# Does male poop smell different from female poop? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 7, 2013, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-male-poop-smell-different-from-female-poop/660363 "2013-06-07T08:27:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-male-poop-smell-different-from-female-poop/660363/21 "2013-06-07T19:15:41Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Guys eat charred meat and drink beer. Girls eat salad and yogurt and drink white wine. You do the math. Well, that’s definitely true in the world of TV advertising, in which males cannot even _recognize_ yogurt and shun any foodstuff with “diet” in its name. Of course, these same TV-ad-inhabitant males also cannot cook to save their lives, unless it’s over a backyard grill. Whereas the females are only interested in fitting into that cute little bikini by summer. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-male-poop-smell-different-from-female-poop/660363/22 "2013-06-07T19:35:23Z")
It must, I mean look at the gender [symbols](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/3369369/2/stock-illustration-3369369-gender-symbols.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-3369369-gender-symbols.php&h=285&w=380&sz=38&tbnid=kyqPiwLLIoA96M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgender%2Bsymbols%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=gender+symbols&usg=__WOjF6Io2MUEld_fVEa0Y8mNY8Yg=&docid=xoNrwFtTzsM50M&sa=X&ei=WTWyUbKjBLCQyQGIhYGACw&sqi=2&ved=0CDsQ9QEwBA&dur=1280), the woman’s is really trying to block that bad boy off. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-male-poop-smell-different-from-female-poop/660363/23 "2013-06-07T19:54:37Z")
> [@Nitrate\_Silver](#): > > Why don’t you stuff your nose in some faecal matter and find out? **Moderator Note** **Nitrate Silver** , insulting remarks like this are not permitted in General Questions, or in other forums except for the Pit. Since this is your first post, I’m making this a Moderator Note instead of a formal warning. However, if you continue to make posts like this your stay here will be short. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-male-poop-smell-different-from-female-poop/660363/24 "2013-06-07T22:26:51Z")
No cite here, but considering that there can be quite a difference in the smells of a single individual’s poops at different pooping sessions, I don’t think humans could tell male and female poop apart. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-male-poop-smell-different-from-female-poop/660363/25 "2013-06-08T16:52:05Z")
Even if they could tell the difference, do you think they’d bother to tell us? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-male-poop-smell-different-from-female-poop/660363/26 "2013-06-10T06:49:26Z")
I’m gonna go with no, on an anecdote level concerning odor. It’s the adorable pink color of their poop I find more curious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-male-poop-smell-different-from-female-poop/660363.md?page=1)