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Our relationships with the john

Started by Shana A, January 24, 2011, 08:00:17 AM

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January 24, 2011, 08:00:17 AM
Our relationships with the john
FEATURE / Private, public, sexual, gender-policed bathrooms
Marcus McCann / National / Thursday, December 23, 2010

http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Our_relationships_with_the_john-4-9591-viewstory4.aspx#sidebar

Cavanagh, a York University professor who interviewed 100 gay, bi, trans and intersex people about their bathroom experiences, has just released a new book, Queering Bathrooms, which sheds some light on this seldom-discussed part of our lives.

She begins by explaining that peeing used to be a good deal more public than it is — from street-side relief to chamber pots at parties perched in the party room.

As it became more private — thanks to the initially laughed-at invention of the watercloset — public washrooms became more gendered.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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