No lubricant for self-taking R/T

I prefer vaseline over oil or water based types.

A drop of water or a quick pick works. Although, dry inserts works too. Glass thermometers rarely puts up resistance.

Vaseline all the way. I will occasionally use ky if I'm talking a quick temp but almost always prefer Vaseline. It is what was used in my childhood and just feels better for rectal temps than the super slippery KY Jelly.

When I was first experimenting as a kid, I wouldn't lubricate the things I'd use as thermometers 😂 it was quite an experience!

What are those unlubricated objects you experienced with, @Penny?

I can do it without lube,because thermometer is small for my asshole

@SadisticDaddy mostly pencils and markers, but I also played a little with damn near anything small and phallic shaped!

The feeling of an un lubricant cold glass thermometer is amazing

I never lubricant the thermometer

A rim job can be a great lubricant as well

Yes. I'm wholly unsure how my parents used to take my temperature when I was little, but I don't recall being given lubricant when asked to take my temperature. I just bore down to open the hole and gently inserted the tip.

My mom never used any lube. She just pried my cheeks apart really far apart to open my anus and stuck it in. She fid RTs that way til I was 13. Enemas stopped at that time as well.

When I was little and in yhe hospital, I don't remember the nurses using any Vaseline either.

@JMM

I usually don’t have time to use Vaseline, and clean it up afterwards. I prefer it, but if it gets on your hands, clothes, or sheets, it’s a mess.

Have you considered using a water based lube, such as the classic K-Y Jelly? Very easy to clean up.

It depends on the thermometer. The old style slender glass thermometer with the bulb at the end was inserted a good two inches into the rectum. That would be uncomfortable without lube. The newer (at least in the US) Geratherm type thermometers have a skinny tip, like the old oral thermometers, and then a wide shoulder. It's meant for only the tip to be introduced into the anus, not even a rectal temp technically. For that one, lube isn't as necessary.

To update my last post on this topic, I never use lube for the thermometer. I use two thermometers, both to get a better confirmation of my temperature, which has been spiking lately, and to have something in my hand to arouse me, while I’m waiting. I don’t doubt that there are adults who would find it uncomfortable without lube. I’ve met a couple of women who refused a rectal temperature for that reason. Another one refused it because she thought it was “inappropriate for a teen or adult to have their temperature taken that way.” That was a very boring and predictable woman.

Today I do not use lube most times the thermometer slides right in