Disliking RT's as a kid

I don't know if I'm really the odd one out here, but I have zero memory of ever having my temperature taken rectally. I'm sure it was done when I was very young, but for as long as I can remember, i.e. from about four years old on up, it was always oral.

I hated having my temperature taken rectally as a child. My mother was respectful of my dislike and would only take it that way when I had a pretty good fever and stopped once I was 6 or 7. She was a nurse and at that time a rectal temperature was the only way to go. One of my earliest memories was being sick and her telling me she would have to take my temperature in my bottom. I remember resisting but a few good smacks on my rear end quickly brought me into line. She was very gentle and tried soothing me but I cried the whole time. I'm not sure what bothered me so much but the idea of having to expose my most private part and having something actually inserted into my anus seemed like such a complete violation and so unnatural. It wasn't really painful but I just remember being so humiliated, even at that young age.

I had to spend several days in the hospital with a bad case of pneumonia when I was 4 or 5 and the nurse would come in and take my temperature rectally every 4 hours. It was so humiliating having a complete stranger spread my bum and insert the thermometer up into my rectum. It seemed like it was in there for an eternity. The nurses were all very sweet and I eventually got somewhat used to it but I still remember the feeling of helplessness when the nurse came in with the rectal thermometer tray and then spread my bum cheeks, pushed the thermometer into my rectum and held it there for five minutes..

I'm convinced that these events and one other involving a suppository are at the heart of my RT/Enema/Anal play fetish. Nothing all that enlightening as I'm sure most of us have similar experiences as a basis for our fetish. I've been able to get my wife to give me an occasional enema for constipation but I'd love to have her take my temperature rectally. Not sure how to tackle this one. Maybe I'll just ask her and see what happens. It's amazing how something you would have given anything to avoid as a child turns into something you crave as an adult.

I don't recall receiving any rectal temps as a child, but do remember receiving them every 4 hours around the clock when I was a senior in high school and in the hospital for a week with a broken leg. Basically, I laid there for about 5 days waiting for the swelling in my leg to subside sufficiently for them to put a cast on, following a nasty toboggan accident. Taking rectal temps every 4 hours back then (about 1963) while in the hospital was just their standard practice. Actually, they felt kind of good, and I didn't complain.

On the contrary, I loved them. My sister told me that if I was expecting a RT to be taken I was naked and lying on my belly somewhere in a flash. She admitted that when she baby sat me (she was 11 years older) she'd use the promise of taking my RT as a reward for being a good boy. When I was school age, I was still very willing and cooperative.

I got rectal temperatures taken at the doctors until I turned 8 years old. The routine was strip to just underpants then on the nurses command lie on the exam table on your belly while she slid your underpants down for the RT. So far, so good. When the thermometer was removed, did the underpants come back up or were they taken off. If they came off, it meant a shot was scheduled.

One time I was lying on the table with my underpants at my knees and the thermometer in my butt. The doctor came in the room and greeted me. He then removed the thermometer and checked the reading. He then slid my underpants off my feet and told me I could sit up. When I did so I started to cry. He asked why I was crying. I told him "When you take my underpants off, it means you're going to give me a shot!" And I was right.

In general I am most aroused by the things I despise having the dr do to me.....

I somehow liked it to have it taken rectally as a child.

My mother was always very gentle and nice.

I never understtod why my doctor couldn't just take my temp with a thermometer in my mouth like my mom would do at home if i was sick. It made no sense!

When I was a child, I found it quite embarrassing checking up your temperature rectally - even if it was a quite natural thing in our family. When you were sick, you always checked up the temperature rectally - no matter if you were young or older. I hated to be lying in my bed with my underwear down to the knees, feeling the cold metal tip being inserted and to keep it in place for at least 3 minutes - and I thought those 3 minutes, were the longest of my life. But I got used to it. And after 11 I had to learn checking the temperature by my self. Rectally - of course...

I always hated it. It was so embarrassing and that's why I didn't like it. Having my pants pulled down and told to relax, and then getting some cold Vaseline lubricated thermometer up my ass..... of course that's embarrassing and I don't know about many people who liked getting their temp taken by their mothers. But many of them love it now 😃

Only one time my temp was taken rectally as a child and I really liked it. But I did not like suppositories as a child.

I didn't begin to find it embarrassing until I was about 7 or 8 years old.Up until then it was just very pleasurable for me.

I had my temp taken this way until I was 9 or 10 years old and liked it (Still do when I can get my lady to play)!

It was always taken rectally even into my teens a few times, and I always hated it. Even when I was 4,5, 6 yrs old I would holler and try to fight them off and resist as much as I could but that made it worse , it took several adults to get hold of me, turn me over on the table and pull down my shorts, keep me still and look on for the temperature taking. When it went it I'd be yelling 'ouch, ouch, and over and over yelling for them to 'take it out, take it out, that's enough'. After that I knew I wouldn't win so went along with it at least then I knew it would be less embarrassing with less people in room. I put off turning over & laying on stomach and pulling down shorts as along as I could, because they would leave you there forever, naked butt exposed and door partly open. Nurse would come back in and stand there while I turned over, and she would pull down shorts. I didn't cooperate very well. It gave me a hard on every time though which I didn't understand and added to the embarrassment.

When I was a child and Teenager, I got my temperature always taken rectally.

But not laying on my stomach, it was always taken in the diaper position.

i think that made it embarassing for me. My temperature was taken this way until the age of 14.

Not my mom, it was at the pediatrician's office. HATED IT; especially when my older sister was old enough for oral temp, but I got it in the rear. She would laugh, laugh, laugh. That's why I put vaseline in her hairbrush.

I had no problems with rectal temps as a child. Mom never took them that often, and I never remember it being done at the doctors, although i'm sure it was at some point or another. Mom stopped giving me the option of rectal after i turned 7, even if I asked, she wouldn't do it, saying that I was "too old".

Hey guys,

i never liked as a kid and dont like it today.i always felt humiliated and kinda abused because it happend against my will everytime.i had forced RTs,suppositories and DREs.I would never ever do it to my children since there are good alts those days (earthermos,orally...) if its a good brand.Or i could add the known difference to the measured temp.The last time i got a RT was at the age of 14.as an adult woman i have problems with sex and gyno visits because panties down means humiliation to me.

I only got them at home. Never at the doctor that I remember, save for once at an ER visit. I had a mixed feeling about them. I knew there was a grown up way since we had an oral thermometer for others in the house and the doctor took mine orally. So it made me feel a little embarrassed with the implication that I was still a baby, and of course being exposed like that.

But I didn't really mind them that much truth be told. And I would do it when playing doctor when I actually quite liked it.

I do remember once as a kid - probably 7 or so - where I refused a RT when I was sick but noticed some Vaseline down there in the morning. They got me in my sleep. I didn't bother resisting after that. :-)

I disliked having my temp taken rectally, too. Seemed like my mom took it way too often when I was sick (a lot before I had my tonsils out) and also took it past the age when I was old enough for oral. I actually recall once that I was old enough to count to 300 because I knew there were 60 seconds in a minute and that meant it would be time for her to take it out when I got to 300 since it had to stay in for 5 minutes. If I knew that much math, I was old enough for oral, imo. The other thing is that she never closed my bedroom door.

The only break I will cut for her about this is that I did sometimes have very high fevers and vivid hallucinations from them and 1 of my sibs had a history of seizures due to high fevers. But, I never recall actually having a convulsion or seizure from a fever, but maybe she was afraid I would. That just occurred to me as I post this.

I don't remember ever disliking it or putting up a fight.

I always remember liking rectal temps. I would actually ask for the "butt thermometer".

I didn't dislike it as a child.

To me, it was normal procedure and mom was always quite gentle, so it wasn't an unpleasant experience for me.

C.

I have to agree with Connie I never found it to be unpleasant. It was a normal procedure

I don't remember having my temperature taken rectally, that is, my mom inserting it (which for sure occurred when I was, say, below 5). I remember my mom giving me the thermometer and I had to insert it rectally under the bedsheets.

Not that it was not without embarrassment at times, e.g. when I had to do it in the hospital with the nurse watching (I always wondered whether she was about to do it herself) or when I had to do it in front of family. Even if you have bedsheets covering you, you still feel a bit awkward putting a glass stick into your butt!

For me, it was the opposite: I resisted changing over to oral when I was about 5.

I always had my temperature taken rectally by a young nurse at the clinic near where I grew up. I was always extremely embarrassed and she always spread my buttock with one hand and inserted the rectal thermometer in very deeply and held it there. She would always make eye contact with me and tell me that I was a good patient even though a squirmed around alot on the exam table. I wasn't good at all when she gave me shots in my buttocks and usually had to be held still by another nurse.

I never disliked them. I always loved the feeling of the Vaseline lubed thermometer sliding into my rectum.

I didn't have rectal temps. taken after around age 5 or 6, with the exception of once when I was 8, because the oral thermometer broke. I hated them, because my sister who was two years older, had hers taken orally, and I didn't like being treated differently. There were times when my butt would be sore afterwards. When I was 8, my grandmother took my temp rectally after the oral thermometer broke. She didn't lubricate it, and it hurt going in, (felt like a ballpoint pen), and really hurt being taken out. (My grandmother was mean-spirited anyway).

Without lubrication? Yikes! Mean spirited indeed.

My mom was a nurse and back in the 60's before clever things like temp strips and digital ear thermometers were invented, she'd take our oral or rectal temps every time we had a tummy ache or felt ill. I never told her (sorry, mom, but I guess you know now, eh?), but I always loved the rectal temps, properly lubricated, going in and out. However, I always wished they were bigger since I liked the slim thermometers, so I was already set up to love it on the rare occasion when I vaguely remember her giving me an enema. She went to nursing school in SF in the '40's, and anything she put in my butt or anywhere else was always done with care and consideration for comfort. She either learned or invented this technique for shots in which she'd grasp the skin and underlying tissue very very firmly to make the injection site immobile, so when the needle went in you barely noticed it. Most people's reaction to her shots was "when are you starting?" or "you're done?" It was really remarkable.

Eric