# Ladies: Socks on or off at the OBGYN? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 5, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789 "2010-01-05T20:10:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/41 "2010-01-07T01:55:28Z")
Socks on, Bra on, but hitched up out of the way, shirt on but moved when the Doc needs access. There just isn’t really any reason to get fully undressed, as far as I’m concerned. Besides, it’s usually COLD in the office. I’m staying warm, thank you very much. Not only that, but I sometimes worry that, one day, there’s going to be an emergency and I’ll be lying there undressed. If that were to happen, all I gotta do is grab my pants, purse, shoes, and coat (weather permitting) and I’m outta there! ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/42 "2010-01-07T03:33:16Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > There are only two times my socks come off, and doctor visits are not one of the two. Showers and pedicures? ---
**Author:** ![ladyalltheway1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@ladyalltheway1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyalltheway1)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/43 "2012-01-21T21:04:11Z")
The best alternative is when those navy, crew socks are actually offered to you as an option! They’re great and at least one practice allows you take your pair home at no extra charge! Now that’s an exceptional OB/GYN!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/44 "2012-01-22T06:15:44Z")
Was that woman wearing socks when she was being examined by Dr. Rumack in _Airplane!_? I think the correct way to get examined is to do whatever that woman did. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/45 "2012-01-22T22:32:28Z")
Always, always, no matter what time of the year, the waiting room is a refrigerator, and the exam rooms are a freezer! I’ve been known to throw a sweater around my shoulders while sitting on the table wearing the paper dress. One doctor insisted on doing extensive charting, while I’m in a paper towel developing frostbite. I finally said, “Can I get dressed now, I’m freezing!” “Oh, sorry.” I do wear my socks, but I have a very thorough doc and she wants to check the pulses in my feet. She pulls the socks off and hands them to me. WHY can’t they use some type of hand warmer, and heat up that stethoscope? ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/46 "2012-01-22T23:21:49Z")
I’m surprised the phrase “I’ll be in my bunk” hasn’t been used in this thread. BTW, I’ll be in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/47 "2012-01-22T23:24:28Z")
What a weird question…but I’ll bite…socks on. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/48 "2012-01-22T23:31:10Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I’m surprised the phrase “I’ll be in my bunk” hasn’t been used in this thread. > > BTW, I’ll be in my bunk. Ew, creepy. Trust me, sex is the last thing we’re thinking of as we lay on that hard table covered in paper with our legs bent and up and stuffed into those metal stirrups, with our cold asses hanging off the edge. But hey, you have fun. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/49 "2012-01-23T02:19:13Z")
If I’m wearing socks when I go in they stay on. Does anyone else’s doctor have funny posters on the ceiling of the exam room? Mine does. Last time I was in I suggested a flat-screen TV up there. She laughed and said she’d think about it. ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/50 "2012-01-23T03:09:05Z")
> [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Does anyone else’s doctor have funny posters on the ceiling of the exam room? Mine has Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow - which I think is brilliant. Candy for us adult women, and completely innocuous for women bringing in children. I’m usually wearing leggings, so the socks come off with the leggings. Never been an issue for me. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/51 "2012-01-23T04:02:02Z")
Video browsing on xhamster proves that most women wear thigh highs and heels And keep them on at the OBGYN. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/52 "2012-01-23T10:57:10Z")
I have gross toenails. The socks stay on 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/53 "2012-01-23T15:38:37Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > Video browsing on xhamster proves that most women wear thigh highs and heels > And keep them on at the OBGYN. And if you ever saw me in the little paper smock, thigh-highs, and stilettos, your family jewels would retreat so fast people would wonder why you’ve got marbles lodged in your forehead 😛 I voted “it depends” since my annual tune-up happens in June. I don’t wear socks during the summer so I don’t have them to worry about. If I had to go another time of year I’d just leave on whatever kind of socks I came in with. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/54 "2012-01-23T16:13:48Z")
Do zombies wear socks in the stirrups? (The poster **ladyalltheway!** resurrected this two-year-old thread, which I only realized because I opened the thread and the poll told me I’d already voted. I just want to know what she was Googling and why…) ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/55 "2012-01-23T17:46:11Z")
:smack: I guess undead ladies have to get their rebirth-control pills from someone. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/56 "2012-01-23T18:56:49Z")
Socks on if I had them on when I came in, but I don’t bring them if I’m wearing sandals. I’m in the cold feet camp, rather than the feel less exposed camp. > [@Dr.Girlfriend](#): > > Does anyone else’s doctor have funny posters on the ceiling of the exam room? Mine does. Last time I was in I suggested a flat-screen TV up there. She laughed and said she’d think about it. My dentist has TV’s mounted on the ceiling above the exam chairs. It would be better with wireless headphones so they could block out any drilling sounds but just watching the CP24 news feeder scroll by is a nice distraction. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/57 "2012-01-23T19:10:38Z")
I’m not a woman, but if I went to a doctor and he wasn’t wearing socks I’d be kind of skeeved about it. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/58 "2012-01-23T21:29:39Z")
Socks on. There is no need to take them off and everything else there is uncomfortable enough, so why add to it by getting cold toes? I don’t care what it looks like. Laying there spread eagle with metal prongs up my vagina must look funny enough. :smack: Which reminds me - time to make an appointment for a yearly check up and a mammogram. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/59 "2012-01-24T13:15:09Z")
> [@Renee](#): > > Yeah, I’m laying there with my legs spread and my cooch exposed while a stranger pokes around my nether-regions and feels up my breasts… my feet are pretty much the last thing I’m thinking about. This. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789/60 "2012-01-25T03:36:35Z")
I had one doctor who put a poster on the ceiling: a mommy bunny rabbit with a slew of little baby bunnies. The caption said, “Take your pill!” ~VOW [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-socks-on-or-off-at-the-obgyn/523789.md?page=4)