Why do you like RTs

I'm curious as to why most people on the site seem to enjoy getting their temperature's taken rectally. I've personally never experienced it so maybe I'm missing out on something.

A lot of the people who enjoy rectal temperatures are older adults who were kids in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and 70s when rectal temperatures were pretty much the only method used for children. Some of us continued taking our temperatures rectally even after we outgrew it. Rectal temperature taking at that point became eroticized and wasn't simply a medical procedure anymore. We like it because it feels sexually stimulating, looks sexy, and feels naughty when you're doing it to yourself or another adult. It likely also has a lot to do with a fixation on the buttocks and anus. In my case, it's a man's ass that's the biggest turn-on for me.

Though, I’m not gay, I have always preferred male on male rectal temperature play, and I, too, like the look of a well inserted thermometer in a male ass. 🌡️🧴🧻

The reason for this, I think is that my first rectal temperature play was with a 10-year-old male friend. when I was also age 10. we found ourselves alone, and we kind of got talking about doctor visits and stuff like that, and how we both kind of enjoyed having thermometers in our bottoms and the sensation. so we got a thermometer from the bathroom and the other stuff needed, and we kind of took turns taking each other‘s temperature. this happened for the next three years whenever we could get alone time until my friend moved away.

It's hard to explain. When we moved and switched doctors around age ten it caught me off guard the first time our new doctor (a much older man) said he was going to take my temperature. So I sat up and prepared to open my mouth and was confused when he told me to lay back down and turn over onto my stomach. I thought I misheard him and was even more confused as he and the nurse pulled my underwear down and then spread my cheeks and inserted the thermometer. I remember feeling embarrassed, confused, exposed, violated and even a little bit excited by the sensation. As this was our new doctors office I was told that they do it this way because it is the most accurate and being a kid I was brought up to not question adults, especially doctors, teachers, etc. As I got older the feelings only intensified, it didn’t matter if I was facedown, on my side or bending forward with my hands on his desk. It didn’t matter it it was the doctor or another staff member taking it, those three to five minutes stuck in my mind.

Simply put it feels good. It was my first sexual stimulation, and because that happened at a very young age it has imprinted on me. I can remember having my temperature taken as a two years old and I still distinctly remember the feeling of intense pleasure that it caused. It would start as a building up of a throbbing sensation that would grow more powerful the longer I laid still. All of my senses were focused on my backside and the feel of the thermometer lodged in my rectum. As my mom kept it in place for a full five minutes the sensation had a long time to grow. And I remember it peaking with a spasms and involuntary twitching of my anus and the embedded rectal thermometer right before she would remove it to read it. I could time it down to seconds after awhile by how much the sensations rose and peaked. So that is why, pleasure pure and simple. As I would expect of most of us here

For me, it's the combination of extreme sensitivity, and being in charge of having some other guy experience that extreme sensitivity and vulnerability. I enjoy it, by seeing him enjoy it. The anus isn't designed to be penetrated; the extreme sensitivity is designed, from a physical and psychic point of view, to be a MAJOR ALARM BELL if something it trying to get in. So a guy usually feels the need to be super-defensive about his butt . . . .this is the one context in which a guy can relax and have his butt cleaned and have his temperature take. Without, you know, GETTING FUCKED in the process. Which, to me, has always seemed like a gross violation of a guy's bodily autonomy, completely unacceptable to me.

1970's boy

I am 71 and I have had a strong rectal temperature fetish thoughout my whole life and most of the girls/ladies I have lived with have shared this special orientation. I enjoy as much taking a temperature as having mine taken. For me, feeling the thermometer penetrating your rectum is something fantastic, especially if the taker plays with the registering device. On the other end, spreading your partner's buttchecks and inserting the thermometer is something very intimate and, imo, very sexually arousing.

After more than 50 years of temperature taking and receiving, I have come to the conviction that rectal temperature taking is a way of making love, just like anal or oral sex. Of course, it has to be reciprocal. I take your temperature, you take mine.

As a boy I was fascinated with bare bottoms, both my own and other children. When I had my temperature taken in my bottom at home, I could usually watch tv to pass the time. When my temperature was taken at the pediatrician, I passed the time by focusing on how good the thermometer felt in my bottom and thinking about my friends being in a similar position. Eventually I noticed that my penis would stiffen against the exam table. I had no idea what these erections meant, but I knew it felt good. When I started to play doctor with my friends the temperature taking was always the highlight of the exam and it was always taken rectally even after some of us had graduated to oral temps.

I know exactly what you mean.

It's simple. It feels good, it can be exciting if your embarrassed, Butt it's the most accurate way to get a core body temperature.

It’s one of the most convenient and fun ways to become sexually stimulated. When we were very young, it probably didn’t register in our brains that way, but for some reason, we developed a fetish later in life. Unless you were young enough to have actually experienced a rectal temp. with a vintage glass thermometer, covered in Vaseline, you would have been deprived of an incredible experience. I don’t believe that current and future generations will have any idea what they’ve missed out on.

I also have been erotically stimulated and even entranced by bottoms and everything to do with them. Add to the sexuality of it the elements of dominance and submission, control, an element of infantilism--for me rectal temperature taking incorporates it all.

I can remember it just like yesterday. I was 8 at the time and still in diapers. When the time came to check vitals the nurse notice she noticed that my bottom was much bulkier so she pulled the back of my pants to check inside and noticed I was wearing a pampers baby dry diaper. So she goes out for a few minutes and comes back with a fresh Pampers Baby Dry Diaper followed by baby wipes, diaper cream, vaseline and a thermometer. So my diaper gets removed and my bottom cleaned. Then she says she’s going to take my temperature so I’m like ok so I sit up and have my mouth open. She looks at me confused and asks what I’m doing. I tell her waiting to get my temperature taken. She says oh we’re not doing it through the oral mouth method we’re doing it through the bottom rectal method. So she has me lay back down again and raises my legs into the air just like I’m getting my diaper changed again. She then proceeds to insert the well lubricated vaseline covered thermometer in my bottom. As the thermometer goes deeper into my rectum I can just feel a whole lot of sensations. First the penetrating sensation followed by the probe just moving slightly in and out as the nurse finds a spot to rest the tip on to get a accurate core temperature reading. Just the overall sensation I feel having my diaper resting on my bottom while legs are spread wide apart in the air and having the thermometer move around inside me just a surreal experience. After about 5-10min pass the nurse removes the thermometer from my bottom and then proceeds to insert a suppository into my bottom followed by her re-fastening my diaper up nice and snug. So that doctor visit alone just developed my love to wear diapers and take my temperature rectally always in diaper changing position. So for me it was a surreal experience for me.

It’s the rush the excitement of knowing that you are about to have to remove your pants and pull down your underwear. In a real medical condition I was 15 in the ‘emergency room the last time I had rectal temperature taken at the time I was very embarrassed about it. Now in my adult life no. My wife likes the idea of medical role play. It turns both of on talking about it. Nether of us have had it done in a real medical exam as adults. She was in the room and watched a nurse give me a suppository after I had hip surgery and seen a nurse remove my catheter. We both take each other’s temperatures in the butt at home.

I like the accuracy of the reading and the wait time with a glass thermometer

It is a medical procedure that you can do yourself or with another person with minimal equipment that is inexpensive and easily stored. It is painless, it is relaxing, it can be erotic and kinky. It provides accurate data that is easily understood and relevant to just about anyone.

One must be open to trying it! From my perspective, it's best done when going for a physical exam and occurs relatively early or mid way through the process. The experience of being told to undress to my briefs sets the expectation, which is then followed by providing a urine sample and having to be weighed. There is no room for bargaining; it has to be done and soon one starts to feel the slight chill from being undressed. After the blood pressure is done, the moment of lost innocence arrives. The nurse will retrieve the thermometer; lubricate the tip and shaft; and then dictate to me how it is to be taken. If the thermometer type is the one on a cord, it is longer so the insertion will feel deeper and likely will occur with me standing and leaning onto the table. If it is the traditional glass one, I will be on my belly or turned onto my side for the insertion. The nurse will hold it deep into me regardless of the type of thermometer being used.

The problem with teen boys is that this method of temperature recording invariably produces an erection. Its likely unavoidable and therein lies the intrigue and embarrassment factor. As one matures, the nurse may be less inclined to shield your privates when taking a temp. By now, it should not be a shock even though your penis may react.

The nature of an involuntary erection being produced by a rectal temp is just something that you don't forget and likely marvel over. Enjoy one if you get the chance.

I don’t ever remember an RT as a child but I immediately loved the first one I experienced by an older RN who I was having sex with while I was in college.

She loved giving me enemas during our sex sessions and she started each with a rectal temp.

She enjoyed them too and taught me to administer to her and her bisexual RN friend who joined our sex and enema sessions.

It's rather innocuous, it's anal play with an "excuse", it's both infantilizing and caring.

When my wife takes my rectal temp, it reminds me of my childhood.. feels intimate and personal… feels great.. sometimes sexual, sometimes not.