MALES - Position for rectal temperature

I always push it down between my legs…laying directly on top of it can get uncomfortable after a while, especially if it’s hard

Yes I like to press my penis against the sheet and move slowly

When having my rectal temp taken I prefer to be in knee-chest position. My penis can be either hanging down or, if erect, pressed up against my abdomen. Obviously, this isn't in a medical situation, it's just for fun, enjoyment, and erotic pleasure.

When I am taking my rectal temperature in my bottom with the glass rectal thermometer, I am always laying on a double sheet, on my tummy, on my bed. This was the way that mom, all my older sisters, mom's neighbor lady friends, all my older sister's friends, and all the nurses at the clinic took it when I was younger.

I always lower my underwear to my knees or completely remove them after I am laying on my tummy. When I lower them down to my knees, or completely remove them, my penis slides down between my legs and against the double sheet on the bed.

At home, I was always told to lay on my tummy with my arms at my side, and to look at the pictures and posters on the wall. At the clinic, all the nurses always told me to turn my head and look at the animal paintings on the wall. After that they lowered my underwear-shorts to my knees or completely removed them. This varied on where and who was taking my rectal temperature in my bottom with the glass rectal thermometer.

When my underwear-shorts were lowered down my waist, over my bottom-cheeks, and down my legs, my penis would slide down between my legs and against the sheet on my bed at home, or the white crinkly paper on the examination table at the clinic.

At home, while laying on my bed, on my tummy, my arms at my side, I am told to lay still and to continue looking at the pictures and posters on the wall. I hear them say this, but I always turn my head and watch whoever was going to take my rectal temperature in my bottom prep the glass rectal thermometer's silver pear-shaped bulb and glass shaft with Vaseline.

At the clinic, I also turn my head and watch all the nurses take the glass rectal thermometer from the examination room's refrigerator and prep the glass rectal thermometer's silver pear-shaped bulb and glass shaft with Vaseline at the examination room's countertop area. After entering the examination room, and I am undressing to my underwear-shorts, I always see the nurse's take the large jar of Vaseline from one of the upper cabinets above the countertop area of the examination room.

It seems that I always see them do this at every visit to the clinic. When the nurses see me watching them, they always smile and continue setting up the room for my physical checkup or sickness visit.

Once they are done setting up the examination room, the nurses take the clipboard with the examination form on it and write more information on it while they wait for me to finish undressing to my underwear-sorts for the physical checkup or sickness visit.

I already knew that "rectal temperatures only" was already preprinted and highlighted in red on the examination form. Mom had told me that she requested this when she filled out the initial new patient information form when she brought me to the clinic for my initial physical checkup.

All the nurses always took rectal temperatures on all the patients during all physical checkups and sickness visits. The lead nurse administrator said that it was a standard clinic policy and recommended by all the doctors and nurses that worked there.

Maybe yes it was in the good old times, now they have other devices and they dont need to pants guys and penetrate their anus

My wife always takes my rectal temperature in a position at her own choosing. More times than not, she has my lying on my back, then raise my knees so she can get access to my rectum. If my junk is in the way, she'll lift my ball sack up so she can see my butthole to stick the thermometer in. I kind of like it this way because it reminds me of the way nurses took my temperature when I was a little boy. She also knows how to hit my prostate every single time with the thermometer, angles it upward slightly. So that willy stands straight up and stays out of her way once she's done the insertion. The submission factor of having to keep eye contact with her while she's holding the thermometer up my butt is priceless. All the while my prostate feels like it has electricity flowing through it because she knows how to hit that magic spot.

The OP’s question is usually not a concern for me. I’m not very endowed so when I lie on my stomach, my penis really doesn’t go in either direction. More often than not, it probably is slight up, toward my stomach rather than down between my legs. I do occasionally enjoy the feeling of pushing it downward, between my legs though, and usually that will make it firm up. It just feels out of place and not right. It’s is a pleasantly uncomfortable feeling, especially when face down on the floor. I usually take my own temperature rectally and I’ll alternate between face down on the bed or floor, on my back with knees bent and legs elevated, or occasionally kneeling or standing across a footstool or bed so my bottom is elevated for ease of entrance.

I was always instructed to ‘roll over’ and drop whatever I was wearing below the waist. I don’t recall the positioning of my penis to be of concern… except for the one time at age 15 when my grandfather took my temp rectally because it was the only thermometer he had. During that one… ya, I got a hard on.

@Nick321, the reason adult patients getting a rectal temperature (a rarity these days!) would be instructed to lie on their left side is because most practitioners—like most of the world at large—are right-handed, and it makes the job easier for them.

I thought there were actual anatomical reasons for it too though something to do with the way the colon curves or something (obviously a rectal thermometer doesn’t go in that far but I figured it was just a habit thing)