Checking out bathrooms / Bags Left Out

When we were growing up in the fifties, it was commonplace to see douche/enema bags hanging in bathrooms. The summer, my girlfriend and I were fourteen, she was aware of the enema bag hanging in our bathroom. Having started her period shortly after getting up one day, then later that afternoon at my house, she started having trouble with cramps. So, she asked my sister, if she wouldn’t mind giving her a couple of enemas for relief, and my sister gladly accommodated her. During the enemas that afternoon, the girls talked, my sister telling my girlfriend about our after-school activities involving enemas. A month or so later, my girlfriend approached me about doing likewise with her. Starting something that lasted until we finished High School.

I would get so turned on if I saw an enema bag in someone's bathroom. I would be giddy! I believe I would have to mention it, and see where it went.

I always was a looker😏

When I was growing up in the late 40's through 70's I often saw enema bags hanging in friends' and relatives' bathrooms either drying over the shower head in the bathtub or hanging on a hook on the back of the bathroom door. It was no secret that most of my friends and cousins got enemas.

@gboy said,

I often saw enema bags hanging in friends' and relatives' bathrooms either drying over the shower head in the bathtub or hanging on a hook on the back of the bathroom door.

And @CaptNemo said,

I always was a looker😏

During the fifties and sixties, whenever I was visiting someone, I always made it a point to use the bathroom. Whether I needed to or not. I enjoyed looking around, being nosy, just to see what I could find. Back in those days, people didn’t think twice about leaving a douche/enema bag hanging in the bathroom to dry, or like our house, living there with others in the linen closet.

Count me as anti-snoop; I wouldn’t want anyone rooting in my cabinets and wouldn’t do that to others. Being out of TP at a bad time or in need of a plunger could send me on a quick, targeted search, but I’d do my best to ignore anything incidental I saw while searching uninvited.

No one I’ve visited has left enema gear in plain sight, so I’m not sure how I’d react.

I do know from visiting my giver in times past that it was wonderful to let him know ahead of time that I was having problems and see my enema gear set out when I arrived. Years on, I’m guessing it still lives in the bottom of his bathroom closet.

I would think enema equipment would be extremely rare anyway in France, and rare in the US.

As @Sweetest_Relief says I sometimes have to look around for toilet paper or other stuff. Also, some people have open shelves so even if not looking for anything one may end up seeing things. On some rare occasions I've seen "sexual" items such as condoms, contraceptives, intimate wash gel, pads, tampons and vaginal cups.

I admit that when I saw the condom (in its wrapper) in the bathroom of my recently divorced friend, It was weird, it was in a kind of crockery along with sundry toiletry items next to the shampoo, if I recall correctly. I wondered if it was for her own use or in case her daughter needed it. I know, I should have tried to unsee it.

Now come to think of it, why a condom in a bathroom? Did my friend invite men for hanky-panky in the shower?

Warning: If I come to your house, I will snoop in your bathroom for enema equipment. 😃 Old habits die hard. To this day, I can tell you every type of enema and douching equipment my friends, relatives, and neighbors had in their homes, and they all had it. There were no exceptions in the 50s. Everyone had enema/douching items.

When growing up, in Italy, orange bulbs were in everyone's bathrooms in plain sight and bags were often seen hanging.... In the States I started visiting bathrooms in the 70's and remember only seeing them rarely. In our home you would see a 4 quart bag hanging behind the bathroom door or in the shower if recently used. My mother in law was always bitching about it, but my wife told her to stuff it.... Once my wife caught on the multiple uses an enema can have, she was fully into it, she proselytized among her friends and my daughters consider it an old fashion mother thing, but I know they use it now and then. Now I'm a widow, live alone, and the bag is still hanging there, would you be surprised if I tell you I had friends asking about it and a couple even wanted to try.....

Wouldn't have to look very hard in our house. Our bag is usually hanging in our master bathroom either from a hook behind the door or in the shower. Suppositories and Vaseline right inside the medicine cabinet. Of course only close friends and relatives would be in there.

@clis I did not know enema bags were used in Italy, only heard about bulbs, I think. Could it be the bags were used for douching?

I find it very unfortunate that enema/douche equipment is pretty scarce, at least in prominent display, in this day and age. As Bob Dylan sings, "The Times They Are A Changing". Seth Meyers might opine, "Back In My Day". On those few occasions where such a sight surprises me, I still feel a twinge of some nerve conduction dancing up and down my spine and triggering some involuntary reactions. I am truly a product of a 1950's household with exceptions.

Oh as a kid I looked but in those days a lot of equipment was in plain view if I leave something out now it’s drying or getting ready to be used. My collection is pretty extensive so I store my stuff in the master closet that way when I dress or put things away I’m always looking at it. Funny it’s always seeming to call me…….

When visiting my aunt’s house I often saw the red enema bag hanging in the bathtub and sometimes a bulb syringe on the vanity. I often wonder if my female cousin had gotten an enema that day or the night before. She was very pretty with an adorable bottom!! I’m sure she did because I know my aunt believed in using enemas often.

Sure, when I was in that age!

Generally, if someone wanted to flaunt it, they were hanging on the back of the door in the bathroom. If they wanted to hide it it was in the cabinet in the bathroom.

@anteuil Was it common that they were hung at the back of the door?

At a friend's house I saw one having on back of bathroom door, one hanging off shower head in tub, another friend they had a can sitting on a dresser in a hallway. I'm terrible but always fantasized his mom would use that can on me......

Yes it was common to hang it on the bathroom door. Or over the faucet in the bathroom

In the 60s and 70s it was a common site it was a wonderful site and could be the start of a conversation

It was the late 1970s and the very first bag that I ever found belonged to my older sister. She was home from college for a holiday and had left her folding syringe in its pouch on the back of the toilet. Curious, I opened it not knowing what it was at the time. Apparently she douched with it because there was also two packets of douche powder with it.

I used to check out bathrooms for anything rectal, and it gave me an erection when I found something. I also used to sniff women’s underwear when I was lucky enough to find it. A mental health “professional “ would see a red flag. I see it as a healthy fetish. There’s nothing criminal or psychotic about it.

At sixteen, Our next door neighbors would have me over to watch T/V with ten year old son when they would be out for a late dinner date as they felt uneasy leaving him alone. On one of these occasions I searched through the cabinet under their bathroom sink looking to satisfy my growing interest in enemas. My inquiry was rewarded beyond all hopes when I uncovered a plastic pail that contained a large empty combo enema bag, tubing and big, curved douche nozzle that retained small amounts of fecal material stuck in the pipe's grooves. The still wet bag and soiled pipe left no doubt to it's recent job of bowel cleansing by lady of the house . It was years before I would get to experience the sensation of a similar long, curved spray nozzle sliding up my own rectum. And when I did, I dreamed of "the lady next door".

Years ago many of the houses where I grew up had one bathroom used by the whole family. Being interested in enemas from an early age I was a snooper when I had the opportunity. A quick look in the cabinet under the sink might find a bulb or bag. Never saw a bag hanging. Modern homes now typically have a bathroom attached to the master bedroom, and if they have any interesting items that is where they are likely kept. Visitors don’t usually get to see anything anymore.

@Electra Why do you think it had been inside the lady of the house's backside, and not that of any other the other inhabitants? 😃

All of my relatives had enema bags in pretty plain view. Sometimes they were over the shower curtain or shower nozzle. Other times, they might've been out drying.

As I read these posts. I am struck by how many of us felt we needed to be so secret about enemas since neighbors and relatives spoke of them casually. I got an enema from one grandmother and the other one laid it out for me to use in her bathroom more than once.

I remember my aunt wants, wrote my mother a letter and casually said that one of my cousins was constipated and that she would have to do something under threat of an enema, which she did not want.

The thing that also surprises me here is the number of people who have indicated that their wife either didn't know or were disgusted and they had to hide their enemas. I know everyone is different, but I very quickly told everyone I dated and made it clear that that was part of me and that I would like for the woman to participate. But she quickly understood that this was not something that was going away, and I would not be shamed for it.

I must be in the minority, but can't imagine hiding it or repressing it despite anyone disapproving, but especially a spouse. I would not have married them if they didn't understand and totally accept me.

I’ve definitely done some rummaging around before, but alas, never found anything that exciting. I’m from the laxative generation though so guess it’s not that surprising.

I Always check around when Im in a bathroom , to see if I find something interesting and exciting.

Growing up in the early and mid sixties most of my friends houses had enema and douche equipment hanging in the bathrooms or behind the door, which was common.

Mom left her enema bag hanging out to dry, I received my share of enemas from mom and she made no secret that she gave herself regular enemas.

My grandmother’s enema bag with the enema nozzle attached was hanging on the back of the door, never received an enema from her.

While staying with my aunt and uncle one summer I did snoop in their bathroom linen closet and found a red drugstore combo bag, always fantasized about her giving me an enema, sadly it never happened.

I've shared this before when I told that our home growing up had two bags: a red combination bag for family enemas and a red open top syringe that early one we were told it was only for mom's use. Once I turned teenage I became aware of the difference between an enema and a douche and that open top was for mom's douching. Once I understood that there were times at friends houses that I would notice one or the other. In the 1960s and into the 1970s such finds were not uncommon.