Anyone remember the 2 straight pipe nozzles ?

Who remembers when an enema kit came with 3 nozzles ? 1) A douche one. Curved.

2) The 3" adult straight pipe. And 3rd, the infant / children's enema nozzle, that was big at one end, and tapered down towards the hose end ? All black of course.

Even though we had one in the bathroom drawer, I can't remember it ever getting used on me, nor my siblings.

Anyone else remember these, and if it was used on you, and how old were you when you got graduated to the adult nozzle ?

Enquiring klismos have to know.

I remember the 3-nozzle kits well. That is what my mom used on me as a kid. She used the black infant tip until I was about 11. Then, I graduated to the adult rectal tip. There was no discussion. I just assumed she made the change because I was getting older. The volume of the enemas increased from about 2/3 of a bag to 3/4 of a bag at the same time.

Until I was ten, I got enemas with a bulb syringe with the typical straight pipe. My first bag enema at ten was with the straight adult rectal pipe. I remember seeing in the Sears and Wards catalogs that many of the combo bags had three pipes. When reaching puberty, mom bought a combo bag for my sister and I to use. That combo bag only had two pipes and it was clear to me that the smaller straight pipe was for enemas, the larger pipe was for douche. So I used the rectal pipe when I gave myself an enema.

After getting my first full time job after graduation I was sent out of town for some special training for my job. For the trip I bought myself a Faultless Folding Syringe, the kind with the bright yellow latex bag, because it was small and easy to pack. That night in the hotel room I discovered that it only had the vaginal douche pipe. So, that is what I used for my enema and was pleasantly surprised how well it worked. Later I found out that many people have been using the douche pipe for their enemas for years.

The black "douche nozzle" was the predominantly attached item to mom's enema/douche bag. It also doubled for enemas. We knew of the other typical straight nozzles because mom had a cloth purse full of various options. The bulb syringe usually had the medium sized straight pipe attached, but the threaded douche nozzles could easily replace it. When the larger douche bulb appeared, that long thick flexible nozzle was quite tempting.

When the red enema bag wore out, mom sent me to buy a new one inasmuch as she was in the middle of preparing my sister for a test that required a bowel prep with enemas. At the drug store, a cute gal from school helped me pick out a new bag. I wrote a true story about the encounter previously. That folding syringe had 3 nozzles. One was a douche nozzle with the bulbous tip. I came to really enjoy that nozzle as it stayed put and tickled my innards. I still have that item from about 60 years ago.

I dated that gal for awhile. She left for college and nursing school and other circumstances interfered. My face turned "Many Shades of Red" during the interactions.

I have a collection of eight vintage enema bags and hot water bottle/enema combination bags with the original black enema and douche nozzles. They include bags from the 40's like Rexall Defender, Roxbury, from the 50s, Rexall Victoria as well as Sears. I'll put up a gallery of my collection when I have time to photgraph the bags. By the way, I still take enemas with them on a regular basis sometimes up to eight or nine in one session using the douche nozzle of course, no enema lover uses that silly little enema tube

The enema bags my Mom had when I was growing up in the late 40's to the 60's all came with 3 nozzles, a long curved douche nozzle and 2 bat-shaped rectal nozzles, a shorter thinner one for infants and a longer thicker one for adults . The first time she used the enema bag on me was when I was 4 years old and she used the adult nozzle. My maternal grandmother had a larger collection of nozzles including a short stubby one for nasal irrigations and a much thicker rectal nozzle that was bulging at the end, thinner in the middle, and thicker again where the hose attached that was meant to stay in place as your anal sphincter closed on the narrow part. She also had several different length colon tubes that went much higher up into your bowels.

I only remember the straight pipe and the douche pipe with the two-quart vinyl bag and vinyl tubing. Never saw an infant pipe.