Scatology

In medicine and biology, scatology or coprology is the study of feces. Scatological studies allow one to determine a wide range of biological information about a creature, including its diet (and thus where it has been), healthiness, and diseases such as tapeworms. The word derives from the Greek σκωρ (genitive σκατος, modern σκατά) meaning "feces".

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.

In literature, "scatological" commonly describes works that make particular reference to excretion or excrement, as well as to toilet humor.

External links and references

 * Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression
 * Scatology: The Last Taboo