Rectal temps in different (foreign) countries

NEVER IN INDIA...... ITS Always ORAL Or UNDER-ARM BUT NEVER RECTAL. Non MEdical BAckground People DOnt Even Know That RECTAL TEMPERATURe EXist Here In INDIA... :\ :\

Last year I was in Spain for holiday I go to doctor because not feeling well and said I think I have also fever but can't take it because I have no thermometer.

After the normal exam the doc asked me, he will check my fever, I said ok.

As he went to get the thermo I quickly lied down on the exam table and pulled my underwear down and hope to get a rectal temp.

The doc comes back with the thermo and was shocked seeing me lying there with my naked butt and said this is not it is not the common way for adult patients, here only do it under the arm.

I answered at home for me rectal way is standard I don't know a other way.

I don't give up and don't stand up and I had luck and so the doctor took my temp rectally 😃

Last year I was in Spain for holiday

I answered at home for me rectal way is standard I don't know a other way.c ... I don't give up and don't stand up and I had luck and so the doctor took my temp rectally 😃

You're lucky the doctor didn't send you in for a psych evaluation ... ha ha.

But more seriously: where was it in Spain you went to the doctor? Just curious because we've had experiences with doctors in Spain from the north all the way to the south and in large urban areas and in the middle of nowhere.

Given the prevalence of videos depicting rectal temps in China on kids & even teens (usually as instructional examples) I'm surprised that it's not more common anecdotally.

I traveled through Spain, and spent time at the University of Salamanca. I came down with a cold, and the doctor took my temp under my armpit. My wife who is from Barcelona, told me that in Spain, rectal temps were never used. Only in other European countries, and the U.S., during the past.

RT used to be the standard in The Netherlands untill other types became available like ear etc. These days it's barely used anywhere.

LailaShawn: It's actually pretty commonplace everywhere I think for infants, isn't it?

Even though I am Indian, I grew up in Africa and the Sister in the clinic there used a rectal thermometer till an age where I could remember the experience vividly. My mother also did it often and I remember the thermometer and vaseline jar. But she stopped early on, as my memory of it is quite fuzzy.

In the realm of rectal temperatures I have a feeling that Asian women, considering I spent much time there are more reluctant than Indian woman (India) where I spent time, who seemed to be more accepting of this diagnostic procedure. Any thoughts?

I dated a Japanese, Japanese/American actually, woman once. I regret that we never tried rectal thermometer because she was definitely into having her bottom explored and touched and played with. Not sure if it really applies to all Asian women. I read a long time ago a man who claimed that he had sex with many women and that all the red-haired ones were very into anal play. I wonder if any universities do this type of research!

Asian women, considering I spent much time there are more reluctant than Indian woman (India) where I spent time,

Where did you spend time? Just confused as India is in Asia. It's like saying Texans are taller than Americans.

Any thoughts?

I see more anal play in Asian porn, due to the fact that many times the vagina is pixelated (for legal reasons, I gather), but porn is probably not what you want to base this off. The only Asian women I have done anything remotely sexual with simply have an Asian appearance, but were all born and raised (same for their parents, I think) in Europe, so I can't say.

I traveled around "Asia", and didn't stay extensively in any places. But that would include Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand too. Yes, using "Asia" is an umbrella phrase I guess. Good point you make. But I found Indian females more willing, and accepting to have their temperatures taken rectally, though not all, as opposed to other women from the above named nations, mostly, I guess based on culture and past practices, were reluctant, to the anal thermometer's use on them, though, not all were reluctant. I got a chuckle out of your Texans remark. Thanks for your input.

I've never had any experience with Asian women and rectal temps., but I'm sure that some would be willing participants, just as in any other culture. Likely, if they were from the traditional family, where they were taught that pleasing a husband is tantamount to a good marriage, (and expected), they would be more open to accept a rectal temp. If they lived in the U.S. for any length of time, the former culture, and its taboos, would probably have little influence. I always get some flack when I tell people that foreign women treat their husbands much better than their American counterparts. I base this on personal experience. While it's not always true, it often is.

Many thoughts on this here. Currently many Filipino girls are getting this done by their male doctors. A 26 yr old Chinese student was rectally temped by her male doctor last year in Buffalo, NY. The Filipinos take to it well as they are compliant once they are told to do it.

How'd you come by these pieces of info? Just curious, considering I started this post.

"A 26 yr old Chinese student was rectally temped by her male doctor last year in Buffalo, NY."

That reads like a news headline.

"Women from Asia getting rectal temps. from male doctors in Buffalo? " Where is this information source ? It seems odd that this would become public information, unless it was tied to a criminal complaint. I know a few RN's, and they have explicitly told me that rectal temps. aren't taken, except under unusual circumstances, and certainly not with glass thermometers.

Sigh! It is true. It was my girl friend. She was an international student that I was dating at the time that the doctor asked her to remove her pants in order to take her temperature. He did not remove her panties as she wore a white satin thong that day.

She said he just moved it a bit and then he just slipped it right in. Asian women are very compliant. She asked me afterwards and discussed it with me so yes it is true. , I never asked was it a "glass thermometer". I do recall she said it was inside of her for like forever. But again that could mean 30 seconds, i minute or 3 minutes who knows.

In truth I was looking for something else on Zity that much more interests me when I responded and came across this very weird thread you guys have out here. You all sound sad. I do know this happens in other parts of the world as well as I served in the Philippines and my buddies and I discussed the fact that this would never happen back home. I loved the Filipino girls though as they have the perfect mix of Spanish buxom bosoms on tiny little frames. I do not know why this is so shocking to you, In the US we are very prudish yet our girls are all skanks and sleep with 14 guys before we ever marry them. Yet we make a medical procedure aberrant and are sue happy which is why medical malpractice is so high and our doctors transfer their insurance unto us with higher co-pays.

As for these "nurses" they sound like dikes and femi-nazis out to "protect" the female race. Hopefully things will change soon with the new president.

There is a sharp dichotomy between the puritanical veneer and the overt promiscuity that exists in this country.

As an Asian woman, I must say I love rectal temps haha.

In our culture, we are told that sex is a humiliating thing, we should be a virgin before marriage, I think that's why most Asian women are reluctant.

Dear Sensei1980, you are most correct. We have both extremes in this country. One virulent form that wants to punish all male doctors who take their females temperatures and others whom themselves are puritanical but also will drop trough for any man to "love them". Hence they are closet skanks. Gone are the days when a male could be seen as a care provider to a nice girl. Instead they are seen as "perverts" and have all kinds of accusations thrown their way. Another old ex girl friend of mine had her rectal temperature taken in Marietta, Georgia until she was 17 by her male pediatrician. He retired just 3 years ago but that is how he took all his young and teenage female patients temperatures every time you went so I guess the "guardians of the galaxy" would have been on his ass had they ever found out, But here is the rub, most doctors would still do this if they were not so afraid of the "thought police" coming after them. Truly yes, some doctors did abuse their female patients and do more than was required so those guys should have been punished and disbarred from the profession. But why punish everyone like we are wont to do in this country. Made guilty before even he does anything. I have been blessed to travel a lot in my life and lived in many parts of the South besides getting my Masters Degree recently in Buffalo and even in California I know of beautiful Asian as well as Caucasian girls who truly are and were rectally temped by their male doctors and I know if any of these self declared feminine protectors ever found out it would be curtains. I even saw a supposed "ER" doctor who claimed this would never happen. Which makes me wonder is this his secret fetish and is that why he is out here to get his "kicks" for what he can't do where he works? These things do happen thankfully Sensei1980 still despite the puritanical threats but sadly in pockets of America they are looked for by some to needlessly destroy, um... apparently "hoped for by others" and employed by those doctors still willing to take the risk in those pockets. What amazes me though most of all is that I do not know why some of these people are reduced to "fantasizing" about this and when anyone truly does give a real testimony of known occurrences it is frowned upon and declared impossible and "news headlines". That tells me that this is so "striking" to them that this must be the stuff of the "National Enquirer" as while those on these forums may wish for it, to hear of it actually occurring somewhere still in the US, in modern day America must be "fiction" as it cannot possibly be true.

I've traveled abroad and have had many multi cultural experiences. Ramy and I had an interesting discussion along these similar lines, in personal communication. I find in my experience that it uniqly depends on the individual and her own personal desires. I find most females receptive to it even if they don't like Anal sex, no matter their cultural background. In all my 20 years of having a Rectal temperature fetish, I've only had one partner sternly object. Ramy would be a good guy to ask as well.

I have some female Asian friends and most do not want to discuss anything anal. I am not sure about Indian females

I've had experiences in the far east where I had my RT taken by nurses when ill. Has anybody here experienced that situation or circumstance in a foreign country?

In Hong Kong, all public hospitals turned to using tympanic thermometers as of 2007. I spoke to some nurses and the main complaint about mercury thermometers was that occasionally somebody would drop and the whole clear up exercise was a right b**ch....

Prior to that oral would be the norm during the day and rectal at night and there would be a sheet with a clipboard at the end of your bed where the nurses would record your temperature.

Most wards will have 6 people staying in a room and if rectal temperature was taken then the nurses would draw the curtains.... However I remember that no lubricant was used in these hospitals; they would put the thermometer in this disposable plastic sheath and then stick it in the patients bottom.

Malmsperm: All glass thermometers have the problem that, if they break, you have to collect the glass shards. In addition, mercury (but there exist other types of glass thermometers, that do not have mercury) makes small droplets that are very difficult to collect. Mercury does not "wet" cloth or paper and will break into smaller droplets if you attempt collecting it.

(Mom once broke a mercury thermometer and talked about it for years.)

Since I first posted about my friend getting her rectal temp when she lived in Cuba I asked a few other ladies from Cuba about it. One said sometimes they do a rectal temp on adults and the other said it's not done on anyone including babies. Maybe rectal temps were phased out the last 10-15 years. I do know they still use mercury thermometers. Read an article saying they are about 3 cents compared to $6 for a digital. They are not very available though. Would love to find that doctor who took my friend's temp and watch him do it to my wife.

Funny reading about the guy who said our fetish was sad. His posts seemed fake. The guys comes here looking for something else and stumbles on a thread I started about rectal temps.

A few years ago, I read an rticle in a Swedish paper about a divorce dispute between a Swedish lady and a latino migrant. The man complained that his wife was taking their son's temperature rectally and was afraid this would turns him into a homosexual. The wife answered that rectal temperature taking was the norm in Sweden and she did not see anything wrong with that.

The paper went on to explain that rectal temperature was by far not as common in Latin America as in Scandinavia and thet the latino"macho" tended to associate rectal temperature taking with being gay.

the latino"macho" tended to associate rectal temperature taking with being gay.

That is very believable. And I bet the same attitude can be found in other countries.

A Polish handyman I know once absolutely refused to use a plastic bag that was covered with a rather bright floral pattern. There was nothing else but still a refusal. When asked why he hemmed and hawed but upon being directly asked he said he didn't want to look like he was gay. So someone else carried the bag. Big deal.

The hangups some people have trying to protect their supposed masculinity ?