Mercury or digital?

What kind of thermometer do you prefer, mercury or digital?

I think digital is hot because I enjoy the beeping sound from between my buttocks, but I prefer mercury because it takes longer and needs to be shaken down, and because I like imagining the mercury slowly rising as the thermometer is cupped between my cheeks.

The old fashioned mercury thermometer .

No contest - mercury all the way (in).

Mercury... no doubt. I do have a couple of electronic thermometers, a simple digital and a Filac Fastemp... the Fastemp is interesting...has a different, almost heavy feeling to it when it's inserted. It's fun for something different, but I will always prefer mercury over any other type.

I like the Ivac digital because the probe cover is a larger diameter than the mercury thermometers I have, but it's over too fast. For real fun, I'll go with the mercury veterinary thermometer.

It of course has to be the glass mercury rod in my rectum. Would love to be putting one in that hot rose bud of yours right now.

(Aren't there already many threads on this?)

These days my wife takes my temperature morning and evening.

In the evenings, she takes me across her lap and uses a glass thermometer (no mercury) and Vaseline. Since it takes a while to register, this is a good occasion to have me talk about my day while I feel the rod in my anus. She may twirl it a bit.

In the weekdays mornings, we are more in a hurry so it's a quick check with the electronic thermometer and jelly.

Mercury for me.

Although I have both and even a tampanic I prefer mercury.

Mercury takes time to register, which is what the rectal temp. experience is all about...or should be. The digital thermometer comes out before you've had enough time to enjoy it. I guess that's okay if you're only interested in what your temp. is !

For me, nothing can compare to the feel of a cool, lubricated glass mercury with a plump tear shape bulb being slowly inserted into the anus and up the rectum and left in place for three minutes. That delightful "tingle" in the rear can't be matched by digital thermometers. The bulbs don't have that plump shape and just can't deliver the sensations that the glass rectal thermometer can.

A glass mercury thermometer, taken from a glass of cold water please. That cold feeling entering my bottom is so good.

And I love a woman's response when I push that cold glass rod into her anus. Watching it clench as she gasps is a beautiful thing.

From my past experiences as a kid, I prefer a mercury thermometer. Watching it being removed from the case, shaken down and dipped in vaseline, then being told to roll over on my belly, feeling my underwear pulled down ad the cool sensation of of the thermometer being inserted is wonderful. Starting the countdown timer and watching 5 minutes count down adds to the excitement. Envisioning a nurse to tell me to hold still like a good boy while it is being taken would make the experience so much better for me, followed by a needle or other procedure that would cause some discomfort back there. I not a big fan of the quick beeping digitals so I made one that I would like. You can see it on my profile page. I added a large bulb made of epoxy so It would feel good going in and take a long time to register so it would feel good inside until it beeped and was taken out.

I would prefer a mercury thermometer but, where would you find a real mercury thermometer today?

I would prefer a mercury thermometer

Sharbrian, they are still available on eBay.

Slipitin you are very correct. Just received 6 mercury rectal thermometers today. They look great can't wait to slip it in (no pun intended).

Mercury, defenitely mercury ?

Sarbrian - for a little bit of an extra kick, get a veterinary thermometer. They're still available form a few places online. They're also 5" long and slightly larger in diameter. 😈

Mercury, I like the coolness of the glass.

I definitely prefer mercury thermometers (I do have digital ones as well). I think it's probably more of a nostalgia thing for me, being not exactly a youngster. Plus I think a slim thermometer peeking out from someone's bottom cheeks just looks cool.

The old fashioned mercury thermometer .

I am guilty of being old-fashioned. I was raised that way, so I must vote for mercury over digital.

Most definitely a glass thermometer for rectal temps. Digital is okay for oral temps, but there is nothing like the feeling of a glass thermometer being inserted into your rectum. Plus, I personally enjoy looking at a mercury thermometer with a pear shaped bulb, especially if it says "rectal" on it. Bottom line, it's knowing where it is going , or has been, that enhances the experience..... 😃

We are trying to conceive, so we are following the Basal Temperature method. Every morning of my chart days, my husband gets up first, lubes my mother's old basal thermometer, and inserts it into my rectum. A mercury basal thermometer is marked in one-tenths of a degree is a little more thicker than a rectal or oral mercury type, which are in two-tenths of a degree, and the bulb is bigger. It can be used orally or vaginally, but my gyno's nurse told me that rectal is the most accurate. We do have an oral digital thermometer, but that is only to determine if you have a fever. If my husband or i do have an elevated oral reading, it's upstairs to our bedroom or bathroom for an over-the-lap rectal temperature with mom's other thermometer- the rectal mercury BD!

I'll go with the mercury thermometer (not Geratherm or any that have a substitute element in the thermometer) I believe the glass mercury rectal thermometer is truly the "Gold Standard" for obtaining an accurate body temperature reading.

Got to be glass. I just bought an old Rexall baby thermometer from the -60s i think. Brand new in the box with 2.25 price written in grease pencil. I paid about 5 for it. That's it as my avatar.

Glass is best

Glass triangular thermometer is my favorite, many more sensations

As I have posted here before. Hands down has to be the old cold glass rod. There's nothing more satisfying than slipping that Mercury large bulb thermometer deep into the rectum. Very exciting and arousing find one if you can.