The day of my exam I reported to the local clinic and was ushered, along with 100 or so other boys of my age into a room where a middle aged matron announced that we were to remove all our clothes, watches ,jewelry, etc and place them in lockers. After we had stripped we all stood around waiting for our exam. During this period people would come in and out of the room, some were medical personnel but most were not. Our names were called in groups of about 10 and we reported to a woman clerk who couldn’t have been more than 18 or 19. While we were standing there in the nude she asked each our name and DOB and gave each of us a folder to carry with us throughout the exam. The exam process was more like an assembly line, you went from one clinician to the next with each one only examining part of you. The examiners were either middle aged matrons or young women. When it was time for our genital exam the woman who did this was about 20 and she took about 30 seconds to check for hernia, feel the testicles and penis and place two fingers in your crotch while she put upward pressure on it.The final part was of course the rectal exam and for that they had two women who had a supply of gloves next to them, we would walk up to an exam table and bend over it while she very quickly inserted a finger in the rectum, pull it out, discard the glove and move on to the next.Urine would be collected in an old fashioned enamel hand held urinal that we would hand to a clerk who pour some of the urine into a small glass with a paper slip with our name under it… I almost forgot, for our chest xray we had to walk into to hallway, still naked, and walk 100 ft or so to the facilities with women, girls, boys, children all around us and waited in the corridor till our turn.
(STORY BY: Peter)

Some years ago my parents sent me to camp in upstate NY. After a few days one of the counselors called me aside and told me to see the camp nurse. When I went to see he she told me that my parents had not sent or the camp had not received the results of my medical exam as required from all campers. Therefore she would examine me. The nurse was a woman of about 60-65, I’m not sure but I think she was actually a retired nurse. In any case she told me to take off my T-shirt, sneakers and socks. I thought this wouldn’t be so bad if that’s all she going to do. When I got up off the table she told me, to my shock, to drop my shorts and underpants. She proceeded to examine my testicles and penis and when she was finished handed me a cup and told me to stand over the sink and pee into it. When it was all finished and I went back to the bunk room in the camp and several other campers came over and asked if had to show the nurse my penis. Apparently it was well known by the experienced campers that any visit to the nurse for ANY reason would result in a full examination including the genitalia. Even if you whent to see her for a spained ankle she would have you strip…
(STORY BY: Tommy)

I am only 19 now and i have been suicidal due to the forced exam I was given. I was EXTREMELY MODEST and REFUSED many exams but eventually my parents literally higher guards and I was dragged into an office kicking and screaming and crying and given a rigourous exam with many people present…I was too busy screaming to really get much of it…but holy hell… It was the most traumatizing experience I have ever had and I will never go to another doctor again, other than cosmetic. And it is all too true. The medical profession is disgusting… The only way I can cope with it is to continually relive it and I have turned it into some sick and twisted fantasy now…that is the only way I can deal with it….that think of it as a fantasy…
(STORY BY: Julian)

I recently had a rectal exam by a female nurse practitioner. She was very professional with one exception. She did my regular check on thyroid listened to my heart and lungs. She then did the regular organ check stomach liver etc. Then told me to get undressed to my socks and put on gown i knew then she was going to give me a rectal the problem was my primary care physician sent me for colonoscopy. When I had called the Gastroenterologist office they told me that i would be seeing the Nurse Practitioner then the doctor I falsely assumed the doctor was going to do the DRE i just don’t think its right to be kept in dark so to speak on who will do exam. I have no complaints except why do they not disclose that she would be doing exam and why didn’t she tell me and just spring it on me. She did fine job very professional otherwise. I just don’t like surprises I didn care about chaperone for her but they seem so hesitant to tell you anything till last moment just so unprofessional. I think doctors need to be taken down a peg very inconsiderate and its like there chickens afraid to talk

to patients.
(STORY BY: Richard)

When I wrestled during college, before a tournament all wrestlers are weighed and subjected to a full bodied skin check. During a skin check an athlete stands nude with arms away from the body and a doctor inspects his body for rashes, sores or any abnormality. This is usually done in the locker room. Even though the rules state that weigh ins and skin checks are done in private with only wrestlers, coaches and tournement officials present that was rarely the case. While us wrestlers are lined up waiting to be weighed and checked out by a doctor, people always seemed to wander into the locker room. School alumni, faculity members, dads, etc. A couple of times med-students (some females) studying dermotology would be allowed to observe the doctor conduct skin checks on us wrestlers, nobody ever asked us if it would be okay or if we mind…
(STORY BY: Paduca)