Enemas in literature

I went to a used bookstore last night to replenish my shelves. I'm addicted to book shopping. Anyway, I glanced at titles and saw one called Klister. At least that's what I thought it said. But I looked again and saw that it was Kilster. I was soooooooooooo disappointed.

Look for a paper back called "Enema Resort"

Printed in 1992 Star Distributors, LTD

PO BOX 362 Canal St. Station

New York, NY 10013

There is no author listed.

I do not know if it is still in print but it is worth the hunt.

In the repressed society described in George Orwell's "1984", ordinary sex is depicted (by the dictatorship) as repulsive, "like having an enema".

And in John O'Hara's novel of the early 1930's "Butterfield 8", central character Gloria Wandrous' childhood is described as "lived by Gloria's rules, except for an occasional enema and trips to the dentist".

Without a Stitch ... reviewed

http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/bjornebj/without.htm

Without a Stitch is fairly harmless erotic fun. The innocent-girl side to it has some appeal: Lillian seems to do little other than have sex, but Dr. Peterson really did his job and she doesn't feel ashamed about recounting what she's done. Sex isn't at all dirty here, and that's also echoed in Lillian's schoolgirl narration -- which, as she notes: "contains not one obscene word". The fact that she constantly refers to her "flower" and the various other euphemisms she uses wind up being as tiresome as any 'harder' terms would have, but it does make for a lighter feel to the book as a whole.

There is a lot of sex here, but the kinkiness is kept to a minimum -- though there is an enema, some play with a rectal thermometers, as well as the requisite girl-on-girl action. But it all feels very, very softcore -- which is also part of what charm there is to the book.

Hardly worth much attention, but an amusing document of the times, and not badly done.

In a legend of the five rings book i read a few years back depicted a women who almost drowned having quot "expelled what felt like gallons of water." not exactly an enema but close.

Forgot allabout this one ... "Farnham's Freehold" by the dean of juvie sci-fi writers when I was growing up, the late, great Robert A. Heinlein.

The plot: An American family hiding in a bomb shelter during a nuclear holocaust is catapulted into the future. The powers-that-be of that day are compulsively clean in matters of personal hygiene. They bathe in a communal facility, taking an enema as part of the process, and remove all hair save for their eyebrows.

Of course, they also practice racism (dark color being preferred) and encourage castration as a measure of personal restraint.

Not worth the benefits, methinks.

Im so happy i saw this thread people here seem to be quite knowledgeable about literature in general which is always a plus

Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes about enemas in most of his works. In "Love in the Time of Cholera", the main character is chronically constipated throughout his life and takes enemas for relief, often sharing them with his girlfriends.

In "Winter Moon" by Dean Koontz, the hero is embarassed that he needs enemas while recuperating from major surgery.

Stephen King has made a few references to them, as in "The Long Walk". I think that one was the most in depth he ever got with the topic, but he mentions them in passing in "Road Work" and "It".

In "The Witching Hour" by Anne Rice a character mentions that she in her mother used to in a commune where they were made to take enemas every morning.

Though it's not an enema scene, I love that part in "the Naked Lunch" where she screws him in the ass with a strap-on named Steely Dan.

There was an American humorist from the 50's and 60's- Sam Levinson- who described the "family enema" in his book in detail. In fact, an entire chapter is devoted to it.

The Levinson book is "Everything But Money." In describing the "friendly enema" he tells of how he and others helped their mom give an enema to a brother from a battered white can. The joke: After being filled up with soapsuds, the patient heads to the kitchen. Asked why, he says, "I'm thirsty." LOL.

A teenage boy being given enemas by his mother was an important part of the story in the 1956 blockbuster novel "Payton Place" by Grace Metalious.

The late Canadian author has enema scenes in many of his novels, including one with the "Cascade" or sit-upon bag. I am sorry I cannot remember the name of the novles. They are all worht reaing in any event.

I forgot one - I can't recall the author, but the name of the novel was "Boonville".

The protagonist gets drunk with a local girl, and he asks her what her plans are for the next morning. She replies that she's going to do a couple of coffee enemas. She can't believe he's never heard of a "crapaccino". She says that the only problem with them is that whenever someone asks you how you take your coffee, you have to say, "black" and "up my ass".

I am a big Stephen King fan, and with the amount of times he mentions enemas in his novels gives me a suspicion that it may also be a little secret kink of his.

1. Salem's lot mentions about a 'recommended barium enema' for a patient.

2. Christine has some bad kid driving a car tell his mate that if he don't drink his beer he will be getting it as an enema.

3. The Bachman books have three of his four stories mentioning enemas. One of them has one where some lad was dreaming that his mom was squirting soap suds up his ass! That one was in the long walk. I think it was in roadwork where some lady was telling her friend that she had many enemas as a child.

There have been other mentioning but cannot remember what book they come from. Maybe somebody else can fill in the gaps.

BYE FOR NOW Dr. krank

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I am a big Stephen King fan, and with the amount of times he mentions enemas in his novels gives me a suspicion that it may also be a little secret kink of his.....

There have been other mentioning but cannot remember what book they come from. Maybe somebody else can fill in the gaps.

BYE FOR NOW Dr. krank

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1. In Insomnia, Ralph's wife asks him if he thinks an enema might help him get the lead out.

2. In "The Woman in Room" ( a short story), the protagonist finds a jar of Fleet suppositories in his mother's medicine cabinet and muses for half a page or so about the indignity of putting things up your ass.

3. In the Stand, a character mentions needing a "mental high colonic". There's also a lot of sodomy going on in that novel.

There's a wonderful 50's satire called "Rally 'round the flag, boys", where the love interest aks her boyfriend, "why won't I ever get an enema?" I think the book was authored by the humorist Max Schulman.

In "Torch Song" by Anne Roiphe a little Jewish girl in the early 1940s is given frequent enemas by her stern German nanny. Some obvious symbolism here.

Yes, in Peyton Place, Norman Page's mom loves giving him enemas and he willingly accepts them.

In the TV movie and book, Sybol was given daily enemas by her evil mother.

There is a very good novel about Ireland in the 1940's and 50's called The Magdalen Laundries. It's about a shelter for wayward girls and unwed mothers. Shelter is part of a convent and the nuns are very mean and strict. At the end, one of the girls delivers a baby. The nuns are in attendance to assist with the delivery, and they give the girl a soapsuds enema. It's a fairly vivid description of the can and the feeling she got when she was full, and how she was determined not to cry out in pain and show that the nuns "got her."

The novel was made into a movie but this scene was not in the movie. Movie came out about 8 years ago.

In one of the Simon plays -- "Brighton Beach Memoirs," I think -- a (Jewish) male character confesses to a female character that while at the neighbors' place he ate pork. Female character, disgusted with him, says something like: "You should get an enema!" Male character makes a face. I'm remembering now that I saw this in the movie version...years ago!!

What about Sybil? The book went into great detail on each and every occurance of Sybil being strung up on the kitchen table and given large enemas. In the movie she was shown tied up on the table and her wretched mother approaching with the red bag.

Wow! I was just going through some old paperbacks and found one called "Sorority Sluts Initiation Enema Party" by Soymour Butts. . .Does that count as literature?

Peyton Place has a conversation where Dr. Swain is talking with the local newspaper publisher, Seth.

Dr.Swain: The trouble with you Seth is that you think of all sex as men sleeping with women. That's not always the case. Let me tell you about a case I saw once, a young boy with the worst case of dehydration I ever saw. It came from getting too many enemas that he didn't need. Sex with a capital S-E-X.

I have read this topic and I didn't find the name of hero of the famous Czech classic: The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk - During the World War by Jaroslav Hašek.

(http://www.svejkcentral.com/)

In the novel malingerers are trying to brainwash by enema, gastric lavage and other "healing instruments" in favour of being cured from affected desease. After Švejk declares to doctors he has rheuma, the following are prescribed to cure him: "Write it! Švejk absolute diet, gastric lavage twice daily, once daily enema, and then see what will be more" (Hasek, [1923]).

There are a lot of enemas in the novel.

http://books.google.hu/books?id=jiMIKqzPAkMC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=jaroslav+hasek+svejk+enema&source=bl&ots=fJk8cqlRlj&sig=CQF0LEFARVC_TLVlpdyF16gWd9I&hl=hu&ei=2X4ZS9jBI8Tl-Qbli-XMDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Worthhwile to mention, that the theme of enema and spanking are not known in the Czech culture: you can see some light artistic spanking in films of Jiří Menzel. Or just see the Lupus-pictures.com site…

Oh, I almost forgot: Martina Cole: The Ladykiller. I have read this book nearly 15 years ago, but when I took it in my hands now, I remembered clearly that the part, when the main character is giving a forced enema from his morbid, woozy-brain mom is on the page 50th (in hungarian translation, of course). He was held down by his brothers on the floor. He could feel the warm soapy water was flooded his bowels through a rubber colon tube.

Oh gosh so MANY years ago. I was maybe 16. Staying at my much older sister's home for a visit. I browsed her bookshelves oen day and found a paereback called, "Behind Red Curtains." It was a nonfiction account of a prosititute in Hawaii, during WW2.

She apparently had problems with "passing gas," when she would work. She was deeply worried she would lose her job in the "respectable" house of ill repute. "Madam" told ehr, "Lucy, you are a very good worker,and the men love you. I don't want to lose your talent. so I suggest we give you an enema, before you start your work hours." The writer gave a nice full description the act performed. "DAMN," she said, "I actually got to enjoying these daily rituals." Walt

There are also very funny references in the novels of Tom Sharpe. Indecent Exposure and Riotous Assembly are my favorites. One has a character checking into a hotel that use to be a spa and is assigned a colonic irrigation room.

PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT was a novel about a young guy in NYC. It is mentioned that father suffered chronic constipation. The father sought relief from a variety of laxatives. The son wonders why the dad doesn't just buy an enema bag. In a later passage he describes a senile gentleman who gives himself regular coffee enemas in the event of an atomic attack. I'm not sure the second reference to enemas is in the same novel.

"Love in the times of cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but they are not for erotic purposes, only to relieve constipation!!

I remember buying a pulp-fiction novel in the back of the bookstore in the early 70's entitled "Make Me Scream." If I recall correctly it is the story of a woman who had developed a love of being spanked recalling her sorority days. She mentions how she would deliberately break the rules in order to be paddled and how surprised she was when one day she was given an enema instead. She goes on to mention how she tried to avoid the enema treatments as much as possible, but "soon learned it was the preferred treatment of one of the big sisters."