Embarassing school physical... in panties

Anyone here remember their annual school physicals? To this day, I still cringe at the memory for various reasons. In my home country, we used to have at least one every year (two if you count the sports check up). Ours could be really embarrassing, because they were usually unannounced and we often had to take our medical in the same room as the boys.

It always started out the same way. First, we were ushered in two lines into the change room, where two nurses got us ready for our medicals; girls on the right side and boys on the left. This was where things started to get kinda weird. The boys only had to remove their shirts and singlets, but we had to strip all the way down to our panties. I'm not exactly sure why this was, but I clearly recall the nurse telling us to take off our vests along with everything else. Looking back, I think there must have been an unofficial policy to examine the girls more closely.

There was no partition in the room at that time, so the boys got to see us undressing on the other side of the room. After we'd taken everything off, we had to fold our clothes in a neat piles and leave them on the wall side bench. It's hard to describe how embarrassing it was, standing there in nothing but our undies, waiting for the doctor to call us into the clinic. All of my friends agreed it wasn't fair that the boys got to keep their most of their clothes on, while we had to mill about in our panty-pants.

When the Doctor was ready to see us, the boys sat down on the left side while the girls were told to line up and wait their turn. The "clinic" was at the far end of the change room, a brightly lit space with a table, some chairs and a set of scales. There was also a folding screen next to the doctor's chair, in case anyone needed a more "thorough" examination.

Like most of my friends, I was blushing to my hairline and trying to hide my underpants by crossing my hands in front. A couple of girls picked up their vests and tried to hold them around their waists, but the nurse told them to stop being silly, and made them wait with their undies on open display.

By now, you're probably wondering what kind of panties we were wearing. Back in those days, thongs and g-strings were banned by order of the school board, so most of us were wearing plain cotton full briefs. The majority wore pastel-colored knickers with elastic waistbands, while a few of the "cool" girls had floral prints with a little pink bow at the front. I was wearing white cotton pants, the kind that come all the way up to the belly button (yeah, if I'd known the medical was that day, I would've worn something different). One of my friends, Katrina, had on a pair of bright red nylon briefs that shimmered under the lights every time she moved. Naturally, she stood out amongst the crowd, and was the subject of schoolyard discussion for the next few days.

Over the next fifteen minutes or so, the Doctor called us up to his table one by one. When my turn came, I walked up to the scales in my snowy white panties, feeling every eye in the room on me. My tummy was fluttering with butterflies, and for a while I felt like I was watching myself from a different perspective (this used to happen to me a lot when I was young). Stepping up onto the scales, I held my arms up in the air while one nurse weighed me and the other took my measurements. My heart was literally pounding against my chest, because my entire body seemed to be completely on view, as if I was stark naked. I wasn't really, of course, but that was how it felt.

After the nurses had finished with me, the Doctor asked me my name, then checked it off on his medical form. I instinctively went to cross my hands in front again, but he told me to hold them by my side while he checked my breathing (it's odd how a stethoscope always feels cold, no matter how many bodies it touches).

He asked me numerous questions during the examination, mainly about my family and general health, instructing me to turn round while he examined my spine. I practically fainted on the spot, knowing that I'd be facing my entire class at that second. It's strange: I suspected that worse was yet to come, but seeing everybody staring at me in my fresh white knickers was embarrassing beyond all description.

For some reason, my examination went on much longer than anyone else's. Completing the preliminary physical, the Doctor got me to perform some flexibility exercises. I must have been blushing from heel to crown by that time, knowing that my panties had been viewed from every possible angle. When he instructed me to spread my feet as wide as possible and place my palms flat on the floor, my pristine white bottom went on display to the whole wide world. Treacherous giggles bubbled up from the girls' side of the room, even Katrina of the Red Pants was snickering to herself.

When he finally finished (after what felt like half a million years) the Doctor made another note in his report and sent me back to the girls' line. Walking across the room in my bare knickers, that strange, disembodied sensation swept over me again, twice as strong as before. My belly seemed to be melting with warm, liquid heat. It seemed so terribly unfair; none of my friends had spent so much time in their panties, parading about before half the grade.

I brushed shoulders with Katrina at the half-way mark; it was her turn with the Doctor, and she looked even more reluctant than I'd been ten minutes before. Her bottom jostled along in tight little circles, highlighted by her glimmering scarlet panty-pants. I wondered how long she'd be under the stethoscope, breathing a sigh of relief that my ordeal was over.

Well, not exactly. For some inexplicable reason, we weren't allowed to get get dressed again until the last girl had been examined. There were at seven more girls to go, meaning that the free show would continue for at least the next twenty minutes (if not more).

>>>>> By now, you're probably wondering what kind of panties we were wearing. Back in those days, thongs and g-strings were banned by order of the school board, so most of us were wearing plain cotton full briefs. Another case of the government trying to get into our pants?

In most accounts of school or other mandatory physicals, it's the boys that have to undress further than the girls. So I find your account to be very unusual in that regard. Usually it's the girls that are allowed to keep more clothes on while the boys end up stripping completely for their genital and hernia exam.

Very interesting and I understand why you found it very embarrassing. Today, that would never happen in Canada or the USA. May I ask what country and what age you were? Was this procedure the same for teenage girls who would have various size breasts? That would be absolute, total embarrassment

Being from UK only had one physical, no privacy and ended up being circumcised because of it. Female doctor examined me, head to toe.

How old were you when you had this exam? do you remember how the female doctor was and what she exactly did? was it the fist time you had a full exam by a female doctor?

>>>>> By now, you're probably wondering what kind of panties we were wearing. Back in those days, thongs and g-strings were banned by order of the school board, so most of us were wearing plain cotton full briefs. Another case of the government trying to get into our pants?

I'm surmising that thongs and g-strings were banned only when going for a school exam? Otherwise how in the world would anyone know? I know there are metal detectors in many schools in the US, but panty inspectors? C'mon ... ha ha.

As for government interference - school boards are local affairs, schools financed by local (mainly property) taxes, all very low level. Maybe religious run schools are financed differently, then you are indeed seriously talking about interference, but not from government.

On a light note about panty inspecting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzTz9BydrMA

Similar in UK in early to mid 60s but boys undressed more than girls for obvious reasons.

Well that must have been quite the experience being mixed together for a physical. I can't understand the logic of that but those times when I had a school/sports physical done, it was only with the same sex and done in the nurse's offices with blinds drawn and the doors closed. There were four rooms so it allowed for privacy. Upon entrance into the suite, you were taken into another room with chairs set up and told to undress along with your female classmates, usually 10 of us, and stripping to bra and panties. I don't ever recall seeing anyone with a thong but some panties were tighter than others or more revealing while quite the variety of bras was the norm. You sat until the nurse called you to the door of the next room and stood there while the girl ahead of you was getting her exam from a male dr. No one could see that except if you were next on line and even then it was partially hidden but you saw enough to know that you would be naked in a short bit.

Hi, the original post about it is here

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I was 6/7 and my first and only real complete physical exam. I have a feeling it might have been part of a study or survey. From what I recall the doctor was nice enough, started at head and worked down to body before removing my underwear and checking scrotum and foreskin. A few weeks later I had to see family doc who examined me and I remember him telling my mother 'he really needs to be circumcised'. I remember went for the op a few months later during half term, remember the few days in hospital well.

The one and only time I was examined at school I was 13. We had to have a quick physical and scoliosis check. I remember being so embarrassed because I was half naked. I had never had to do that except for my regular pediatrician. Humiliating!

Tarzansmom,

I always fantasized about my female classmates being forced to endure a thorough and humiliating group physical exam clad in just their panties. The embarrassment of being exposed to the doctor and fellow classmates while having their bodies prodded always excited me. Please expound upon the exam that you received.

I realize that attitudes and norms change over time. But I still don't see why it is or was the schools' responsibility to conduct medical exams on students, instead of requiring a physical report from the family doctor or public health clinic. I understand the importance of vaccinations, and ensuring that those competing in sports are medically cleared to play. But for the schools to actually conduct the exams baffles me.

I'm conservative on some things, liberal on a lot, but I guess I'm libertarian on this.

What age were you then? Were any of the girls starting to have breasts? Must have been quite the sight for the boys.

I realize that attitudes and norms change over time. But I still don't see why it is or was the schools' responsibility to conduct medical exams on students, instead of requiring a physical report from the family doctor or public health clinic. I understand the importance of vaccinations, and ensuring that those competing in sports are medically cleared to play. But for the schools to actually conduct the exams baffles me.

There is little baffling about schools being the places where exams were conducted. But knowing a bit of historical context helps.

From the early 20th century on, say since after the Great War, governments became concerned about the general health of people who would later become recruits or draftees for the military. When countries started drafting men from 1914 onwards, it was found that far too many young men had health problems prohibiting them from taking up arms. TBC and nourishment deficiencies were among the more prevalent.

To improve the quality of recruits was obviously something that the military approved. One way of insuring this was by keeping abreast of youngsters, so that some health problems could be addressed in time for their induction. The easiest way of checking up on young people's health was via schools. And since at that time not all people had the means to pay for yearly or regular medical exams - paying doctor's bills when ill was often a hardship enough - it fell to various government agencies or departments to organize or pay for these examinations.

And even aside from the point of view of the military and their need for male cannon fodder for those manpower hungry conflicts of the 20th century, improving the general health of the female population also ensured healthier babies. And even for those later working in civilian occupations, better health ensured better productivity, less medical costs and so on ... all of this was to the national advantage and therefore also in great part a national responsibility.

So, don't look upon medical exams as something done at the school's insistence, but consider schools delegated by higher authorities as being convenient central points for reaching as many young people as possible, when it was still possible to do something about medical problems that might otherwise not be discovered in time. Schools are mainly convenient logistical points for organizing medical exams of young people.

And yes, attitudes in some countries certainly do change over time. Everything is now becoming individualistic and governments seem to be caught up in a race to the bottom of shedding as many of their responsibilities as possible.

I can remember having one every year when I was in the infant/junior school so between 5 to 11.

As a class we were taken to the assembly hall which doubled as a gym which did not have any head height windows. We had to strip off everyone except our pants and then you waited until you had your height & weight measured by the nurse and then the dr listened to your heart & lungs and checked your limbs.

We were so young that the boys and girls looked the same in just there pants and we were of the age where their was no embarrassment. In the last year there were a few girls whom were "budding", but we were so innocent we never thought anything of it.

I can remember my yearly school physicals in the mid-1980s. It was usual that we had to take off everything to the pants and boys and girks were waiting in a preparing room to get the measurements done by a nurse. But one after another was called into the doctors room for the complete exam then and during i was lying on the table then the pants was pulled down, too. But i was used to that by other exams and doctors (paediatrician, dermatologist, gastro-doctor), too. I was embarrassed that I always got a letter from the school doctor for my mom with all results and an instruction to go to the other doctors with me, too And my class members always asked me then about this letter...

@julie13

Mind telling us what happened once you got to see the doctor?

Yes my panty girl days were memorable moments in fact if it were not for those low modesty events would have never developed a medical fetish. The cold non personnel clinical procedure watching my classmates being examined was erotic even for a straight girl like myself.

Yes, the physicals were all done at the same time. The boys and girl were together in the gym. The boys would be in their underwear and the girls in their underwear. The boys went first. The way the lines were, we could not see when the boys dropped their underwear to have their penis and balls checked. When the boys were finished, they left. Then the nurse was tell all of us to take our underwear off. We would pass a large table as we were checked by the doctor.and placed the underwear on the table. The doctor would give us a quick breast exam and then have us turn and bend over. We would hold onto the seat of a chair. He would spread our cheeks and into our butts and vaginas with a flash light. Then he would stick one or two fingers into our vagina, stroke it a few times and wiggle his fingers around inside. I always wondered if he was examining us or playing with us.

I would have to say that our school physicals, those done at the nurse's office in school, were less invasive! Once in the exam room, it meant remove everything, get a spine check, and then have the doctor listen to heart, lungs, and do a breast exam followed by a check of femoral pulse and pushing on lower abdomen. The final insult was having to turn over and nurse spread cheeks and told to pulse my anus for a quick look.

I would have enjoyed seeing my female classmates stripped to their underwear. It seems like the focus of the exam was on the breasts, anus and vagina. I can see why you questioned the doctor's intent.

Very common to recall school ones as very impressionable at that age.

I was just thinking about the school physical in general. I never had one at school. At the doctor before school started sure, but I only went to the school nurse if I was sick. As for at school...I had my spine checked for scoliosis in 7th grade which was a public school.

Would you please expound upon your experience of being checked for scoliosis at school.

@sensei1980 Sure thing! A little hard to remember since that was years ago, but I think I had to undress into my bra and panties then bend down to touch my toes. I don't think a gown was involved. But thankfully no scoliosis. My adult doctor does that too.

Thank you for the quick response. Was the exam conducted in a group setting? Did you have to unfasten your bra during the exam? Were you embarrassed to strip down to your bra and panties?

@sensei1980 No prob. It was indeed with girls lined up, but we had privacy to change. I think I felt a bit apprehensive, but it was quick and professional so once I saw it wasn't scary I was all good. Some awkward feelings, but I was able to keep the bra on so it wasn't that embarrassing.

I recall the following: in elementary school they staged physicals, boys and girls separately. We had to undress to briefs and at one point they looked into our briefs (I'm now unsure what they did there, I think they palpated the testicles). We boys wondered whether they looked into the girls' privates.

High school sport's physicals took place in the nurse's office - same sex only - and were not that involved though there was a hernia check. Strip to briefs, line up, then see the doc in the next room one at a time.

In college, my exam for crew was similar but done in the trainer's office. We would strip to briefs then see the doc one at a time, the door was open to the exam area, and as soon as you entered the briefs came off. The doc did the basics of heart and lung then a hernia exam. He also checked my anus having me pulse it a few times.