Groin temperature

I have seen that we always talk about rectal temperature and never about groin temperature. Yet, when I was a child, past the age of the rectal temperature (4 or 5 years) I was measured up to about 12 years of the temperature in the groin, with my legs crossed, and it also happened to many of my school friends. I remember my babysitter, when I was 7-8 years old, put the thermometer in my groin and I liked it a lot. So did my mother and a neighbor who looked after me when my mother was busy at work. Has anyone had the same experience? It would be nice to create a thread on the subject!

Forgive my ignorance but how exactly is a groin temperature taken? Surely not a thermometer inside the urethra - that would be mega painful. I can't imagine how effective a temperature reading would be unless it is in a closed area (in mouth, under the tongue or inside the rectum).

Never heard that one could. There is under one's arm pit, but never heard of groin temp. I suppose it's possible. Curious what other's think or have experienced.

I saw a nurse take my father's temperature this way after a major heart surgery. Electronic devices were not yet available.

A person's temperature is taken to determine their internal body temperature. There seems to be too many variables to get an accurate temperature reading. Maybe it was just wishful thinking to have something between your legs. That's always exciting but not very scientific. Just think if you put an enema bag filled with hot water between your legs and then took your temperature.

I don't know why you'd do it that way. If your going to to all the trouble of exposing the groin, may as well roll them over snd stick it in the rectum.I

I have read about this in a site once, and i thought it was abad translation for a rectal temp.

I have, however, put a thermometer under my balls, and a few cm in my urethra