Soapsticks as a childhood punishment

Did anyone else get a soap stick as a punishment in childhood. I was terrified of them as a boy. I was sent to live with two old maid aunts when I was four and they were very strict. Enemas and suppositories were a regular part of keeping me "clean and sweet." But what I really hated was the soap stick. I can't remember exactly when they started, I think around age seven. The procedure was the same as taking my temperature. I remember being all pins and needles when I watched her dip the soap stick in the water. Somehow I knew it was going in my bottom. I was undressed and then laid over her lap with a towel on lap. She would apply a little vaseline and then she would begin working the slick soap stick into my anus. At first it wasn't bad then it would start to itch and burn. I saw stop but she says I have to have more. Then she would put me on my potty to make a doo doo for her. I really hated it at age 10. She had made a new soap stick and she would leave it out on the counter so I could see it while she gave me my bath. Knowing the whole time that was was going to give me "the stick" when I got out.

Dude, some ppl might be skeptical of your account but I believe you 100%. I KNOW for a fact that this procedure was a common or "normal" part of child-rearing introduced (if my sources were correct) in the 1920s. I am pretty sure that it was mentioned in my family that my grandfather's abusive stepmother gave this to him as a punishment as well when he was growing up. I had no idea this practice still existed but I believe you totally that it does!

No I have never had soap sticks used on me as a punishment. It sounds like child abuse and it is hard to imagine an adult doing that to a child. But then, the older generation was not as attuned to child abuse as society is today.

It sounds like child abuse and it is hard to imagine an adult doing that to a child.

In the case that an adult lives in the conviction:

1. that the daily bowel movement is absolutely necessary for the health,

2. every form of a disobedience of a child has its primary cause in an unsactisfory bowel movement

at least once the week a deeply inserted soap stick will be regarded as absolutely necessary.

No I have never had soap sticks used on me as a punishment. It sounds like child abuse and it is hard to imagine an adult doing that to a child. But then, the older generation was not as attuned to child abuse as society is today.

Using soap stick is also cheap. Even when used without punishment in mind, it cost less to turn some (leftover) soap into a suppository than to go to a pharmacy and pay for store bought items.

Agracier: My mother's family was quite poor and I suspect this was the reason for using soap sticks to trigger defecation. She hated them and never used one on me - her weapons of choice were glycerin suppositories and some mild oral laxative.

My mother's family was quite poor and I suspect this was the reason for using soap sticks to trigger defecation.

I may confirm this: In the years after the Second World War most people here in Germany have been really poor. So in the case of a constipation cutting a soap stick with a knife from a piece of ivory soap and laying this for some minutes in warm water before inserting this in the anus has been possible even in a very poor family. In the case of a severe constipation swallowing a good dose castor oil has been a cheap application too.

Wow, thank you (especially the German respondents) - your posts were very informative!

Soap sticks were never given as a punishment but I received them a few times for constipation issues (which of course felt like punishments to me as a child).

Obviously soapstick as combined punishment/bowel-emptier is a tradition in my family

It wasn't an actual stick but my dad wasn't afraid of putting small pieces of soap inside of me to deal with me.

I never had a soap stick used on me for any reason as a child, but I would enjoy them for punishment for ageplay though.

Not as punishment. I used to trim a strip off a bar of soap when I was in the tub and use like a suppository. Fetish started when I was young!

My mother used soapsticks on me a few times when I was a kid because she had run out of glycerin suppositories.

Never had it done, but my mom was very frugal and would keep small pieces of soap left when a bar was just about all used up. She use them to wash delicate items with.

I think sticking anything up a childs butt as punishment is abusive - maybe even sexual assault! Parents who do that have an ulterior motive that isn't very healthy. Using soap sticks as a suppository substitute is different, if the child truly is constipated. It's about intent - wanting to help the child or wanting to control and/or exploit the child.

Any older people remember Fel's Naptha soap?

Yes, it still out there.

Had these or Ivory to stimulate a BM by Mom after staying home and rectal temp.

A fever ???

Enema time !

Fel's naphtha soap is good for poison ivy, at least that's what I've found, but would never use it for enemas as it's very harsh. It once contained naphtha but that was removed some time ago.

https://www.hunker.com/12004010/homemade-laundry-soap-with-fels-naptha

To my thinking, while soap sticks as punishment may be embarrassing as can be, what is really abusive and horrid is washing someone's mouth out with soap. Disgustingly nauseating and yet fondly considered by some to be one of those punishments from the 'good ol' days', back when everything was all so hunky-dory and everything was so supposedly great.

I like to make soap sticks myself, they’re the size of an ice pop and I love the pain I get from fucking my ass with it

@submissive: I like to make soap sticks myself, they’re the size of an ice pop and I love the pain I get from fucking my ass with it

I put whole bars of soap up there. For a special treat, the soap is followed by a insertable toy. This gives an amazing feeling as the soap stimulates the upper part of my ass.

I didn't get them in childhood, but in dad/son role play now, I've used a soap stick on a boy as part of his punishment regimen. From his squirming, pleading responses and promises to be obedient, I'd say it was very effective. I think in the future, I'll first have it out on the table as a threat. If I hear any backtalk, then I fill a glass with water and put that beside the soap stick, etc.

Oh yes I did. My dad was a firm believer in them. He always called them a great attitude adjustment. If I talked back too much, I must not be feeling well and needed a bowel movement. Had to follow him into the bathroom in my underwear, or already naked, and he carved one from a bar of Ivory soap, and up it went.

Soapsticks for initiating a bowel movement was prescribed by Dr Spock (no, not the vulcan) in his "Child rearing Book" which was a staple in a lot of middle class (Canadian) homes. Though not in age-play but r/l, soapsticks play a occasional role in my punishments. 🌸

@SissyJimmy you really shouldn't use Vaseline on a soap stick. That's why it took as long as it did before it started to be felt. The Vaseline has to melt off it, before the irritation of the soap can start to be felt.

It's the same reason why you only use water soluble lube on suppositories

@SuppoEnemaGirl

The Vulcan is Mr. Spock, not Dr. Spock

@Sean (LoL) You be right on that one!

SissyJimmy hasn't been on for 3 years!

@SuppoEnemaGirl

The Vulcan is Mr. Spock, not Dr. Spock

Good catch @Sean !

Speaking of Dr Benjamin Spock of baby book fame - my first wife had his book and it put the kibosh on enemas much to my chagrin.