I had only had one enema before when I was 5 and hated it. A year later, I had to move to a Lutheran orphanage in central PA where I learned, on my second evening there, that I had to spend the night in the dispensary. At about 0400, I was wakened by the nurse who had me take off my pajama bottoms, climb up onto a gurney, and was given the first of three enemas (a hot soap suds high colonic). Two more followed before I could go back to bed. This was repeated every month without fail for each of us.
In the building where I lived, all 16 of us boys would gather every evening to do our homework from the hours of 1800-2000, and before our study period was begun, our houseparents would make announcements -- that always included the names of those of us who had to sleep in the dispensary that night. When my name was first called -- and we all knew what it was for -- I literally died of embarrassment but other than a little kidding about it in private, no one said anything. And each month when my name was called, I died a little and absolutely hated the entire experience.
It wasn't until many years later when I was chosen for the screening process for one of the most prestigious of pilot positions that I had to go to a private medical clinic and undergo of the most thorough, grueling physical and psychological exams there are. Of the 160 of us there, we were evenly divided between 14 stations and put through the tests. Where we had to await our turn being given a barium enema -- and those of you who have had one know what fun that is -- each of our names was called to a chorus of catcalls, wolf whistles and applause as we were led to the slaughter. As much as I tried to prepare myself for the embarrassment, when my time came, I heard someone shout "Whaledriver, barium enema!" and the onslaught started, I walked the 50' feet in front of my tormentors, nodded to the worst hecklers, telling them they were next, and did the only decent thing I could think of to do: at the door where I was to go in, I turned, dropped my trousers and waved bye-bye to the crowd with my pink tush.