Which way to take a temperature would you prefer?

Usually love that I’m laying over someone lap,

Or that someone would make me bend over the bathtub, put on some lube and slide the old fashioned glass thermometer into my butt.

You ask this question on Zity.biz ??? Would you sit together in a brewery and ask me what I want to drink? lol

I like for a guy to take my rectal temperature in multiple positions. It is more accurate and I like the anticipation of it coming and being kept in for 5 minutes.

How is this even a debate? We all know it's gonna be rectal every time. After all rectal is the best way to take a temperature anyways

I like mine taken rectally and in different positions. The first time I like to just lay on bed and have my pajama bottoms pulled down after that in whatever position the doc wants.

I have been taking it rectally for over 70 years. That's the way I prefer it and it is the most accurate way to get a core temperature.

Definitely rectally. I have been taking it that way since I was 20. My partner and I take each other's and it's always taken rectally. We both are nurses, so maybe that has something to do with it…smiles.

Always from infancy through early adulthood in the home by my mom and grandmothers rectally . Never was an issue with me as to a preference and / or ‘ right or wrong ’ . The ‘ let’s take your temperature ‘ statement was always construed by me to be the ’ rectal way ‘ which was always done in strictest privacy w/ all the ’ TLC ' that the procedure required .

After my first Maderna shot, I woke up early the next morning with a dizzy headache, aches and feeling like I had a fever. My husband only mildly freaked out and took my rectal temperature -- 100.2, although I felt warmer than that. I wasn't that concerned, but I'm glad that we still have a glass rectal thermometer that's spot-on accurate. I took it easy that day and the next morning I was feeling better. Rectal temp was right at 99, which is about normal for me.

ADDENDUM … After the second shot, I had much the same symptoms but lasted another day or so. Never did check my temperature.

Absolutely 100% rectally, no other way is accepted. However, I believe it should be checked and rechecked in various positions throughout the exam. Maybe over the doctor's knee, bent over the end of the exam table, laying flat on stomach, and on the back with knees up!

Rectal is most accurate and most erotic.

An accurate “way” preferably using a thermometer, i.e. thermo-meter!

Who's idea was it to say body temperatures could be taken orally, axially, digitally, infared, or who know what else, and be as accurate one take rectally?

From a parental viewpoint: Infants--toddlers--fidgety/hyper active child who can't stay still for longer than 5 seconds: rectal to +/- age 6. Otherwise- -- oral. Adults: Whatever way they want to do it…

For temperature, my wife and I have always taken it rectally . Today they have tect units that use the ear or forehead, but we found it just as easy going to the butt.

Rectally …… as my mom and nurses always informed me and they then ‘ made it so ’ !!

I always take mine rectally, it is the best accurate way. I like the old glass mercury thermometers it feels the best.

Well in the clinic where I work at about half of the patients don't mind getting a rectal temperature reading. And the other half you have to talk them into getting a rectal temperature. But I'm sorry have to do it this way it's our policy for vaccines or if coming in sick. Well I don't hear any complaints when orally temperature is taking.

Well in the clinic where I work at about half of the patients don't mind getting a rectal temperature reading. And the other half you have to talk them into getting a rectal temperature. But I'm sorry have to do it this way it's our policy for vaccines or if coming in sick. Well I don't hear any complaints when orally temperature is taking.

What kind of clinic would that be? Sounds kind of out there.

I enjoy rectal temp taking.

lying on my stomach or over the knee.

I'm fine with the temporal scan. Quick and easy. Acute accuracy isn't important - I know when I'm sick or have a fever.

I use an I.R. heat gun from Ryobi's old 4 volt series. It's pretty accurate. Enough so as to tell me if I need a backup thermometer reading to verify.

Alternatively, the heat gun is terrific for making sure enemas are at an accurate temperature in my safe zone. Depending on preference of the moment, between 105F and 110F at times, others at 102F and 103F if I want a more gentle warming.

Rectally when playing. Orally or rectally when not feeling good. Depends on my mood at the time. If there is someone willing to take it rectally for me, then all the better. I'll go for it.

In my blog I have described how our family doctor would take my temperature when I was a small boy, particularly if he was called out for a home visit. I would always be sat on the dinning room table with trousers & pants or pyjama bottoms removed and the thermometer would be placed down my groin alongside my scrotum. This has always been a clear recollection for me and forms the basis for fantasies as an adult.

Very few people here have heard of this method but I understand that it was quite common in the UK during the 1950/60's.

Unless I am being checked for a bad cold, flu or other illness, the Docs seldom take my temp. Couple of exceptions. Recent visit to a specialist where they took my temp using an tympanic (ear) digital thermometer. I asked why they do it that way and the nurse said it gave a more accurate temp than a temporal scan, since you could have been exposed to sun light, wearing a hat, cold temps etc. Surprised they were even concerned about my temp as I was being seen for an unrelated blood issue. Fist time I ever had my temp taken that way. Had a podiatrist take my temp using an oral thermometer. Why did they need to know my temp for a foot problem?

OK heres a serious answer and NO pun or stupid things intended.

I was raised on rectal temps as being the most accurate way to check a temperature since birth to now. Of course whether used to the age someone should or shouldn't have it until , somewhere along the lines of puberty or lil before it the child either develops a love or the hate for it .

In the result of a hate being for it , it either was because the parent was too swift with the rectal temp, the child just hates things in his/her rectum or they had some kind of abuse that led to them hating it .

In the love for it the child either didnt mind it being done as being told it was the most accurate they learned to accept it and without hating it. or they just like the feeling of things secretly not telling parents of the things in thier rectum which is thier preferance .

Now given the facts fetishes from love hate can result .

I on the hand yes may have a Fetish with it, but however even before that came about , I still believe and feel that without arguement that the rectal temp is by far the most accurate and whenever i am not feeling well , i use the rectal temp.

Using the rectal temp is not a perverted thing but how you sway the rectal temp is a different story. If its in play fun is fun . But if evryday you find yourself inserting the thermometer in your bottom for just any reason on a consistent basis , yes i would question , what in the hell is the intention of that? examine why you are doing that .

Each person is the only judge of themselves , so internal jury's of each soul , let the judging begin , to each of thier own….

Very few people here have heard of this method but I understand that it was quite common in the UK during the 1950/60's.

@DoctorJack this was one of the ways we were taught to take temperature during my HCA training in Belgium.

Mom still uses the glass BD rectal thermometers on us when we get our temperatures taken, and that's OK with me for let's just say various reasons. I've never thought it a “big deal" to have a rectal temperature taken, anyway.

I took a friend to a hospital appointment recently and we got checked at the door with the digital in the ear, that is the method healthcare professionals nearly always use over here nowadays, the tip is disposable. And during Covid I've been checked with a forehead scanner at some restaurants and at the opticians. In my early 20's I had my appendix out and would have been checked by the nurses with the thermometer in the mouth, I've never had it taken at the GP's surgery it's not something they routinely do. When the kids were young we would use a plastic strip on their forehead to check their temperature if we thought they were particularly unwell, but that was only on the rare occasion when we were unsure. You can check your own temperature in the mirror with the strip, I've still got the thing….

I always take it rectally, and only in the privacy of my own home. I've always had it taken orally, since age 5, or so, by my parents, and at the doctors. I'm in the habit of daily monitoring by rectal, because of Covid. After the second vaccine, I had a fever spike, which lasted for a few days. My temperature was over 101, rectally. Would it have made a difference if taken orally ? Probably not by much, but I wanted to be aware of it, in case it became more serious.