Sociologists like Ashley
Montague interested in American culture have commented on the contempt
for the human body's basic functions here. Evidence for this for
Montague was an astonishing dearth of public rest rooms for visitors or
just walkers in any American city.
Could our obesity problem be connected to our public restroom neurosis ? Whenever I walk in that horrid alley beside the Superman Building in downtown Providence I think of those convenient European " pissoirs ". The lingering smell there of stale beer and derelict piss . Or perhaps even mine.
Could our obesity problem be connected to our public restroom neurosis ? Whenever I walk in that horrid alley beside the Superman Building in downtown Providence I think of those convenient European " pissoirs ". The lingering smell there of stale beer and derelict piss . Or perhaps even mine.
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