The “Squick Factor”

On a recent Vistors’ Center post/poll on Anal Sex, a commenter named MoJo laments the “squick factor,” a phrase which she describes as, “I’m still in the changing-diapers phase of childrearing and the whole “poo” thing (yes, I know how to avoid all that) makes me crinkle my nose a bit.”

 

Ah yes, the whole poo thing…

 

It may be practical and efficient that our sexual organs also pull double-duty and perform other utilitarian and decidedly non-sexual functions … but I’ve often wondered if it is some kind of cosmic joke between God and Mother Nature that said utilitarian functions be the job equivalent of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe?  If “gettin’ down and dirty,” – euphemistically speaking of course – is our sexual organs “night job,” why must their 9-to-5 “day job” be so, well, gross?

 

Whatever the reason, it is a sometimes cruel, sometimes comic fact of life that my favorite female body parts also happen to lactate, menstruate, urinate, and defecate.