Joseph Smith Enjoyed Giving and Receiving Enemas Just As Much As Everyone Else.

[Dr Moore]

More proof Joseph was not just another regular guy.

[Wonhyo]

Joseph and Benjamin Johnson typically greeted each other with an enthusiastic embrace and then said to one another, "Let's get this potty started!"

[Doctor Steuss]

It's good to know that their friendship was both pre and post exilic.

[Kishkumen]

Woah... I'm gonna need a little help to digest all of this.

Not an image I wanted in my mind.

[canpakes]

Woah... I'm gonna need a little help to digest all of this.

Not an image I wanted in my mind.

It may be a while before you’ll be able to flush it out.

[dantana]

Joseph reached into his left breast pocket and came out with an enema pod. He reached into the right, same thing. Damn, he thought, some asshole has gotten off with my pen.

[Tom]

Folks, you really can't make this stuff up.

I have very close friends but giving them (or receiving) an enema would never cross my mind in a million years. Apparently, Benjamin Johnson was very close to Joseph Smith.



https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comme ... &context=3

The comments (turning the other cheek) are kind of amusing.

Can someone here verify if this is legitimate? Maybe I'm just being prudish or suffering from presentism?

Denton cites page 91 of the Andruses' 1974 book. I checked page 91 and didn't find the language she places inside quotation marks. Perhaps I have a bowdlerized copy.

This is the closest language on page 91:

In 1839, after the Prophet escaped from Missouri and arrived at Nauvoo, I was with him. The people had flocked in from the terrible exposures of the past, and nearly everyone was sick with intermittent or other fevers, of which many died. The Prophet, too, had a violent sickness. As Emma was in no degree able to care for him, it wholly devolved upon me. Both day and night through a period of a little less than two weeks I was hardly absent from his room. Almost his only food was gruel, and about the only treatment he would accept was a flush of the colon with warm water, perhaps tinctured slightly with capsicum of myrrh, or a little soda and salt, both of which were prepared and administered by me in the room he occupied. If any sleep came to me, it was while lying upon his bed or sitting in my chair.

[drumdude]

You guys really need to give Brother Joseph a toilet break.

[Moksha]

Monument found commemorating this event at BYU

[Wonhyo]

Monument found commemorating this event at BYU

Thanks, Moksha, for injecting some humour into this thread!