Something I forgot to mention in my post a couple days ago was being used for enema demonstrations.
One day Mom and I were visiting her cousin, Connie whose daughter Sally needed an enema series but was afraid of getting an enema. I was 7 and Sally was 5. Connie told Sally that I, Danny, loved enemas. Sally was still apprehensive. Mom said, “Danny, how about letting Connie give you some enemas so Sally can see how much you love them?” I eagerly agreed!
Soon we in the bathroom and Mom prepared the enema bag as Connie undressed me. Mom hung the bah with hoy, soapy water from the shower curtain rod as I crawled over Connie’s lap. Sally watched as her mom lubed my anus, then worked the nozzle into me. I’d never seen a nozzle like this one before. It wasn’t plastic. Instead, it was a red rubber hose with eyelets at the tip. Mom told me it was a colon tube and was good because it could be worked past the rectum into the large intestine.
Connie worked the tube into me until she, and I, felt resistance. The tip of the tube was at the end of my rectum. Then I heard the clamp snap open and felt as rush as the flow started. After about half a minute, Connie said, “Danny, I’m going to work the tube further inside you.” “Okay,” I replied. “Oh, that feels so good,” I gasped. Soon I’d taken a quart and laid across Connie’s lap as she twisted the tube and pulled it in and out a few inches. I knew this was to help swirl the enema around inside me.
Of course, I had to retain the enema and watched as the egg timer was drained twice, indicating that I’d held my enema for 6 minutes, after the bag had gurgled empty. Connie withdrew the tube and I rushed to the toilet to expel. During my retention, the coin focused on how I was enjoying my enema and what Sally thought about it. She was coming around to the idea of getting an enema. Mom suggested that I get one more hot SSE and that we could see how much further I could take the tube and that she’d fill the bag, a whole two quarts, and see how much I could take, and since I was going for high volume, I wouldn’t need to retain it any longer than I wanted to. Of course, I knew it was best to retain any enema as long as possible, so it would do its work. Besides, I saw retention time as a challenge.
I took over 3 quarters the bag and held it just over 2 minutes. As I expelled, Sally agreed to an enema. Her first one was about 3 pints and she held it for 3 minutes. Remember, she was 2 years younger than me, she was a girl and it was her first enema. She loved it! Mom asked her what she was feeling and thinking during the process. Sally enjoyed the insertion of the nozzle, she really loved t rush as the hot, soapy water flowed into her, and then enjoyed the retention, as a quieter Tim to simply enjoy the warm fullness.
As Sally expelled, Mom gave me a repeat of my second enema, as she’d prepared more soap suds during Sally’s enema. In a jiffy, the bag was refilled, rehung and I was across Mom’s lap. Again, I took a lot. I occurred to me that Sally was still expelling, and inc she had really needed that enema, I was going to have to retain this one until Sally was done expelling, no matter how long that was going to take. Thankfully, I only had to retain for about 8 minutes. Mom also got that tube way up inside me!
I watched as Sally got two more SSEs. Then we each got a hot, plain water rinse. Sally was now hooked on enemas and I was proud to have had a role in teaching her how much fun enemas are! I asked Mom if she’d buy a colon tube for my enemas. She asked me what I liked about it. I told her it was thicker than the nozzles she used on me and I enjoyed how deeply it went in. Mom and Connie looked at each other and laughed.
This wasn’t the last time Mom used me as an enema demonstration tool. Though this was the late ‘50s and past of the Golden Age of enemas, there were moms out there who were not brought up with enemas. Everyone knew Mom was an RN and would call her for medical advice, both for them as well as for their kids. What was described above was repeated multiple times. Sometimes the mom came over alone and learned by watching Mom give me an enema, then the student mom took over for the rest of my series. But most of the time the other kid, or kids, were there watching me get my enemas in between them getting their. For us kids, it was our naughty little secret!