In plain sight-Temperature taking temptation.

I often leave my rectal thermometer and a jar of Vaseline or other lubricant on the stand adjacent to my bed. On a few occasions when I had a medical person seeing me for injections or other reasons, the thermometer and lubricant were in plain sight. Once or twice I was asked about them, and if I took my temperature rectally. Also on an occasion or two, not only was I asked, but the person seeing me eventually used the thermometer and lubricant and took my temperature rectally. One woman, not a medical person. but an insurance agent stopped by, was in conversation with me, spied the set up, and asked a few leading questions. Those leading questions led her to request to take my rectal temperature after asking if she did, would I mind? And I let her. Ergo, keeping the thermometer and lube in plain sight offers a temptation to some, and in the "end" I got its benefits.

I can't conceive of a single situation in which an insurance agent would be in my bedroom.

Short of dating one, that is.

Once I was sick at a work dinner (I blanched and had to go back home real quick) and my wife had left the thermometer and lubricant in plain sight on the bedside table when a colleague visited me the next day.

Speaking for myself, unless I have a date, nobody is coming into my bedroom, and I am certainly not, in this stage of my life, leaving a rectal thermometer out in plain sight. Let's be honest. We all have memories and/or fetishes about rectal temperature or we wouldn't be on this forum. When I was a teenager the door bell rang and I knew it was the paper boy making his collections. There was nobody home at the time, and I don't know why I did this, but when I answered the door to pay him, I was holding a rectal thermometer in my hand with vaseline already applied. I just wanted him to see it. I was about 15 at the time and neither of us made any comment about it, but I know he noticed it. Again, I hated getting my temperature taken that way, but I developed a fetish about it.

Today, if I did the same thing I would be looked at as a crazy person, and perhaps someone would have me committed to a psychiatric hospital. Nobody is interested in seeing a guy in his forties, fifties, sixties, and older with a rectal thermometer in his rectum.

When my older daughter was in high school, she had a couple of wisdom teeth pulled. The next morning she woke up with a headache and nausea. Jen was given a routine antibiotic before the surgery. I went into minor panic mode and asked her to lie down on the bed. " I think I should take your temperature in your bottom." She had a 101 fever. I called the dentist who said it's likely a reaction to the antibiotic, but keep her in bed, make sure she's hydrated, and monitor her temp during the day, and if it goes up to call.

I placed the thermometer and Vaseline on a dresser across from Jen's bed and didn't think anything about it. That is, until her boyfriend called to come over, at which time Jen said in no uncertain terms, "Mom, do you have to keep those things in here?" Obviously, not. I removed "those things" to the bathroom! (Jen has always spoken her mind.)

Turned out it was what the dentist said, a reaction to the antibiotic. It scared me a little, though.

Mines on my nightstand 24/7 if I know you well enough to see my bedroom chances are your female and I know you well enough to meet Mr Thermometer haha.

With this COVID-19 virus, I take my husband's temperature rectally, every morning. He's submissive and i always tell him that he is the little boy in our home. I keep one of my mom's old mercury rectal thermometer on the stand next to his side of our king sized bed.

Ruth,

Your husband is a lucky man.

Buttshot, he does not feel that way when I leave the bedroom door ajar and some comes in to ask me something. Usually, it's my daughter- Andrea, or my cousin- Tara, who lives across the street!. Talk about a red face getting even redder!!!

Wow @ruthiney you have a very interesting household! I must say if one of my female cousins saw me getting my temp taken rectally I don’t know if I’d be more embarrassed or excited.

I have to ask: has your husband seen Tara getting her temp taken rectally?

Yes, Richard, he has. Also, when she used to get spanked, when she lost her condo and had to move in with us. Tara later married Kevin, with whom I had an "anal arts" relationship from 11-18. They now live across the street from us.

Yes, Richard, he has. Also, when she used to get spanked, when she lost her condo and had to move in with us. Tara later married Kevin, with whom I had an "anal arts" relationship from 11-18. They now live across the street from us.

@ruthiney ”Anal arts relationship”?! Do tell! Have you posted about this in detail elsewhere? Would love to know more.

I must lead a boring life, compared to others. My thermometers and Vaseline are hidden from view. Nobody comes to my home, especially with this Covid virus, and even before that, I would not have any need to keep my "treasured" belongings out on display. When I was a kid, it wasn't uncommon to visit someone's home, and see the rectal temp. stuff sitting out on a table, or nightstand.