Rectal temp used as an attitude adjustment

I never had a rectal temperature taken by my parents in order to adjust my attitude. During my childhood years up to around age eight, it was only taken (mostly by mom) if I'd complained to her that I wasn't feeling well (as in I truly felt sick) to check my temperature, after she'd place her hand on my forehead to find out if I did feel abnormally warm.

I TOTALLY DISAGREE with this mother's idea of appropriate punishment. Shame on her!

Agree that a rectal temp is a totally inappropriate - maybe even abusive - way to punish a child. There's another thread about spanking children where someone mentioned getting enemas to "calm the down". Both are WRONG!!!

BUTT - for some of the adults here rectal temps and enemas are VERY appropriate ways to "punish" or "humiliate" or "stimulate" ones partner!!!

That happend to me too. One day i was really bad mooded, i had a lot of temper tantrums and threw myself on the floor for no reason actually. My aunt wasn't used to that and so she thought that maybe i have a fever or something.

She brought me into the bedroom and placed me on a bed, told me to finally calm down but i was too enraged and didn't even listen. In the next moment she removed my trousers and i felt something hard being pushed into me, now i really screamed and cried.

i hadn't a fever but i wasn't allowed to leave the room until i "could behave myself". then i got really mad and screamed at her and tried to leave the room but she held me back and as I tried to kick her I received the first spanking in my life and I had to go to bed and wasn't allowed to leave my room until the next day, but this time I did know i was told.

I never got a rectal temp as an attitude adjustment, but it is how mine was taken. Its just how it was done. But it certainly did have an effect on me, always made me feel taken care of like a good little boy

I think it is interesting for all to look at "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantrum"

I think this would be very fun in play but cruel in real life.

I've used both rectal temps and spankings for attitude adjustment before. Reminds me once when my girlfriend and I got home, my roommate was unexpectedly there. So a noisy spanking was not an option, and she really needed her attitude adjusted that night. When she realized I couldn't spank her, she acted more pissy. My next thought was to take her temp rectally over my lap, but all our play doctor stuff was at her place. So instead her punishment was going bare bottom over my lap, cheeks spread, and my finger all the way in her anus with no lube. She did not like that. Then after returning to her home the next day, she got the rectal temp plus a spanking with the wooden dowel I kept under her bed for Special Occasions.

No, but i remember being very calm and still when i was face down on the exam table with a thermometer sticking out of my butt. I was never nervous when it was during a well visit or for vaccines because they were always given in the arm. I would panic when i knew i had a fever and there was a penicillin injection coming.

Both ways i do remember when the thermometer came out, a tylenol suppository would go right in followed by the nurses whole finger. She'd leave it in for a minute or so too. That had an impact because as an adult if im sick or have bad menstrual cramps i take my temp and medicate with acephen suppositories for fever and/or pain.

Taking a child’s rectal temperature can teach them respect, patience, and how to submit when asked for their own benefit. Most kids today have never had their rectal temps taken, and it shows. I believe that taking a child’s RT sometimes even when they aren’t ill will help to establish it as more of an acceptable health habit, rather than something to be avoided or be felt as a punishment.

If a child has a fever, it sometimes manifests itself as grouchiness or being naughty, so it’s probably a good idea to check their temperature, but it should never be administered in a negative way, or as an “attitude adjustment.”

I've done it in play scenarios but don't think it is appropriate for use as punishment for children. I'm sure some of our members are here for just that reason!

No never had that happen to me

I only remember something like this one time. I was about 7 years old and throwing a temper tantrum. Before I knew it, I was on the couch face down with my pants down around my ankles with a old fashioned red topped glass thermometer sticking out. I definitely calmed WAY down after that.

Not that I can remember

While playing with my ex boyfriend /dom I got a spanking because I refused getting my temperature taken rectally. So I ended up over his lap with a red bum and the thermometer sticking in.

It was a very exciting game. But as a punishment I would never imagine a rectal temperature.

@keks97 My mom once “punished” me with a rectal temperature because she (rightly) thought I had tried to cheat a measurement and simulate a fever.

Strong enema was my attitude adjuster !

Agree that a rectal temp is a totally inappropriate - maybe even abusive - way to punish a child. There's another thread about spanking children where someone mentioned getting enemas to "calm the down". Both are WRONG!!!

BUTT - for some of the adults here rectal temps and enemas are VERY appropriate ways to "punish" or "humiliate" or "stimulate" ones partner!!!

Bro, you're exactly right. A good number of people on zity were victims of child abuse, and a good number of those who were don't even realize it.

Like you said, if it's two adults engaged in games of roles or dominance and submission, then hey, anything goes. Maybe she does need a long, thick thermometer buried in her backside to teach her a bit of humility. But disciplining your kids and disciplining your wife or girlfriend are two different things.

Oh I know I got a message once on a board not sure if it was email or whatever. But the gist of the message was that they could not imagine, how inappropriate it was for a parent to leave me and my 10-year-old friend home alone for over an hour. They could not understand it was the 1960s in rural South Dakota.

It happened sometimes, if a parent needed to do stuff, and had no sitter. It's true that Gram watched me a lot but sometimes Gram was not there. And my friend's mom didn't have her mom living with them. So it happened sometimes we were left alone for a bit, and told not to go out and stay in our rooms with each other till one mom or other got back.

True this only happened when we were 10 and older, never when we were little. And we never burned the house down or did anything like going outside alone. We knew how to be safe. So my friend and I had time to do RT play. And we were never abused by our parents, and our parents never caused us to want to do RT play, we decide that all on our own, because we liked the feeling of it.

I want to add that if my friend and I were being whiney, our moms did threaten, or actually did take our temperatures to see if we were acting that way because we were getting sick. I never felt in the least abused by the RT and I know my friend didn't either.

Never had anything like that growing up, however I would find it quite kinky in a play scene 🍑🌡

So I think that an unintended consequence may be to foster compliance as the process only gets worse with resistance, protest or movement. It is a “suck it up moment” for sure and one that is stored in one's memory banks. I don't think that one easily forgets how the process unfolded, how the insertion felt, and how one adjusted to the period of registration of your temp.

If anything, that might make a bad attitude worse!

If anything, that might make a bad attitude worse!

Well then the next logical step is a hot, soapy enema!

I had one rectal temperature experience that was more of a “teachable moment” than “an attitude adjustment”. While getting a checkup when I was about 11, the nurse tried to take my temperature rectally but I didn’t let her. I asked her to take it orally but she wouldn’t do it. My mom became annoyed and told me to cooperate but I didn’t back down. The nurse said I was too young for an oral temp which angered me and I started mouthing off to her. I don’t remember exactly what I said but she gave up and left the room. My mom started scolding me and was disgusted and embarrassed by my behavior. The doctor came in a few minutes later and gave me a full physical without any mention of the incident. Later at home my mom told me that at I wasn’t allowed to leave the house or see my friends after school for a while.

The next day my mom picked me up at school and on our way home she suddenly turned down the street where my doctors office was. She parked the car, looked into my eyes and said I was going to apologize to the nurse for my behavior. She told me how she met with the nurse that morning and they both agreed that not only would I return to apologize but to also “finish my exam”. My mom said that since the nurse didn’t get my temperature yesterday, she would get it today. Throughout my childhood my mom occasionally did things like this which she called “teachable moments”. For example there was another time when she came to my school and made me apologize to a teacher for something bad I said to her during class. Of course these kinds of lessons were always common with kids but I doubt many involved a rectal thermometer.

My memory that day was a little hazy but I vaguely recall apologizing to the nurse by the reception desk and then going to and exam room. One thing I do remember clearly though was the nurse saying I only had to take my shoes and pants off instead of how I usually would strip to my underwear. The nurse then said she was going take my temperature and told me to lay down on my stomach. My mom sat closely watching to make sure I cooperated so I let the nurse proceed. I have no recollection why I chose to be submissive that day after being so badass the day before but I think I was afraid to get into deeper trouble. The nurses there would usually leave the room while the thermometer registered but that time she hung around to chat with my mom the whole time. I felt so humiliated and defeated that a few tears rolled down my cheek which I discreetly wiped away not wanting them to see me crying. After several minutes the nurse removed the thermometer and I quickly put my pants and shoes back on. On the way home my mom was delighted and pleased, and told me that she was proud of me for cooperating so well. She then stopped at local sporting goods store to let me pick one thing to buy. I always thought that incident was really weird and felt that my mom went a little too far, but I guess she thought it was for my own good.

@Michael001 would you like to chat? My attitude is terrible 😞

Certainly not.

In my familly, all temperatures were taken rectally and it was never an issue.

Even today, at 71, I would not know what to do with a mouth thermometer if given one.