In What City And Country Did You Live In Where Your Temperature Was Taken With A Rectal Thermometer?

When I was a child and teenager growing up in Los Angeles in the USA, my pants and white briefs would be pulled down to my ankles and an adult family member, nurse, or doctor would insert a rectal thermometer in my anus to take my temperature. I have vivid memories of how cold the thermometer felt when it was inserted in my anus as well as the warmth of a hand on my bare bottom when my temperature was taken. I currently receive rectal temperature taking at home on a daily basis. I am curious as to what city and country others lived in where their temperature was taken with a rectal thermometer, at what ages they had this experience, and whether they still have a thermometer inserted in their anus for temperature taking.

Rhode Islalnd USA. Late 1960s early 1970’s

Michigan. Never had temps taken rectally, but had numerous enemas during my younger years. Enemas were the "cure all" for whatever ailed us.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada during my childhood through to my mid 20's from the late 1940's through to the early 1970's. I still take it rectally today using the same thermometer that my mother used on me.

I too still have the rectal thermometers mom used on me and my brother, and they still get used.

Detroit, MI. 50s

Southeast USA I got a rectal temperature into the early 80s.

50's thru to the 70's in Central PA. Lewistown.

I grew up in SW CT in Fairfield County 1959-1974 when I left after college. Very, very few (~5) enemas as a child, but many more RT's with the old standard glass thermometer which I liked. I grew up with fetishes for anal and enemas, but not MedFet or RT's.

Eric

I grew up in New Jersey in the 90s, but my temperature was never taken rectally outside of the home. My mother was a first-generation immigrant though, so I imagine the practice followed from elsewhere.

Grew up in Minneapolis area in 70s/80s and got my temp taken rectally at home until middle school, and only a vague memory of getting it that way at the doctor once when I was really little and then once in an ER visit. While I was switched to oral, I did continue to take my own for fun or when playing doctor.

West Virginia...early 80s

Great Neck, N.Y. Nassau County on Long Island, in the mid 1940's to the mid 1960's. It was either my Mom or Step dad, or Aunt or Uncle who would pull my pants and undies down , put me over their laps, slide a dollop of Vaseline into my rosebud hole with their finger and then slide the glass tube with the silver bulb into my rosebud hole and wait 3 to 5 minutes before taking it out and reading it.

If there was a streak of brown on the tissue after wiping the thermometer off, that would mean I would have to have an enema.

Rectal temps was very common on Greece during the 90's. Even at doctors office or hospital visit , either on home , your temperature was checked rectally.

To ericmacson: I'm originally from Stamford, also in Fairfield County. When I was growing up, it was a very Cosmopolitan area. Nothing about it really stood out. It was a nice community for many years, and affordable. Then during the 80's, the greedy and selfish crowd moved in, and ruined it, just as they had done to other areas, and continue to do so, wherever they land. On a similar note, look at how they've artificially inflated the price of vintage rectal thermometers on Ebay, as a primary example. A decade ago, they were priced around $5.00. Now, you're lucky to find them for under $50.00.

Near Nantes, France, in the 1980's and early 1990's.

Indiana near Chicago in the 50's. Great place to be from.

Long Island, New York in early 70’s, and then moved to Palo Alto, in 1974 at age 7. Mom took rectal temp at home until age 10.

NJ in the 1970s, and later in VA while in the hospital.

Grew up Rhode island till I left at 17 when i moved out on my own and went to fire academy. Mom took my temp rectal till 8 after that I snuck it in when she was not looking or was out. I still take rectal now and also use rectal on my son.

Small town in Minnesota on the North Dakota border. If the world ever needed an enema, that’s where the nozzle would go!

VIRGINIA - LATE 80's

Germany. In the 80's. Still normal then for children having rectal temps at home and at the pediatrician.

Good old Dr. Miller insisted that I was hyperactive and had his nurses poke many a rectal thermometer up my heinie hole in Virginia in the mid 70’s through the early 80’s.

Houston Tx 1960 to early 70's

Growing up in the Bronx NY at my pediatrician's office between 1965 and 1973. My temp was taken rectally by the young lady nurse. Always on my belly, legs always spread open. Lots of vaseline.

The Netherlands... Born 1963, not sure when it stopped, but I'm guessing 80's

Was in Rapid City ‘77-Ellsworth AFB. Had a few RTs taken in the state. One on Deadwood! Great state.

Grew up in the Bronx in the 50s/60s. Mother took my RT as needed. Hospitalized in late 50s-got many RTs during the stay.

Central New Jersey, 60s 70s pediatrician always took Rectal