Position for male genital exam

It depends on the doctor. My primary care doctor examined my genitals while I'm laying on my back. Then I get up and bend over the table for a DRE. I'm in a gown so it's convent this way. At the urologist, she is seated and I pull down my pants and drawers and she does the genital exam, hernia exam, and then I turn around for the DRE. If you're not in a gown that seems the reasonable way to do it. Although I did have one urologist who had me strip and put on a gown. After taking vital signs he had me stand and pull up the gown to do the genutal check.

Unless the patient is handicapped, shouldn't a male always stand for a genital exam? It's my understanding that issues like varicoceles and hernias are more pronounced when standing.

Mostly the exam is performed while i´m standing in front of the doc while he/she is sitting

Since, I've been an adult, it has always been done while I was standing. Usually after the doctor checks for a hernia. When I was younger though, it was done with me lying down.

My doc does it with me lying down, right after the abdominal section. He pulls the underpants down, but not very far. He does the rectal exam after that with me on my slide and knees pulled up.

Once when I was very young, maybe three or four years old, I remember lying on my back on an exam table and a doctor slipping his hand down the front of my briefs and touching my penis. Actually, what it seems to me he did was to take my penis between his fingers and wiggle it. That may not be exactly what happened, but that is what I remember. That experience stuck in my mind and I dreamed about it a couple of times years later.

After that sort of fuzzy memory, all the examinations of my boy parts have been with me standing in front of the doctor seated on his little stool. I find it very humiliating to present my genitalia in that fashion to be examined. I think that is worse than bending over the exam table for the slippery finger.

From teen to adult, it has always been with me standing up, underwear down or off. As a kid at the pediatrician, i do remember laying on the table and the doctor pulling my white briefs down and examining me that way (just laying there)

So it seems fairly universal at least on these forums that male genital exams as children were performed lying down, while at/after puberty they're performed standing up. What's the main reason for this?

Does it have to do with streamlining the exam? Maybe going from the chest exam to the abdominal exam right to the genital exam is easier for both patient and doctor as it minimizes position changes and doesn't give as much room for a fidgety child to protest.

But since a common concern for boys is undescended testes, it would seem standing up would allow gravity to give the doctor a better chance at palpating the testes?

Or is the difference in positions just because that's how things have always been done and that's what doctors are used to?

Interestingly enough, all my male doctors had me standing up, while all my female doctors had me lying down.

Since childhood, due to various circumstantial influences, most of my doctors have been females. Gradually, I became totally used to get examined by female doctors only and rather felt uneasy when examined by male doctors.

One common observation I had is that almost all of my female doctors have examined my genital organ in lying position. They would request me to go and lay down on the examination table, then they will come with gloves in their hands, they will pull the curtain and then ask me to pull down my pant and underwear. Then once I am exposed, they will ask me to stretch my legs a little apart and then they would start my genital exam by holding one of the testicles in their fingers.

Now that I think about it, my oncologist was also female, and she conducted all my exams with me laying down on a table as well. These were post-op exams, follow-ups and such and were also general exams of mainly the lymph nodes from what I could make of it and explanations my medically trained wife gave me afterwards.

Since there are lymph nodes in he groin, that meant lowering my underpants while I was laying down. She'd ask me to raise my hips so one of us could pull them down. I seem to remember both happening.

I was examined both standing and laying, sometimes twice during the same exam.

As a male patient, I think you feel more manly when you're standing. While lying down, it's more of a vulnerable sub sensation. The sense that the doctor has more control over your body as you are lying down and the doc stands over you, examining you & manipulating your body in examination & scrutinization mode. How your mind & body respond to the process determines the extent of your medfet.

Make any sense?

I've had them done both ways.

In my experience, always standing in front of the doctor, with him (have not had a female doctor) seated. As many others have said, hernias are more apparent (I have had surgeries on both sides for this), and many qualities of the scrotum & testicles are more apparent, such as difference in size, depth of "dangle", reaction of the dartos muscle, condition of the spermatic cords (tangles, cysts, swelling, torsion etc.). While I can enjoy fantasies about this, the actual experience in the doctor's office is devoid of any component of arousal. I can also imagine how turned on the doctor must be after a constant parade of patients, day after day, year after year. Within our gender, and aside from serious abnormalities, whether congenital or acquired, we're all the same. I have often wondered, "What's the big deal?"

It was always done while standing. Though when I went to the pediatrician, I kept my briefs on and he would just pull back the elastic band of my underwear just enough so that he could do the exam. As an adult, I always just temporarily dropped my underwear.

I have only had it done lying down, feet drawn up and knees out to the side.

Only had a hernia check whilst standing.

My previous doctor of 20 years would have me stand in front of him; however, I'm seeing a new doctor for the first time in a couple of weeks, so we will see how he does things!

Almost always standing in front of the doctor like at school examinations and the doctor more often seated on a stool

As a kid it was always standing, with either my underpants held open by the (male) doctor or, starting at age 12, underpants pulled down to my knees, initially by him, subsequently by me. My first exam with a female doctor I was standing, nude under a gown, which she asked me to pull up for the genital exam and hernia check, then bend over the exam table for the DRE. Subsequent genital exams with my current female doctor have all been on the exam table, and she will ask me to "pull my undershorts (she always says 'undershorts') down" for the GU exam. She does not do hernia checks but her genital exam is thorough and gentle. She then has me roll on my side and pull my knees up for the DRE, then hands me a box of tissues and says she'll step out while I get dressed.

As a boy (aged ~14 or younger): I remember mostly sitting on the edge of the exam table, or a visual check standing by having the underwear pulled out briefly. But my memory is foggy here.

Starting when I got into medfet and the exams became more memorable: the first two years were with an RNP who covered for my regular pediatrician. She did the exam lying down. The next two years, I saw the pediatrician; she did the exams standing. Since adulthood, the genital exams have been done about half standing, half lying down/reclined on the exam table.

Hi guys!

I've received genital exams in both the standing position and lying on my back. I've often been examined standing up at STD clinics, where the doctor usually asks me to lower my trousers and underpants in front of him - and I've undergone urethral swabs in that position too.

On a couple of occasions, I've had more thorough examinations of my testicles - which were lying on my back. On one occasion, the doctor said it would be easier for me to take my trousers and underpants off completely, so I was fully exposed from the waist down.

I would always be lying down since I was young, then he'd unzip me, pull my briefs down and he'd just sort of hold it and move it around.

The last two times it was done standing; I'd just unzip myself and the doctor would examine as usual, although those times I also had a hernia test by coughing.

I'm standing in front if her naked while she sits on a stool.

My most recent one was standing, pants and underwear pulled down, female doctor seated on stool.

As i remember i was generally naked, standing for measurement, and for heart pulse ..., on a table.

For genitals, sometimes on the table and standing too,.

Often with a male doctor and a nurse.

I've had testicle exams done while laying on the bed, legs straight out in front relaxed but not apart to any great degree. I had my vasectomy done in the same position but with hospital paper screwed up and pushed between my legs and under the testicles to raise them up. I've also had genital exams done while standing up facing the doctor as in the school medical, and others while standing with my back against the bed. In my experience the female doctors seem to prefer the man standing while they examine the testicles. Examination gloves are not normally used during these checks.

Mine have always been standing with pants and underwear down. Once I was in a gown with my underwear pulled down, once in a gown with no underwear. Doctor always sitting on a stool.

Ive had only in standing position, doctor sitting on a stool as someone said before.

I had it done in both positions, every time naked. My old family doctors in Brush, way back when, had me having it done standing up. My previous urologist had me standing, clothed.

My Seattle physician, whom I had for sixteen years, had me each time nude, but the second time around was with a huge thin paper cover wrapped around my body. He handled me very gently on both the genital and prostate exams, always on my back and spread wide open with my knees in the air. In addition, a couple of times during the prostate exam he asked "Hmmm....is that a stool pressing up against there?" This was about a year before my first time receiving anal sex and taking the preparatory enemas. (Also, I always found the delicate way in which he said "...your penis" to be kind of a turn-on.)