Over the years when I've had time to surf the net I've come across many interesting things including reports of ladies who would come by a home when requested to give an enema. The enema givers were not paid, but rather it was just something one neighborhood mother would do for another.
Two of these enema giving ladies, and I think of them as a pair as they had several similarities, were in their fifties and while they might give an enema to, or for, a friend or near by neighbor they would also when asked do so for someone they didn't know. Both lived in smaller communities where they might not know X they'd likely know someone who did know X. I had, for both, the impression it wasn't like an everyday thing but might be something they were asked to do once a month. Maybe only once every couple of months. The majority of enemas were given during the mornings, or afternoons when kids were in school to what we'd now call stay-at-home moms and were then simply housewives.
One person I talked to knew all this because the enema lady was his mother. The other came from someone whose mother would be given enemas by an enema giver lady, and he knew this because sometimes she'd still be there, business done, having coffee in the kitchen, when he came home from school. He said it was always troubling to see her when he walked in because he knew two things. One was his mother had had an enema while he was at school and the other was sometimes the reason she was still there and having coffee was because his mother had asked her to stay on and give him, or one of his siblings, an enema when they got home from school --- not, he said, that his mother really needed any help in that department.
I sometimes have trouble separating fact from fantasy and this is one of those times. Are these real reports or? In both of these two things made them somewhat credible. One was they were matter-of-fact reports, although quite detailed and it was the consistency of the detail that was the second thing that lent credibility. I thought members here might have other experiences or knowledge that could confirm this sort of thing went on back in the Golden Age --- obviously not wide spread, but not impossible, or even unlikely --- or the collective B.S. noses here might convince me I'd been spoofed. I also was prepared to accept them as possibly true as I know my mother and a neighbor friend would assist each other, as did an old school friend of mom's, so it seemed within the realm of possibility.
One last thing: I have one similar report concerning spanking where a single mom would take her boys, when she felt it necessary, to a lady who would give them a spanking in accordance with the mother's direction. At some point I'll post about that in the proper place here and see what people there think.
I hope some here will have thoughts on this. Anyone have anything similar they know of, or have heard of?