Being told to undress

For a long time when I was a kid my parents took me and my brothers to a pediatrician who would basically just have us loosen our clothes. If we had on a button-down shirt, we'd have to unbutton it the whole way. We would have to undo our jeans. Then we would have to go through the whole physical mostly like that.

Then one day our parents announced we were going to the doctor and, instead of going to the usual place, we went to this clinic in a hospital. My older brother and I didn't say anything but my younger brother asked why were at a different place. Mom said "we want you guys to have a complete physical this time." That made me nervous.

After all the preliminary paperwork, etc., my brothers and parents and I were taken to this exam room that was actually a small suite of rooms with a main exam room with a table, a side room that had lots of other equipment and also the stuff for eye tests, hearing tests, etc., and a second table where they did stuff like EKGs. There was also a bathroom off to the side.

The nurse gave me and my brothers cups and told us to pee in them in the bathroom, and after that he (a male nurse this time), took our temperatures and blood pressure. Then he said to my parents "the doctor will be in in a few minutes. Go ahead and have the boys get ready for him. We want them to take off their clothes and just have a seat. They can leave their underpants on - for now."

Underpants definitely came off pretty quickly after the doctor came in (the nurse came back in, too) and the other thing I think was cool is that after each of our turns was done, the doctor said "don't get dressed yet." We had to wait and stay like that for the shots and a few other things that came last after the doctor left (it was all done by the nurse and by a technician who came in). Then the doctor came back in, looked over the forms and notes, spoke to our parents and finally said "ok, they can put their clothes back on."

That sounds like a really interesting experience.

How old were you at the time? And your brothers?

It must have been really crowded in there, with the 3 of you, two parents, doctor and nurse. That's 7 people at one time!

Can you describe anything else about the exam? Did you watch as your brothers received their genital exam? Hernia? Any rectal exam at all? Did they all watch you?

Yeah, it was a big group. This clinic had two exam room areas called "Family Suite 1" and "2" which were these 3-room set ups specifically to handle family visits with multiple kids. So the room was bigger than a regular modern exam room. But during the visit, at different times, one or another of us would be taken out of there to go to the Xray room, the room where they took blood samples, etc. This was a long, detailed visit that I remember being called a "full work up."

At this time I was 12 and my brothers were 14 and 11, I think.

Yes, there was a rectal exam - the first for all of us I think. They don't do rectal exams much on guys that age anymore but I've seen occasional mentions in medical textbooks on physical exams of pediatric rectal exams. The genital exam was cool as it included the turn and cough as well as a Tanner stage assessment and looking into our urethras.

We all sort of watched each other unless something was being done to us separately at the same time, I guess.

Wow, at least it was all boys

Interesting

I was one examined with my brother (He was 14 and I was 9) and the doctor gave him a genital exam. He only took a quick look at mine though.

My doc always had us undress to our underwear. I don't remember him doing a manual, as opposed to visual, genital exam until I was maybe 10.

The nurse always had me undress to my underpants. This was always the case all the way until I switched doctors after college.

Jason Dean, I wonder if you can describe this from your viewpoint, what you were told, who took you where to do what? You heard to get undressed, so you...

I never heard of a boy being told to unbutton his shirt and jeans for a physical exam. Never happened that way in any of my exams as a kid or as an adult. I have had only one check-up where I was told to take my shirt off and leave my jeans on before the doctor came in. Other than that time, it was always "strip to your underpants" or "strip completely and put on this gown."

Of course, every doctor's office does things differently, and perhaps this pediatrician was more diligent than the norm about preserving his modesty.

I just didn't have that kind of doctor growing up. I remember my Mom telling me to keep my t-shirt on after the nurse told me to strip to my underwear. The room was cold and my Mom thought that keeping my t-shirt on until the doctor came in would be fine. It wasn't fine with the nurse who came back in after I got undressed to my briefs and t-shirt and told me very crossly to take my t-shirt off too. I looked at my Mom and she nodded so off came the t-shirt. I shivered for about 10 minutes until the doctor came in for the exam. I was about 9 years old.

I had it in probably most configurations.

Memories from when I was quite young: in undies at the start, even before vitals. Underwear came down pretty quickly when it was temperature time, and usually again at the end for shots, which were either given in the butt or the leg.

Young, but not super young: sometimes just to undies, other times I'd just have my shirt off.

Older: shirt off for some, then jeans/shorts pulled down or off later, with finally underwear also coming down or off, depending. I also had a few in a paper gown and underwear only, from the start.

There was one exam when i was about 10 that the nurse told me to strip down buck naked after height/weight, etc. i remember throwing the biggest fit. the nurse had to call in another nurse and they had to undress me and hold me down during the exam. if i only knew then what i know now...

For me it was always strip down to my underpants which stayed on for most of the exam. I'd usually have to pull them down at the end for the genital exam and sometimes a visual anal exam. When i was very young they would come down at the beginning for temperature but not after I was 5 maybe 6. This as in the early-mid 60's.

I love it when they say to strip to your underwear (or terms like that). I haven't worn underwear in YEARS!

I was usually nude for exams. I love being completely naked.

I think ideally, you hear "strip to your shorts." I think it is especially good if the doctor is the one who gives the command and is in the room while the patient undresses.

When I was a kid I was told to strip to my underware and when I became an adult told to strip below the waist and I could leave my underware on if I wanted to. I think it is more erotic to just have to take my jeans off and leave my shirt and undies on. It kind of excites me to hear the nurse say to remove my pants it makes my heart race knowing that my genitals are going to be looked at and that the doc wants access to that area.

The state of undress varied from doctor to doctor office. The pediatrician had me undress to my underware. The nurse would tell me to strip to my underware and then returned to get my height and weight.

I switched doctors in high school until I left for college. I really did not get undressed only loosed my clothing. The nurse would tell you to unbutton or untuck your shirt so the doctor could listen to your breathing/ heart. Then had you unbutton, undo the zipper of your jeans and have the fly wide open, underware had to be seen. When it was time, the doctor had you pull your jeans down for the gential and hernia exam. The doctor I go to now has changed their office policy on undressing. The first 4 or 5 years you would undress. Before you reached the exam room the nurse would get your height, weight and send you to the restroom to pee. After the nurse was done taking the vitals, you were told to strip to your boxers/briefs. Now, everything is the same except you don't strip to your boxers. You get undressed as the doctor needs to complete the exam.

The nurse always told me to strip completely. I Love it.

I remember a few years ago I was getting a skin cancer check by a skin doctor, I was about 24 at the time. I remember the guy very vividly, he had a slightly naughty look on his face but that was just my first impression of him. I am a good looking young guy and think this doctor was gay (nothing wrong with that!). I'm straight but enjoy playtime with both sexes.

I remember being stripped down to my underware and being told to remove my shoes and socks. I really enjoyed taking my socks off and being barefeet, this made me feel very exposed. After he did the normal skin check he asked if I had any moles on my genital area and I said I have a small black mark on my penis. I was nevious and excisted at the same time. The doctor asked me to remove my undies and I remember how hot I felt when I was completly nude. We never crossed any line, but I remember him very closly and gently examining my penis, my glands exposed and my penis scent in the air. He told me it was all fine and to get dressed.

I remember this vividly, I also remember the doctor examining under my arms and in between my toes for a long time. He didn't touch my anus.

That feeling of being completely naked in the hands of a medical professional is amazing! Especially when you're a "horny" cute younger guy and you can arouse the doctor.

I think that when a patient is naked, a doctor is in a white med coat and the patient allows his or her mind to have a camera taking shots of this, and imagines the result, it is hot.

When I have had a new doctor for a new patient physical exam, how much I will be told to undress is always unknown. I wrote in another posting about the physical exam form that I had to take to one doctor that I had never seen before and how that form said that "Patient must undress for exam". I still didn't know before I got there whether the doctor would follow that instruction on the form or how the doctor might interpret that instruction. In the last 20 years I have been in an exam gown very little and mostly in my underwear only, but I think that I feel more vulnerable if I am told to "take everything off, including underwear, and put on this gown with the back open". I'm covered more by an exam gown but it is weird to be sitting on a raised exam table with my bare butt sitting on that paper, the back of the gown open, and my genitals somewhat exposed to anyone sitting in a chair because the exam gowns only come down to my thighs. At least wearing briefs covers everything below the waist even if I am less covered overall.

Love it when nurse strips me completely 😃

My favorite words: "Take off everything and put on the gown"

Its always been fully clothed till the time comes, then its shirt above the stomach and trouser and undi below the knee or halfway down your thighs, They used to only check our penis and foreskin though, the hernia exam was much later but still the same manner of undress.

Always told to undress completely and the doctor would be in shortly.

I've heard a couple of different things from nurses.

For the doctor i go to now, the nurse will hand me a gown and say, "Go ahead and put the gown on with the opening to the back and the doctor will be in shortly." The first time i went I had to ask, "Do i need to take everything off?" She said, "No, you can leave on your underwear." (don't worry, they came off later)

My previous doctor's nurse would say, "Ok, everything off, put the gown on with the opening to the back."

The strangest request I've had was at a clinic i had to go to for a pre-employment exam. I was in the very first exam room off the waiting area so the door to my exam room was right by the door to the waiting area as well as the nurses station. We had done the preliminary stuff in the exam room and then went in the hallway for an eye check. After that we went down the hall to the bathroom for a urine sample. I came back from the bathroom and the nurse was at the nurses station right next to my exam room. While we were still in the hallway she said (rather loudly), "Ok, I've laid out a gown for you. Strip down and put on the gown with the opening to the back." I'm sure everyone in the waiting room heard loud and clear everything she said!

It was always "take everything off except your underwear." If I was given a gown I was told to put it on as well.

Clearly I need to change doctors. I am always told to keep my underwear on and put the gown on. The only time my doctor had me take my underwear down and only visually checked my genitalia.