Teenage rectal temps

I can remember every time I got sick and that could have been from a sore throat ,cold/sneezing,Flu etc. A Rectal temp.was required and always from my mother .She kept doing this right up until I moved out at age 18. This was in late 60's to mid 70's ,I can remember she would always do the exact same way ,She would first check my forehead with her hand and then say "You feel warm,go up to your room get ready for me to take your temperature"

She would take it always same way ,take my pants /underwear off put a pillow down and then I would have to lie so my ass was a little up in air ,and I was to spread my leagues just a touch and wait for her. Then she would come in my room with this old leather case (thermometer),vaseline jar,rubber glove,some kleenex.

She would then put on the glove ,open up the leather case and take out the thermometer,put some vaseline on one finger on glove ,her other hand spread my ass cheeks open .Then I would feel that finger into my hole slowly and then removed even slower still spread wide with her other fingers I would then feel the thermometer just touch then push all the way,she always would hold for the 3-4 minutes.She then would pull it out slowly tell me to stay still ,she would read it then wipe me off and tell me if get into bed ,or going to school etc.

If was sick with high temp would go through same procedure every 4-6 hours or until my fever broke if not after so many hours etc. off to doctors we went . Doctor would take same type temp.even when teenager .

My aunt took my temp for my teenage years, if I was over her house for a sleepover party etc and I was sick she had no problem taking me upstairs to her bedroom to take my temp

She would first check my forehead with her hand and then say "You feel warm,go up to your room get ready for me to take your temperature". . . . etc.

Once the observation, "You feel warm," is made, there is no reason to actually take the temperature unless it feels ungodly high, in which case you need to go to the ER.

My aunt took my temp for my teenage years, if I was over her house for a sleepover party etc and I was sick she had no problem taking me upstairs to her bedroom to take my temp

I am incredulous regarding how many times children are at their cousin's or friend's house for a sleepover or party when they were sick, requiring their aunt or other relative to take their rectal temperature instead of their just staying home; and the quoted statement sounds like it has happened more than a few times. Neither my children nor I ever knew anyone who got that kind of sick when they were at a party. Why would anybody go to a party if they were sick? Nobody gets so sick so fast they need their temperature taken.

I was 18, (mid seventies) first year at the University of California, Berkeley. The school of biology required us to contribute time to student and teacher studies as subjects. I signed up for a study the claimed to be investigating the effect of color on physiological factors. The needed fifty male and female students. It sounded like an easy one.

The first humiliation was having to undress completely (except your socks) and you were given a hospital gown. This was a red flag. Next you went into a little room and a young cooed explained she would be inserting a rectal probe that needed to remain in place for the duration. Bend over, endure the humiliation of the insertion, then your buttocks were taped closed and the probe wire was taped up your back. You were then put in a cubicle that I swear was a refrigerator shipping box with one side cut out. You then had to pull your gown down exposing your chest (I can imagine the girls loving this) and a camera with lights was aimed at you. A tube was hooked around your chest to measure respiration, a blood pressure cuff, and an o2 device clipped to your finger. A male student then came in and placed painted poster board around you so that you were immersed in a particular color. You then sat there like an idiot for five minutes and then the color was changed. This went on for about an hour.

Looking back, I am in awe of the student that dreamed up this experiment. I am sure he was the one doing the probe insertions and photography of the females. It was absolutely brilliant. I could imagine a review panel sitting around smoking pipes, looking at coeds chests, trying to keep a straight face as they "observed changes in flesh tone when subjected to different colors".

Switchablesusie....I do agree with both of your post about feeling foreheads and for fever and going to a party with a fever.

The last fever that I had was back in the winter and I did go out and about in town with it and did care.

I remember having my temperature taken rectally when I was admitted to the hospital. I had just gotten to the ward and was lying in bed with a hospital gown on when a nurse came in and informed me than my temperature was to be taken. I was told to turn over so it could be done rectally. I had to lie there with a thermometer sticking out of my butt where all the others on the ward could see!!!

No, rectal temperatures stopped at a young age

My Most Humiliating Rectal Temperature... It was a Saturday afternoon. I was 15 at the time. I was lying on my mom’s bed, talking with my best friend Bobby on the phone. Without warning my mom entered the room. She was in a really bad mood. “You’re sick, get off the phone immediately so I can take your temperature”. “I am not sick”, I protested. “Yes you are, hang up the phone right now if you don’t want a spanking!”

Reluctantly I hung up the phone. “Take your pants down, now!” She commanded. I hesitated but pulled down my pants just below my butt crack, along with my underwear. She came up in back of me, and quickly pulled my pants and underwear to below my knees.

She sat down next to me on the bed. Mom reached in the bedside drawer and pulled out the rectal thermometer and vaseline. I saw her shake down the thermometer and dip the end in the vaseline.

Suddenly I felt my rear end parted and the cold end of the thermometer deeply inserted. She playfully patted my bottom.

I was left with the thermometer sticking out of me. Fortunately there was nobody home besides us.

Between 5 and 10 minutes passed. She returned and withdrew the thermometer from my quivering rear end.

She wiped it off and read it out load. “99.6...Hmmm, I guess you may be OK. I better take your temperature again later.

I certainly wished I'd pursued more bottom temps as a teen. Alas.....the occasion never presented itself until young adulthood. Today, apart from my colonic therapist, it is just me and my wife and the occasional girl who likes to play with us.

For those of us who were teens in the 60s, the rectal temperature was still used. I remember going to see a friend and when I entered the house her mom brought me into the living room. That's where she was. Only thing is, her dad, her doctor and she were there too. She was stretched out, face down on a couch with her pajama bottoms and panties down and a glass mercury thermometer protruding out from between her cheeks. Perhaps that was the doctor's decision...I don't know, but at 16, my friend was having her temperature taken rectally.

Cloudburs,

Nice story. How intimate were you with that girl? Was she your girlfriend and had you allready seen her naked ? If not, i would imagine her to have been very angry toward her mother to have let you come inside the room where she was being examinated and temped.

From the age 13-18

I received frequent rectal temps from one or more of my teenage friends. We all enjoyed playing Dr and continued it into high school only adding oral and anal sex to the mix.

Mom stopped taking my temperature when I was around 6-7.

Mom was a single mom. When I was sick, Aunt Marge came over and looked after me when mom was at work. Aunt Marge always took my temperature rectally even in my teenage years. Always while I laid over her lap. I didn't mind it since I like laying over her lap - it was quite stimulating when she separated my butt checks and inserted the thermometer.

I was about 10 or 11 when others were taking my rectal temperature stopped, mostly due to my complaining about them. As I got older I became aroused by some of the memories and my fetish started to kick in. the only rectal temperatures that I had as a teenager were self taken to satisfy the fetish and it continues to this day.

Yes I do remember all the way until I moved out of the family house. Whenever I was not feeling good, my RT was taken laying on my tummy in bed. An enema was likely to follow if temperature was abnormal as my mom and grandmother were convinced that an enema (or series of enemas) was the cure all/prevent all that ails you or even a cure for a bad attitude or unhappy. Denise

No, never had that

Of course I remember rectal temps since they were common at home and at my pediatrician until the age if 13...

My pediatrician used rectal temperature exclusively. I went to him until I left for college st 18 years old

Yes, rectal temperature was standard during my teen years at home.

I did not take it really often though since I was rarely sick.

When I had a bad cold - bad enough to stay in bed let's say - rectal thermometer was the rule.

It had been the rule when I was a very young child - up to 5 years I'd say - and after that my parents switched to oral because I made a huge fuss when they had to take my temp.

For some reasons, the oral thermometer broke several years after my parents bought it (it was an electronic one, with a battery), so we switched back to the old rectal thermometer ( the glass rod) but since I was older and rarely sick, temperature taking wasn't a big deal any longer.

I remember my dad bringing me the rectal thermometer in my room though, when I was a teenager. I didn't like it but was much more relaxed about it, especially because I was old enough to insert it by myself, under the bed sheet. My father trusted me enough to leave me privacy so he usually left the room while I did the dirty job!

Back in the 90's, it was still the rule for most of teens in my age, judging from what I've heard from other classmates joking about it when they came back to school after a cold: "gosh, I got the thermometer up the ass" or, for those who were sent back home from school because they were sick, the others ironically laughing to him "Lucky you, you'll get the thermometer in your ass, ahah", etc, because it was considered as a normal but still humiliating procedure.

@serguei Right. When and where we both grew up, it was considered totally normal for an adult, a teenager or an older child to take his or her own temperature rectally. In fact, this was enforced in hospitals, and was the rule in many families (including mine).

I recall asking mom why we did not use oral as seen in cartoons and comics and she said it was not reliable.

@serguei Right. When and where we both grew up, it was considered totally normal for an adult, a teenager or an older child to take his or her own temperature rectally.

I know what you mean.

As a teenager becoming conscious of my arousal towards other boys, the thought of my classmates having to undergo the thermometer procedure definitely turned me on. I guess we all knew what being sick meant, no matter if you were a little macho or not: a pointed stick protruding from your ass crack for 2 minutes, generally twice a day, pants pulled down to your ankles and briefs just lowered to allow the intrusive tool make its job.

Depending on your doctor's and parent's habits, it was not uncommon to have to put up with suppositories as well. If you were lucky, it was "just" a paracetamol suppository which at least did not burn you while it was inserted. But those were mostly prescribed to young children. Teenagers were more likely to get eucalyptus based suppositories for bad cough / sore throat, as were adults. That meant having to endure - in addition to the thermometer - oily secretions from the melted suppository that left yellowish stains inside your briefs!

That might sound awkward to some people but so it was back in the 90's. Of course, we did not talk openly about these subjects, it was more we were teasing each other because we realized it was embarassing. But we could be more serious as well. When I was 13, a friend of mine asked me (because it was appropriate and related to what we were talking about) "Do your parents still give you suppositories?" "No", I replied, but we both knew it was a lie. Later in high school, we were almost 18, another friend who had a cold admitted his doctor had prescribed him in addition to cough syrup and pills, a suppository a day at bedtime. I guess it was to fight cough. I saw it from my eyes because we were close friends and he lived next to our school. A box of OCTOFENE suppositories lied on his bedside table. When he told us about his treatment, he chuckled when he mentionned them, like "ok, I won't say more".

Yes my mother and when visiting my aunt i always received rectal temps all thru high school

I was in a program where we had regular examinations and they always took our temperature three ways - oral, armpit, and rectally. They always did it this way. So, the last time I had a rectal temp taken I was 17.

The only rectal temperature I received as a teenager was when I would take my own temperature for fun

The only rectal temperature I received as a teenager was when I would take my own temperature for fun

Somehow I don't think that one counts!

I can attest to the accounts of teens having their rectal temps. taken, at least in the 60's and 70's, when the world was entirely different...and in most ways better. Most of the practices that were common among prior generations, kind of changed through time, with new attitudes and technology. Today, with the PC police, and other ominous threats to our personal freedoms, most parents or caregivers wouldn't dare to be in the same room with a naked teen, let alone take their rectal temp. My belief is that you would be hard-pressed to find anyone born after the early to mid 90's, who is even aware that a thermometer can be used in the butt, and would wonder why you can't just download some app. to take your temp. It's similar to speaking with your grandparents about medical practices that were common decades ago. What they dealt with, would be unheard of these days, but they were the cutting edge back then, and seeing someone's naked body didn't require government approval.

Today, with the PC police, and other ominous threats to our personal freedoms, most parents or caregivers wouldn't dare to be in the same room with a naked teen, let alone take their rectal temp. .

Far more important in this regard, are the prudish old biddies and religious fanatics who consider so many of such situations cause for temptation. Don't go laying blame on one type of social group only. For my money, these above two are far more guilty for changing attitudes towards nudity.

Regarding my comment about the PC police.. and other real threats.....I was alluding to all groups that have had a negative influence....religious, cultural, political, social. I could cite specific examples and histories, but I'm not here to debate. Anyway, nothing is socially harmful, until the majority of people begin to listen to garbage, and accept it as truth.