Why the "red color?

Why are so many enema bags and bulbs red in color? It seems from the vintage ebay equipment this red thing goes back a long time.

Part of it is tradition. Part of it is the raw materials used to make them.

Natural rubber is red so the early rubber items were red. Other colors became popular with the invention of synthetic rubber and vinyl around WWll for these items.

The earlier nozzles and fittings were usually made from an early type of plastic called "Bakelite". Bakelite was black, so products made from it were black.

That's the main reason early enema equipment was red with black fittings.

Hope this helps.

RED RUBBER Enema bags are not only associated with medical equipment but the colour also excites the senses!

I have white and amber as well. I've seen green, and blue. Have heard of pink!

I think they could once be had in almost any color!

Someone chose red and did not send the decision along with the equipment.

Cause it looks Soooooo Cool on the back of a white bathroom door!

See POLL: "What's your FAVORITE ENEMA BAG COLOR?

58% chose red!

Search for "color" in POLLS and add your vote!

Personally, I have at least one in every color I could ever find - just to match my mood. My current favorite is clear silicone where I can watch the soapy fluid go down. But I'm still most aroused by red - the color of my family's enema bag used one me growing up - since it reminds me of the very mixed feelings of "Oh NO, they're going to give me one of those awful [wonderful] enemas!" 😮

I worked in a rubber molding factory for thirty years.Pure natural rubber is yellow just like the pure gum rubber tubing that you see in the surgical supply stores.The RED is a powder added during the mixing process.Red was a standard color for years,but today,differant colors are used for enema bags.I prefer clear so I can see exactly what I am taken.

Let the good times FLOW.

Red is sooo wonderfully rude!! I have a red inflated butt plut that is so foul I get excited just looking at it let alone using it.... Black would be my second choice.

Not just red, but that delicious, slightly dusty, mat red that nevertheless gives off the slightest glare in spots when full. It's the color of excitement and dread, for me. Other colors are fine, and fun, for an intimate experience, but only the old red bag fully evokes the primal emotions that got stimulated in the early experiences many of us had.

Red means "stop" I can't take any more. but then again red is sweet like cherry pie filling. The acceleration G-force of doing a burn out from a stop sign. That blushing warm feeling of embarrassment one gets when caught doing naughty things in the bathroom. Red is just plain exciting.

The bag I had used on me when I was growing up was dark green. I guess now red is the more popular color.

To make any goods in rubber when the rubber was very expensive and only coming from Brazil they add some material to reduce the cost of material. For more precision You can search in the history of the car tires.

I like to buy the Falutless brand enema bags myself, they used to come in yellow and pink, now they are only pink.

For me RED colour enema bags are both exciting and traditional and this is my favorite color. Red also excites the senses!

I fully agree with you. Red is easiest to color raw rubber.

Stick

I would like to add to this, I myself work as a medic and the cross on the vehicle's are red meaning blood, also meaning injured and medical staff working meaning that the vehicle is not to be attached.

In the old days when medical was starting they made a lot of red crosses on equipment so you knew that was medical.

it started many years ago and if it was not chrome and stainless it would be red, blood red the sign of medical.

This is why everybody gets excited when they see red it means medical doctor and that means shot, temp enema?

oh! Please

I have no childhood or adolescent memories of enemas (not in MY family!) So I don't really care what color my bag is. I don't really pay much attention to it.

The tubing and the nozzle are more important. Then the lubing and insertion. Finally the release and the feel of the flowing into me. THAT is what I was waiting for!

I know that the biggest sex organ is the brain, and somehow I just missed identifying with color.

To me, red is just red.

Al

So do we love red because we got our early enemas frm a red bag, or are bags red because they turn us on? Kind of a chicken and egg thing.

As pointed out, amber is the color of natural rubber and red became a standard for home medical products somewhere back in the early 20th century. I just sort of suspect that the red color may have contributed just a bit to the enema bag itself becoming a sort of fetish for many of us raised in the 40s and 50s. If the standard enema bag of that era had been dull amber, would we have as many older folks today hung up on dull amber bags? Who know? I sort of suspect not.

I think the answer depends largely on what caused the original attraction. When the attraction to enemas starts at an early age, it seems there is a greater likelihood of becoming fixated not just on the enema itself, but often on the type (and color)of equipment used. The red rubber fountain syringe and red rubber squeeze bulb (with black nozzles)still have significance for me, as does all vintage equipment, as this equipment helps to recreate the atmosphere that started it all.

For others who come from a different starting point, I suspect this is not the case.

This is a really good question.

I remember that most hot water bottles were red. Perhaps its the color that early manufacturers associated with medical or health equipment.

The color red causes physiological as well as psychological changes; in fact, red color releases hormones (lots of scholarly research on this.)

I have a red enema bag associated with childhood enemas and everything associated with them.

Good topic!

John

Was the only color abck in the old days and many of us grew up with it so it arosues us

For many many years, Rubber was a "hard" product. Tires were solid, but rubber gave a softer ride than stell. When softening agents were at last added, to make things like bags, BLACK did not sell well. RED dying agents were the CHEAPEST of all dyes, and in plentiful supply. Caught the consumer's eye as well. Why do you think they went back to RED fire trucks? ATTENTION!!" wALT

Red was the color of those used on me. It still evokes more of a responce than another color. Until it starts to flow that is. You can't te the difference unless you go to look back. Even then it still fes the same.

I have a bulb (as well as bags) and it is blue. Are most bulbs blue?

I believe red has always been the most common color for enema bags over the last hundred years, judging from photos of vintage advertisements, and is accepted as standard for the industry (or at least whatever is left of that former industry!). As such, it has likely become the most erotic color for most of us who have been using enemas since their heyday era, conjuring up images of early experiences.

Red is still my personal favorite, although I've acquired others in my collection for occasional variety and visual "spice." They include an early white bag from Klystra and a pink bag of English manufacture (both of four-quart capacity). I purchased the latter item by mail order from a source in Texas for $30 in the seventies and, ten years ago, was astounded to see an identical bag priced at $250 on E-Bay! I use my Klystra clear silicon bag for solutions that contain oils and might potentially harm rubber.

Standard red bags in my collection include the Sherema model and one of German manufacture (both four quarts) and the (five-quart) Klystra Olympic bag. I also have a Klystra JBL for occasional use.

I have fond early memories of a Davol bag of pale matte yellow that replaced an earlier red bag.

I agree with others on this just hang and enjoy.

All my relatives had red, open top enema bags, most hanging in back of the door of the bathroom ... there are always present and ready ... there is a real thrill now of walking in somewhere and seeing a red bag hanging there ...

No clue about red. However it's like sky being blue.

Several years ago I bought a black bag. Hung it in the shower. My wife (who is not at all into enema) was disgusted with the sight of it and made me replace it with my old red bag.

When persons, not into enema voice strong opinions, Red must be 'just right.'