Female doctor / glans touched foreskin retracted

During a routine checkup, the doctor usually retracts the foreskin and checks the glans for abnormalities.

As a female doctor, I am wondering if there is a difference in feeling for the patient when a female urologist will do that compared to a male one and why ?

Never happened to me

Retraction of the foreskin is a standard part of a routine examination of the penis

Went to hospital some time back for prostate checks, turned out to be a fairly attractive female doctor, she had me lie on my left side and inserted her finger into me........pressed this and that, then had me stand and she felt my cock and balls, is that ususal for prostate checks ?

What you describe about the prostate check is correct, laying on the side, feeling the prostate with the finger and after that I always do an ultrasound still.

I'm not sure why she had to feel your penis and testicles, not needed if it's only a prostate check

While I don't have a foreskin - sigh - the genital exam is generally the same regardless of the physician's gender. Each physician has their own techniques, but it doesn't seem to be gender specific.

While I don't have a foreskin - sigh

I understand your sigh, I also have several patients who regret they got circumcised

I had no choice at 8 days old.

I had no choice at 8 days old.

Oh, i see, that way....

I had no choice at 8 days old.

For many people of my parents age, those who were old enough to have experienced WWII and occupation, being circumcised could end up being a one-way ticket East on a transport to a KZ. They therefore had horrid associations with the practice, since in their wartime experience it could very well mean a death sentence. It was not easy to lightly explain away a circumcision as being anything but religious.

And since many of them had already endured 2 occupations, there was no guarantee of a war free future. And who knew what that might bring? Better not to have any associations with practices that had often resulted in death or slave labor ...

My parents were born in the US. Religion trumped fear. There are lasting problems in this country because people haven't learned from history - not circumcision, I don't want to get OT and political.

I can't say that I've noticed much of a difference, really. Any physician I've had, male or female, I haven't noticed a difference in feeling when my foreskin is retracted.

Female urologist

I'm not sure why she had to feel your penis and testicles, not needed if it's only a prostate check

2014.12.08 06:12

My female urologist had check my prostate,by the way had exam my genital,she said that are relation .

Why after a dre still need do a ultrasound? Ihad a ultrasound check before DRE. I see ultrasound check is rather rough.

Female urologist

I'm not sure why she had to feel your penis and testicles, not needed if it's only a prostate check

2014.12.08 06:12

My female urologist had check my prostate,by the way had exam my genital,she said that are relation .

Why after a dre still need do a ultrasound? Ihad a ultrasound check before DRE. I see ultrasound check is rather rough.

If the doctor felt something unusual, they will want to image it as minimally invasive and cost effective as possible. The transrectal ultrasound (is that what you're talking about?) is the easiest test to look at the prostate in detail.

For me its always more exciting if female urologist/doctor does the exam. And prefer woman pulling my foreskin back they are more gentle.

Well, I would have to say that it depends....in terms of sensitivity, I feel absolutely no difference whether it's a female doctor or a male doctor examining me. Where I do notice a distinction between a female or a male doctor is with their method of examination. In my experience, female doctors are more gentle than their male counterparts. The female doctors retract my foreskin slowly and use relatively light pressure when examining my glans in detail, whereas with the male physicians, I found that they are not as gentle both when pulling back my foreskin and while examining me.

Females docs are overall more gentle sometimes too much so. Male docs are more realistic in roughness probably since they own the equipment.

Of course retracting the foreskin is unnecessary in those circumcised. I will weigh in again that I think health issues suggest that circumcision is a good idea. This is an individual decision however. I'm sure I will incur some wrath for thinking this.

Females docs are overall more gentle sometimes too much so. Male docs are more realistic in roughness probably since they own the equipment.

You would think female docs would know better.

When I was a teenager discussing sex with my girlfriends, they often said they were afraid of hurting their boyfriends and asking them if they were OK after jerking them off and the guys always said they were fine and to jerk them harder and faster when they cum.

If a guy has no trouble having an erection and sex, you do not have to be gentle retracting the foreskin. Just do it.

A lot of women are much too gentle. I have watched a lot of guys jerk off, and they really tear at it.

I think much has to do with the lack of 1st hand experience. Women need to rely on communicative partners and having experience while all men know what it's like to touch a penis. Not an absolute, just a general impression.

I have watched a lot of guys jerk off, and they really tear at it.

Well, when men are in the heat of sexual passion or excitement, they do things and enjoy sensations that in other more everyday situations they would definitely not want to do or have done. Not necessarily because of any possible embarrassment factor, but simply because it feels very different.

Which is why I really thank the female doctors I have known for generally being more careful and gentle. Since their exams aren't sexual in nature, slow and gentle is best.

Come on, how gentle to you have to be retracting a foreskin in a person without a foreskin problem? The foreskin takes a beating during sex and masturbation.

Come on, how gentle to you have to be retracting a foreskin in a person without a foreskin problem? The foreskin takes a beating during sex and masturbation.

During sex and masturbation is a different situation, there are undoubtedly all sorts of chemistry alterations in the body, adrenalin flowing, whatever. These cause a different experience of sensations along with the mind being fixated on other matters than the mundane.

Maybe it's like squeezing a female breast? In the heat of passion you can put more pressure into the squeezing than in other circumstances.

I should think it the most elementary expectation that during sexual activity all manner of changes in physical sensations occur.

Come on, how gentle to you have to be retracting a foreskin in a person without a foreskin problem? The foreskin takes a beating during sex and masturbation.

Let me turn that around. Suppose you like agressive nipple play when aroused. What happens if someone just comes up and tweaks your nipple without any arousal?

That's the way I'm wired. Just cold, you get punched in the face. In the heat of lovemaking, I'll be asking for more.

Guys, I'm not talking about ripping off the foreskin, just effectively/firmly retracting it in a non-tickling manner. For a female physician to retract it more gently than an uncircumcised man would when he urinates, is too gentle.

Semantics.

The exam I teach it to handle the penis firmly but not aggressively. Repetitive motions and very light, tickling manipulation should be avoided.

All my childhood and puberty it has been a female doc... they are very much sensitive and caring when they are touching the glans or retracting foreskins and always made me comfortable.

I have a friend who is an NP-RN and she frequently has to give men physicals as part of her job at the clinic she works at. She told me she prefers to examine circumcised men as the penis head is usually cleaner. However when retracting the the foreskin on some men, especailly the younger ones, will cause a slight erection and on a few occasions even had them start ejaculating during that part of the exam.

Quite honestly, I really never noticed a difference until you asked.

Now that I think about it, for some reason, male doctors usually are (or have been in the past) more likely to ask me to retract my foreskin, while female doctors/NPs would usually do it themselves as part of the genital exam.

May I ask again? Do doctors really retract the foreskin or do they tell you to do it? No fantasy here just an honest question. In my career as an emergency physician I never retracted a foreskin. I asked the patient to do so in the very times I saw an uncircumcised male.