Toy Thermometers

I'd like to know what the designers of these thermometers were thinking. I wasn't allowed to play doctor, I guess mom knew where it would lead, but I had friends with doctor kits and the thermometers were always oral or at least looked oral. This was back in the '70s.

This is a 1990s Fischer Price thermometer that's obviously rectal, see the stubby bulb. It wouldn't fit under the tongue very well. Perhaps the designers were conceding that kids are going to stick toy thermometers where the sun doesn't shine and designed it not to cause injury.

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1970s FP rectal thermometer:

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A more modern ear thermometer? The business end is probably too short to puncture the ear drum:

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Here's an oral one:

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Personally, I don’t think these toy manufacturer’s had any intent to relate their toys ( doctor kits) to specifically imply that a / the thermometer included in their kit(s) should be thought of as rectal.

What the hell were they thinking, of course playing Doctor with our friends we are going stick it in their behind

I agree, my first play doctor was with a male friend at age 10, we never even thought of taking our temps other than rectally. As 1960's kids it's all we knew.

Yep, seeing these, I guarantee you that I wouldn't have used them orally as a kid.

This is very similar to the thermometer that came in my first play Doctor's Kit and that was about 2008. It was RED and it had the round bulb just like “Mommy's” did and it went in our heineys when we played Dr / Nurse / House.

I go way back to the days when the toy doctor’s kits, I think manufactured by Remco, for the most part, used a sturdy plastic ,rectal style thermometer, because most young kids wouldn’t have personally experienced an oral temperature, especially in a hospital. I had my temperature taken orally by age 5, but that wasn’t too common, during that era.

Funny indeed … those pics :-)

when we played we used anything as a thermometer, as stereoscopic, as injection, as medicine etc. Fantasies were big :-) but indeed, there were the 1st aid armlet around

Yes, played “dr” many times as a kid…it was often in the context of playing “army” and I was the “dr” or “medic”, took temp rectally many times over those years when I played the “dr” or “medic”, if there was time and privacy enough. If the circumstances were right, would j/o right after doing it, it was hot at the time for sure.

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this is what I remember. My cousin had this kit only the bag was white. The spaces held bottles of candy ‘pills’. I don’t remember the clear syringe but the one next to it I remember fondly. There was a reflex hammer too not shown in this picture and later she got a real stethoscope and we added some cigar tubes for test tubes (and other things). Yes that thermometer was used rectally.

I remember using the Fischer Price thermometer, rectally.

Never had a doctor kit as a kid that would have been if I did.

I used to play doctor with my neighbor starting around 10 or so. We would take turns taking our Rectal temperature with a toy thermometer. As we got a little older and playing got more involved. Like completely stripping down to underwear like at pediatrician office. When came time for temperature had to take underwear off as my friend took my temperature I remember a weird feeling and my penis started getting hard. He grabbed it and used it like a stick shift on a car. The thermometer was still in me and a weird feeling came over me as I started ejaculating. I honestly didn't know what was happening and neither did my friend. I was embarrassed but after it was over it was a good feeling. Next time we played we did it till we both came. It was an awesome feeling. We did not know exactly what it was only that it felt good.

My sister and I played doctor when we were little. We had one of those toy doctor kits, complete with plastic thermometer. One time my mother caught us just as I was inserting the thermometer into my sister's bottom. She put the kibosh on that in short order.

I really want too see one of those toy thermometer in someone’s butt dang it lol

You all who got to play Doctor and had something that resemmbled a real thermomter were lucky. We had to inprovise..we used a popcicle stick with drawn on red marks to similate the number also we used a jumbo white crayon with same red marks.