Drugstore enema aisle

I think by now everyone knows that I am an enema aisle voyeur in drugstores. While women have no problem buying these items without embarrassment, guys don't have the same luxury. Unless, that is, that they have a "shopping list" in hand so that they appear legitimate, which for me has always worked. While I haven't had many douche or enema encounters lately, the one memorable event from several weeks ago was when I was surveying the tampon section when an extremely attractive 20-something woman came and and studied the menstrual cups before finally taking one from the shelf and heading to the cashier.

My Dad is old enough to remember when the so-called enema aisle was really just a section within the Feminine Hygiene aisle.

Often located so that young boys would be seen quickly. .

By store's labeling the isle where enema bags were kept as the Feminine Hygiene isle - that really added to my embarrassment of buying enema bags. On, and many bags having a picture of a woman on them - all things that added to the feeling that I should be there buying an enema bag... Yet, all that increased the rush I got in doing so.

I still like to take a quick stroll down the laxative isle. For years all that were available were the fleets, I've noticed recently that they have started carrying disposable clear bag enemas. Maybe they are making a come back. I was recently standing in line at the local CVS and a lady walked by with a fleet enema in her hand. That was an instant turnon!

I was recently standing in line at the local CVS and a lady walked by with a fleet enema in her hand. That was an instant turnon!

Oh, that would be a big turn-on for me as well. Now imagine if it were a multi-pack.. 😄 I haven't been in any drug store for many months now - too scared of catching something..

I got over my embarrassment at being in the Feminine Hygiene aisle very early on in my marriage. We had been married less than a year when I had to go to the drugstore to buy some sanitary pads for my wife to put in her panties right after I brought her home from the hospital after giving birth to our first child. So over the years it was no big deal when I bought Tampax for her at the small grocery store along with my groceries ad got checked out by a lady that knew me personally.. But I still prefer to look at the enema and douche syringes and other enema products while I am alone in that aisle. If someone does walk down the same aisle, I don't head for the hills as they say.

I do remember the displays of enema syringes and douche bulb syringes in the drugstore picture windows facing the street. I do wish they would come back !!

For many years I was too embarrassed to be seen in the laxative/enema aisle at the drug store. If someone else were in the aisle, I'd pretend to go look for something else until they moved on. Sometimes I'd start to head down the aisle and a sales associate (usually a relatively attractive young or middle-aged lady) would ask if she could help me find something. This was sometimes terrifying. But now, just in the last few months (I'm 61, must be the age?), I'll go stand there and study the wares (for a moment, not creepily), hoping that someone would come by and ask a question. Of course none of the stores sell actual hardware any more - just laxatives, suppositories, and disposable enemas. I've gotten the same way with the checkouts. I like to put condoms on some of my toys for sanitary and comfort reasons, and I'll walk up to the register with both lube and condoms - or sometimes just a lot of personal lubricant - in hand. It's becoming a fantasy that the lady cashier would ask me about my intended use of the products. In my fantasy, I explain that I use the items for enemas and anal play, and then she tells me - with a sexy-dirty smirk - that she's into the same thing.

It is funny that you say that. Every time I go pick up a prescription I always go down the isle that has the feminine products,that is where they keep them. Hosebag

Moppys where did you see the disposable enema bags (a local pharmacy or a national one like Walgreens or CVS)?

Would have been interesting to have worked in drug store back in the day, taking note of who when down the enema aisle, and what they purchased, or if they didn't were they simply checking out the enemas bags..

The drug store and do you remember ( my favorite) the big Sears catalog. So exciting. Hosebag

Wish I could turn back the clock to the 1950’s knowing what I know today... I went down the drugstore aisle every chance I got. And looking through the store catalogs, Sears being the largest, for all the various enema items.

Someone here posted a link to some old Sears catalogs a couple of weeks back. Being a major fan of those catalogs, I had to check them out. It was interesting to see the decline in number and variety of douche/enema things over the years. If I remember correctly, the 1940 Sears catalog had 3 pages of these things with multiple choices for bags and bulbs. By 1970 it all fit on one page with room to spare as there was really only one of each type.

This was mirrored by my experiences in the local drugstores. When I bought my first bags and bulbs in the 70s there were still choices to be made at the Walgreens I shopped. These days if you find one version of a douche/enema bag combo in the feminine hygiene aisle, you are doing good. Some don't have anything but the disposable Fleet types. What a shame.

Someone here posted a link to some old Sears catalogs a couple of weeks back. Being a major fan of those catalogs, I had to check them out. It was interesting to see the decline in number and variety of douche/enema things over the years.

I saw that link and visited the pages. Wonder if the link is still here, and also if the site is still there. From what I've read, Sears Holdings is protective of the old catalogs and permission is needed to post them. I was disappointed in looking at the catalogs in that there were very few color pages. Perhaps it was scanned in B&W? Also, I couldn't find the mother load of enema bag pages I thought there should be. Maybe, my recollection is confused by other catalogs I once saw.

@reddevil said,

I couldn't find the mother load of enema bag pages I thought there should be. Maybe, my recollection is confused by other catalogs I once saw.

I remember the same thing. The Sears catalog having multiple pages of enema equipment, however it was only in their yearly or large catalog. Their seasonal catalog only had a page or two.

I do often walk through the enema aisle at the drug store to see what they are stocking at the time. As others have said, usually you can't find any enema bags. They now seem to have just Fleet enemas and suppositories.

I remember when I was a kid and Mom and I would go into the local Rexall Drug Store for prescriptions or other items, I would often slip off from her and I'd drift over to the aisle that contained the enema and douche products. Many a day, I'd just stand in front of the boxes and wish Mom would give me an enema. One day I remember as if it were yesterday, Mom had gotten what ever it was that she had gone into the store for and had come looking for me. I didn't see her coming, but when she got to me, I remember her grabbing my arm and jerking me towards her. Soon I was facing her face to almost face. She pretty much yelled at me saying "Mike, I knew that I'd find you over here! Boy are you perverted! Why you like enemas so much I do not understand!" I looked around and people were looking over at us! I was so embarrassed! But, Mom wasn't finished yelling at me! "Mike, I guess when we get home you'll want me to give you one of those things, Right?" I didn't answer. I just looked away from her! But, Mom grabbed my chin and turned my head back towards her face! "Well, son, I'll tell you this: I was going to get us something to eat when we left this place, but, Mike, I think since you want an enema so bad, that we'll just go home so I can give one to you!" I don't know what the people in the store were thinking, but Mom basically drug me out of the store and into the car. Not a word was said after we got into the car or when we got home. She went in first and then I went into the living room and turned on the television. In fact, I was watching the tube when Mom came into the room carrying her Rexall Victoria Combination syringe with her. She had already filled it with water and I don't know what else. I even saw that she had also applied Vaseline to the black enema nozzle for it was glistening. When Mom saw that I had noticed her, she spoke saying "well, Mike, come on. It's time for your enema!" I guess you know I got up and joined Mama in the bathroom where she gave me not only that enema, but also two more that afternoon. Question? for all of you... What do you think I did the next time Mom and I went to that drug store? That's right! I went back to that aisle containing the enema and douche products hoping Mom would notice and then do the same thing that she had done to me previously !

Back in the 1950s the drug stores didn’t have an enema isle,all of the enema equipment was displayed both in the front windows and in a wooden/ glass enclosed case in line with the other counters of the store near the rear of the store,to access anything in the case you had to ask one of the clerks,that was way to embarrassing for us young boys so we just spent time looking at the enema stuff on display in the front windows with aching hardons dreaming about our next enema!

I remember loving the days when that huge Sears catalog would come in the mail and I would be lying on the living room floor on my stomach hiding my hardon looking at the women’s douche bulbs with the curved white nozzle that clearly displayed all of the holes,imagining that in my rectum would send me into some kind of a frenzy and I would immediately find somewhere with privacy to “do it” and jackoff !

In the past yes, often went down that aisle. Had to keep a Fleet on hand and liked to check the bags being offered at different places. Then online shopping became a thing, and medical toys were so much better than drug store items!

Moppys where did you see the disposable enema bags (a local pharmacy or a national one like Walgreens or CVS)?

Yes just recently here at the local CVS. It seems to me there is more volume enema stufg

@codger: Back in the 1950s the drug stores didn’t have an enema isle,all of the enema equipment was displayed both in the front windows and in a wooden/ glass enclosed case in line with the other counters of the store near the rear of the store,to access anything in the case you had to ask

Yes, I remember those kind of stores, non-chain pharmacies where enema items were kept where you had to ask for them. Always embarrassing!

When i was a child i liked to take a look on enemas in pharmacy.Some of them were with big nozzle

Happy Americans! We don't even have anything like that in pharmacies in Latvia.

I have learned that mainstream drug stores dont carry much in the way of enema stuff beyond fleets. however, go to the aisle where there is stuff for muscle injuries, etc and there will be the hot water bottles… and usually the ones that include tubing and nozzles. when i used to travel for work i always hit a local drug store and buy a bag and without fail that's where i found them… I miss traveling for work…. damn i had some fun in those hotel rooms! 😃

Most enema bags are in kit form today. Most I found were located in the “feminine hygene” area(douche)…….

@quartpilot Most I found were located in the “feminine hygene” area(douche)…….

Yes, that's where I found most of the bags I purchased, in the scary feminine hygiene isle - a sort of no-man's land that added to my embarrassment (and hence the rush of excitement) in being there looking at fountain syringes. The aisle gave me feeling that fountain syringes were a woman's thing, and a man should not be there unless he was some sort of pervert 😈 👿

I agree with previous comments that these days, IF you can find a fountain syringe or combination syringe in your local drugstore, you will most likely find it in the feminine hygiene aisle. Is that because more women use them to douche than for enema? From what I have read and heard, douching is discouraged as much or more than enemas these days. Or is it a holdover from the days when it was more common for the woman to buy such things for the family, even if it was someone else who ended up on the receiving end?

Something else about the drugstore enema (feminine hygiene) isle - there was a kind of medicinal scent in those stores that heighten my thrill of buying the items that were taboo..

Seems the enema isle in stores is a thing of the past. Many of the items have disappeared from stores and now available online where they can be purchased discreetly. 😃