Pediatric genital exam at beginning or end preferences.

When most people were kids, at the pediatric exams, they did not like having the genital exam. What I am wondering is would you have preferred having the genital exam at the beginning to get it over with or at the end? I know most people had it at the end but if you could go back in time, would you have changed that?

I hated strangers(adults) messing with my crotch area. I hated that part of going to the doc. It always happened right away at the begining of the exam if given a choice i would of gone with no genital exam at all. But lets face it, no body listened to kids and do what they want to do, it was always what the adults wanted.

I enjoyed the nervous anticipation of the physical exam culminating with the examination of my genitals. I recall trying to replicate the feeling of butterflies in my stomach when I would reminisce and touch myself. I didn't understand why just thinking about it would make me become erect. I began to understand my feelings when I first saw the examination scene in The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. I experienced a throbbing erection like never before. Having the genital exam in the beginning would make the rest of the exam anticlimactic.

I dreaded the genital exam only slightly because it was really cursory at my pediatrician. Probably better at the end when more comfortable with the doctor. I'd have been mostly anxious about whether there would be a shot involved.

At that age, I was already turned on at the thought of a medical exam. Especially when I was old enough that my mom waited out in the hallway during the actual physical part of it. But I was also still very embarrassed by my little erection I got when the doctor took a look at my genitalia. I was thankful that the genital exam always came at the end. (And prayed that my erection would subside by the time my mom came in the room.)

I would say i remember them being towards the middle of the exam ..,,because the neurological part was right after

Every physical I’ve ever received ended with the genital exam. As a kid I knew to expect a genital exam and I knew when in the exam it would come.

Although it might be fun today if my doctor scrambled the order of the exam, I think the predictability of my exams as a kid really helped me develop a healthy relationship with medical exams, procedures, and personnel.

As a kid I knew to expect a genital exam and I knew when in the exam it would come. it might be fun today if my doctor scrambled the order of the exam

This is why I enjoy having different doctors for physicals because the uncertainty is more anxiety is imcreased. If I am stripped to my shorts or or start with clothes on and just precede through the exam removing whatever clothing the doctor needs exposure for. If you're naked under a gown to begin, you know a genital exam is in the agenda. If it is started clothed and then do progressive undress, you are never sure if genitalia will be examined.

Mine was always at the end.

Always at the end but I would have preferred it earlier in the exam. My nerves and rapid heartbeat would have subsided.

One school exam when I was about 6 or 7 and it was down to underpants only. No genital exam. Reckon they were more interested whether you looked like you were generally healthy and looked like you were getting fed. If you could see and hear ok and you didn't look underweight, and you had a pulse, it was enough. Not bothered about anything else.

I always had it at the end, but I don't think it would have mattered in my case for beginning or end because I was required to strip down to my panties for the entire exam anyway, even before my panties were removed at the end for the genital and rectal check. Always in panties, even for a sore throat.

I always had it at the end, but I don't think it would have mattered in my case for beginning or end because I was required to strip down to my panties for the entire exam anyway, even before my panties were removed at the end for the genital and rectal check. Always in panties, even for a sore throat.

Mine was always at the end.

Would you have preferred it at the start to get it over with?

Would you have preferred it at the start to get it over with?

Having the genital exam done at the beginning would remove a lot of the anxiety and stress but it would not result in the great memories as having it done at the end. I think the genital exam is the grand finale and allows tension to develop for both the patient and examiner. The patient never knows for sure whether the genital exam will be included and how the examiner will transition from the less intimate parts of the exam to the embarrassing moment during which the patient's penis is exposed for inspection. Please keep it at the end.

I would keep the genital exam at the end. The physical exam is typically a sequence that gets more invasive and intimate as it progresses. The doctor checks ears/nose/throat and you don't need to expose your body at all yet. Then you get shirtless to check your heart and lungs. And so on until you expose your most private parts.

I believe having the genital exam first would feel anticlimactic.

In my childhood I was usually examined by two different female pediatricians: the first visited me at her office and genital exam was at the end of the examination, with me completely naked; the second one, younger and pretty, came at my house when I was sick and she started the examination asking me to remove pijama and briefs and performing a long and careful abdominal and genital examination, then I removed also my t-shirt and she performed lung and heart auscultation (with me completely naked in my bed) and finally again a genital exam standing

I don't think I would have changed the order. Even the genital exam was the most anxiety inducing moment of th exam I kind of liked that sense of waiting to know what would happen. It was bad but great at the same time. And I guess is what gave my this kink.

For sure, I would have had it at the beginning. I would have been so much more relaxed knowing that the dread of all dreads was conquered and done with. I wonder why the procedure is not reversed. I mean, the genital check is at the absolute end, tormenting its victim for the entire duration of the exam. I would even settle for moving it to the middle.

For sure, I would have had it at the beginning. I would have been so much more relaxed knowing that the dread of all dreads was conquered and done with. I wonder why the procedure is not reversed. I mean, the genital check is at the absolute end, tormenting its victim for the entire duration of the exam. I would even settle for moving it to the middle.

I share your sentiment entirely that moving the genital examination to the beginning of the process would relieve a lot of the anxiety which exists because the "dread of all dreads" (perfectly and honestly stated) would be over with. I think moving the genital exam to the beginning would remove a lot of the reason why many of us developed medical fetish, shame and embarrassment. I think having to summon up the courage to learn to deal with exposing and presenting your most personal parts, your genitalia, for inspection has become an important rite of passage for a boy to manhood.

I only recall it ever being at or near the end. In medical text books I've read, they seem to encourage a specific order for kids, I think to let them relax and get used to the process before the most intimate parts.

The thing I do remember is two different takes on which sibling goes first. We had a doctor who always took the older brother first so that the younger ones could see and understand what to expect, and another one who only ever did the younger one first, maybe thinking that the older one could wait relaxed but the younger one might built up anxiety.

At the first example (and this is only when I or my youngest brother was pretty young) he would finish up with our older brother and then say things to us like, "see, that wasn't so bad for him," or "ok, you saw your big brother do this." And I think that going in the same order with us that he had with our older brother was part of it. like, this is the routine. No surprises. First I do this, then I do that. You'll be fine.

For me the genital examination was always done towards the end of the visit, not always as the very last thing but towards the very end anyway. I don't know if I have that strong of a preference, but I think it sort of makes sense to do it towards the end, as in most likely case the patient will get embarrassed during that part of the exam, so it is probably better to allow the patient to put his or her clothes back on soon after the genital examination.

My pediatrician usually did it about half way through the exam and I like it right about then. He started at my head and worked down, so obviously after me felt my tummy would come the "panty check".

Always at the end. He never wore gloves for the other parts of the exam, so I knew what was coming when he walked over to the sink, washed his hands and put on a pair of gloves .

Always st the end of the exam

My paediatrician did the retraction of the foreskin and a short check of the testes at the beginning while standing in front of him, the more intense inspection, palpation and exam he did during the full body exam while i was lying on the table, nearly at the end, always after the long and intense abdominal and navel (hernia) exam.

Every time at the end of the exam. I had to pull down my pants and sometimes I had to take them off.

When I had the physical for school/sports every year the genital exam was always at the end. I never had to remove any clothing to the end. Thinking back on it I would imagine if it would have been at the first I would have been left in just underwear for the rest of the exam.

I guess I was happy to wait for the genital exam at the end so I could keep my underwear on. It was so embarrassing when the doctor asked me to raise my hips so she could take my boxers off. Then I was naked until the nurse finished giving me whatever shots I had coming. I remember jumping off the table and grabbing my shorts from mom so I could cover myself.

She always did it at the end for me.