type tighty whitey ones.

So we were rather exposed when undressed in underwears at school physicals, in lockers rooms, and so on each time we had to undress in group but we did not expect other situations at that time and did not think that it was possible to wear an other underwear more protecting than a white brief,

we were used to wear them, no matter if the doctor was not the only guy who could scrutinize all our bodies since we were also in briefs in front of the Pe teachers, the nurses and of course the other students.

and it is true that an embarrassing bulge could be sometimes visible in front of the brief but we might get over with that risk and I doubt that the doctor was surprised and interested (anyway there was a very few of boys who were circumcised in France)

For what it's worth, I've been adding photos from MMA weigh-ins for anyone needing a reminder of what it looks like to be undressed to just underwear.