Doctor requiring male patients to bend over for rectal and point their toes together

I have read that it is a regular practice with some doctors to have male patients who are already bent over the exam table for a rectal exam to point their toes together. Has it happened to you? Did it spread the buttocks apart more so the doctor doesn't have to? Is this an old practice that no longer happens or did it happen to you in the last few years? Did the doctor explain it?

I teach this technique as an adjunct to be used if an anxious patient is clenching. The internal rotation makes it harder for the patient to clench.

Yes, I've been asked to point my feet inward while bent over the table.

The thought of the patient being even more exposed and vulnerable is a turn on.

The thought of the patient being even more exposed and vulnerable is a turn on.

Very true, but this thread is about RL.

Unfortunately, I have never received an instruction to point my toes together while being bent over for a rectal exam. I like any feature of a physical exam which increases the embarrassment of the situation. The patient having his buttocks and anus exposed to the doctor who is completely dressed is embarrassing, but getting an instruction which is intended to expose the anus more fully adds considerably to the embarrassment. A lot of verbal instructions from the examiner contribute to the patient's submissiveness and even can make an adult feel a bit like a child. I will keep hoping I receive this instruction sometime in the future.

If memory serves the instruction "Point your toes in" was used in the movie "The Man Who Fell To Earth" David Bowie 1976. It was said to Bowie's character during some kind of medical procedure.

A variation: Nurses at children clinics while with patient prone on the table (on tummy) for rectal temp would sometimes run into the defiant squirt who knew what was coming and would clinch their buttocks tight in an attempt to thwart the nurse from spreading their buttocks to introduce the slippery anal invader. The simple remedy was to push the patient's legs up into a frogleg position. As long as the legs were both bowed out, this technique dependably rendered those muscles useless thus ensuring the buttocks remained completely supple. The nurse could then spread and insert normally.

I had our GP ask me to do this only once-about thirty tears ago. I have no idea what the reason was and have never been asked to do it again.

I've been told to do that, and also instructed patients to do it. It does help separate the butt cheeks. Like much else, it depends on what the practitioner prefers.

I've never had to bend over for a rectal but the doctor has made me bend over for a scoliosis check before with my underwear slightly lowered. It's quite the vulnerable position to be in.

I was asked to point my feet like that during a college exam once but these days I'm usually on hands and knees on the couch for the rectal rather than stood up and bent over.

With the rectal exams that I have received while bending over the exam table I have not been instructed to point my toes in any particular direction.

I was just doing a bit of experimentation in front of a mirror. I would be interested in hearing whether other men have tried this, but I found that with my toes pointed together while bent over, my balls and penis were much more visible between my legs than with toes pointed forward. I have always thought it added a lot to the embarrassment of a rectal exam if the examiner had a good view of the genitalia between my legs.

I don't recall ever being asked to position my feet in any specific manner to facilitate a rectal exam.

I don't recall ever being asked to position my feet in any specific manner to facilitate a rectal exam.

Probably because you didn't clench and cause a need for this posture. Some of my students do this as a matter of course, but it is an unnecessary extra step.

Exam doc, yes, exposure is the point, not of your genitals, but of your gluteal cleavage and anus. The genital exposure is incidental - and appreciated by us medfetters.

I was once asked to do this by a doc. It really caught me off guard because I hadn't ever heard of such thing during a rectal exam. However, I do think it helped to spread the cheeks open. It wasn't expected and helped keep my mind off of what was happening I suppose.

An alternate option that I have heard of doctors doing is instructed the patients to stand with the elbows or chest on the table and one leg on each side of the foot stool/step at he bottom of the exam table. That's a good 12 inches or so wide which certainly would spread a guy open.

Only Simms position for my exams

Patient414, the standard instructions are for the patient to face the table with his feet shoulder distance apart and to place his elbows on the table. That's about he same spread, but without the obstacles that could cause an accident. The hip rotation (point your toes inward), addresses the muscles of the buttocks, spreading the gluteal cleavage (butt crack).

Only Simms position for my exams

I find this the best because it is more awkward for the patient than having him just bend over the table. It also requires more instructions which enhances the submissive position of the patient. I think that, ideally, the doctor has the patient stand and lower the shorts for the genital and hernia exams and then get back up on the table, with specific instructions to leave the shorts down, and assume the Simms position for the rectal exam. I love the awkwardness of getting off the table for the genital and then back up on the table for the rectal.

For maximum embarrassment, the lithotomy or knee-chest positions are best. Both maximize genital exposure. The knee-chest also has the benefit of having the male genitals swing free.

An alternate option that I have heard of doctors doing is instructed the patients to stand with the elbows or chest on the table and one leg on each side of the foot stool/step at he bottom of the exam table. That's a good 12 inches or so wide which certainly would spread a guy open.

In the past, I've had a doctor or two do my rectal that way. Since you're standing about a foot higher off of the ground, and still bending over onto the exam table, you feel like you're much more exposed than if you were standing on the ground and bent over.

Usually I'm on my hands and knees on the exam table, but as of late I'm sometimes bent over the table and then Dr. has me point my toes. I do find this bent over position embarrassing, as I am anytime I'm fully exposed.

Yes, I have been asked to do that too but personally I didn't feel any difference.

I think it does make a difference. I had my first rectal exam when I was 20. I was constipated and went ti the student medical center expecting to be given laxatives or an enema. I wasn't expecting a rectal exam. I was made to bend over the table and in went the finger. It was very uncomfortable, even with ample lubricant and the doctor repeatedly telling me to relax. It was only after he took his finger out that I realized that my legs and butt were tightly clenched and I was holding my breath the whole time. Nowadays, my urologist always has me point my toes when I bend over, with my legs apart and knees slightly bent. He also instructs me to take deep breaths through my mouth. I find that although my sphincter tightens reflexively after anal penetration, this lasts for only a few seconds, and for the rest of the exam, it completely relaxes as if I was taking a poop. It makes things a lot easier for both of us, since he often needs to be in there for quite some time in order to massage a prostate sample. Yes, you do feel completely exposed during the exam, and you can't hold your farts in this position.

I have been bent over the table several times...but never ask to point my toes...he has reached up and moved my arms farther apart to get me flatter to the table I assume.

I've had exam with elbows on the exam table and in the Sims position. I was never asked to turn my toes in. I just tired the toes in position and its does tend to spread the cheeks a little bit more so it might be a little easier for the exam. Many years ago when I joined the military. We, the recruits, were only in our undershorts in a circle. We were told to turn around, facing the outside of the circle, bend over and spread our cheeks. The doctor and his assistant went around the circle visually examining each of our butts. We guessed that it was a check for hemorrhoids.

I have never had to bend over for a rectal. They have all been done on my left side.

Have had exams bent over but have never been asked to point my toes.

Usually bent over, however a couple of times asked to get on all fours