Celebrating the Enema

This was too bizarre to pass for a post (The Conspiracy to Keep you Poor and Stupid):

A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk. The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa, the spa's director said Thursday.

"There is no kitsch or obscenity, it is a successful work of art," Alexander Kharchenko told The Associated Press. "An enema is almost a symbol of our region."

[emphasis mine. Let's just say that I don't want to go anywhere near Zhelevnovodsk.]