Remember your first experience with rectal temperature turn on?

For me, around 13 years old. I had gotten rectal temperatures all my life at the doctor’s office and at home. I absolutely hated it. One day, while my parents were out shopping, I just felt the urge to take my temperature. The thermometer was in the medicine cabinet, and the Vaseline was in the bathroom vanity. I took this, along with some tissues, and went over to my bed. I pretended to be at the doctor’s office and proceeded to take my own temperature. Somehow, despite despising this, I realized that I developed a fetish for it. Soon, I did it more and more. All through high school. One day, while in college, I went to a pharmacy and bought a rectal thermometer and a jar of Vaseline. I would take my temperature when I knew my roommate wouldn’t be in the room. Actually, as a college junior, someone on my floor said he wasn’t feeling well, and was looking for a thermometer. I told him I had one, but it was rectal. I told him my mom packed it in for me. He was hesitant at first, but then asked me to take his temperature, which I did. My fetish lasted pretty much to 26 years old. I still have it now, but not to the extent to when I was younger.

Hi Fontana,

Thank you for sharing. Mine never subsided; I think it got a bit stronger as I got older.

To Fontana:

I found your story interesting, though I never minded RTs at about age 9 or so I started sneaking the Thermometer and the Vaseline in the bathroom and taking my RT. which at age 10 led to my male friend and I, when parents left us alone for a time, playing doctor and taking each other's RTs. This continued for about 3 years until my friend moved away at age 13. Later on, when I was in college, my roommate and I started talking about doctor visits as kids and temp taking, we found out we each liked RT's and though we were dating girls, the girls didn't like the whole RT idea. which led to our non-sexual RT play over the college years. We also gave each other enemas if needed, and found nothing odd about this. I was born in 1958.

My own experience was similar to that of @Kenw, insofar as I never minded RTs when I was younger and indeed didn't want to change to the oral method. (My mother obliged me to switch when I was 5 or 6.) I recall playing with a plastic toy thermometer from a play doctor kit when I was 6 or 7, like @Fontana, lying on my bed and pretending to be at the doctor's office. That's when I knew I had a fetish, even if I didn't fully understand the sexuality. I finally worked up the courage to buy my first real thermometer at a pharmacy when I was 13; I still recall trembling at the experience because I was simultaneously excited and terrified of being seen by someone who knew me. And like @Laura41, my fetish has never abated with time; indeed, in some respects it is stronger today than ever!

To KenW,

I guess many of us felt the same way; however I pretty much kept this to myself. I never took temperatures with anyone when younger. At college, there were a couple of experiences. I took someone’s temperature as a junior. I had my temperature taken by a roommate. On both occasions there was genuine illness involved. I also got mine taken by my freshman roommate’s dad, who was a pediatrician. This was done in front of his mom and younger sister. I never really discussed this or my fetish, with anyone. I guess I didn’t want anyone to think I was weird.

I think kids were a lot more open back when I was a kid, as some have said, we lived in a kind of rural environment and the doctor we used was pretty much the one everybody used so you were pretty sure that about 99% of all the kids in your class at school probably went to the same doctor and the doctor I had had a policy of having rectal temperature to age 13 and then his nurse would ask a parent how the parent wanted it done. that’s why when I was with a 10 year-old male friend we started talking about doctor visits doctor exams that kind of thing and how we got rectal temperatures and then we talked about how it didn’t bother either of us how our temperature was done and then it kinda came up. Hey the parents are kinda not around right now. Why don’t we sneak the thermometer and play doctor? some years later when I was going to college and I lived in the dorms I’m not sure how it started, but my roommate and I as I said before I got talking about doctor exams and maybe going to the college clinic I don’t know and how neither of us really liked oral temperatures because of the thermometers tasted like alcohol and all that kind of thing and it just came up that we had had rectal temperatures well into our teens for both of us and it never bothered us and I don’t know it just kind of turned into some non-sexual related RT play.

More than a RT fetish I had a fetish for gentle anal penetration, probably arising from all that happened back there as a kid (suppositories, rectal temperatures, and a couple digital rectal exams).

Jacana:

i’d have to agree with you. It seemed like every time you turned around when you were a kid, and got sick or went to the doctor everything seemed to go up your butt: thermometers, suppositories, probing fingers and enema pipes.

@kenw I did not get enemas but certainly the thermometer always went in there, and suppositories were common until the end of primary school.

Mom and Gram believed in enemas for constipation. If you were sick or had not gone in a day or so, in my family you got an enema. And usually an RT before the enema, and sometimes after.

@kenw Taking a rectal temperature BEFORE an enema makes a lot of sense.

I definitely remember, I was admitted to the hospital for a minor surgery when I was about 6. after checking in and got to my room, I was told to change into the gown. As I climbed into bed the nurse said " hang on not so fast I need you to lay on your tummy so I can take your temp. I obeyed and remember her opening the gown. I felt her spread my cheeks and then she just slid the thermometer in. Being given enemas at a younger age, I always cried...not sure why because it never really hurt, but this really felt good! She told my mom and dad that this is the way they do it until age 13. It was the first time having anything slid into my backside felt really good. I got my temp taken this way 4 times a day for the 5 days I was in the hospital. I also got a glimpse of my room mate getting his temp taken because if his broken arm being elevated he was on his side with his butt facing me.

Around 8 or 9 I started feeling something "funny" in my penis during rectal temps.

When I was about 10 or 11, I started to complain about my rectal temperature being taken, especially at home and it pretty much stopped. I had been traumatized by nurses when I was sick and had my tonsils out when I was about 5 or 6 and was scared to lay on my belly, even to sleep, for fear of some painful or uncomfortable procedure being done on my rear end, even if it were something as simple as having my rectal temperature taken. If you look at my wall, I have a link to the entire story. I did notice at between 5-10, I would think about these traumatic events and would have strange feelings of arousal, not really understanding what I was experiencing until puberty kicked in. I was home alone and had a "thermometer like object" since the rectal thermometer in our house had broken and no longer needed. I fantasized a sexy nurse instructed my to lay on my belly as I dipped the "thermometer" in the jar of vaseline, pulled down my pants and undies, imagining the nurse telling me what to do and inserting it in my rear end. At that point, taking my rectal temperature or any other procedure that was embarrassing, uncomfortable or painful "back there" became a fetish and it all centered around my traumatic experiences as a child.