Editing Enema (section)

=== In arts and literature ===
==== Written literature ====

In the [[Theatre of Dionysus|Dionysus]]' [[satyr play]] ''Limos'', [[Silenus]] attempts to give an enema to [[Heracles]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Shaw|first=Carl A.|date=2014|title=Satyric Play: The Evolution of Greek Comedy and Satyr Drama|page=15|location=Oxford, England|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-995094-2}}</ref>

In [[Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Othello]]'' (Act II, Scene I) Iago says: "Yet again your fingers to your lips? would they were clyster-pipes for your sake!"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shakespeare.mit.edu/othello/full.html|title=Othello, the Moore of Venice|author=William Shakespeare|date=1603|access-date=2019-03-27}}</ref>

In [[Miguel de Cervantes|Cervantes]]' ''[[Don Quixote]]'', a narrative to Sancho includes "The Knight of the Sun ... bound hand and foot ... was administered a clyster of snow water and sand that almost disracted him"<ref>Friedenwald & Morrison, Part I:99</ref>

In the 17th century, satirists made physicians a favorite target, resembling [[Molière]]'s caricature whose prescription for anything was "clyster, bleed, purge," or "purge, bleed, clyster".<ref>Magner, ''A History of Medicine'':218</ref>

In Molière's play ''[[The Imaginary Invalid]]'', Argan, a severe [[hypochondriac]], is addicted to enemas as indicated by such lines as when Bĕralde asks, "Can't you be one moment without a purge?"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://the-mercurian.com/2018/05/10/moliere-at-versailles/|title=?Molière at Versailles|author=Molière|date=2018-05-10|work=Theater in Translation|publisher=The Mercurian|access-date=2020-07-18}}</ref>

In [[George Orwell]]'s novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'', the narrator notes, "Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema."<ref>{{cite book|last=Orwell |first=George |title=1984|year=1949|location=New York|publisher=[[Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt, Brace and Company]]|isbn=9780151660353|url=https://archive.org/details/1984orwe00orwe|url-access=registration}}</ref>

In [[Grace Metalious]]'s novel [[Peyton Place (novel)|''Peyton Place'']], the town doctor tells of "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.".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/books/review/whats-it-like-reading-peyton-place-today.html|title=What's It Like Reading 'Peyton Place' Today?|author=Thomas Mallon |author2=Anna Holmes |date=2014-03-04|department=Book Review|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-04-18}}</ref> As a teenager, the boy enjoys receiving enemas from his mother.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://exlibrisregina.com/2016/09/20/my-return-to-peyton-place/|title=My Return to Peyton Place|author=R. Saint Claire|date=2016-09-20|work=Ex Libris Regina|publisher=R. Saint Claire|access-date=2019-04-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219184420/https://exlibrisregina.com/2016/09/20/my-return-to-peyton-place/|archive-date=February 19, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In [[Flora Rheta Schreiber]]'s book [[Sybil (Schreiber book)|''Sybil'']], Sybil's psychiatrist asks her "What's Mama been doing to you, dear?... I know she gave you the enemas."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/magazine/a-girl-not-named-sybil.html|title=A Girl Not Named Sybil |author=Debbie Nathan|date=2011-10-14|work=[[The New York Times Magazine]]|access-date=2019-04-21}}</ref>

==== Film ====

In ''[[The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]'', during flight training astronaut [[Alan Shepard]] retains a barium enema,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/21/movies/film-right-stuff-on-astronauts.html|title='Right Stuff,' on astronauts|author=Vincent Canby|date=1983-10-21|department=Film|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-27}}</ref> given two floors away from a toilet, embarrassedly riding a public elevator wearing a [[hospital gown]] and holding the enema bag with its tip still inserted in him.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teachwithmovies.org/the-right-stuff/|title=The Right Stuff|publisher=Teach with Movies|access-date=2019-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086197/characters/nm0001277|title=The Right Stuff|website=[[IMDb]]|access-date=2019-03-27}}</ref>

''[[Water Power (film)|Water Power]]'' is a Pornographic film by Gerard Damiano loosely based on the real-life exploits of [[Michael H. Kenyon]], an American criminal who pleaded guilty to a decade-long series of armed robberies of female victims, some of which involved sexual assaults in which he would give them enemas.<ref>{{cite web|title=Water Power|work=Adult DVD Talk|url=https://www.adultdvdtalk.com/review/waterpower}}</ref>

==== Song ====

The lyrics of [[Frank Zappa]]'s song ''The Illinois Enema Bandit'' are concerned with [[Michael H. Kenyon]]'s [[sexual assault]]s which included administering involuntary enemas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=DIL19750609.2.2|title=Enema bandit suspect faces hearing today|author=Mick Ireland|date=1975-06-09|work=Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections|publisher=[[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]]|access-date=2019-03-27}}</ref>

The album [[Enema of the State]]  by [[blink-182]] is titled with the word in it. It features a nurse on the cover. 
==== Monument ====

A {{convert|365|kg|lb|abbr=off|adj=on}} brass statue of a syringe enema bulb held aloft by three cherubs stands in front of the "Mashuk" spa in the settlement of [[Zheleznovodsk]] in Russia. Inspired by the 15th century Renaissance painter Botticelli, it was created by a local artist who commented, "An enema is an unpleasant procedure as many of us may know. But when cherubs do it, it's all right." When unveiled on 19 June 2008, a banner on one of the spa's walls declared "Let's beat constipation and sloppiness with enemas."  The spa lying in the Caucasus Mountains region, known for dozens of spas that routinely treat digestive and other complaints with enemas of mineral spring water, the director commented "An enema is almost a symbol of our region."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-enema-art/russian-monument-to-enemas-inspired-by-botticelli-idUSL1982017120080619|title=Russian monument to enemas inspired by Botticelli|date=2008-06-19|work=Reuters Life!|publisher=[[Reuters]]|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna25265056|title=Enema monument unveiled Russian resort|date=2008-06-19|website=[[NBC News]]|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref> It is the only known monument to the enema.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/monument-to-enemas|title=Monument to Enemas|work=Places|publisher=[[Atlas Obscura]]|access-date=2019-04-12}}</ref>
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