Drugstore enema aisle

I almost always look but not much to see these days. I do remember years ago when the local drugstore typically had a "rubber goods" section with several types of douche/enema syringes to choose from. If I saw something new or different from what I had I would buy it just to try it. Sometimes it would be exactly the same as the Faultless or Davol syringe I already had, just in a different box with a different brand name. Sometimes a curved douche nozzle verses a straight one, or tapered rectal nozzle rather than bat shaped. Now you are lucky to find one kind, usually a poorly made combination bag in the feminine hygiene aisle.

I get it. We live in a disposable society today. Most people are not interested in a real enema that might take a half an hour to prepare, administer, and expel. They want to squirt in a Fleet, drop the empty in the waste basket, and shit in 5 minutes. Done.

We learned about enemas in health class in Junior High School and again in Home Economics in High School. So what, It was just part of life.

I can't help reflecting on what a contrast this is. I went to junior high and high school in the 90s. During that time, I can't recall a single time where enemas were mentioned even once during a class, or otherwise. My guess is that lack of enema mentions wasn't only my experience for those of the millennials generation.

Longtoy I went to school in the 50’s an early 60’s. My kids went to school in the 80’s an early 90’s and like you, never one word about enemas in Health or Home Economics.

I almost always walk down the enema aisle in the drugstore to see what they have for sale. It seems to me that there is a larger selection of enema syringes in a couple of stores I've been in lately. I've never seen anyone actually buy an enema syringe or suppositories? I did see a nurse buying about six Fleet Enemas one time in Walmart. No matter why I go into a drugstore I always try to go down that aisle at least once.

Lately I have seen advertisements for Fleet Suppositories and Fleet Enemas several times late at night on the Hallmark Channels on Dish Satellite TV. That's a first for me.

Easy to remember the vast selections of rubber goods offered in most drug stores back in the late 1960 era and into the early 1970's. The ads in the catalogs seemed to slowly vanish along with the offerings in the local stores.

Still remember one of the local drug stores that retained a special area in the rubber goods where a supply of replacement nozzles and clamps could be found for syringes. Some of the nozzles appeared to be older than the store itself.

One experience I remember was seeing a woman of about 25 years in the process of opening a douche bulb box to check out the equipment inside. Later on during the shopping trip, she was right ahead of me in the checkout line. She had included in her purchases, the exact syringe she had been looking at when I had chanced upon her peeking into the box.

Out in the parking lot, she had parked next to my truck and was still not driving away but inside her car. I happened to look over into her car from my higher position in the truck and saw she had opened the box with the syringe and was looking at it. Soon she had replaced the syringe into the box and was headed out of the parking lot.

Sure made me wonder if she was going to be using the new syringe on herself as soon as she got into the house.

I have often fantasized about meeting another enema enthusiast in the enema section of the drug store or a check out clerk who knowingly made a remark to me about enemas, with an invitation to share in the fun. Also have thought about anyone who is purchasing Dr Bronner’s Castile soaps... though those soaps have many other uses... I think using them for enemas is the highest probability.

The enema aisle is about one step these days. Not at all like it used to be. I prefer snooping in peoples bathrooms.

Yes.. absolutely!!

I have a habit of doing this too. I think its partly because I can never find anything I want in the drugstore and wander all off the aisles. Every once in a while I will see someone buying an enema (usually fleets). As a kid I hated when my mother would walk down the aisle and announce we needed enemas, or a new bag, etc.

All we have here for drugstores are WalGreens and WalMart and even at my age I am still embarrassed when I go in to buy Ivory soap or the ocassional Fleet Enemas.

Every once in a while in a drug store I will be in or near the aisle with the GI section of the shelf. I take an extra second to scan for anything that might be new or interesting. Alas, nothing ... so I am happy to get my enema gear online.

I do fondly remember my early ventures of trying to play off enema purchases with other "grown-up" pharma needs. As a (admittedly dumb) straight-adjacent teen, I was less self-conscious if my basket contained an enema among such actual on-the-list items as bubble bath, hand lotion, vitamins, and aspercreme, etc (and a healthy dose of dread when I once bought the only store enema/douche kit of my career).

I don't do it as much now that there is somewhere to go online but I still copp a glance at the enema aisle. There is just the disposables now, I haven't seen a bag for a decade. The Sears catalog used to titillate me as an adolescent, now eBay is full of enema stuff. It used to really make me breath fast walking down that aisle in the old days.

I still walk down the aisle, (sorry but it is in my DNA)! All we have here are Walmart, Walgreens and CVS. Also the pharmacy sections in large grocery stores. Usually you see the crappy Faultless made in China P.O.S. combination bags, for almost $20. Lately I have seen a new brand "Flints" maybe a word play on Fleets, who knows. Bright green and blue box in the pharmacy section at Albertsons and Tom Thumb grocery stores. It is also a made in China set with a bag that holds 1.75 quarts. On line is the only place to get quality stuff now but you still must be careful with made in China P.O.S. equipment.

Most drug stores do still sell bags, but they typically aren't with the GI section but First Aid. I guess since it has a plug, you could use it as a hot water bottle. They stuck though.

I very seldom find them in the laxative/enema section. Usually either in the feminine hygiene or first aid sections. As people have stated, if you want quality, you have to go online.

I usually take a tour down those aisles in the hopes of seeing a new product. I travel quite a bit internationally and do the same in Europe and Asia.

Jim

Speaking of drugstores, does anyone know why Fleets got rid of that aloe vera enema? Cruising by the aisle one time is how I found out about it.

Most of the time I do walk down that aisle.

I always check out the laxative/enema/suppository aisle in a drugstore. As a gay man it is a treat to see another guy there examining the products and knowing that HE NEEDS AN ENEMA. I fantasize about striking up a conversation and offering to help him get some relief.

I always visit the enema aisle in a drugstore. I often ask one of the ladies where they keep the enemas just to see their reaction. I usually choose an older lady of there is one working there. Increases the probability of her enjoying enemas. I have also asked if they use enemas. I have ran across a few that do enjoy them as well.

At our local "wally-world" besides fleets the only"enema devices" they have are on isle 2 of the "H&BA" section (Health and beauty aids) they have the traditional Cara Combo bag on the top shelf... Usually 4 boxes at the most..... 'Have noticed, there'd be 4, then within a day 3 or 2 left!!!! Hardly ever see the stock depleted for longer than a day!! But at just under 5 dollars!! It's "ENEMA TIME!!!!!!"

with a kinky "Klck!!!!!!,"

highwater

I still look, but rarely find anything worth looking at. I find more hair driers that anything else.

Funny thing is I live in Florida and with all the older residents here, you'd expect to see more enema related products, and I mean something with more magic that the green boxes with the small plastic bottles.

I remember that distinctive rubber smell, of long ago. I don't think you ever forget that.

As a boy growing up in NY City, the corner mom & pop drug store windows where filled with interesting things, especially around Christmas time. The extensive enema bag display and personal items had been decorated in long thin strips of silver tin foil, and fake snow....as if someone would have considered an enema bag as part of their holiday shopping.

We always had a red combination bag at home hanging on the bathroom wall (like a family crest), so I was quite familiar with that. But displayed in the drug store window along with the bags, was a red hose with a pump in the middle. I must have been 11, and I'd never seen a Higgins. I really thought it was to start an outboard motor, but never dared ask why it was exhibited along with the red rubber fountain syringes.

These days I wonder, little did they know, many decades later, those of us reading this may have actually considered them as gift giving items, whether it be secretly or not.

I visit that aisle too, somewhat regularly. It's where they keep my suppositories (I buy bisacoydl and hemmorhoid ones), wipes, and yes the Fleet and store brand disposable enemas which I also buy as I run out or run low. I usually buy the 4 packs when I buy disposable enemas, which isn't as often as I buy suppositories.

I never see the bags in that aisle anymore, like someone else mentioned feminine hygiene aisle usually and I've seen them in first aid some places. Pretty much same bag everywhere, cheap closed top bags, unfortunately. I look around sometimes though, never know when they might surprise us - bring back an open top.

This past weekend I was in a Discount Drug Mart and found a Cara Deluxe Fountain Syringe for $8.99. In the feminine hygiene aisle. Better than most drugstore bags. Red rubber bag, actually holds 2 quarts. The bag says Taiwan. Strange- I remember when made in Japan or Taiwan was crap but now it is the better stuff with made in China being the crap. Anyway, better than most bags but same cheap hose and nozzles, but I use my own hose and nozzle anyway.

Nice find redbulb, I would have snatched that up. I love those bags; "fountain syringe" description usually means it's an open top (not a "water bottle" combo). I looked it up to see and yes, that model is an open top.

It seems that Cara is still making them, would love to see a chain store selling them again. Not fair that closed tops won out as about the only in store option now.

I might go down that aisle but not to see who else is buying there. My town is too big anyway, it is very unlikely I would recognize anyone there.

I suppose it is as good of a place to potentially meet a partner.

Hi, RedBulb99 - I think I have one of those Cara fountain syringes. I have had mine for somewhere around eight to ten years, and agree that it is one of the best drugstore syringes you can buy. Much better quality bag than the typical sold these days at the other chain drugstores. The only better drugstore find previously was a Dunlop fountain syringe I got back in the late nineties. It was a small local drugstore and probably a leftover from years previous. Only one on the shelf and marked down like they just wanted it gone. They don't make them like that anymore.

In Italy we do not have a dedicated department but just ask.

There's nothing comparable to an "enema aisle" in Britain but I frequently check the chemists to see what's available and whether (this is increasingly rare) suppositories in all sizes are available "in front of" the counter. (Enemas, when present, never are).

I bought my enema equipment by mail order.

PS- an enema made by a company called Dunlop - ha ha ha. (When I was a kid that name was a word for excrement)