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what is taboo changes from culture to culture.. in the past-- "out house's" were sometime 2 or 3 seaters.. and there are public toilets in various places that offer less than 'western' privacy.. some rather "civilized" cultures have no problem with (men especially) urinating in public.

From Herodotus's "Histories":

[2] Just as the Egyptians have a climate peculiar to themselves, and their river is different in its nature from all other rivers, so, too, have they instituted customs and laws contrary for the most part to those of the rest of mankind. Among them, the women buy and sell, the men stay at home and weave; and whereas in weaving all others push the woof upwards, the Egyptians push it downwards. [3] Men carry burdens on their heads, women on their shoulders. Women pass water standing, men sitting. They ease their bowels indoors, and eat out of doors in the streets, explaining that things unseemly but necessary should be done alone in private, things not unseemly should be done openly.

Now, if the Egyptians have "instituted customs and laws contrary for the most part to those of the rest of mankind", what does that tell us about the Ancient Greeks?

Quote taken from http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=2.35



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