I'm a 50's kid. I don't remember when the first enema flowed into me. I can only remember consciously when I was about five years old.
In my childhood, enemas were part of hygiene and especially dedicated to health. For most of my friends, I saw these torture devices hanging in the bathroom or toilet; Rubber bulbs in different sizes and designs, open and closed rubber bags with long rubber hoses and nozzles, as well as glass and enamelled irrigators. Anyway, that's how I came to know which of my buddies also had to get enemas.😎
The fate of an enema overtook me at least once or three times a week. The process was always the same. My mother lowered the toilet lid and sat on it, I had to kneel down in front of her. She filled a large enamel bowl with warm water, rubbed some soap into it and placed it on a small dresser to her right. Then I heard the bubbling as she filled the big rubber bulb.
Then Vaseline was applied to the tip and my ass and she quickly pushed the tip deep into me to immediately squeeze the bulb. She also decided over and over again how many bulbs I needed to clear the constipation, bring down the fever, fix my indigestion, or whatever the enema I just made was good for. In any case, the consequences were always the same... the warm soap solution burned inside me like fire and wanted to get out again immediately.
After emptying, two more passes followed, with the difference that only clear, warm water was used to rinse the soap out of the colon.
At about ten years of age, these enemas became less frequent until they eventually came to an end. In recent years, only one irrigator with a colon tube has been used, which has always been fully inserted. My mother was perfect at that.
Once at a friend's house I had a different experience. Adding this here would be too long a post.
I'm sure these childhood experiences played a major part in my becoming enthusiastic about enemas, administering them very delicately and gently and not using soap.