During my childhood enemas were a familiar part of life. I grew up with two brothers and two sisters. I was the youngest of three boys, and my sisters were older than me. So when Mom would announce on a Saturday morning that one of us was to get an enema it was often my sister Jenny who was designated to administer mine.
The first time that I can remember being being given an enema I was about five. Jenny was twelve at the time and she took my hand and led me to the upstairs bathroom. I was reluctant to go and she had to coax me all the way to the bathroom. The bag, the kind with an open top, was hanging from a hook on the back of the door with the hose and nozzle coiled up and hung over the hook. Sitting on the bathroom counter, there was also a red douch bulb with its big black curved nozzle pointing up into the air.
Jenny took the bag down and told me to get undressed while she started filling the bag. I could see with continuing trepidation that she was testing the water on her wrist and then filling the bag. She then added some clear liquid soap from a plastic squeeze bottle. That's when I started crying.