I don’t exactly recall when or even how my interest in enemas began but I am certain that it was derived from my mother, who was a dedicated klismo from the get go. She always had a red open top enema bag hanging on the back of the bathroom door and it always had an enema nozzle, not a douche nozzle, attached to the hose. But it was not used on me until I was six years old or so.
The first introduction to enemas that I recall was when I was about three years old and inadvertently wandered into the bathroom where my parents and grahlndfather were administering an enema to my grandmother with the red bag while she sat on the toilet. They quickly shooed me out of there and there urgency with which they did so made it apparent to me that something was going on that I wasn’t supposed to know about.
My mother was always fussing over my bowels and making sure that I went potty regularly. If I missed a day I did not get an enema but rather my mothers favored remedy, a soap stick suppository. She was very adept at whittling a slice of soap of a bar of 99 and 44/100% pure Ivory soap. (I wonder what the 56% impurities were?) she would call me into the bathroom, pull my drawers down, lay me over her lap and slide the makeshift suppository up my butt. I did not like it. It burned. It did incentivize me to do my best to poop regularly so as to avoid the dreaded soap stick ritual.
Somehow though, I did become attuned to what enemas were, perhaps because my mother did talk to her sister and friends about them in my presence. Even though I wasn’t getting them just hearing the word “enema” made me shiver, although I didn’t know why.
I do recall that when I was about 5 we lived next door to a family with a girl about my age or a little older who I played with and her favorite game was playing “doctor.” She had a toy medical kit with a miniature rubber hot water bottle, which she liked to pretend was an enema bag, despite lacking hose or nozzle. She made up stories about her friends getting enemas, and, retrospectively, I image she was no stranger to the enema bag at home. When the family moved I was sorry to see her go.
Another episode I recall is that when I was about 6 I was hospitalized for some kind of respiratory infection. When I was put in the hospital bed in my anxiety I passed a small stool. My mother informed a nurse that I had a “bowel problem.” The nurse thought she meant I was constipated and asked her, “Do you want us to give him an enema?” Mom explained that I had had an “accident” so a change of bed clothes was all that was required.
Now comes the good part. It wasn’t long after that that that I received my first bag enema. That was a long time ago, in the ‘40s, but the memory is vivid to this day. Apparently I had “failed” one of Mom’s check-ups and she decided that the soap stick would no longer suffice, I was old enough and big enough to get an enema with the grown-up bag. She recruited Dad to help, and they had a discussion in my presence, as though I wasn’t even there. Which nozzle shall we use? (The black adult one.) How much water? (Oh, I think he’s big enough to take a quart.) Should we add soap? (Heck yeah, plenty of Ivory soap flakes.) What position should he be in? (Naked and prone.) So to this day I get most aroused by taking an enema with a red bag and hose, large black nozzle, face down holding a pillow. I remember when Mom opened the clamp how shocked I was at how tickly good the incoming water felt. If I wasn’t before I certainly became an enema addict that day.
As a matter of fact, I am getting a little aroused just writing this memoir. Not only that I haven’t had a bm for a couple of days. I think it’s time to go home, get out the trusty red bag and put it to good use. I have many more enema memories to share, but I have covered enough for now so they will have to wait till later. Au revoir, good folks, and keep those enemas flowing.