Reading Material for the Bathroom

[Michigan Swampbuck]

I can't speak for anything more recent than like 20 years ago, but Uncle John's Bathroom Reader was decent. It looks like they're still around, but I have no idea if they're any good or have become junk like so much other media.

I don't read much in the bathroom, but I remember a few of these books.

Cool, that Wiki link lead me to this Wiki article . . .

Bathroom reading is the act of reading text while in a bathroom, usually while sitting on the toilet and defecating. The practice has been common throughout history and remains widespread today with both printed material and smartphones.

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It seems that reading and pooping have been going on for centuries, at least since the 1700s.

And boy, people have sure given this subject a lot of thought. I wonder where they were while thinking about this.

Bathroom reading and psychology
Even when people read for extended periods of time during defecation, it is rare for bathroom readers to feel disgusted by the smell of their own feces, or even to consciously notice the smell.[8][9] Sigmund Freud also noted this phenomenon in Civilization and Its Discontents, though he described lack of awareness of fecal smell in general, not just while reading: "in spite of all man's developmental advances, he scarcely finds the smell of his own excreta repulsive, but only that of other people's."[10]