James had the advert in the local newspaper: "Qualified Nurses Administer Colonic Hydrotherapy and Regression Therapy." He telephoned the number and arranged with the female voice for a consultation. His mouth was dry with excitement as he stood outside the detached house with a discrete brass plaque on the door. He rang the bell and a voice came out of a loudspeaker beside the door. "Do you have an appointment?" He gave his name and the appointment time. There was the buzz of the door lock being released and he pushed the door open. He was greeted by a young nurse in blue uniform who introduced herself as Sally. She said, "Would you mind paying for your consultation fee in advance, please?" He nodded and handed her the money. "Come in here and have a seat so that you can fill in our health questionnaire. There are three of us who run this clinic and you'll be treated by any of us or you can make an appointment to see a particular nurse." She handed him the questionnaire and asked if he'd like a cup of tea or coffee. When she left to get him a cup of tea, he glanced round the room.

In the corner was a folding screen and in the centre of the room was a black rubber covered table with what looked like a china sink under the foot end and various strange attachments fitted to the sides of the table. On one wall was a cupboard, glass fronted with interesting looking items of surgical equipment and douche bags, cans and various rubber tubes in different sizes and colours were hung on hooks on the wall. He could feel his heart beating faster with nervous anticipation as he looked down at the questionnaire and started to fill in the form. It had expected details of age, major medical problems with a long list of tick boxes which he dutifully completed and, at the end, were some unexpected boxes. One section asked, "Would you prefer to wear rubber, plastic or cloth garments when being treated? (If you wish to select more than one, tick the relevant boxes)" He selected rubber and plastic. Another question was, "Would you like to wear nappies (diapers) and rubber or plastic pants when being treated?" He ticked the 'yes' box just as Sally came into the room with his tea. "Finished?" she asked, and he confirmed that he had.

Sally spent a few moments looking through the questionnaire and looked at him, "I think that you would like our one day special. It costs £80 for the whole experience and we can fit you in at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. I think that you'd enjoy it more if I don't tell you what to expect, but I promise that it'll be fun!" he agreed and even paid her in advance. Next morning, at the dot of nine o'clock, he rang the bell, only for the door to be opened by a different nurse. "Hello, you must be James. I'm Sue. Do come in."

James entered, but this time was led through to the back room of the house. In the middle of the room was a hospital bed, complete with cot sides, one of which was lowered, a black rubber covered mattress and black rubber covered duvet on it. Beside the bed was a trolley with what James thought were white towels and a further item in black shiny rubber. In the corner was a large shower cubicle. Sue said to James, "Take off all of your clothes and lie on the bed, please." James blushed at this request, but Sue laughed, "Don't forget that I'm a nurse. I won't be seeing or doing anything that I've not done before!"

Still embarrassed, James took off all of his clothing and handed it to Sue who placed it in a locker for him. James laid down on the bed and shivered as the cool rubber mattress came in contact with his back. Sue put on a white rubber apron over her blue uniform and then put on a pair of latex gloves. She picked up a 'towel' from the pile, opened it and asked James to raise his bottom off the mattress. To his surprise, Sue deftly slipped the nappy under his buttocks. This was repeated three times until he had four layers of terry toweling nappies under his buttocks. Sue gathered them together and pinned them firmly around James. The feeling of the toweling nappies made James get 'hard' down below and his mouth became dry with the anticipation of what might happen next.

Sue then held up the black rubber garment for his inspection. "Sally thought that you might like to wear this. It's a rubber romper suit and will cover the nappies nicely. If you could stand up, I'll help you into it. Your feet go through the neck opening and I'll pull it up round you. The neck is elasticated and I'll help stretch it over you." Sue quickly helped James into the rubber romper and checked that all of the nappies were inside the rubber pants section of the suit. He was then told to lie on his back again and to hold his hands in front of him. Sue produced a pair of mittens and fastened them around James' wrists and tied them to the bars of the cot sides. His feet were fastened likewise so that he was held down on his back on the mattress. Sue covered him with the quilt and he could feel the warmth slowly building up as his back started to sweat from contact with the rubber romper suit. She asked him to raise his head off the pillow and placed a rubber shower cap over his hair. "You may be wondering what happens next," said Sue. "Be patient, and I'll explain in a minute." She then told him to open his mouth and placed a rubber gag in it, fastening it behind his head. There was a rubber tube connected to the gag.

Sue went to a cupboard and collected two plastic bags with stoppers on the top and an outlet connector on the bottom. The larger one she filled with plain water and hung it from a drip stand at the side of the bed. She then took a glass jug out of the cupboard and partly filled it with water. She took two sachets and tipped orange powder into the jug. When the powder came in contact with the water, it started to fizz and Sue stirred it with a plastic spoon. When the fizzing stopped, Sue added more water and then the contents of two small plastic bottles. Next she poured the contents of the jug into the smaller plastic bag. She stoppered the plastic bag, which was now quite full, and gave it a final shake. This, too, was hung from the drip stand and the rubber tubing from James' gag was connected to the outlet of the bag.

"Now I'll explain what is going to happen to you first of all. You're wearing nappies because in a short while, you'll be using them, and how: just as you said you wanted to on the questionnaire. I've mixed up two sachets of Picolax which is sodium picosulfate and magnesium citrate. The sodium picosulfate is a stimulant which will make your bowels work harder and empty faster and the magnesium citrate is an osmotic laxative. It'll absorb water from your intestines and make your stools very, very liquid. The little bottles were Fleet Phospho-Soda which is also an osmotic laxative. In each case, you've had well over the normal amount. It's quite safe, but you'll go much much more effectively. In a moment, I'll open the tap and I want you to suck on the gag until all of this bag is empty. O.K.?" James nodded and started to suck as the tap was opened. The stuff tasted a little like watery orangeade, with a salty after-taste. He concentrated on sucking it all down and, after five minutes, had managed to drink the lot. "Sue came back into view. "Well done, James. It's now half past nine and I've got my next client to see to. I'll be back in an hour to put up the big bag of fluid. You must keep drinking now that you've had that much laxative, but we give it chance to work first, then give you the water which will keep the laxatives working, as you'll see!"

James lay on his back and though about what he'd let himself in for. He was beginning to get really hot and sweaty in the rubber rompers and under the rubber covered duvet but, to his surprise, he discovered that he rather liked it. Suddenly he both felt and heard a large gurgle from his gut. This was quickly followed by several more and he could feel it moving from the right side to the left side of his abdomen. The gurgling was working its way down the descending colon into his rectum and was being pushed hard by the waves of contractions of his colon under the influence of the Picolax. He could feel his abdomen wriggling as the violent contractions took place. Suddenly, he felt a strong urge to empty his bowel and, before he could even think what to do, the double effects of the pressure and the contractions caused him to empty his bowel explosively into his nappies. He could feel the warm wet stools spreading around his back passage and trickling down towards his back as he lay on the mattress. "So this is what its like to be a baby," he mused. Suddenly, and without warning, his bowels released again and again until his nappies were beginning to get soaked with the effluent pouring from him.

At this point, Sue came back in and said, "I see that the laxatives are working. I'll put up the water now and I want you to drink it over the next two hours. If you turn your head to the left, you can see the clock." She hung up the second bag, having removed the first, and opened the tap. James realized that his mouth was dry and he sucked eagerly at the water. Sue left the room again. As he laid there, more bowel movements occurred until he was sure that his nappies couldn't hold any more. However, Sue was an expert at this and she knew how much padding was needed. James also found that his bladder needed emptying, so he relaxed and felt the warm urine trickling over his abdomen and run down his sides to be absorbed by the nappies. He could get to really like this. In fact, he did!

Two hours later, Sally came in. "Hallo, James. You've got another hour of the laxatives working, then we'll clean you up and take you next door for the last part of today's treatment." Sally left, only to return with Sue and hour later as promised. Both nurses opened a cupboard and removed white rubber aprons which they put on. Also from the cupboard and onto a trolley came a pile of towels or nappies and a pair of red rubber pants. The gag was removed from James' mouth and his hands and feet were freed. The brakes on the bed were released and it was wheeled over to the shower cubicle. The duvet was taken off James as he laid there in the romper suit and full nappies. "Swing your legs over the side of the bed and stand up in the shower, please," Sally requested. As James stood up, his bowels emptied themselves once more and he could feel the weight of the nappies pulling on his hips. With his feet in the shower tray, he noticed that there was a large hole with a wide mesh grid where the normal drain would be. Noticing his glance, Sally said, "This is a sluice shower so we can clean you down properly." Sally and Sue had also put on gloves and they started to remove the rubber romper suit. As they pulled it below the nappies, leakage started to occur. James was asked to step out of the suit which was by now on the floor of the shower. Afterwards the nurses unpinned the nappies and let them fall to the floor of the shower. Sue turned on the power shower and started to hose off James' nappy area. Sally turned on another shower which had a built-in soap feed and started to cover James in foam from head to foot. between them, and to James' acute embarrassment, they washed him thoroughly in every little crease and orifice. He was asked to face away from them and found an exploring finger working its way into his back passage. Both showers were turned to plain water and he was rinsed off. Sally and Sue took large white bath sheets and proceeded to rub James dry vigorously. When he was dry, Sue wrapped a thick towel around his hips and he was told to stand out of the shower and to put on the pants. These were made of the thick red hospital reinforced sheeting and were quite stiff. To his surprise, there was hole in the bottom of the pants. Again, his interest was noted and Sally said, "You'll find out what that's for in a minute!"

Sue held out a white hospital gown made out of soft shiny rubber for James to put his arms through and Sally tied it at the back. He was led into the front room and told to lie back on the examination table. His legs were hooked onto the stirrups, lifting his bottom off the table and into the air. The leg end of the table was removed, leaving James' bottom over the porcelain sink. Sue went to one of the wall cupboards and removed an object. Bringing it over to James, she said, "This is to dilate your anus and there's a balloon near the tip which I can inflate with this bulb which will hold it in place." She took a tube of KY Jelly and lubricated the end of the speculum. Sally lubricated a finger with the same jelly and, pushing her finger through the hole in the bottom of the rubber pants, lubricated James' anus. Sue pushed the speculum in with a twisting motion. It was initially uncomfortable as James guessed that his anus was being stretched more than usual, but the pain soon passed. Sally had changed her gloves and squeezed the bulb, inflating the balloon. James could feel it pushing against the walls of his rectum and was told to tell Sally when it started to be uncomfortable. "We want a good seal, but we don't want you to be in pain," she said.

She removed the centre cone of the speculum and attached a rubber tube and fitting to the speculum. "The tube drains into the sluice below you and we can clamp it closed to fill you up. The flange has a seal and I'm going to insert a colon tube through the flange as far as I can get it. I'll need to inflate your colon from time to time with air to help the tube go through. Firstly, I need to squeeze some lubricating jelly into the flange to help the tube slide into you. It'll feel a bit cold." It did, too! Sue had gone to the wall rack and removed a long red rubber tube which looked even thicker than a garden hose. She inserted the rounded tip with its eyes into the flange and gently began to push it in, twisting it from time to time to help it on its way. Every now and again, she stopped and, using a puffer bulb on the other end of the tube, put a little air into James' colon to aid the passage of the tube. James could feel the tube inside him - strange but not unpleasant. "Look now," said Sue. To James' surprise, most of the tube had now disappeared into his colon. "I'm well into the ascending colon on your right side, James," said Sue.

Sally, meanwhile, had been filling a large 'fish tank' with warm water. The tank was on a tall wheeled stand with a sloping base leading to a tap and outlet connector. Sally wheeled this beside James and connected a rubber tube to the bottom of the tank, opened the tap to let some run into the sluice and then connected the other end to the colon tube. She then opened the tap and the air in the colon tube began to be pushed out by the water. The air came out through the rubber tube leading into the sluice. When water began to flow, this tube was clamped and James could visibly see his abdomen rise as it filled with water. Before it became uncomfortable, Sally released the clamp again and the water flooded into the sluice. This was repeated several times until the tank was virtually empty. The colon tube was disconnected and the end placed over the sluice. James was tilted forward slightly and the tube was slowly withdrawn, draining water from his colon as it did so. James felt a warm feeling around his hips where the nappy was.

The leg end of the table was replaced and James' legs were unhooked. The rubber pants were removed and James discovered that he'd wet the nappy around his hips. This was removed and he was washed and dried. "You may still have some fluid inside you, so we'll put a pair of disposable nappies on you for you to go home. The nurses deftly put a disposable 'all-in-one' brief under him and pulled it tight, fastening the adhesive tapes. James was handed his clothes from the locker next door and allowed to dress.

"Would you like to make an appointment for more treatment next week?", he was asked. You bet he did!