Why are so many people in the UK outraged by RTs?

It seems that most people here think there is nothing worse than having something inserted in your bottom. They don't care if it is more accurate or even easier. It is just the thought of anyone going down there and "violating" them!. I have had gfs who will have anal sex with me but the minute you mention a rectal temp, you are some sort of weirdo!!!! What is the difference between having a penis up there or a small thermometer??? I would love to get to the bottom of this!!!

I would have to say this is not the case in my experience during a play medical exam setting.

I suppose it could be construed strange if it was suggested outside a play situation, as it's not the most common method of obtaining a person's temperature.

How would someone doing a RT offend ? its my bum hole you will be probing..............this in an enema related site....bring it on !

In America its' the same. Most women think that men with a rectal temp. fetish are gay, weird, perverted, etc. The fact that rectal temps. are a rarity in the U.K.., should tell you about how the culture views it. If you go to other countries, i.e., Denmark, and others that supposedly use rectal temps on a regular basis, their perception may be entirely different. It's a paradox. If you enjoy rectal temps., there's supposedly something wrong with you...but if you enjoy anal toys, and stimulation...then it's acceptable. Strange world we live in.

It seem very strange to me why its seems to be like that now didn't used to be its only since new fangled ways of doing it came out I was talking to nurse last time I was in hospital she was saying the difference in saving time with modern equipment doing ward rounds on obs with modernn infrared ear thermometers taking 30seconds at most bp machines that once cuff in place do it by them selves so can see why hospitals glad old glass rectal has gone but at home it was norm for all mums to use rectal in till forehead strip things were invented in late 70s so why we have gone so anti rectal temp seems very illogical think its down to our over politically correct way of life here now with do-gooders sticking there noses into family life were it doesn't belong I always had rectal temps at home growing up and in hospitals cut of age there was meant to be ten then oral but if had cough or sneezing most nurses still used rectal safer than child biting glass one it was excepted as all had it same way even school nurses did it that way but now teacher cant even put a band aid on child that's bleeding with out hue and cry think gone bit over top in uk.

Well rectal temperatures are used in critical care in the UK, so most ITU (ICU) use them as their method of choice due to the accuracy. We use it exclusively, however with the advent of catheters with a temp attachment were are moving towards them since all our patients have a catheter in.

A few months ago while a massage therapist was doing a house visit, I asked her if she’d take my temperature. I told her I had a rectal thermometer, and if she didn’t want to do it I understood.

It was not an issue for her . She said the rectal temperature was used in her country ( A South American country) She did take it.

And I also had a female friend I met. She was an airline stewardess. She was from France. This was in the early 80s. On one layover she was staying at my place. She said she wasn’t feeling well.

To my surprise she asked if I would take her temperature, and take it rectally.

Long story made short. Went and bought a rectal thermometer ( glass mercury) as all I had was oral. Took her temperature a few times. Luckily she was not seriously ill. She wound up with a cold. Her temp never indicated a fever.

These days there is no need for conventional thermomers used anywhere. Science has given us radiation retection devices which are far easier and more accurate!!

However, it is true, in the UK the relationship with rectal temperature is not very relaxed, perhaps for this reason I understand that there, as in various other European countries, groin temperatures are used on children

Perhaps it comes down to what you were accustomed to whilst growing up, for me that was always oral glass thermometer, thus that is what I would expect, rather than rectal, which I would find odd as it is not my usual experience, thus by extension to medfet, recreating ones experiences is often the excitement, rather than different equipment or practices, for example, whilst an electronic BP is indeed efficient, it is not as exciting to me as a patient having a mercury sphymomanometer used to take my blood pressure, whereas for a younger patient whom has the experience of an electronic BP as a child may well have the opposing reaction, I would equally expect those from countries where rectal thermometers are usual, would find having their mouth invaded by a thermometer a peculiar experience, of course this all pre-supposes that the individual does not find all rectal activity to be odd, but rather only some practices, such as myself a particular dislike to enema, but rectal examination to be fine.

Perhaps the English hate rectal temps because their arch-nemesis the French like them.

I've never had it taken rectally in a real exam, either orally or under my armpit. I have in play exams though. Lying on a bed on my chest with my erect cock rubbing against the bed with my bum sticking up and the thermometer placed inside.

I've also had my temperature taken using a rectal thermometer in my bellybutton in play exams.

These days there is no need for conventional thermomers used anywhere. Science has given us radiation retection devices which are far easier and more accurate!!

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