First time I saw an adult get a RT

They say, kids say the darndest things. Kids also sometimes see the darndest things! My friend and I did!

I saw my friend's Mother getting her rectal temperature taken. A beauty of a woman from the Mediterranean, with long raven hair, and as I saw later, very nice butt cheeks, and long legs. This was many years ago, and what I remember was seeing her sitting on her bed, her husband and a doctor in the room. My friend and I went unseen for a while. The doctor was shaking down a thermometer, and as he did she rolled over onto her stomach, and lifted her house dress. The doctor then lowered her underpants behind her knees, and either he indicated to her or she instinctively did it; slightly spread her legs. That was the first time I'd see the bottom half of a woman's bare anatomy!

I watched amazed as the doctor spread her cheeks and started inserting the thermometer. She let out a bit of a yelp as it went in. The glass silver/white numbered rod stood prominently out from between her now closed butt cheeks as it registered her temperature. As my friend and I stood watching, as the door to his parent's bedroom had not been closed, we were witness to this as we left his room to go out of the apartment. His dad caught us looking and with a hand gesture told us to move on, which we did.

Well then you’ve experienced something most of us have only fantasized about. Lucky you.

My guess is that your friend’s dad enjoyed the up close view of his wife’s bottom being opened and penetrated by the thermometer. Wonder if they played doctor themselves?

I saw my aunt and mom get their RT taken multiple times, one of the most memorable incident was back when I was 9, my aunt was suffering from fever. My mom took out the rectal thermometer and without hesitating my aunt in her lap, lifted her night shirt and shoved the thermometer dangerously deep in her rectum with no lube whatsoever. And of course it caused my aunt to jump and make a violent squirm which was meet with a slap on her butt. “My God Sarah stop acting acting like a child, can't you handle even a little pain?” My mom shouted these words at my aunt but she remained silent because if she answered mom would have had blistered her butt (Yeah my mom was very strict with her sister, sometimes even abusive), she took out the thermometer and said “It's a normal fever you'll be fine.”, she then wriggled her finger inside her sisters anus which was a common practice to make me and my siblings relax after we got suppositories or enema's. My mom never used lube on her while she took her rectal temperature or even when she was catheterized which was surprising and scary to look at too.

I’m not sure that this would apply, but when I was 4 years old, we had a blonde au paire from Sweden, who was around 19, and temporarily living with us. One day, during flu season, she came into my room, took out a rectal thermometer, laid down on the bed, and took her temperature. At that age, I thought that it was bizarre to see an adult doing that. I always thought that was only reserved for very young kids.

Often when the subject of rectal temperatures comes up, the remark , “‘oh that’s only for babies and old people”, is quipped.

Those who say that , do not speak for everyone, nor do they know how everyone with respect to checking their own body temperature goes about it.

It is as far as I know, still considered the most accurate measurement for a person’s core body temperatue.