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How the psychology of public bathrooms explains the ‘bathroom bills’
By ocean-kat on Sun, 05/15/2016 - 5:42pm |One reason public restrooms provoke such strong reactions: They’re hotbeds of anxiety already. They’re places where private behavior becomes shared, where taboo subjects cannot be escaped, where intimate body parts are exposed. We’re taught from an early age that excretion should be secret, spoken of euphemistically, if at all. we are violating something we learned early and deeply. Of course we feel awkward, embarrassed or vulnerable. To understand how deeply that anxiety runs, look at how many people are unable to even use public bathrooms. A surprisingly large proportion of us — as high as 15 percent, according to some studies — suffer an aversion to public urination or defecation. For some, it’s so bad that sufferers remain housebound; others carefully plan their days around their excretory schedule.
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