From birth to teenage years

I have said before I never minded Rectal Temps. When I was age 10, an also age 10 male friend and I started playing doctor with each other, taking our RTs, while parents were away. How this started was when my friend and I started talking about how we liked the feeling of the rectal thermometer in our butts, at home, and at doctor visits. We played our doctor games from age 10 to just past age 13, when my friend and his family moved away.

Never ever liked it. In teen years it was a combination of oral and rectal. Even protesting didnt help. It was confusing because I would get aroused, semi hard or hard, but hated it and it would make me obviously angry. But afterwards as adult recollecting it is very erotic and became a real fetish .

@Badboypatient i know exactly what you mean. I feel definetely embarassed and aroused the same Time.

Years back I saw a passage in a book on teen health where the statement said, “…the rectal thermometer, the bane of hospitalized teenagers”

I commented on the chronology of this back in December 2021. Now I would simply like to say that there was for me a gradual acceptance of receiving a RT regardless of my strong feelings of embarrassment, sensitivity to being undressed for that to happen, or my physical feelings while it was taking place. The process of arousal and source of sexual release didn't happen then, especially the mindful process of a role play or reenactment of my RT experience. It's the passage of time and what one's mind allows that makes this particular experience unique. I have enjoyed reading about everyone's journey in this regard. Memories remain strong but equally compelling if not more important are the perceived feelings of being so submissive today.

As the daughter of a pediatric nurse, I really hated getting my temperature taken rectally, especially in high school, college, and beyond. However, I must confess that I secretly enjoyed watching my younger brother and my female cousin (who grew up with us) getting theirs taken the same way.

I was given rectal temperatures both at home and at the doctor until mid-teens. It affected me in my later teen years.

I only have one vivid memory of having my temp taken rectally as a child. I think I was maybe 3, absolutely no older than 4, and I remember crying because it hurt. I can only assume my mom didn’t lubricate the thermometer. I was probably in college when I discovered that it was something that could feel really nice!

In what way did it affect you in your later teens @SubmissOne ?

I had rectal temps at home and at the pediatrician until my teenager years.

This caused a lot of memories and is probably the reason why I am writing here.

At 11 began to get embarrassed but started enjoy being looked at at age 5 began to enjoy feeling

I remember looking at the family child-rearing books and seeing babies getting rectal temps and thinking wow!

Got calamine lotion but on back and ass for insect bites . . . hated it.

In 6th grade, got appendix out, which meant I had to get my appendix checked FROM INSIDE, by male nurse putting finger up my butt . . . hated it! (My mom watched….yuck.)

On the other hand, was able to hear boy in next bed getting a rectal suppository to knock him out for the operation . . . which he didn't like at all.

THIS GOT ME INTERESTED.

Had to think if I wanted to be the giver or the getter….definitely prefer to be the giver. . . for some reason, it's better for me to enjoy those sensations in someone else's body.

1970's boy

@Popotom34 How did your mother react to these suggestions to take it again without need? And to your apparent liking of rectal temperatures?

@Pecan_nutjob : She did not mind; just took my temp. If I had a temperature, I would be treated accordingly; if not; my temp was taken again at night; if still no temp everything fine…

I had my temperature taken until my late teens. But I beg to enjoy it at 7-8 year old, I remember at 7 when my babysitter took my temperature over her laps like mom did, I really changed something for me I began to really like the feeling of that thermometer inside of me!

At first, I didn't like having my temperature taken rectally. My earliest recollection is lying on the living room sofa while the thermometer registered. Then during a doctor visit when I was five, they gave me a shot in the rump as the thermometer registered and I cried from the sting of the needle. Very traumatic. That all changed when I developed an ear infection at age seven. We went to our neighborhood doctor and I didn't expect anything other than a prescription for ear drops. Much to my surprise, the nurse took my temperature rectally after checking my vitals, and it felt so good I wished it would never end. I've loved rectal temps ever since even though I never thought to ask for one at our pediatrician's.

I hated getting my RT taken when I was a child both from my mom and especially at the pediatrician's office. But after about age 7, I would have fantasies about other ppl taking it and I thought differently about it. They were ppl that I selected and that was probably because I had control of the situation and I chose who I wanted to do that to me. I believe without the humiliation of having it done in a clinical setting and having my mom do it at home, it was more appealing. I was too young at age 7 to understand the feelings I had, but as I got older and reached puberty, that is when I started craving someone to put me otk and take my RT. Now I still very much enjoy it, and switch as well.

My rectal temperature was measured only in infancy (this is the norm in my country). I don't remember that.

I think that if there were other rules, I would have had the temperature measured in this way for a very long time (my mother used to apply suppositories until I was 12, enemas until I was 15).

To be honest I only recall a rectal temp being taken when I was in elementary school. Jr. high and High they were always oral. Maybe it was the 1970's and 1980's and the society gave up on them?

I got my temp taken rectally from birth to 18. When I was a pretty small kid my doctor convinced my Dad it was the only accurate way. I didn't care when I was small. Then when I was around 10 to 12 I started really hating it. I'd cry and beg him not to. Then there was a change where I started liking it. I started faking it so he could check it. Of course I'd still put up a fight. I moved in with other family when I was around 14. They usually let me check it on my own if I was sick but if they thought i was faking they would do it themselves.

I must have had rectal temps taken at least as a baby, but I do not ever remember having had a rectal temp taken in my childhood or teen years. The first time I can recall it being done was when I started being a play patient in play exams as an adult. I then recall at first I hated it being done because it made me feel too submissive and embarrassed. It was only after a few play exams that I realized having those feelings was what made play exams memorable and fun.

If I remember right only had my temp taken rectally 4 times all under 10…hated them…never liked things poking me back there…way in deep. But I did like suppositories…

I hated them when I got it taken at the pediatrician at age 6 but then craved for it after alittle later in life….I wish the doctor or nurse would check my temperature in the butt at age 18 but they only did ear at the time 🥺 I wouldn’t mind the doctor or nurse to tell me to take everything off instead of underwear and sit on the table….then tells me to remove my underwear and give it to mom and lay down on your belly…the nurse or doctor and mom can see my pubes as I turn over on to my stomach and lay down….then the nurse comes with the thermometer all lubed up with ky jelly and tells me to spread my legs alittle wider and mom can see all this…I look back and see everyone looking at my butt and vagina all out on display lol….then the nurse or doctor spreads my butt cheeks wide open and inserts the cold thermometer in the sphincter passing the anus to the rectum….while this is going on I gasp and moan and the doctor holds my back and push me down while nurse is inserting the thermometer….‘I’m tried to help and hold my legs….once it’s snuggled in the rectum the nurse let’s go and we wait 5 minutes….the doctor and nurse leaves the room and leaves the door open….everyone passing by the hallway Can see me on my tummy naked with a thermometer sticking out of my butt lol….mom tells me if the thermometer feels uncomfortable and I tell her no but it’s really cold in here lol….then doctor and nurse comes back in and spread my butt cheeks and takes it out with one motion with a slurping sound lol….nurse announces the temperature and doctor types it on the computer…lol

Nice post @ Maxine 707

@Russianbare thanks!!! Our imagination is wild huh 😂

Yes as to ‘ from birth , not remembered as an infant / toddler , to / through my teenage years ’ and I might add ‘ beyond ’ . My mother did teach me ‘ oral thermometer ’ use as I matured for our doctor office visits but in the privacy of our home , she ‘ took ’ my suspected fever elevation temperatures ‘ rectally ’ as she did her temps. as well . Home enemas were administered from childhood through my young adult years as a university student which for both of us was ‘ value added ‘ to our private home ‘ RT ’ activities . All was long ago but the pleasant and vivid memories are mine for personal reflection .

I hated them until I was 10. Having my mom take mine generally over her knee . Then at the doctor's office. Mom was in the room to witness the nurse now taking mine . At 18 became to like them .

Rectal was the only method used on me! Under a certain age, and I cannot remember what age, mom stuck the thermometer in, and later mom (and nurses) asked me to stick the thermometer in.

It was just the "normal method"! I realize that in the United States there is a bit of shame with rectal temperatures especially because it's the baby method and a parent or nurse inserts the device, but, really, I knew mom also stuck the thermometer in her own butt.

I knew it was also possible to do it orally. I had seen this done in movies, comic books, cartoons… But it's not like I would have thrown a fit to change the method. In fact, I liked the feeling of sticking it in my naughty hole.

Till age 14 only RT. Kind of family tradition I don't know. I was OK with the procedure. Started to be more interesting after pre puberty around age 11-12.

Being a baby of the later 60’s .. mom took our temperature at home with a glass rectal thermometer. As I got older 7, 8 .she switched to a Oral glass thermometer most of the time . If she thought we was running a fever and having cold chills she got the butt thermometer and Vaseline. The pediatrician office was about the same I remember the nurse asking mom about the temperature taking at home . If mom said she had checked it with a oral thermometer then the nurse would take it that way too most of the time. The last time I had a rectal thermometer in my butt as a teenager I was 15 ,1983 at the emergency room. Had a virus nauseated and vomiting I remembered the nurse asking mom if I had been running a temperature. Mom hadn’t taken it . The nurse told one of the other nurses to get a red top thermometer. I didn’t know exactly what that was at the time. Mom looked a little surprised. She said let’s get your shoes off and you out of your pants. I could leave my underwear on. When the nurse walked back around the curtain holding a thermometer shaking it. The nurse said let’s get your temperature now. I could lay on my stomach for her. I couldn’t believe that this was happening. I started to say something I looked at mom she just nodded her head yes . As I laid down the nurse slid my underwear down. There was no privacy at all I was in a room with curtains dividing the room between the beds no one pulled the curtain in front I was laying there with a thermometer in my butt . Mom and 2 nurses talking . I had a fever.. she ask mom if She had given me anything for pain or fever. For the nausea and vomiting mom said just Pepto-Bismol the pink stuff . But didn’t seem to help. The nurse said she was going to ask the Doctor for something to help settle my stomach and relive the vomiting. Because the emergency room was busy it may be a little while to see the Dr. Mom said just to warn me the nurse will probably be giving you a suppository . After the nurse returned she said the doctor ordered a phenergan shot. That had to be giving in my bottom that it would probably sting a little . After seeing the Doctor I had a flu bug and he told mom it would probably make its way though out the house in the next couple days. He would write a prescription. I stayed in the car at the pharmacy when she got back out she said he gave me phenergan suppositories. Mom gave me one later that night . Her and my sister had to use one later that week