So why is it that animals, children and old people have absolutely no problem with bowel noises, farts and bodily functions...
Today my granddaughter gave me a happy 10min play by play on how things were coming out (soft), in what shape, texture and smell...(she's 5)...totally impressed by the size of her Caca...my sister-in-law pulls out her teeth, sucks off the stuff that is bugging her and pops them back in without a thought (she's 84) and the dog just farted, turned around, sniffed his butt and siged happily...and I am throughly mortified if my pouch splatters and splashes for 2 secs..
Just wondering what they know that we don't?
Sharon

Thats funny! Too bad the world didn't follow that philosophy to an extent. It would save us all from feeling humilated about our situations, which are necessary for us to live, yet make us feel unnatural. Thanks for sharing!

You are too funny....I can't stop laughing

True. FUNNY.

OMG!! I just cracked up at your post. My 2 dogs are here beside me and I just think of the random times they fart and think nothing of it, then look at me funny when I gasp for air and run out of the room. The same w/kids. I'm a dental hygienist so I see kids and every once and awhile I'll have one fart in my chair and laugh w/out any embarassment what soever. Of course I laugh too b/c they are cracking up but what are ya gonna do? My husband loooves the fact that he can fart and totally disgust people or crack them up and his philosophy: You know why I keep farting? Because you keep laughing.

Hubby, or is it just French Men, seem to take bodily functions in stride...peeing on walls, letting h'er rip when the pressure builds up, burping up a storm...I don't fart (would really worry if I started...I have a k pouch), my sister-in-law has been known to drop drawers and pee behind a bus or between a bush (once the bus pulled away and left her bare-bottomed and exposed!)....I can't even pee in the ocean!
We (North Americans) are condtioned to be embarrased by our bodily functions, seeping, leaking and dripping...not to mention our splattering, splashing and staining...here they just laugh it off...
Maybe one day I will be that 'relaxed' about things but until then...I will avoid the 'behind the bus bathroom'.
Sharon

Sharon, this post is too funny. Whenever my husband farts, my dog jumps up and runs over to him, wagging his tail. He doesn't come to anyone else (particularly me, because of course I don't have to do anything so un-lady-like), and my husband thinks it is so funny that he passes more gas just to see the dog react.

Sallie

Amazing! That post was hilarious!

I think we should just push our fart-accepting agenda.

Here's an anthropological take on your observation, if it makes any sense. I think in previous eras of humankind, there were fewer of us. Therefore, there was more space between us and the smell of one another was well tolerated due in part to there being enough buffer for dissipation. Some anthropologists believe that modern humans have less body hair than they once did because now there are more of us living closer together so eventually, thicker body hair worked its way out of the gene pool. Body hair would have made it more difficult for odors to dissipate and odors make living in close quarters very difficult and probably very overwhelming. I think as the human population has increased, people have become less and less comfortable with one another's smells. One of our greatest social advances by humans, in my opinion, is our decision to not sleep where we poop, so to speak. So we've learned through generations to avoid our own waste products and those of other humans for basic survival because we now appreciate the disease-preventing contributions of sanitation. We associate waste and stink with disease. But modern sanitation practices have been made necessary by population density.

Children haven't developed the boundaries that adults have because their brains are still adapting to the culture. Pets may be less offended by the smell of other species than by the smell of others of their own kind. Cats bury their poop so as not to offend other cats and avoid rooms where other cats are, but don't tend to avoid humans in the same ways. As far as the elderly, I think as you get older you become wise to the ways of socialization and just don't give a crap. Pun intended.

Not a bad thought Beta but mostly untrue historically speaking...people used to live, whole families at a time, in a single room or hut...They would bring in the animals to sleep with them for warmth in the winter and to prevent them from being stolen...the stench was intense but because they themselves almost never washed (northern Europe) they did not 'smell' the stench...it was normal...the French where the first to start to feel uncomfortable around it so they invented perfume...and used it liberally to try to hide the stink (sweat and sh-t soaked in perfume!)...marriages were traditionally celebrated in June because people took their 'annual' bath after Easter and were considered relatively clean...Therefore ready to wed...the bridal boquet became obligatory for the bride to cover some of her 'heavier' odours (held at crotch hight)and was usually composed of sweet smelling flowers...
Napoleon used to send a messenger ahead of him to warn his wife to NOT bath before he arrived (2-3 days) because he felt that a woman without odours was 'tasteless' and not arousing!
We are only uncomfortable about odours and bodily functions since television commercials have convinced us that it is a sin to stink (or have body hair, sweat, pimples, stain etc...)we have become odour-fobic..kids and animals don't see/understand the marketing...they actually enjoy smells (yesshhh!) (they also eat their own snot and stare at the potty)
Just a little food for thought..
ps...even cave men deficated in a different space then where they slept...
Sorry for the history lesson....
Sharon

Sharon..this post of yours made me laugh ! At night my two dogs will blow it all out, and I'm afraid to because I may have an accident ! And they only have to go about three times a day , where I am in the bathroom at least twenty times a day..ah, a dog's life !

A little p.s.
The G.kids are playing outside and my G-daughter just zoomed past...asking if she could go Caca alone and try to wipe herself alone because in kindergarden she has done it and there have been almost no leaks, streaks or stains...
I wish that I could say as much for me!
Aren't kids great!
Sharon

Keep them coming Sharon! LOL