Bordeaux Sketchbook [H], sheet 42. Once again Goya makes use of an enema, as in Capricho 58, Swallow That, Dog. The manuscript commentary in the Prado on that print states: "he who lives among men will be irredeemably syringed". While in that image it was monks of various orders about to administer the enema to the terrified victim, here they are three women -young, mature, and old- who laugh as they mercilessly prepare to inflict the brutal remedy on the suffering but treacherous man, one of them carefully removing a knife from his hands. A large urinal awaits the content of his bowels, which the youngest, kneeling woman is about to inspect with interest. The scene may represent an act of repayment in kind for men’s violence against women.

Matilla, J.M. Mena M.B., Goya: dibujos. Solo la voluntad me sobra, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2019, p.266 nº 176