Adventures in Defecation

Add another one to the list of greatest books never written — The History of Poo. The book would begin with a summary of diet and a short history of human beings. Then it would feature turds from every age with a description of diet beneath. This way you could compare the poo of a Chinese peasant in the Ming dynasty to the turds of the gentry in Victorian England. What fun! It would be one of those sepia ink kind of books, with the turds as line art, complete with callouts showing the parts of each. So you could see the partially-digested peas and maybe a chicken bone that had passed through the digestive tract of an early American colonist, for instance.

This blog is about poop, pee, and the bathroom, from a third-grade perspective. You remember third grade, right? Back when girls were still icky and constantly-flushing toilets were a sure sign that the bathroom was possessed? I look on that time as a time of innocence and simple pleasures, and truth be told, part of me has never grown up. That’s why I find poop, pee, and et cetera funny in the first place, and that’s why I use the language that I do.

I’m putting this out there because I think some people are confused about what AID is all about.

This is a site for the child in all of us and if you enjoy that, welcome home.