Dr Spock and rectal temps

I can remember very clearly my mom's copy of Dr Spock that was the bible in the 60s and 70s. It had very detailed instructions on how to take a temperature rectally. When I started taking my own temp I would sneak the book and read it while I took it. Got an instant erection and actually came the first time while reading Dr. Spock with a glass thermometer in my rectum. Anyone else have similar memories?

Always got first rectal temp. Then a ivory suds enema with 2 to 3 clear water rinses..mother or aunt said those would get a jump on any illness we were getting. The soap always got very fast and through results sometimes if weren't sick we would get weekly suppostorys most of the time fri night after dinner to keep things going good mom would say.

My mom had the same book. I enjoyed reading (and was excited by) the section on taking your child's temp rectally. I thought it needed more detail! It certainly added the info I needed when I started taking my own'

My Mom also had that book and enjoyed looking at the temperature section.

My parents had that book!!! Actually I remember I stole it and hid it away as a child just so I could look at the illustration of the rectal temp taking. I may have hated having it done to me but for some reason the pic fascinated me. I still have that book somewhere too lol!

Not his book but old medical household medicine book home remedies a detailed instruction on how to take rectal temps in it

I should look for my grandmothers old books from her nursing in the 30s. I recall pouring over those as a young child and being quite captivated...

I spent so much time rereading those pages in the book and looking at the picture. I'm not sure how old I was when I started. Probably 6 or 7. Maybe 8. I read them regularly through my teen years. The look on the baby's face was funny.

If the edition is old enough there was a section on giving the child an enema. His first edition was in the mid 40s, and is undoubtedly a collector's item. I don't have Mums copy... but did receive the enemas ( LoL )

Mom did not a Dr Spock book. She did have an oversized tome on child care that I used to sneak peeks at. It has two pages on how to administer enemas, complete with line drawings. It also has a page on rectal temps that I studied.

Mom followed the rectal temp procedures but when it came to enemas she had her own way of doing things. None of that lying on the bed with one leg bent business. It was over the lap in the bathroom for me.

I have no idea if she followed the book's volume guidelines, and I no longer recall what they were. All

I knew at the time was I got a good enema.

My Mom also had that book and enjoyed looking at the rectal temperature section

It seems that Dr. Spock did a bit of a turnabout regarding enemas and some of the other procedures. His early manuals would indicate that he was quite an advocate and gave detailed instructions. Later on, he seemed to discourage usage and referred to the potential traumatic effects.

Google books has the text, and a few illustrations, of those old manuals and textbooks. They even have some passages from other sexually based references and fetish material.

One of my favorite medical books of my childhood, was "The Complete Medical Guide" by Benjamin Miller. It may just have one of the better enema illustrations. It served as an early guide for me and I still have my grandma's copy.

I remember reading that section many times. There was also an excellent description of how to take a rectal temperature in the Merck Manual from the early 60's.

I remember reading the "temperature section" of his book, and he supported rectal temps. for children, until around age 5 or 6,or at least until they could keep the thermometer under their tongue. Apparently many doctors, and hospitals didn't follow his protocol, at least with regard to temp. taking.

This may be how it all started.

I also remember reading a section on temperature taking, in an old World Book encyclopedia, published in the early 60's. It clearly stated that the "best place to take a temperature, is in the rectum." There was no age limit specified.

That may be how it all started for me.

I was 50's 60's kid and 70's teen I too recall the Dr. Spock book mom had hardcover copy, it had a gray cover. I recall the picture of the baby with a thermometer in its bottom, the thermometer art work was a bit odd as the thermometer seemed to have some kind of metal grip on the back end.

My mom had a copy. I read the section on rectal temps and enemas over and over just to see the words and the description. My imagination did the rest, even at age 8.

I don't recall the name of the book, but I once found a child care book that in the section for how to take a child's temperature, only gave instructions for taking it rectally. No other method was mentioned, nor was any age.

Our Mom read Dr. Spock too and did rectal temps on my brothers and I. Does anyone know to what age Dr. Spock recommended rectal temps? Was it different for boys and girls? I always heard that girls were switched to oral temps sooner than boys but since I had only brothers and no sisters I don't have personal knowledge of that.

In the 1960's, My mother had a copy of Dr Spock's book. There was also an excellent description of how to take a rectal temperature

I think most of us with the fetish checked out good old Doc Spock at one time or another. I used to also read family medical books hoping for a peek; occasionally I was successful!!

It was my mother's most used reference book whenever illness came along. Her copy was well-worn and yellowed by the time I was a teen. She bought it in 1962, the year I was born, and used it for all four of her children. I found it one day laying around and thumbed through it. The "Fever " and "Temperature taking " chapter were my favorites. I recall the chapter and the good doctor advising that "Temperatures should be taken by rectum up to age 5 or 6". and the illustration of an infant over his mother' s lap. A rectal thermometer is sticking out of his bottom, held between his mother's fingers as she rests her hand on his bottom. The baby has a startled look on his face- and can you blame him as he is held firmly in place for a very long three minutes.

I Don't recall being over the lap, but mom did prefer to have us on our stomachs as she spread our buttocks, inserted the lubricated thermometer and sat next to us on the bed and timed off three minutes- all the while warning us to "lay still".

This is great! I also remember my parents having the Dr. Spock book and seeing/masturbating to the simple cartoon picture of the child receiving a rectal temp. I just searched on the internet and you can find images of the pages from the book. I never, to my knowledge, received a rectal temp when I was young. However, sometimes I would use a cotton tipped Q-tip and some Vaseline to pretend.

My Mom also had that book and enjoyed looking at the temperature section.

With me there were no books in the house so at 13 scoured the library and found quite a few books that showed rectal temperatures. Unfortunately all of those books were removed from the shelves years ago. I enjoyed looking at every book then at 13.

We had a Red Cross home health care book with plenty of content on rectal temp taking. I loved reading it. I also remember recommendation of cooking enemas for reducing fever. While rectal temps were normal for me, I never received any sort of enema at home.

My mom also had a Dr Spock book. It had a detailed description how to take a rectal tempratue, and it also had a cartoon drawing of a baby across a lap with a thermometer sticking out of it's butt. There were also detailed instructions on how to give a bulb enema. I used to sneak that book off the shelf and read it in the closet in my room ?

Very much remember the Dr Spock book. I remember buying my own copy for like 5.99 at a local chain pharmacy. That book was the inspiration for many many self play sessions as a teenager.