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In medicine and biology, scatology or coprology is the study of feces.

Scatological studies allow one to determine a wide range of biological information about a creature, including its diet (and thus where it has been), healthiness, and diseases such as tapeworms. The word derives from the Greek σκώρ (genitive σκατός, modern σκατό, pl. σκατά) meaning "feces".

A comprehensive study of scatology was documented by John Gregory Bourke under the title Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891). An abbreviated version of the work (with a foreword by Sigmund Freud), was published as The Portable Scatalog in 1994.[1]

Psychology[]

In psychology, a scatology is an obsession with excretion or excrement, or the study of such obsessions. (See also coprophilia.)

Sexuality[]

In a sexual context scatology refers to the romanticism of fecal matter. Whether in passing admiration, the use of feces in various sexual acts, or simply the act of seeing it. Entire subcultures in sexuality are devoted to this fetish.


See also[]

  • Coprolite

References[]

  1. Kaplan, Louis P. (1994). The Portable Scatalog, New York: William Morrow and Company.

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