Ahem.
I have noticed something about my own waste excretion that I'm sure you will love to hear (and perhaps even visualize).
Let's say I have to take a dump, I feel like just a dump is needed, no pissing required. So I plant my ass on the can, hang on for dear life, and let 'er rip. Then, almost immediately after the last turd has fallen, I piss out the typical half litre of urine.
The order of events is what I'm getting at here. If I need to take a crap then I'm not even aware that I need to piss until after I've crapped to my satisfaction. I've asked others about this peculiar body behaviour and they all said the same thing (after they actually took note of it).
Recently, while discussing this phenomenon with a couple of medical people, one of them came up with a theory about why this is so:
When mammals shit, their shit is not exactly a healthy thing, it's loaded with nasty bacteria that can cause illnesses. Many mammals (ie. dogs, bears, large cats) have an instinct to piss on their crap after they've done their business. Urine is sterile and has the effect of killing the nasty bacteria, so it makes sense why they would do this, why they would evolved this bahaviour. Therefore, the mechanisms in the body work in such a way that if a mammal (some, not all) needs to crap then it will shut off the pee valve until the bowel is empty, and then it turns it back on afterwards and gives you the feeling like you are going to die if you don't piss. Evolution has provided an automatic way ensuring some animals do this, to some extent, forcing them to.
I'm not sure if the other primates do this too, but I'm willing to bet that at least the larger land-based ones do, and I'd bet a large sum of money that this is in fact the case.
I recall when I was a kid and we went camping and I had to shit outside, I would always pee on my crap afterwards. I thought I was just doing it for fun, but now I think there was a real instinctual motivation at work which compelled me to do this, even though I wasn't the least bit aware of it.
So that's my story for today. Now if you will excuse me, I feel a movement coming on....
Satori
I have noticed something about my own waste excretion that I'm sure you will love to hear (and perhaps even visualize).
Let's say I have to take a dump, I feel like just a dump is needed, no pissing required. So I plant my ass on the can, hang on for dear life, and let 'er rip. Then, almost immediately after the last turd has fallen, I piss out the typical half litre of urine.
The order of events is what I'm getting at here. If I need to take a crap then I'm not even aware that I need to piss until after I've crapped to my satisfaction. I've asked others about this peculiar body behaviour and they all said the same thing (after they actually took note of it).
Recently, while discussing this phenomenon with a couple of medical people, one of them came up with a theory about why this is so:
When mammals shit, their shit is not exactly a healthy thing, it's loaded with nasty bacteria that can cause illnesses. Many mammals (ie. dogs, bears, large cats) have an instinct to piss on their crap after they've done their business. Urine is sterile and has the effect of killing the nasty bacteria, so it makes sense why they would do this, why they would evolved this bahaviour. Therefore, the mechanisms in the body work in such a way that if a mammal (some, not all) needs to crap then it will shut off the pee valve until the bowel is empty, and then it turns it back on afterwards and gives you the feeling like you are going to die if you don't piss. Evolution has provided an automatic way ensuring some animals do this, to some extent, forcing them to.
I'm not sure if the other primates do this too, but I'm willing to bet that at least the larger land-based ones do, and I'd bet a large sum of money that this is in fact the case.
I recall when I was a kid and we went camping and I had to shit outside, I would always pee on my crap afterwards. I thought I was just doing it for fun, but now I think there was a real instinctual motivation at work which compelled me to do this, even though I wasn't the least bit aware of it.
So that's my story for today. Now if you will excuse me, I feel a movement coming on....
Satori