Doctor's office or at home

As a child growing up, did you prefer having your rectal temperature taken at home in a domestic setting or at the doctor's office in a more professional setting? I always preferred having it taken at home in my own bed laying over my temperature takers lap. I always felt it was much more intimate.

I wasn't overly crazy about it either way, but if I had to pick one, I would say at the office. It seemed more...appropriate...there. I always felt weird having Mom do it at home. Not so much by a nurse at the office.

I can't really say I preferred one over the other because at that age (up to around 6 or 7) I had not yet developed a liking for rectal temps. I remember getting them taken at home, at the doctors office, and a couple times from the school nurse. If my temp had been taken rectally when I was a bit older I probably would have preferred at home.

My RT was only taken at home.

Our family took temps in the bedroom on the bed never otk or in public areas of the house . And at the Doctor's it was always in the exam room usually with door closed but not always. I didn't dislike or like either place better.

I remember our family doctor doing a house call and taking me to my parents bedroom and taking my temperature. Also on another visit he took it on while I was on the couch and my brothers and sisters were watching TV. they had no idea what was going on. I sure did!

I preferred it at home because I hated going to the doctor's office. I always got a penicillin shot in my bottom and it hurt a lot! In the 50's, a shot of penicillin was thought to cure everything. Temp normal at home and, oila, no doctor's office visit..

The doctor did make house calls. My most memorable visit was when I was about five. The doctor came and after he listened to my heart and lungs and looked at my throat, he had me turn around. I was in my shorts which he pulled down. My parents were sitting on the sofa facing me with the doctor behind me. I felt my cheeks spread and a cold thermometer glide into my little bottom. Surprise -- you bet! He pulled my shorts up, I suppose to hold it in. In a couple of minutes the shorts came down again and the thermometer came out. No shot!

I rather have had it taken at the doctor. Less personal. Maybe even a little more privacy in some ways

I would prefer at the doctor's office, less personal

Doctors office

I was very young so it didn't really matter much.

I don't remember ever having my temp taken at home. If i felt too hot my mom would just take me to the doctor and they always did it there. I had strep throat so frequently that a visit without a temp felt weird. I guess my mom didn't want to add to the stress of rectal temps suppositories and injections that i was about to get!

I always had it taken both places. I liked the added visibility at the doctors office. The nurses weren't real careful about who saw a little boys backside.

I always preferred having it taken at home in my own bed laying on my tummy.

As a child, I never liked either. Now,either would be great.

When I was a child and was sick, my mom always checked my rectal temperature at home before going to the doctor's office - so she did know my temperature. She said, otherwise the doctor for sure is going to take my temperature anyway...

I preferred at home over my mother's lap. I knew there was no way I would get a shot from her.

Mom would take it orally but I knew when going to our pediatrician that I would be getting it taken rectally. It never mattered whether it was because I was sick or for a dreaded physical, the nurse took our temps rectally and always with a glass thermometer. "Let's get your temp Julie," made me quiver for sure. The only the worse was being told, "you'll need this shot and its in your bottom."

Julie,

It has been my experience that no matter the reason for the visit, the doctor always found ways to incorporate the most embarrassing parts of an exam. It was not uncommon for me to visit the doctor for a prescription for antibiotics and find my pants pulled down and my genitals fondled. Was this common practice with your doctor as well? Did you have your genitals examined? Did the doctor perform a rectal exam? Were your breasts examined? Did you find yourself naked for no good reason?

I don't remember having a rectal temp taken at the Doctors but , I did at home and so did my sister. That's just the way my Mom did it.

I have a feeling that rectal temperature taking was not as common in the UK as was/is in the US and elsewhere. That's only a hunch on my part but it wasn't part of my growing up really, although I saw another child having theirs taken that way once. It did have an impression on me and I enjoy including it in roleplay

Actually never had a rectal temperature taken at home but I sure had it every time at the pediatrician clinics.

Didn't matter if it was a nosebleed, standard practice seemed to be undress to underwear and sit on the table and wait. Nurse eventually came in, took weight and height, hop back up on exam table and took bp then came the instruction as you she went to the counter and turned back in one swift motion with a thermometer glistening between her fingers pointing upwards and ready. . "Ok I need you to lay back and roll over on your tummy." With the thermometer still between her thumb and index finger on one hand she still managed to hook your underwear with both hands and take it to to your knees while you were turning over. Before the table paper stopped crinkling she already had your buttocks spread wide with one hand and the cold slippery thermometer plunged in quick and deep with the other. Wasn't too bad after I finally realized it really didn't hurt.

I have no recollection of ever having my temperature taken rectally at the pediatrician's. I'm sure it was, but it couldn't have been after I turned 4 or so, and would have remembered it. I imagine that I was grateful at the time it was never taken in my bottom, but ever since I've often fantasized about it. In particular, I wonder what it would have been like if the nurse who administered a penicillin shot in my bottom when I was 8 (a very formative event, I believe, in the shaping of my medical fetish) had taken my temperature rectally first. At the time, my mother would, still, on occasion take it rectally, and if memory serves she had last done when I first came down with strep, around 3 weeks earlier.

It was different at the doctors. More embarrassing but mom made a bigger deal of the procedure from the prep to the positioning etc.

Home for me

I prefer it at home, in a bedroom by myself.

I always preferred having it taken at home in my own bed laying over my temperature takers lap

I think I preferred them at home, but I also recall getting them at the Doctor's office and especially remember the feel of the white paper cover on the exam table against my penis as I lay down for the temp. I also remember the vision of the nurse and my mom smiling as my pants were tugged down to bare my bottom..

Both of my parents took my temperature rectally at home from the time I was an infant until I was a teenager. I liked the feeling of being on my tummy OTK. They used to move the glass thermometer around a bit to make me enjoy the experience a little and I have to confess it made me a RT addict for the rest of my life. I still prefer the intimacy or rectal temperatures at home, although they can also be exciting at a doctor's office or just about any other place another man wants to take it that way even though I usually get an erection if this happens now.

Home for me