The Anus: An FAQ, Part Two
When it is held back for too long and too forcefully, badness has a way of finding an exit, and in the most unseemly of manners.
“The brightest rooms are the secret domain of faeces.”
Theodor Adorno
Part One of The Anus: An FAQ is available here.
Q: What is it to retain the stool? What is it to expulse the stool?
Anality is often comprehended in the binary distinction between anal-retentiveness (as displayed by obsessive pedants) and anal-expulsiveness (as displayed by careless sadis…
