| ▲ | lifestyleguru 5 hours ago |
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| ▲ | gherkinnn 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| A doc holding your balls and asking you to cough checks for an inguinal hernia, where your intestine pushes through the inguinal canal. This canal is much wider in men, hence it being much more common in men. I am in no position to judge the procedure on a medical basis but know that it is (or was) near universal for potential recruits and has become a bit of a meme. Your strong reaction to this procedure is something for you to dwell on. |
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| ▲ | GetMeSoon 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The medical examination doesn’t say much. Your take on it that they’re perverts wanting to look at genitals tells more than you think |
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| ▲ | lifestyleguru 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | If it's such a non issue, why are they doing it? Ask a boy if he wants to show his genitals to the commission, we all know what will be the answer. |
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| ▲ | Propelloni 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's, like, your obsession, not their's. |
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| ▲ | lifestyleguru 43 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I don't care. It's when you refuse then they become obsessed to enforce and conduct the examination. |
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| ▲ | anonyfox 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| whats the deal here with the genitals? normal part of life, and having someone check if theres nothing weird/curious in a full body health check doesn't sound unreasonable. was okay for me too. and girls do get their private parts inspected deeper every year at the female health docs than once in a lifetime ball touching from some drafter, different level, just accept it |
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| ▲ | 09725290216 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Don't be ridiculous. You really don't see a difference between someone choosing to see a doctor for their own benefit and the state forcing someone to be subjected to an examination for the state's benefit? Nobody should accept gender discrimination or being touched without consent. | | |
| ▲ | AnimalMuppet 33 minutes ago | parent [-] | | How far do you take that? One medical condition that has been considered militarily relevant is flat feet. If the state can draft people, can they make you show them your feet? If you can't avoid the draft but can avoid the medical exam, isn't that a way of avoiding the draft? | | |
| ▲ | lifestyleguru 32 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > can they make you show them your feet? I see a subtle difference between being barefoot and showing cock and balls to half dozen strangers. I know of at least one American president who avoided drafting because of his "feet situation". |
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| ▲ | dot_treo 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It used to be that way, and probably will be that way again. I know of a few of people who got an early testicular cancer diagnosis that way. So it seems that there is a medical use for it. |
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| ▲ | lifestyleguru 36 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Military medical exam is not for medical diagnosis! They don't care, they're there to enforce. It's worth the same as a dude pissing into urinal next to you and saying "nice balls mate". For official medical diagnosis you have to go through the procedures within healthcare system in your country. |
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| ▲ | junon 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Isn't this just a standard part of a physical exam? |
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| ▲ | adrian_b 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I do not know if this has changed during the recent decades, but indeed in the past it was standard in all countries for the military fitness physical exam to be done nude (for males). Moreover, it was completely pointless to be shy about this, because if you were conscripted, the norm was to have common showers, so anyone could have a good look at you for much more than the few seconds of the physical exam. | |
| ▲ | lifestyleguru 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Then why girls don't have to show their genitals during medical exam? EDIT. I'm serious. Few girls are summoned (e.g. medical related education). They don't have to show their genitals. | | |
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| ▲ | sajithdilshan 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Isn't that just part of a physical exam in general? I remember the first physical exam I had in collage we all had to do that. |
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| ▲ | hackandthink 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I had to undress back then. But anyway: "The Clash - The Call Up (Official Video)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ScaGjwkg2Y |
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| ▲ | riffraff 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| eh, this stirs memories of the similar exam in Italy (abolished ~20 years ago). The doctor would also grab your testicles and ask to cough, to diagnose varicocele. I wonder how many young men have undiagnosed issues since the military exam was abolished. |
