"Jan Germany
I am not surprised by the interest of your girl's classmates when you were at high school for your compulsory draft physical examinations for military service at the age of 17/18, what was called in Germany Musterung.
Of course they knew that you had to go to a medical center for a thorough medical exam as a draftee during your year of high school when you had between 17 and 18 age ( in France we were called to report at a compulsory draft physical examination only after we had reached 18 age) and they knew that it was performed naked, which was a good reason to be interested..
It was the same in France, it was well known in all families, so by men and boys as well as by women and girls ( sisters, classmates girls, female cousins and so on) , that a male teenager was called to report in front of a draft board commission for military service until 1966 as soon as he was 18 age or in a military pre-induction center after 1966 until the end of military service in the last 90's.
It was not all a secret, sometimes there was a talk about it in a family lunch or dinner, so every male teenager knew what would happen to him during the physical examination ( the nudity in group was the rule for years) and that the neighbors and members of family or classmates knew it also ( of course it was different for me because I was in a boys only high school than if I would have been in a mixed gender high school like it is today), so there could be an embarrassment but not a surprise.
You said that the girls were even much more curious about these examinations than about those performed at schools. I can understand that because the girls knew that they would never be submitted to such examinations for military service on the reverse of boys who had to undergo them. It was a real avantage given to girls.
The different attitude or feeling of the girls were logical : simple curiosity for some of them who asked questions, compassion for others even if they were glad to be never submitted to such examinations where the boys had to strip naked and had a genital examination, and constant taunts for others who liked to joke about the boys, who were mischievous and made comments about the way in which the boys were treated, finding funny that they were naked and had a genital inspection. They could be gloating in that situation since they knew that they would never be submitted to these naked examinations and they could be happy of what could be considered as a real double standard.
But it had been the reverse, do you think really that the boys would have thought differently?
And if the boys had refused to answer to questions, they would have not known much about the examinations. I understand that the boys who were shy and modest and not comfortable with girls were very embarrassed by these questions but the better attitude was to to ignore them.
As regards the school examination, I am not sure that the curiosity of girls about the examination of boys was higher than that of boys about the girls examination, why would it be different ?
And normally except if the boy's students liked to relate their examination to their girl's classmates, I don't think that they knew much about these examinations, except may be that the boys were naked unlike them, but certainly not how the doctor was performing the genital check which was a regular part of each of your school examination.
You talk of a double standard for the school examinations, it was common several years ago, so it was very possible that the girls knew that the boys were forced to strip completely to be fully naked while they were allowed to keep their underwear. I don't agree with that double standard but it was so wide spread in many countries.
It was why the examination of boys were so interesting for girls.
May be the girls knew it because of family talks before and after the physical examination for those who had brothers or it was because of rumors and gossips inside the school.
But I doubt that the school staff or the medical staff had talked about it.
So it was logical that the girls wanted to know more about the boys exams, especially how long time they stayed naked, or what said the doctor or how was performed the check of their genitals and it was for them a reason to giggle in front of boys but the reverse would have been so true.
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