As a boy in the 1950s, I remember being immensely stimulated by the sight of a red rubber Higginson's syringe in a small window display cabinet of a local pharmacy. I knew it could be used to give enemas, but in those pre-pill days it was probably used mainly for douching and contraception. Later, in London, the sight of surgical goods on display in a shop window had a similar fascination for me. They showed not only the usual trusses, condoms and red rubber sheeting, but also enema equipment, including enamel douche cans, rubber tubing, catheters and glass funnels.
There too were syringes of the Higginson's pattern, various sizes of rubber pears, and the famous Whirling Spray. This was a giant rubber pear, with a flat base, and had a nozzle as thick as your thumb, for vaginal douching. Years later I bought one of these, but it never did whirl. The nozzle simply had 6 holes around the base of the tip, which could be unscrewed for cleaning, but never moved when in use.
This thick black Bakelite nozzle could however be replaced by slim rectal one, though that was never so interesting.
The unique smell of these rubber goods added to their aura, and when I left home for the big city, the first item I bought with my limited allowance was a Higginson's syringe. Sadly, somehow, in owning and handling such syringes, the novelty soon wore off, and never again did they give me the intense fetishistic pleasure I had felt in early adolescence, simply through observation and imagination.