What kind of doctor has given you the most intimate exam?

Dermatologist? Urologist? Internist? Gynecologist? Someone else? For me, it has to be the dermatologist -- no centimeter of skin goes unexamined. And you are completely naked for that. Even at the pediatricians, at worst my underwear or (later) boxers were around my knees or ankles. But at the dermatologist, I am 100% nude.

I guess it all depends on what you consider intimate. I totally agree that if you want the maximum amount of nudity for an exam, getting a full body check from a good dermatologist is at the top of the list. Mine does an excellent job of checking every bit of skin on my body, meaning that I too, am fully nude for this type of exam.

But as far as intimate goes, I'd have to say a good genital, hernia and rectal exam from an internist does the trick. What could be more intimate than having someone handle your penis and testicles while you're standing nude in front of them? Or how about them sticking their finger up your ass while you're fully nude and bent over the table?

For basic nakedness, a whacky, older dermatologist/closeted gay man takes the award. His office was in a townhouse which he owned, one suite of which contained his office. The waiting area, which never had other patients, was a hallway under a staircase. The two official rooms were an office space which you entered first and then the exam room off it. Instructions were simple: take everything off. No underwear on. No gown offered. You then sat on the exam table waiting (not surprised that his female cover/phone person would wander in while you were sitting there). As a dermatologist, he went over you head-to-toe, front-to-back with a lighted magnifying glass which hovered barely above your skin. No part of the body was left unexamined, including penis and testicles. If you required treatment, it was done while you remained naked.

My family doctor when I was 17. It was my first full erection at a doctors office. It turned me on like you would never believe.

I've never been to a dermatologist, but I imagine it would be really exciting!

Other than your typical gynecologist exam, covered in nothing but thin paper, I'd have to say my most intimate exam was when I was in the emergency room with abdominal pain. This has happened more than once, I've got a history of both ovarian cysts and constipation, but this particular time I was at a teaching hospital, naked under a gown. People would just come in all the time, dragging students along with them, and half the time forgot to cover me below the belly before pulling my gown up for a quick check. I must have flashed a good four or five people that day.

But the best part of that night must have been the gynecologist who pushed my gown up to just under my breasts before examining me, leaving the rest of me exposed!

Probably my pediatrician - up to a point it was underwear only, then gown with underwear.

Nudity at the dermatologist is cool, but the urologist has to be the most intimate. It always includes a rectal and full genital exam.

Would have to be a GI doc I seen. Did a rental and general genital check.

Thinking more about this. In a way, the podiatrist is very intimate. Who else do you allow to inspect your feet and cut your toenails?

My GP sent me to a dermatologist to look at a suspicious mole on my back. So I took off my shirt, and the doc looked it over and said it was OK. Then he said, "While you're here, let's look you over completely," and asked me to undress. So there I am, standing naked in the exam room, while the doc proceeds to look at every square inch of my body (including underarms). He even used a small microscope to look at some bumps on my arms (I thought they were freckles). He did nose around my pubes to ensure there was nothing there (OK, he didn't NOSE around, just looked, parting the pubes looking for stuff). This took about five minutes, at which point he pronounced me OK and told me to get dressed. Fortunately I didn't get an erection, which is usually the case with my GP.

For me I would have to say my Urologist & my Primary care Doctor ( both are females) My urologist always checks my prostate, penis, testicles & scrotum. I have an ED issue & she even gave me a shot of TRIMIX in my penis to check out my erection. That was way cool & the shot was nothing. The Primary Care gives me physical every year & does a complete check including my genitals & prostate. Both docs are nice to look at. Sometimes I even take a little bit of a Lavetra pill to help give me an erection when I get examined. As of late I have been getting a full Brazilian laser hair removal treatment. They too want me to be completely undressed. The bonus is that I found a laser hair removal school in my area & the students do the laser treatments. They have so far been 18 to 25 year old female technicians. They seem to have not problem with my erections as well. So there are a few things to think about.

For me it was my GP and for my wife it was her GYN.

For me it was also my GP. I was 16 and should be examed before starting to work. Although he didn´t palpate my breasts and only checked me visible down there it was for me a very intimate situation because I only weared my underpants and had no idea what to expect at this exam.

A school doctor, at 13.

That´s a very good, but also very difficult question to answer. In my teenage and youth time I was often sick and had so often exams by different of these doctors you asked about, so that I would constate that I must have enough experiences to answer that question of the most intimate exam. But I cannot really commit myself on one of these doctors, all exams were for me embarrassing and too intimate.

My mom took me to the paediatrician for regular general and complete full body exams more times a year until I was 18 yrs. old. I always had to undress completely everything at the very beginning. He always examined absolutely everything from head to feet, always beginning with a kind of skin and mole inspection (because I have hundreds of them all around). The longest and most uncomfortable part for me - what I hated always! - was the abdominal exam, because he did always such a long and intense inspection, auscultation and palpation of my stomach and my navel, too (because it´s outie and the doctor was never content about it), so that I felt often bad and nausea in my stomach and still had navel pain afterwards. But he also did an intense genital exam of my penis, foreskin, glans and testes (I still had a light form of phimosis and a surgery of an undescended testicle when I was 6). It was always embarrassing for me, because sometimes I got an erection, too, and thought the doctor wanted to provoke that!

Since I was 12 I also had to see dermatologists for regular complete mole checkups three to four times a year, because I have hundreds of moles (dysplastic nevi syndrome) everywhere. Of course, I hated these exams too, because they were so embarassing for me. I often had trouble with my mom before an appointment there, because I also had to undress completely everything at the beginning, too, and no centimetre of my skin and no mole kept unexamined, too. At the very beginning the doctor always asked about my other problems and other exams by the other doctors and she normally did a short general (and abdominal) inspection and exam, too, but the mole exam took such a long time by inspecting them with a dermatoscope, measuring and palpating them. The most embarrassing procedure for me was always the photographical documentation, when nurses took so many pictures of all my suspicuous looking dysplastic or bigger moles with a camera all around my whole naked body, what had been done all second to third appointment. The nurses mostly were so curious and asked my mom a lot about me, the other exams and commented often on my body, my moles, my underweight and skinny body, my sick abdomen and conspicuous outie navel, too. I was so embarrassed like I was lying on a presenting table!

When I was 13 and 15 yrs old I had to stay both times for eight weeks at a special clinic for underweight teenaged children to gain some weight.

For both stays at these clinic I had been sent to a very very intense and long exam to our public health office directly in the week BEFORE and AFTER the stay at these clinic, because I missed at both stays such a long time at school. The exams at the public health doctor last nearly the whole day - always from the morning to the afternoon - and were so thoroughly and intimate, that I was really surprised about it, because I never exdpected that (my mom said, it would only be a short formality, but it wasn´t at all!). I had to undress completely stark naked at the beginng, too, and the doctor was so strong and accurately, she was totally dissatisfied about everything, examined absolutely everything and found so many things, that were not in order. She was nagging on me all the time, most of all on my hundreds of moles, too, but also because of my underweight, my skinny and fair body, my sickly stomach and also my gnarly outie navel). unfortunately, I felt so bad in my stomach during the exam, that I got so nausea then, that I couldn´t hold it any more and vomited two times then (once during her very long abdominal palpation and the second time, when she poked, squeezed and pulled on my outie navel so long and hard). She also said, that I would look sexually underdeveloped! It was so horrible and shameful for me! She ordered that I got ecg, blood and urine tests, chest and abominal x-ray and at least and abdominal (and navel) ultrasound then, too. She also did an exam of my foreskin and glans of my penis, did a palpation of my testes and a visual inspection of my anus, too! It was so embarrassing that I was nearly crying. When I had to stay at these clinic the second time (when I was 15), I had to broke up because I got more and more often abdominal problems and didn´t gain any weight. At the following appointment at these public health doctor, I felt so bad again, that I vomited again, so that she was so unsatisfied and sent me to the normal childrens hospital in our next bigger city the next day. At these exam she criticized again, that I would be sexually underdeveloped and too late at puberty, too.

So I had an additional stay for nearly three weeks at the childrens hospital, where I had so many other intensive and intimate exams, about I didn´t want to write all in detail. In the second week I got surgery of my appendix, too

But there I had my very first exam by a gastroenterologist, who I really hated sonce that time, and who I had to see regularly 3 to 4 times a year after the stay at hospital, too. I have to admit that these were always the most intense and longest abdominal exams I´ve ever had! For me, the auscultation and palpation of my stomach by him seemed to be endless and I felt like I was lying on a rack and he seemed never be finishing crumpling, knocking, poking and pressing on my stomach. And when he stopped it after all, he always explained in a strong voice to me, that he also has to do a very intense exam of my navel now, too, because it´s outie, and check it for hernia, too. That was mostly so painful, that I oughed always several times and cried sometimes, but he normally got no notice of that! He always said "There´s no way by your complete outie navel!" I mostly had a really burning pain on my navel after the exams for the next two days! The gastro-doctor also did an inspection of my genital area all the time followed by an anal inspection and palpation, too. For me it was the first time having such an anal exam, and it was really uncomfortable (but not painful), too. It was really an embarrassing procedure for me, most of all, when I got an erection then, too, although I never wanted to have and hoped not to get one.

During the clinic stay, I also had an exam by an urologist as puberty exam and it was like a normal general exam (like at the paediatrician) first (also by examining heart, lungs and stomach first), but followed by a longer exam of my penis and testes by inspecting and palpating then. The doctor also asked a lot of shemful questions about erection and ejaculation, which I can remember. He measured my penis and my testes (by using a chain of small metal eggs) and did ultrasound of my stomach, my penis and testes, too. In the end I should try to give a sample of sperm, but it did not work, so I had to see another urologist after the clinic stay, too.

So, in the end I´m sorry that I cannot say, which kind of doctor did the most intimat exam on me, they all were too intimate and embarrassing for me at that youth time.

Quite a dramatic story, Naevi! Were you completely naked for the entire exam with the gastroenterologist or did he let you leave your underwear on at first? (Although at that age, even being in your underwear is still embarrassing if you happen to pop an erection therein, especially if the doctor pulls the waistband of your shorts down below your hips so that all your pubic hair is hanging out and you instantly become hard in that pitiful little bit of cloth that doesn't hide anything! That happened to me when I was fifteen!)

Wow, Naevi!

I thought my treatment at my pediatrician in the 1960's was bad, but it pales in comparison to yours.

Thanks for taking the time to share!

Hi telephonepole,

to your question: "Were you completely naked for the entire exam with the gastroenterologist or did he let you leave your underwear on at first?"

To answer that, I think I have to write how my very first exam by the gastroenterologist went. It was, when I was 15 yrs. old - it was 1988 - when I stayed at our Childrens hospital for more that 3 weeks. It was the second day of my stay, in the morning I´ve been generally examined by a pediatric doctor for routine in the exam room of the section like every morning then, later in that morning, another doctor came in my room and told me that he is the gastroenterologist and wants to do an exam, too. I only wore my pants and this clinic shirt, I took on my bathrobe and then he took into another exam room at the end of the section. On the way, he told me again and again, that I need not be worried and that he "only wants to feel my stomach". How often he repeated this words, I got more and more nervous. When wie arrived at the exam room, a girl from the nursing school was already inside and assisted the doctor then, too. I was ordered to take off my bathrobe and the clinic shirt, so I was standing naked only in my pants. The doctor studied in the papers of my disease report and looked then with a very critical look on me and told me then that I look really sick, underweight and skinny, so that my stomach seemed to be very sick, so that he has to do a complete and very intense exam on me, too. This wass moment I didn´t like this doctor at all, because I thought it was a lie of him when he said on the way into the room, that he only wanted to feel my tummy!

In the next step, the gastro-doc ordered me to take off my pants, too, so that I was completely stark naked now. Then he wanted to know my exact weight. He ordered the nursing student to take my weight on the scales. It was embarrassing for me, because that nursing student was not much elder than I was (I think she was definitely younger than 20). The doctor was shocked than about my weight and I had to stand upright completely naked infront of him then. He took me on my arms and his eyes looked along on my body from head to feet very critically, a longer time on my stomach, too. He began to ask several questions, which I can´t remember all, mostly about my stomach about pain, nausea, vomiting and fallings, and he also noticed then, that I was sexually underdeveloped and late at puberty, because I still had no pubic hairs at that time. That was not new for me, because the public health doctor, who sent me into the clinic, noticed that before, too, but it bothered me now, that the gastro-doc noticed that in front of the nursing student, too. The doctor repeated now, that he has to do a lot of very intense exams on me and that it would last a longer time, too. I got a very nausea feeling in my stomach at that moment, when I was ordered to lie down on the exam table - flat on my back - then.

The gastro-doc started with his complete and full body exam then, beginning with looking in my mouth, palpating my lymph nodes, auscultating heart and lungs, too. I noticed, that he took so much time on everything and that he did everything so slowly (maybe that this was only my personal view, but all took much more time than by other exams and doctors before!), and it bothered me that the nursing student watched that all so interestingly. In between the doctor also noticed, that I am full of moles and dysplastic looking nevi all around my whole body, too, and he also began to ask about (my dysplastic nevi syndrome) and about my dermatological exams, too. It was so embarrassing for me to talk about that in that moment, too. The doctor continued then by auscultating my stomach, which took much more time then on heart and lungs. I think, he put his stethoscope on every centimetre of my stomach, what was sometimes uncomfortable because h epressed it so hard on my stomach, and he listened everywhere such a long time. I noticed now the doctors eyes were fully concentrated on my stomach now, and in my opinion his eyes starred most of the time on conspicuous outie navel, about what I was really ashamed, too. But he didn´t ask anything about my gnarly protruding navel and so my hope was, that he would not take any more notice of it and would not examine it later. In between I was ordered by him to blew my stomach completely up and down several times and for a while, during he went on listening everywhere on my stomach. From that blowing up and down of my stomach I got more and more nausea, so that I was in fear that I couldn´t hold it and had to vomit again (like it happened to me at the public health doctor two days before!). I was so concentrated not to vomit most of the time now, because that would have been the most shameful thing, I could think about at that situation, infront of that doctor, who I didn´t liked at all, and infront of the young nursing student.

After the doctor has finished the long auscultation on my stomach, he began to throb with his fingers everywhere on my stomach now, and it took also such a long time and was uncomfortable for me. After that, he now started the palpation of my stomach, which was the longest palpation I can remember at all. I can not say exactly, how long he now swirled, grapped, pressed and poked with his fingers of both hands in my stomach, but I guess it took at least 10 to 15 minutes! At the beginning, the doctor ordered me strongly to say at once, when I have stomach pain and when I get so nausea that I have to vomit. First he started with light pressure and palpation, but how longer he palpated everywhere how deeper and harder gets his pressure on my stomach, so that it was like a rack for me because I still felt so nausea! I remember, that I prayed to God for not having to vomit and that the doctor would have finished soon, but the doctor went on and on and on poking and pressing in my stomach. I felt like everything in my stomach got in disorder and that the doctor started from the beginning again and again like he wanted to feel every centimetre of my stomach and intestines so intensively. In between he asked many times about pain, nausea and vomiting again, and I was so worried about vomiting that I told him that I really feel so bad and nausea in my stomach now! The nursing student was ordered now to bring and hold a kind of bowl for the case that I would really have to vomit. I was so ashamed about that! But I am still wondering myself today, how I had managed it not to vomit during that long, and for me endless and intense abdominal palpation!

When the doctor finally stopped that awful pressing on my stomach, I was so relieved that I did a kind of sigh, but in the next moment the gastro-doc told me in a strong voice that he is still not ready at all yet with the exam of my stomach, and that he now has to do a very intense exam of my conspicuous outie navel, either, because it´s completely protruded and looks like I would have a prominent navel hernia, too! At that moment, all my hopes broke down and I was so dissappointed at that moment, that I said something like "Please not again!" The doctor became annoyed about my words and told me in a strong talk, that there is "no way" and that it would be "absolutely necessary" the way my navel would look like! I still tried to insist, that my navel had been examined by other doctors often before, too (like always by the paediatrician, but also by the public health doctor, and by another doctor at the preliminary exam in the clinc the day before), because I didn´t want to get it examined again by the gastro-doc now, too, because it still hurt a bit from the preliminary exam, where a doctor also did some harder pokes on my navel. But the gastro-doctor did not accept any arguments from me, he said now "No discussion, with that conspicuous and gnarly outie navel!" I saw the nursing student grinned now, and I was so ashamed and sad at that moment, that I was nearly before bursting into tears!

The following part of the exam was the worst part of all for me. The doctor began with a long inspection on my navel, he looked on it very closely and inspect it by fingering and poking with a kind of special tweezers on and around my conspicuous outie navel, about what I always have been ashamed of. Inbetween that, I was ordered to take and lay my arms above my head,so that I was lying in a stretched position on the exam table. He then began swirling and palpating on my navel knot for a long while with light pressure, when he suddenly poked it in as hard as he could. I oughed, because it really hurt me, but the doctor did not get any notice on it and went on palpating without any reaction. He tried to poke my navel inside with his finger and really hard pressure few more times, then he tried to squeeze it between his fingers, what caused still more pain and in the end he tried to pull it more out, as far as possible few times, too. That was so painful, that I got tears in my eyes and oughed every time, but the doctor only rereated "No way! That must be by your conspicuous and prominent outie navel!" This was the point, when I wished that I never have to see that doctor for any further exam again! But that wish never came true, it was only the very first exam of many other and regular appointments later.

When he still finished these intense navel exam (which he did at every appointment later, too!), which last at least nearly as long as the abdominal palpation before, I had such a burning and pulling pain on my navel, that I could not stand or sit upright without pain for the next two days! And what I hated most: my navel seemed to stuck out a bit more for a while after the exam (my naive hope was mostly, that it would be stay inside when the doctor pressed it in so hard, but that never came true, too!).

The doctor checked me for other hernias then, too, when he palpated my inguinal region then and in following on my scrotum, then. He explained, that I could maybe have other hernias, too, because I would already have a kind of navel hernia. Fortunately, that did not hurt so much and he did not found other kind of hernia. But when he palpated and on my scrotum and testes, he tried to retract my foreskin on my penis, too, noticed my phimosis, too, and asked why I still did not get surgery (circumcision) of it. I could only tell him, what I knew, that the paediatrician said it would not be absolutely necessary and that my mom don´t want that I got circumcised, when it is not absolutely necessary. The gastro-doc also noticed that mole on my glans and asked about it, since when I would have it and if it would ever been as big as it was. I was so ashamed of all his curious questions.

After that I was told to turn around and to stay on my elbows and knees on the exam table. I was really wondering what would happen now, because I never knew that position before. The strong doctor didn´t tell me more, he simply started percussing with his fingers from below on my stomach again, mostly in my navel area again, what was uncomfortable, too. Then he spread my cheeks and inspect my anal region, it was so embarrassing for me in that position, and still being observed by that nursing student, who watched so expectantly on me now! The next moment, I heard when the doctor took on some kind of hand gloves and the nursing student was told to give him a tube of gel, and the few seconds later I felt his finger inside, it was such an uncomfortable feeling for me, what I cannot really describe in words! It did not hurt, but after a while, I felt so "open" and suddenly, when he got deeper in it happened, what I never could imagine: my penis got completely erected, although I absolutely didn´t want that! I was so diddappointed, that I could not prevent that! Later, when the nursing student brought me back to my room, she told me, that I need not be ashamed of that and that this would be a normal reaction, but the doctor didn´t say anything before, so that I think, he wanted that I got that reaction. While the doctor still palpated in my anus, I remembered his words before the exam (that he only wanted to "feel my stomach"), and so I was surprised what he was examining now!

When he got finished with the anal exam, I was ordered to turn back and lie again on my back. It was still more embarrassing for me now, because my fully erected penis could be seen clearly now. The doctor took off his gloves and came back to me at the exam table and tried to pull my foreskin above my glans now, what he couldn´t manage because of the phimosis. His opinion now was, that I should have a circumcision and he decided, that I must have an intense and complete urological exam the next days, too, for clearing up my sexual underdevelopment and late puberty. I was really shocked, although I didn´t knew at all what to expect at such an urological exam, but I didn´t want to have any kind of further more exam. But it was not all, the gastro-doc told me that I would get more exams by him, too, he wanted that I got abdominal ultrasound by him and x-rays of my stomach and a coloscopy the next days, too, because he thought I could have a kind of colitis or Crohns disease. To me it sounded like I would stay in a bad film!

After that I was ordered to stand up again and stand upright infront of him. My penis was still erected, I was wondered about and hated it! I was ordered now to raise my arms above my head and stand completely stretched infront of him, the nursing student stood beside him and looked on me, too, then I was ordered to cough several times and during that the doctor did some more poking with his forefinger on my navel and did that again when I was also ordered to blow my stomach completely up and down again. All that touching on my navel was painful for me, so that in consequence the erection of my penis was gone, but I oughed again and so the gastro-doc explained to me, that I would get also some more exams by surgeons for clearing up appendicitis and my navel hernia more thoroughly, too!

I was so enervated at the end of the exam, when I was now allowed to dress on my pants and that clinic shirt. When the nursing student brought me back into my room, she said that she would never have seen such an intense exam before, but that I would look so ill and would have such a sick stomach and conspicuous funny navel, that she never likes to change in my situation for the upcoming exams! Back in my room and my bed, I couldn´t hold it and began to cry. I really didn´t liked to see that gastro-doc again at all, but what I did not knew at that moment, it was only the very first exam and many others followed regularly, when I leaved the hospital after 3 weeks after I had appendectomy and got treated a colitis.

These appointments by the gastro-doc were all three to four months at our the Childrens clinic until I was 18 yrs. and I hated these appointments every time, because they last always nearly a whole day at the clinic, starting with a complete general exam by a paediatric doctor in the morning, followed by blood and urine tests, and an electrocardiography, after what I was brought to the gastro-section to that gastroenterologist, who did always such an intense and complete exam again followed by abdominal ultrasound and sometimes x-rays, too. He often talked to my mom, that he wanted to see me staying at hospital regularly for several days for observation of the abdominal problems and further more exams, so my fear was always not to get back home from that appointment in the afternoon! Exactly that case happened one year later when I was 16, when I had again a colitis and an intestine cyst.

Wowee, quite the involved abdominal exam; even my childhood doctor (the one who gave me that exam when I was 15) never got that crazy!

Definitely my dermatologist. She examines my face and head using a light touch to push back hair when examining my scalp. She gently raises my arms to examine them. She has me lay back and she examines my penis and scrotum, pushing things from side to side to examine the crease of my pelvis. Then she has me roll over and examines my back. She spreads my buttocks gently to examine that area. She is professional, but I am naked. She is not alone, her assistant takes notes.

I agree with others that my dermatology exams are quite intimate. I mean, just the phrase used to describe it, "full/total body skin exam," about sums it up perfectly. My derm is my only doctor that has me remove all clothing and wear a gown, open in the back, so for me, that is a different and exciting element to the exam. He also is my only doctor to use a chaperone/ assistant during the entire exam. The nurse/ MA takes me back to the exam room, asks me questions, tells me to undress and put on the gown, and then returns with the doctor for my exam. The way my dr. does the exam, the assistant always gets a nice (although, she may not agree with that) long view of my bare butt, as well as the rest of my body. The genital portion of the exam is usually just a quick view from each side of my body, so the assistant just gets a glance here and there of my penis during gown manipulations. That adds another level of embarrassment that I love to think about later, after the exam is over.

However, for me, no exam has ever been more intimate than my last annual physical with my new PCP (male, family med dr.) I don't have a ton of previous experience with actual physicals, at least not a typical annual physical. I've had 3 sports physicals required when I was in elementary and middle school, and 2 pre-employment exams in my mid 20's. All other exams were for specific body parts for issues or pain I was having, e.g. shoulder, back, etc. My previous PCP (female, family med dr) made me come in every 1-2 years for lab work, but never gave me what I would consider a physical exam. A quick look at my head, a listen to my heart, and 2 minutes later I was out the door.

I think the first reason I consider my last physical to be my most intimate is my doctor spent so much time talking to me. My appointment lasted a little over an hour. The first 35-40 minutes we spent just sitting and talking about medical and personal information. Next, he spent 10-15 minutes physically examining me. Afterwards, we sat down and talked for another 10 minutes or so, going over what he found and what he thinks we should do going forward. I've never had an exam that was so much about me. Most of my exams have been a quick look, sign a form, and send me on my way.

Of course the second, and most memorable reason I consider my current PCP to be my most intimate doctor is the physical exam he gave me. It had been 20 years since I was required to stand in front of a doctor and expose my genitals with them watching intently. 20 years since a doctor was pushing a finger into my scrotum and told to turn my head and cough. It was only the second time ever that my penis and testicles were examined, other than a quick visual check. And it was the first time in my life that I was instructed to bend over the table so a doctor could insert his finger into my rectum and examine me internally.

Yes, I think it's safe to say that my current family med PCP knows me more intimately than any of my previous doctors.

In childhood, a dermatologist examined me the most (6-8 years old). I was stripped naked.

At 18, I was examined by doctors from a military commission. The examination was thorough and in the end I was examined naked. My genitals were examined: the scrotum and the penis, and I was examined through the rectum

There are different kinds of intimacy, depending on your fetish (for example)! Certainly l was embarrassed at age 14 when a panel of dermatologists examined my body. But in a different way, l was embarrassed at age 19 when an ENT specialist used his instruments and mirrors to peer up and down and behind my throat. To me, with my mouth fetish, that was as intimate as you could get! (Back then, anyway. A hernia check a few years later was more startling than embarrassing! I might feel differently now.)

- Ken

How do you define ‘intimate’? My dermatologist has looked at every square inch of my skin. My gynecologist has had me spread wide while sticking instruments through my cervix into my uterus, my urologist has had me spread wide shoving a cystoscope into my bladder and I’ve had a colonoscopy which is pretty damned intimate as well. My shrink has probed all the dark and twisted places inside my head.

Who wins?

BTW OP, I didn’t mean that to sound as bitchy as it reads.

For me, at the paediatrician's: examination of the evolution and the same school medical check-up (foreskin shift, palpation of the testicles); from 6 years old until the age of 21 years old.

Then at 23, medical examination for military service: completely naked in front of the doctor.

In the dermatologist's office: skin examination, naked.

In a gastroenterologist for a fistula, naked bottom, finger in the anus.

I would have to say the endoscopist ,he won't down my throat and up my ass in the same week ,honorable mention second place would be my Urologist ,and colon rectal guy ..

My GP

I once said that my brain is the most intimate part of my body, luckily it was never examined.

After the brain, the genital exams that are most intimate, whether it's an urologist, a dermatologist or an internist. It depends on their intensity. I find more embarrassing to be lying because I do not see what the doctor does, I have to trust my sensations and it is not always easy to imagine what the doctor does. The longest is when he makes an ultrasound of the testicles.

Who wins?

We all win for having read your very lovely post. ?