Lifting the stigma of natural body functions

Why is it that we decry, virtually all our most normal bodily functions?

Breastfeeding for a start, the most normal and natural way to start a baby on the long road to adulthood, and yet just listen to the hue and cry if some unfortunate girl, out the day, has with her a baby that desperately needs nourishment. Does she let it holler and scream for the time it takes to get home, distressing it and possibly making it ill? Or does she go quietly to a corner somewhere and give the child what it needs – no need for histrionics of course, as some feminist practice, but just an unobtrusive feed!

How about going to the toilet, (known as “big jobs” in some quarters)? We all do it, at least once a day if we’re healthy, we would die of some sort of inner poisoning or damage if we didn’t, but we are so ashamed of the practice that we dream up all sorts of childish names when we refer to it. Names like “big-jobs”, (above), “number two’s”, “going to the bathroom”, (usually in a room that has no bathroom in it, and never has), and for the really brave “poo-poo’s”!

A function closely related to the “big jobs” above is farting. At least this is treated with a lot more humour, especially in the more broad-minded quarters of society, where competing participants have been known to play tunes on their bums, like some weird bassoon. I guess the major thing we all have against the fart is that it often announces itself very quietly, replaced by a resounding smell!

The final disgrace of the waste disposal functions is urinating, something else we have, indeed NEED to do pretty well daily, to avoid the accumulation of toxins in our blood. We usually use the same facilities of the “bathroom” like those used for “big jobs” above, and men have an undeniable facility for not being able to “keep it in the bowl”, to the irritation and even annoyance of the female members of the household! Men also have a bad reputation for relieving themselves almost anywhere, which may contribute to the bad reputation of this one!

Another of our functions which until recently could barely be discussed in polite society, though things are easing up a little in this modern world we live in. I’m referring to the sex of course. If it were not for sex, none of us would be here at all – even a lot of plants use it as a method of procreation, so one would have to admit, it’s VERY wide-spread! The very peculiar thing about sex is that it was devised by God for the reason of spreading his flock, and he even designed it to be the most enjoyable thing it is possible to do on earth, to make sure we carried out our creation duties. Yet who are the people who do the most to destroy that pleasure, calling it “filthy”, “abnormal”, “brutish”, and all manner of other ugly descriptions designed to put us off it at all costs? It is the most devout religious people; they don’t allow sex at all outside of marriage, and even within that holy covenant they are, (or rather were – things are improving somewhat now, I believe), instructed to only participate as a service to humanity, and not to be enjoyed under any circumstance!

As I said at the beginning, we decry the most normal and natural of all the things we do on earth and yet we do and say nothing If someone insults a stranger, bullies the less fortunate or wear dirty, stinking clothes, for instance. We really are a weird lot, there’s no doubt about that, and I suppose it is something that we will most likely never change. Now I need to go and find somewhere to have a pee, so I’ll close here!!!

Do you agree with Brian?  Have we become too uptight about our natural body functions?

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