{"id":14709,"date":"2020-12-18T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=14709"},"modified":"2025-03-24T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:05:34","slug":"everybody-poops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2020\/12\/18\/everybody-poops\/","title":{"rendered":"everybody poops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>I once had this funny idea about writing an entire series of little books about shitting. There were a few ideas that I wanted to convey through it.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The first and most important one is the fact that everybody shits \u2013 celebrities shit, dictators shit, peasants shit. People die while shitting. People often\u00a0shit while they die. People often shit when they give birth. People suffer when they can\u2019t shit, or when they shit uncontrollably. Everyone\u2019s probably had to deal with both scenarios.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And yet shitting is something that most if not all of us do in private, at least in the modern civilized world. I think in some places in the world people still shit out in the open. Ancient Rome had remarkably sophisticated sewer systems \u2013 ways of getting large amounts of\u00a0shit away from wherever you took the shit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are subreddits where people post photos of their shits. Why? I guess because it\u2019s disgusting, and in intrigues people. There are also people who have sexual fetishes that have to do with shit, which is\u2026 disturbing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I guess this is now an exploration into bodily functions and fluids, and what people find disgusting. As a general rule it seems that almost everything coming out of the body is basically bad or gross. Spit, piss, shit, blood. When reading up about it, I found that somebody on reddit has a vomitting fetish. She was terrified of vomiting as a child. It\u2019s interesting how fetishes work. Some people derive sexual pleasure from demeaning acts, either demeaning others or by being demeaned themselves. How are we to think about that? Instinctively \u2013 if it\u2019s between consensual adults it\u2019s okay. Apparently there\u2019s a distinction between a kink and a fetish, depending on what exactly you enjoy about doing a thing. There are people who like wearing a diaper and then pissing in it \u2013 they find it comforting.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/24z70t\/people_that_are_into_scat_and_urination_sexually\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/24z70t\/people_that_are_into_scat_and_urination_sexually\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There are all kinds of interesting details about how people shit in public. Singapore used to have \u201cnight soil men\u201d who would\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I\u2019m not personally into shit in a sexual sense (ew, lol). Scrolling through pictures of people\u2019s shit triggers a disgust response from me and I get grossed out. But I suppose I find it interesting to contemplate the nature of disgust, and what it means to be a bag of chemicals. And I suppose also it\u2019s interesting from a larger input\/output, raw materials -> waste sort of analogy. The same thing that happens around the human body also happens around a lot of other things at a bigger scale \u2013 industrial processes, for eg. And landfills and recycling and whatnot.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I\u2019m also curious about what things like gay, lgbt, kink, bdsm cultures tell us about who we are as a species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3Pf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14710,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14709\/revisions\/14710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}