By Dave Praeger
Is “The starting place of Feces” a Darwinian quandary? probably now not, however it is the identify to the preface of this tongue-in-cheek and by surprise revealing exploration of human habit via the webmaster at the back of the preferred PoopReport.com.
This ebook isn't a background of poop, yet a learn of this present day. Its objective is to appreciate how poop impacts us, how we view it, and why; to understand its influence from the instant it slides out of our anal sphincters to the instant it enters the sewage remedy plant; to discover how we’ve arrived at this unusual ache and confusion a couple of usual fabricated from bodies; to work out how this contradiction—the usual as unnatural—shapes our minds, relationships, surroundings, tradition, economics, media, and art.
Paul Provenza, the director of The Aristocrats, says in his foreword: “It’s surprising to imagine booklet approximately poop will be thought of an act of braveness. however it is. so much people have knee-jerk responses to the subject that we're not even conscious of. Attitudes that, just like the lousy stench of poop itself, permeate all of society and tradition. This ebook has a few very profound and lovely issues to assert. It takes a filthy, stinky, disagreeable topic like shit and brings forth principles which are empowering, dignifying and existence affirming.”
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