Daily suppository to make you go

In the mainstream movie La Baule Les Pins, two girls are made to take a laxative suppository (glycerin, I presume) every evening by their mother (I think the routine is that they take their suppositories, have a bowel movement, then go wash and get to bed). One girl tries to escape this by pointing out she went potty in the morning, but the maid sternly says that bowel movements are twice a day.

The movie does not explain why this insistence. Perhaps it implies that the girls' mother is a bit unhinged or insecure.

Who here was made (by parents, caregivers…) to take a daily suppository to trigger a bowel movement? What were the motivations given to you for this? How old were you?

(Not asking about people who take these out of their free will, asking about being made to do so. There is another separate discussion where people discuss how they use suppositories daily.)

@Pecan_nutjob, checked YouTube and got a lot of results for that movie. What year was it made?.

The movie was released in 1990 but the story takes places in the 1950s I think.

Sometimes I am made to take them daily while on holiday. I am told it would help keep me regular even though the schedules, routines, food and exercise are different.

Aura,I don't think administering suppositories daily is a good idea to keep regular. In fact, this could create a physical dependence, so much so that at length, without suppositories you can no longer evacuate. Much better would be a daily administration of suppositories for pleasure reasons, but using suppositories containing herbs and not laxative medicines. Daily pleasure certainly is healthy, much more than drugs taken for no real reason ! Better if the suppositories are put inside you by a person who is as excited about it as you are.

@Aura1 You use the phrase “I am made to take them” which begs the question what do you mean by that, as in someone giving them to you, or what? I think you will get better results if after going to the potty and then do a quick enema will get everything out and not have to worry.

The movie was released in 1990 but the story takes places in the 1950s I think.

Thanks, you got me curious over here, have to see if i can fine the full movie and watch it.

Update: just found it and downloaded it, no body mentioned it was in French…DrC…don't speak French…😝🤣😭

Where did you find it as I found it on some French Canadian site and couldn't figure out to do it.

The key may be in the age of director, who was born just after WW II, possibly in an area with limited or no indoor plumbing.

Even in the early 1980s, some Pairs hotels did not have a toilet in every room. I expect private houses were often the same, especially decades earlier. So, if a little girl (or boy) needed to pee or poo during the night, it was the chamber pot or hold it until the morning. And, peeing in a chamber pot is one thing; pooing is quite another. Try it! The pot has to be emptied and cleaned in the am too.

Also, there is reference to a governess or nanny, which is, again, old school. These women were hired to make parenting less onerous and intrusive on the parents- Children were pretty much required to be lifestyle accessories... seen, but not heard.

Given these things, I'm not surprised that a suppository was given and then the child's toilet routine done. The idea was that the suppository would make sure that they had a poo, hence empty their bowel, before going to bed. No messy chamber pot poos overnight.

I have not seen the film, but suspect that they were given the suppositories, rather than 'take' which implies self-insertion.

In some societies, pooing like clockwork is seen as a virtue. Sometimes, it is just naturally encouraged, sometimes imposed. Is there really much difference between suppositories at bedtime and a bowl of raisin bran or a glass of prune juice every morning? Either will ensure regular, fully successful, toilet trips at predictable times.