It's the one thing you have in common with me, with Einstein, with Ghandi, with Caeser, with Moses. Poop Culture explores why the most universal human experience is nevertheless the source of endless shame, embarassment, and angst -- and the serious issues that are ignored because we're just too uncomfortable to discuss them. Learn much more about Poop Culture...
More expert testimony about toilet paper marketing -- this time in AdWeek.
"Praeger meticulously excavates the politics of poop, societal attitudes toward it and how both affect our culture and everyday lives. {...} Praeger keeps things light but respectful throughout, even in a discussion of scatological satire; as such, his enlightening guide may very well represent the ultimate in bathroom reading material."
-- Publisher's Weekly
"It's shocking to think that a book about poop can be considered an act of courage. But it is. This book has some very profound and beautiful things to say."
-- Paul Provenza, Director, The Aristocrats from his foreword to Poop Culture
"This is an important book at an important time. If you survive the first few pages, you'll enjoy the rest of the book and gain tremendously from it. The book is another milestone towards making the toilet a mainstream subject globally."
-- Jack Sim, Founder, World Toilet Organization
"Having never once defecated or urinated in my life, this book opened a fascinating, if not disturbing, new world for me."
-- Patton Oswalt, Comedian
"With wit and intelligence, Dave Praeger's Poop Culture is a revealing look at how our most basic human bodily function has influenced history, stimulated commerce and generally shaped our society. It's flush with information and takes a topic little discussed in public out of the (water) closet."
-- John Lauer
Director of International Business Development at Sloan Valve
Past President of the Plumbing Manufacturers Institute
"In this thoroughly enjoyable and hopefully important book, Praeger explains the redemptive value of Mr. Hankey and of the carnivalesque. He parses the way mainstream media distance themselves from poop and habitually frame this meaningful substance as unworthy of serious attention. He describes current research in foam-flush toilets and microbial fuel cells, and how these innovations might realistically enable a sustainable sanitary infrastructure. He even suggests how bidets can be marketed, and why toilet paper isn't marketed better. It's all fascinating, and Praeger digests and presents it beautifully. If the PoopReport.com community is the nucleus of a new enviro-humanist movement, then Poop Culture is its manifesto -- and I'm a believer!"
-- Paul Spinrad, The RE/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids
Projects Editor, MAKE Magazine
"I expected a compilation of toilet humour but found a well researched, thoughtful and enjoyable survey of our toilet culture. I work with these issues every day in my medical practice, and you have given me me many useful insights to what, why, and how we do what we do. It really does impact human health physically and MENTALLY. Your book is very important to the cause of perineal hygiene and health."
-- Warren L. Smith, M.D., Biffy Company
"Dave Praeger's Poop Culture is a smart, witty, and thoughtful analysis of a subject that everyone 'knows' -- and no one dares discuss."
-- Maureen Ogle, All The Modern Conveniences:
American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890
"Deals with a quite serious subject and deals with it well. {...} Provide{s} a very interesting (skilled, humorous, well-written) discussion of human waste in American culture."
-- Adam Siegel, DailyKos
"A learned yet humorously readable and engaging treatment for what is perhaps the most universal of Western neuroses ... Praeger provocatively and successfully blends both entertaining and serious thought in helping us better to understand this foremost among existential truths."
-- Jeff Persels, co-editor, Fecal Matters in Early
Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology, from his review on Amazon
"A scholarly, entertaining look at that which most of us would sooner ignore."
-- Emily Flake, Baltimore City Paper
"Surprisingly informed, Praeger's ode to the commode and all it contains is worth a read."
-- Kyle Tonniges, Omaha Weekly Reader
"Praeger goes where few have dared to go before: deep down into the undeniable connections between the body's excretory system, and the way we've shaped our world to avoid it."
-- Mikita Brottman, PopMatters Magazine
"The references in the back are nearly as interesting as the text itself. Having researched and written about science in my former life as a test tube jockey, I can appreciate these literature searches as much as the body of the book itself. This could definitely be a *must* reading in any social anthropology class. It's one thing when you're a tribal member of a relatively small, semi-nomadic group ranging over a large area. As you have so eloquently pointed out, it is quite another when you have become confined by the structures and activities of 'civilization.' You should be applauded for bringing light to a 'dark' subject."
-- Thomas Lindheimer, CEO, USAbidet
"After reading one paragraph, I think you'll agree that Poop Culture is a work of sheer genius. A shiterary masterpiece, if you will."
-- Mighty Dyckerson
"In this his first major work offered for national consumption, Dave Praeger has effectively argued his case for bringing pooping out of the closet and elevating it to mainstream discussion status that is both healthy and enlightening."
-- Rob K., AKA The Big Wiper
