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Originally Posted by Gnome72141
That stood out to me, too, so I stopped reading there!
What? Where? What college? Which century?
My ex-wife didn't see a gyn for the first time until just before our wedding, well after college.
Most women see a gyn their first time long before that for a variety of reasons, even if they aren't sexually active.
And a "physical" is just with their GP, not a gyn.
Where do people come up with this stuff? It's entertaining to read the defenses, though!  |
My wife's uni (public State University) didn't require a physical for admission. But mine did (Private University). I was required to get a pre-admission physical from my GP, which was added to my admission packet -- pre-interweb days. If memory serves, the school claimed it was a health requirement for dormitories in case someone had tuberculosis. I'm not sure how a hernia check (turn and cough) relates to respiratory illnesses. We all had to get a follow-up physical from the campus nurse mid-way through our first semester. It was the most physically painful physical of my life. The nurse squeezed my testicles during the hernia check.
Hardly fun stuff, that. When I told my (future) wife about that, she was appalled and replied she would have abandoned the notion of earning a degree if it involved requisite physicals. FYI, it was the late 1980s and both universities were located in the American Mid-West.
As for physicals specifically required by a gyno (in lieu of a GP), I'd read that for decades (1940s-1970s?) some American Ivy League colleges required nude posture photos taken of all female students. Those female students allegedly also underwent a full gyno exam too. I don't recall the reasons for that, or whether either is true. Upon first reading about that, I was relieved my wife didn't go to an Ivy League School as a gyno exam would have been pure torture given her chronic vaginismus.