The politics of defecation is a pressing issue around the globe (Image: Exian, stock.xchng)
WHAT is humanity’s cultural bedrock and the basis of modern living? According to Rose George, the answer is the toilet. Potty training, she says, is one of the first means of our socialisation and cities would be impossible without sanitation.
The Big Necessity is the story of how we go to the toilet; it is the cultural, bacteriological and psychological landscape of poo and pee. It is a masterly and intelligent work of reportage from a woman who, in the course of her research, has…
