The Clyster: For the Connoisseur of Enema Delights (July 1989)

Sydney: Trish Turner Labs, 1989.
First Edition.

29.5cm x 21cm. 12 pages, black and white illustrations. Saddle-stapled self-wrappers. With a membership application form laid in.

Single issue of The Enema Fanciers Society quarterly newsletter, a Sydney klismaphile club run by Trish Turner Labs from a PO Box at Hurstville. The issue contains two pages of personals, two pages of letters, two further articles, and a one-page second instalment of a serialisation, stated to be by permission, of ‘Klismaphilia: Amplification of the Erotic Enema Deviance’ by Dr Joanne D. Denko (printed as Denco). Denko, a psychiatrist, coined the term klismaphilia in 1973, and this paper first appeared in the ‘American Journal of Psychotherapy’ in 1976. The back page states that the society was launched with a newspaper advertisement about eight months earlier, boasts that their file now includes 5000 names and addresses of interested persons, and announces the next issue for October 1989. The cover story continues from a May issue, so presumably at least one earlier number of the newsletter was published. Despite these markers, no other issues of the newsletter, or any record of the society or of Trish Turner have been traced by this cataloguer, the only record that can be traced is that of their registered company name being dissolved in a 1995 Government Gazette notice. Offered together with the newsletter is a membership application form. Membership offered the newsletter every three months, a three litre enema set, a half-hour VHS ‘Introduction to the Enema’, a 64 page book ‘The Enema a Teaching Manual’, and an outcall enema service for members when in Sydney.

Minor shelf wear and tanning. Minor foxing to application form. Very Good Condition.

AU$300