2134/26761 Charles Edgar Charles Edgar M. Sohail (Khan) M. Sohail Sue Cavill Sue Cavill Rethinking the effectiveness of defecation postures and practices: it’s not what you do it’s the way that you do it! Loughborough University 2017 Sanitation Hygiene Defecation Anal cleansing Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified 2017-09-29 13:10:33 Journal contribution https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Rethinking_the_effectiveness_of_defecation_postures_and_practices_it_s_not_what_you_do_it_s_the_way_that_you_do_it_/9449318 This paper reports on a piece of research to investigate the effectiveness of defecation postures and anal cleansing method. The research compared how long each bowel movement took on a pedestal toilet with and without a footstool. Volunteers were asked to compare the two positions for speed as well as stress/strain on the body. The effectiveness of the method of anal cleansing was also rated by a subset of the volunteers. Although the study was conducted using volunteers in the UK, the findings have international relevance for sanitation marketing and hygiene promotion programmes.