Was it the golden age of the enema or of the syringe?

I have to tell you this story. In the Navy Douche bag was the term for your shaving kit. When getting out of the Navy a young person yelled to me from across the terminal air terminal in the Philippines to throw his douche bag to him. A woman that was probably an officer's wife stared daggers at him as I picked it up and walked it over to him and explained why that woman had a look of murder in her eyes. I think he shrank to about 2 feet tall as he realized why!

Sandie, The slang names are from N.Y. Bronx, or Brooklyn. Scum Bag was a guy and Douche Bag was a female. I have a neighbor who moved to Ohio from the South Bronx. He was the first person I ever heard call somebody a 'Douche Bag'. The kids on the cartoon series, South Park, called people Douche Bags; lately they have dropped the "Bag" part of it and call people Douches. (probably due to everyone now using disposables)

Sandi

Among other definitions:

douche. Slang: Vulgar. a contemptible or despicable person.

A douchebag

I also find the use of douche or douchebag not only stupid but insulting towards women, and I'm a straight man. However, other terms like fuck have conflicting and to me confounding usages. Fuck means intercourse, usually a pleasant and highly sought-after activity, but many love using it to mean intercourse while others find it repulsive and vulgar. It's also used as an expletive, perhaps THE expletive, as well as as a verb meaning to completely ruin, destroy or mess up someone or something. Go figure.

Fuck can be used as about anything in the sentence. Noun, verb, adjective, adverb, gerund and so on. It can be used as all the words in the sentence. Fuck the fucking fuckers. What a useful word. Limit our vocabulary? Fuck no!

Fuck is the most useful word in the English language.

Vis a vis douching , which of course is off topic, here's an interesting discussion of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche

"THE" Golden Age for Enemas would be at whatever period in one's life they were the most involved in Enemas. So, for each person, "THE" Golden Age for Enemas would be different.

Wonderful that someone finally applies psychological logic to the question.

Aside from doing historical research - and then one would probably have to conclude that the 18th century upper French society was the true golden age when it came to acceptance, usage and prevalence of all kinds of cleansing devices - then indeed it will invariably turn out that a childhood will be a Golden Age for enemas.

My enema career began in the middle of the golden age area;

…I checked... none of it has rubbed off on my butt...; no gold found.. 😇😂

It is interesting that many of us "older" farts have such vivid revollections from more than 60-80 years ago. Unfortunately, many of the posters in this older thread are no longer amongst us. Hopefully, they each got their fill of/from this wonderful procedure and pleasure!

@Emom: It wasn't just the golden age of the enema, ..... it was the golden age of the syringe, whether a bag, a bulb, or a can.

Yes - they go hand 'n hand; the song line "you can't have one without the other" is playing through my noggin as I think about this... my mention of that song places me in the old ​😮​💨 category.

The days of the Sears catalog

Yes, I too could not wait to look at the new Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs when they cam eout. As I recall JC Penney also carried some enema equipment in their catalogs occasionally.

I guess I must still be hanging on to the “golden age.” I never thought about it, but we have a fountain syringe for enemas, a combination bag that doubles has a hot water bottle, a bulb syringe that I used if I was tied up when I traveled, and a douche folding syringe that is still in usable condition, although I have not used it for quite a while.

I too could not wait to look at the new Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs

Same here; but back in the 1960's I was looking to see what they were showing in the way of girdles and foundation wear.