Scatology
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In medicine and biology, scatology or coprology is the study of feces. The word derives from the Greek word for "feces". In literature, "scatological" is a common term to denote the literary trope akin to the grotesque body. It is used to describe works that make particular reference to excretion or excrement, as well as to toilet humor.
In psychology, a scatology is an obsession with excretion or excrement, or the study of such obsessions. (See also coprophilia).
In sexual context scatology refers to sexual acts conducted with human (or other) excrement.
Further reading
Probably the most comprehensive study of scatology was that documented by John Gregory Bourke under the title Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891). An abbreviated version of the work was published as The Portable Scatalog, edited by Louis P. Kaplan and with a foreword by Sigmund Freud; New York: William Morrow and Company (1994) ISBN 0688132065
