Is the color of your rectal glass thermometer important?

YELLOW or CLEAR glass thermometers?

Is the color of your rectal glass thermometer important? Veterinary rectal thermometers tend to be YELLOW...Most original human rectal thermometers are CLEAR...Obviously when taking your RT...many times the thermometer isn't in view and then, it's the feeling of the insertion that's the main turn on but...When when you prep it...lube it...the visual is there and the visual is a big part of the turn on also. I tend to stick with that first impression/visual from years ago... In the doctors office, the CLEAR rectal thermometers, all staged in their vertical tube containers...and once it's been inserted...the view of a CLEAR glass thermometer resting between a great pair of cheeks is priceless. CLEAR IN MY REAR THANK YOU!

The clear thermometers in the glass containers at the Doctors office were the first thing I checked out, when going to an appointment. I have both yellow and clear thermometers and 12" yellow I use for some patients. It makes for beautiful tail. I'll see if my patient will allow any of her photos to be posted.

I agree the appearance, especially "in place," is really important. I seem to have a slight preference for yellow tho I don't own one. The really attractive feature to me is a red end.

I own many many thermometers. Most are white/clear glass. Some have the red tip on the end, some don't. For sentimental reasons I prefer the white/clear glass with NO red tip on the end, since that's similar to what was used on me as a little kid, however, when taking somebody else's temperature, the white/clear glass with the red tip on the end peaking out from in between a beautiful set of buttocks is very awe inspiring....to say the least.

Haha, "Clear in my rear" please. Kind of a kinky way to say it, and I wholeheartedly agree with you.

All of the glass thermometers in my collection are clear glass. They are the later ones with the smaller bulbs. I wish I could find some with the larger bulbs. I wouldn't mind what color they were.

I have two yellow ones, and a clear white one.

Don't care about color. as long as the work

2 clear one yellow here all red tip

Dont think color matters. I have 2 vintage BD's from the 50's both clear, one has red mercury, called Red Flash, the other is a BD 150 Flat Type. Nice thing about both of them is that they have the painted lines on them which are almost like grooves in the thermometer. In the past I have used a yellow thermometer, one with blue tip and one with red tip and they all worked.

The three B-D rectal mercury thermometers(c.1983) we have at home are all yellow. The Atlas mercury rectal(c.1977) that's my wife's childhood thermometer is white.

Our Eisele thermometer is clear glass with blue lettering for normal/below normal temperatures and red lettering for above normal temperatures.

I don't think color is important.

I have a large collection of rectal thermometers. Many have "red" on the end of the stem to designate that it is "rectal". Another has a "blue " color at the end stem and is also "rectal" with a round bulb. I have a B-D rectal thermometer with a "yellow " backing for easy reading so there are many different colorations of thermometers. Bulb shape is more important with round or tear shape bulbs made for rectal use.

Mine is clear

I have several thermometers, they are all clear. 2 of them have the nice pear shaped bulb. One of them has Merry Christmas printed on the side.

My rectal thermometers are both colors. The BD is yellow and my generics are clear.

Both colors.

Clear transparent glass

Color is not important to me

The glass mercury thermometer usually is clear but yes there are those that are yellow. Color though and thermometers seemed not so much important in distinguishing the intended use as other factors. It’s probably that thermometers which are not marked as RECTAL or ORAL might be considered or determined to be one or the other by the top of the instrument, particularly if it has a no-roll triangular top, which can be either red or blue. Not familiar with the round top (I’d suspect oral)mercury thermometers having a dot of blue on them but have seen many with the red dot on(usually rectal).

The bulb of the thermometer is normally either long and thin (usually oral) or tear drop or pear shaped (usually rectal). Then there are the “safety” and “stubby” identified thermometers and the “baby” identified thermometer.

I got one years back. It was marked RECTAL, had a rounded top, no red dot or marking but the bulb which was pear shaped...was a blue/ metallic color. Most important was it was a reliable thermometer.

The color makes no difference, the bulb size and shape however does. All of mine are clear, with the word "Rectal" or "baby" etched on the stem. If you can't feel them in your rear, then they might as well be purple with pink poka dots. Besides, your rectum doesn't care.

Prefer using a five inch, glass rectal thermometer with a white background stripe on one side of the three-sided glass structure for taking a rectal temperature, which not only an inch longer than the standard four inch glass rectal thermometer, but much thicker as well enabling more intimate contact with the lining of the rectal interior. Although it is not intended for human use it can be easily adapted for that purpose. The increase in length over the standard four inch glass rectal thermometer enables deeper penetration but adds to its visibility. Also, the original version has degrees Fahrenheit only which is much more familiar to some and easier to read against a white background.

For me the color doesn’t really matter I just know I’ve always wanted to experience a glass thermometer

The blue/red color coding for rectal/oral seems North American. The thermometers I saw when I was a kid in France were sold for both oral and rectal use and there was no marker.

Color, no.

But it should be cold and inserted by someone I like.

Mine is clear but I don’t think it matters

All mine are clear but one which is yellow they all have a red tip on one end to signify it’s a rectal thermometer they all are in red cases.

I had both a clear traditional mercury thermometer and veterinary yellow one. The veterinary one was slightly thicker and about an inch longer but that little bit extra made all the difference in my bum

I have a number of B-D thermometers with yellow, and white backs. As well as European-style ones with paper in larger tube backs. I also have one or two thermometers where the thermometer back is white but mercury has Red in the glass over it or in two cases alcohol is colored red or blue.