"Can you explain wtf happens to my dick when I go to my doctor? I ususlly have a decent hang even at the gym or when I get naked with friends but when I have to get naked for a physical my balls and dick shrivel up. It's kind of embarrasing."
Even guys who get a semi or even a full-on boner when they're naked in front of others can have this issue when going to a doctor. It's all in the head, as the saying goes. It's a common malady.
It's called "shrinkage." And it's not only cold water or ambient temperature that can make your cock and / or balls withdraw. Anxiety is a well-known cause. I believe what you're experiencing is called "White Coat Syndrome" and is typically evident in blood pressure readings. Some people naturally get nervous and anxious when dealing with medical personnel.
When your doctor examines you, he can tell it's happening so there's no need to be embarrassed by the phenomenon.
If you can, use mind over matter and relax.
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I confirm it, it has happened to me a lot!!! Even when I was going to my urologist, I would massage my dick to make it seem bigger, and even so, it would always go limp.
By the way, I've been reading this blog for so many years (thanks Patrick) that I thought I was the only paranoid one who was afraid of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. I'm quite sexual, I always want to be with someone for sex, but at the same time, I always feel the anguish and anxiety that someone might transmit a disease to me. Over the years, I attributed it to having a physical disability (incomplete paraplegia), but that wasn't the case. It turns out I'm a 'Nosophobic,' and that's where it all comes from – an uncontrollable phobia and a paralyzing fear that turns my life and thoughts into a nightmare before or after having sex.
Even when I've had sex, I've conducted an interrogation with the men I've been with that not even the FBI would dare to do, and even after that, I keep asking to alleviate my doubts.
Then, I get tested every three months, and it's torture. I discovered that there is treatment and that it is highly common in gay men and some heterosexuals.
I haven't started treatment with any therapist yet, but from reading, I know I'm not alone.
What's-his-name on Seinfeld called it the 'frightened turtle' syndrome.
--PaulMmn
I know that happens to many friends of mine too. It's all mergers and anxiety. Much the same....it never fails many get a high blood pressure reading because of nerves.
Of course...my new doctor is hot. I never fails I get an erection in front of them, to complete opposite issue.I really need to stop with the scenario in my head with him. Of course she's unaware of when I get it. Although he puts me at ease, and tells me it's actually easier to feel for abnormalities if there are any, when the cock is hard. Which makes me wonder why doctors don't want us to get hard before they check our cock?
I can't say I have ever suffered from "shrinking cock" syndrome. Mine tends to harden, and my doc has never commented on it, nor seemed perturbed by it. But hell, brothers, either way, your doc knows the male body, and it's nothing to be shy about. My urologist says it splits 50-50...half the men he sees get hard, half shrink. So either way, you're okay.
this is also called the "David Syndrome" for actors that have to act fully naked on the stage, as Daniel Radcliffe did in Equus years ago.
It is VERY rare that actors pops a boner while on stage (except on a semi porn play where it is needed to have one).
It is the same on nudist environments: if you go to a family-oriented nudist place, as a nude beach, you get some shrinkage. If you go to a dark-room and take it out or go nude, you pop a boner immediately (at least me)
One might also be anxious about popping a boner in front of the doctor...
My guess is doctors truly don’t even notice, but it seems to me it would be the good news, it means that everything is working like it’s supposed to. Happy weekend. Turn off the news THAT will raise your blood pressure. Hugs and bisous.
I like the photo of the guy examining the contents of his underpants. Next step, I suppose, to use a microscope or a telescope.
Hugs and bisous, my darlings Jean and Pat.
Have a wondrous weekend.
It's anxiety, but remember: Doctors have seen hundreds of guys naked.
My bout with anxiety was middle school, as my pediatrician started feeling there to gauge my growth (and check for cancer) but back then I was more likely to get erect or even shoot in his hand. (Did so once.) These days, I just laugh it off and hey, I get as good of a hang that can be expected for cold air.
@Anon: I dated a girl in college whose parents were nudists. Her father insisted males (at least males over, say, 14) could control erections, but I still got spontaneous ones, as did her brothers.
@ nakedswimmer - My brother his family belong to a nudist club, and he said the same thing to me once as he regaled me with tales of young men getting erections. I told him to go do some research before he made assanine statements like that.
@ Jean - Lately, we've been watching less and less news. Not only does it raise blood pressure, it can be depressing. But that Judge Chutkin sure does make me smile - for now, anyway. Hugs and bisous.
I know. My doc started feeling down there and I shrinkage and that embarrassing my Dad who saw it
@ demian - it was my understanding that there is medication now that significantly reduces the risk of getting HIV, which should help ease anxiety over that particular disease, quite apart from the usual safer sex practices. There are also vaccines for some other sexually transmitted infections, although not all. So whilst you may need therapy for your condition, the triggers for it can be significantly reduced these days.
George Castanza! Great Seinfeld episode!! Had zero shrinkage when my urologist was all over my cock and balls the other day... Helps that he's kinda cute. Was really focused on not to get a boner...
Haha, that is some archaic anxiety, some kind of castration anxiety! Your body wants to protect the jewels to avoid getting them hurt.
@Anon 8/12 1234:
I mean, when I was that age, I came at a touch. Embarrassing in front of my dad.
I should mention a whole generation of boys on one reservation were molested by one pediatrician, and the other IHS doctors laughed when it came out, but this was one touch, not anything untoward. (For one, my dad was there to put a stop to that.)
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