RT covered up

Most of my RTs…bare bottom. A few were covered up for modesty as the caregiver placed a sheet or a towel over my buttocks while the procedure was done. Nice gesture.

I was never covered up

I was told to insert the thermometer into my bottom while under sheets / covers. It preserved modesty.. Also, if I was made to take my temperature it often was because I was actually feverish, so it made sense to cover me.

Can't remember one that was taken cover up at home clinic doc or hospital all bare bum

I don't ever remember being covered.

I was never covered up

My butt was never covered while the thermometer was in my butt. I was told to lie still and don't touch the thermometer. RT's stopped by age 8 but I was not bothered about having family members seeing my butt anyway.

Always uncovered. The sheet or bedspread would probably jiggle the thermometer which might be fun.

The last time I had my temperature taken rectally for real, I was a pre-adolescent, about 11. Because I had been switched to oral temperatures several years before, my mother was almost apologetic about having to take it rectally and pulled up the bedsheets after inserting the thermometer in order to give me more privacy. That was a nice gesture. Unfortunately, she also recounted what was happening to my little sister, who came into the room with a smirk on her face and stayed with me the entire time the thermometer was registering. So, from an embarrassment point of view, I might as well have been left bare.

As a kid, I may have been covered up occasionally while having my rt taken, but for the most part, no. When I met my first guy when I was 18, I absolutely never covered him up. Why would I? The whole point of me taking his rectal temperature was getting aroused by seeing the rectal thermometer sticking out from between his ass cheeks, spreading his ass to look at his sexxy asshole slit puckered up around the stem of the thermometer, and touching and playing with his ass and just enjoying the view of his two hairy ass globes while he's lying on his side with his naked ass exposed for me. Same with all the dozens of other men I've engaged in rectal temperature play with when making love.

Mom and grandma didn’t believe in any kind of cover-up. They wanted you to be visible at all times. I think that was the general consensus in most homes with the 50s and 60s kids.

I don't remember ever being covered as a child when temp was taken. Seem to remember that often the thermometer would be held in place and sometimes moved around, so would have to be uncovered for that. In play exams as an adult, absolutely not.

Experienced many rectal temperatures growing up, mostly in clinical settings. Even in the hospital with me in a bed, I was never covered. You were to lie still and not move around or touch the thermometer.

I was never covered while receiving a rectal thermometer. Out of the three or four nurses who worked in my clinic, one had the habit of inserting the thermometer and then immediately pulling my underpants up and over it to hold it in as she busied herself with other exam room things. Some nurses pulled my underpants to my knees; others would remove them completely and hand them to my mother.

Any form of modesty was never ever a concern to them.

The only time I was covered for a rectal temp was in the hospital. At the doctors office I lay on the exam table with my shorts pulled down to my knees.

I was always a squirmer, couldn't hold still, so nurses took my temperature using the dreaded diaper position. I hated it this way more and more the older I got. A trip to the children's clinic up to age 5 usually meant getting my rectal temperature taken whether I was sick or not. The last time the nurse took my temperature rectally was on an occasion when I really was burning up with a fever. One look at the thermometer over on the counter beside the exam table and I started whimpering. I knew full well what that was and where she was about to put it. Being feverish and irritable, it felt like being impaled by a lubricated icicle. She stuck that thing up my butt for what felt like a mile. I winced and cried some. I couldn't move because she had my ankles crossed and pinned together above. I had to lie there uncovered while other nurses were also in the room asking my mom questions. When you're only 5, being naked in front of women with a thermometer up your butt isn't an issue. I was more uncomfortable than embarrassed because I wanted her really bad to take the thermometer out. It seemed like an eternity.

No. There was no attempt to cover my bare bottom. The only saving grace had to be if my briefs were down at my knees versus removed completely, which was often the norm! It seems like this was what most of us experienced!

Growing up, being covered was never a thing. At home it was over my parent’s lap, at the office it was lying face down on the table, underpants pulled down and left down. Doors open, passersby free to get a view. I saw many of my friends in the same position both at home and at the doctor’s office well into our teenage years. In the hospital you wore a gown, nothing underneath. Everyone was issued a new rectal thermometer, which you got to take home. Nurses would come about every 4 hours to take your temperature, as well as your roommate’s You turned over, they untied the gown, and put the thermometer in. They would hold it in, and when your roommate’s thermometer started to come out, they would go over to him, reposition it, and hold his in. In the hospital, when the thermometer finally came out, you would still be lying there, because another nurse was making the rounds giving everyone their injections.