Sears Catalog

I remember once seeing a Sears Book, and inside was 2 pages of enema stuff. One bag that allways stuck out was a red one, big hotwater bottle with a hose black tubes and an inline hand pump. I now own a flow master bulb with hose and love how it works. Any other catalogs that had stuff in it?

Kind of different but in class today we had to read old writing styles and in an old story by Ernest Hemingway it said 'we talked about old friends and enemas'. I was surprised to see it! Enemas must have been easy to talk to back then! I bet some people wouldn't even know what that bag was if that catalog came out now!

~ Shay7

Err... don’t you think a pun might have been intended?

If you have access to old Eaton's catalogs from up in Canada, they often had a bigger selection.

Cool thanks LisaK & shay7, I read once that I believe it was King Henry 8th, would annouce out loud to whom ever and what ever the situation was. "It's time for my Enema" WOW that is bold rofl..............love it.

I think you may have it wrong about Henry VIII. It was Louis XVI or XVII of France who was known for taking an enema while having an audience with some of his courtiers.

Wards catalog also had several pages of equipment. Great fantasies along with the lingerie section.

I used to love finding the pages with enema equip in the Sears catalog. They sure had quite a collection.

Sears would run two page enema ads during their mid-season catalog. The Christmas catalog never featured any enema equipment. Maybe it was too traumatic for the kiddies browsing for the toy section. Not many kids were asking Santa for a Davol folding fountain syringe including both an enema and douche nozzle. But Sears mid-season catalog was chock full of choices right through the 60s. And some of those period ads were in full color! And like any decent enema perv, I would get aroused looking through the ads. LOL!

I sure wish the enema/douche equipment sections of old Sears cataloges was available on line somewhere. What I would like to see is if the thrill would still be the same today as is was when I wad a kid.

Also, if you can get your hands on that Eatons catalog, another interesting thing to do, is take a Simpson Sears catalog from up there and compare the copy to that in the Sears Roebuck catalog. Especially the Northeastern, or northern Midwest editions.

Not only enema equipment I recall that Sears sold nurses uniforms, one of the other catalog companys did too, could have been Wards or Spiegal.

Type in ENEMA in Sears catalog and you get Toy Tanks, Games and Shoes. :-\

I think their web page needs looking at

Mike

The Sears catalogs that arrived at my house usually fell open to the rubber goods pages automatically after a few days. I'd purposely wrinkle the pages of toys, hunting equipment and garage tools to divert attention from my real love. I guess it worked.

When I was growing up (50s) we received the Sears catalog and the Montgomery Wards catalog. When it came to the selection of enema equipment, MW won hands down. I particularly remember the catalogs that came in the 1955-1956 time frame. (I was 8 and 9). Sure wish I could see those catalogs again. Like Sear, MW also offered "good" "better" and "best" grades of fountain syringes and combination syringes. I find it interesting that when it came time for my mom to buy a family enema bag, she bought in at the neighborhood Drug Fair, and not through the catalogs. Although I'm pretty sure she purchased it primarily for feminine hygiene, she gave me an enema with it very shortly thereafter.

Jimmyt44..Love your post!

I purchased a couple of Montgomery Ward Catalogs on Ebay a few years back. The 40's were the best in my opinion.

Here's one source of old Eaton's Catalogs

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cmc/index-e.html

I guess I caught the end of the prime days for those catalogs because I remember the enema stuff slowly disappearing over the years. But it was interesting.

One of the items they offered always puzzled me. It was a bulb syringe with the hose and nozzles of a bag syringe. I never figured out what the advantage of that was. Anybody remember seeing that? Anybody ever use one like that?

Brings back memories.

Great topic. I remember them well, and was very surprised when I first noticed those unique pages. I always read them and enjoyed every minute! Too bad they disappeared, but the internet makes up for it.

I remember the Sears Catalog showing up in the mail... But I was born in the mid 60's... So I don't remember it filled with an ENEMA ad section. However I've seen the ads reposted for sale on Ebay on occasion. I would love to have one of those original catalogs now. 😉

The Sears catalog was great, I remember sitting looking through it and getting rock hard and having to stand up and try to make sure my parents didn't see it

I remember the drug stores and the selection of enema bags they had and the displays. My grandmother and I went in and she told the clerk that she wanted an enema bag and they proceded to look at different ones and make a selection of a comfy red open top bag. She commented, Tony this will work when we get home ... I could have fallen through the floor, the clerk smiled and said I hope everything comes out well and we left.....

We were given an old Sears catalog from the 60's, and it is interesting how many pages were devoted to enema and douching equipment. How things change....

Actually the enema equipment including colon tubes still sold by Sears surprised me, check out their web site

Jamie 1172. Do you have the link? you can copy-paste it in a reply.

Lisa, I went to the Sears website. They don't really carry any enema products, but rather resell them from other medical supply company websites. Go to Sears.com and search and you will see what I am talking about.

GAtransplant: In today's world Sears in more trouble and more cost than they are worth. Only interesting thing is seeing how many ways they can try to resuscitate that same rock.

Checked out the Eaton Catalog (link below). It definitely brings back memories of sitting on the john and looking through the enema pages. They have a combo enema bag set for two dollars. What's really funny is that you can pay over a hundred for a bag today that is the same design from 80 years ago.

Progress?

I also remember the antique Sears & Roebuck catalogues, among other antiques and such that were in my house while I was growing up. I remember as a child discovering the pages in them that had the enema equipment, which was actually how I found out what an enema bag was. I looked at those pages so many times and was literally mesmerized by them. I was always worried that someone would know that I was looking at them. Not that I would ever do this, but those pages would look nice framed and hung in a bathroom as art.