"Christianity has a lot to answer for," writes Will Self, "when it comes to our estrangement from our bodies - making our evacuations, quite as much as our sexual acts - an anathema in polite society".
Will argues that our infantilism in this regard detracts from our engagement with the world.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Published on Friday, 9th August 2019.
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