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Subject: Re: My Son's Experience


Author:
steve52
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Date Posted: 13:42:38 04/06/25 Sun
Author Host/IP: 73.119.58.191
In reply to: Angela 's message, "My Son's Experience" on 11:34:20 04/04/25 Fri

I would have been humiliated to have a genital exam done in front of my mother at 17.

When I was 18 and a college freshman I was admitted to a hospital for an inguinal hernia repair. It is done on an outpatient basis these days, but in 1970 you were admitted to the hospital, operated on the next day, and then stay in the hospital for 5-6 days. Although I was 18, I was put in a Pediatric Ward because of a shortage of adult beds. Not long after my parents left, an older nurse came into the room that I shared with another teenage boy. She said it was time for blood pressure, pulse and temperature. She told me to roll over. I asked why. She said I have to take your temperature, and this is how we do it on this ward. I refused. She said that we have other children your age and older and they don’t object. I said I am not a child and I won’t have it done that way. They ended up calling my surgeon. He told them that I was right, and to take it orally.

Later that evening a middle age nurse and a young student nurse wheeled in a stand with three big bags hanging from it. The nurse told me I needed to get an enema. I was so naive at the time I did not know what an enema was. When she told me what was going to happen I was horrified. It was necessary to clean me out before the abdominal surgery. They were professional administering the three bags. The cramps were bad, but I got through it. The only enema of my life.

When I woke up after the operation I noticed I had been shaved down below. I was happy this was done when I was under anesthesia. In 1970 there was a lot of nudity of teenage boys in front of nurses and others. Modesty was not a consideration. Anyone under 21 was considered a child by most of the staff and did not merit privacy.

Has anybody else experienced this?




>My children are now grown, but I thought i would share
>my son's experience growing up. He was extremely
>modest and never went around the house in any state of
>undress and would become extremely embarrassed at
>doctor visits and any situation involving nudity.
>
>Then when he started puberty just before age 13, he
>reversed course. I suspect he just became comfortable
>no longer being a "little" boy.
>
>One afternoon, he came home from baseball practice and
>was covered head to toe in dirt. As our bi-weekly
>housekeeper had just cleaned the floors, I ordered
>Jeff straight to the laundry room off the back entry
>and told him to take everything off and drop straight
>to the hamper. I expected him to come out draped in a
>towel from a stack on the shelf, but he entered the
>kitchen fully naked in front of me, Flora the
>housekeeper and his little sister Lisa. Without a hint
>of embarrassment, he walked over to the refrigerator,
>poured a glass of sports drink and headed to his
>bathroom to shower. There was stunned silence from
>me, Flora and Lisa.
>
>Shortly after that, he earned a spanking one day and I
>sent him to his room for a cooling off period. In the
>past, I would have expended some effort to pull his
>pants down. This time, i walked into his room and he
>was already on his bed naked reading a book and simply
>rolled over to present his bare bottom for the belt.
>
>The last time I saw him naked was at 17 when I took
>him for his last doctor check-up before leaving home
>for college. And even though he was now very much a
>man, there was no embarrassment whatsoever as the
>nurse practitioner did his genital exam in front of me.

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Author:
Angela
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Date Posted: 13:11:43 04/07/25 Mon
Author Host/IP: 107.215.19.132

Steve,

A couple of responses to your reply. One my son had the option of being seen privately at the doctor's after 15, but asked me to go with him the last three times 15-17.

The only matter coming even remotely close to your experience is my husband starting his annual prostate DREs when he turned 45 - there is no modesty!

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steve52
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Date Posted: 14:01:22 04/07/25 Mon
Author Host/IP: 73.119.58.191


Kudos to your son if he was not embarrassed to be naked in front of you. I was not being judgmental. I was a shy kid.

Your husband is absolutely right. No modesty with a DRE. Has he gotten a colonoscopy yet? I get put under while it is done, so I don’t care how many people see my backside, but I know it is several. It is nothing to them.




Steve,
>
>A couple of responses to your reply. One my son had
>the option of being seen privately at the doctor's
>after 15, but asked me to go with him the last three
>times 15-17.
>
>The only matter coming even remotely close to your
>experience is my husband starting his annual prostate
>DREs when he turned 45 - there is no modesty!

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Author:
Angela
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Date Posted: 12:42:39 04/08/25 Tue
Author Host/IP: 107.215.19.132

Yes we have both had colonoscopies, but it isn't like a DRE or vaginal exam with your private parts completely on display.

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