by Deleted User 5 » 29 May 2008, 17:01
Well if you consider that anything remotely resembling a "toilet" would only go back as far as Minoan times, within recorded history, then no. Even then, only the richest, most advanced cultures had running water for toilets. Most of the world still squats, in fact. Squatting is di-rigour for modern humans and certainly was for our ancestors.
Many researchers insist that modern, "western" toilets are much to blame for hemorrhoids and other anal maladies. It is unnatural, so to speak. It places more pressure on your anal canal and over time things get stressed and strained.
So actually, there's every reason to believe that neanderthals, cro-magnons, and even those cute, furry little Australopithicines didn't have the kind of butt problems we modern humans do!
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