Forgive me for this weird topic. Everyone poops, and everyone stinks up the bathroom to some degree. I literally make it uninhabitable after I’m done. How bad is the air quality after the women here conduct their business?
Get yourself a bottle of Poo Pourri.
I think it’s subjective.
I remember when I was a teen I worked in a restaurant. Whenever I had to clean the restrooms, the women’s always smelled worse.
My theory is, a woman would probably think the men’s always smelled worse.
Clearly you’ve never been married! Women stink up the place as much as men, although they’re more conscientious about covering up the smell with something out of consideration for others.
I’m sure it varies from person to person, and I doubt if it’s sex-linked.
I used to work with one guy who made the company bathroom unusable for a fixed period after he used it. Genetics? survival of some prehistoric “marking” behavior? Extreme case of evolutionary development to deter re-use of feces as food? Who knows? For whatever reason, his scat stank. But not that of all guys in the company.
Better to head it off at the source: Beano (Walmart sells a way cheaper generic)
Alpha-galactosidase is an enzyme that won’t just tame your farts, but can also help with digestion and toilet issues.
Moved to IMHO from General Questions.
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Correctly or not, I’ve always been under the impression that men cause more of a stench but thinking about it there are lots of reasons why I’d come to that conclusion. My mother would become a real raving beotch (raise a stink!:p) after my father used the bathroom. Their bathroom was en suite so I never had the misfortune of experiencing it but you’d think the poor man had committed some heinous crime by the way she would go on and on about it. Then there’s all the bathroom humor in movies and tv where a character exits the bathroom and jokes are made about “you don’t want to go in there”. The offending character is always male. Also, I think there are more opportunities to encounter it because men in general seem to be much less shy about having a long, relaxing shit pretty much any time any place. Not to mention, and this is just a wag, but since men are generally bigger and therefore consume more food than women, there’s necessarily going to be more stinky material. All that is not to say that some women don’t whip up quite a funk. I generally, involuntarily tend to hold my breath or at least breathe through my mouth when I enter a public bathroom and at work there is invariably a toxic cloud of air freshener covering goodness knows what. Of course, *my *waste materials smell like Chanel No. 5
I don’t think it’s that men’s crap actually smells worse, but that men are considerably less concerned with mitigating the smell. There is something of an element of dominance involved in taking a rank dump and forcing everyone else to smell it.
Women on the other hand, are mortified that they might stink the place up, so they’re courtesy flushing and spraying stuff constantly to avoid the perception that they might actually poop.
This thread reminds me of how my mom would react to either my dad’s silent, but deadly farts or his stinking up the bathroom. She would get a disgusted look on her face and say “WELL I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER” and leave the room. 
My wife always a big play about the smell when I leave the bathroom. I have to remind her that her’s is not exactly dainty. It can peel paint.
I have no idea, compared to others, but when I do have to make a big stink at the office and I run into someone on the way out, I’ve been known to say either “wasn’t me” or “don’t go in there.”
I read somewhere recently that one should be concerned if one’s poop is particularly stinky. If that’s true shouldn’t we all be at the dr. office?
I have to believe, that, like BO, people become accustomed to their own smells.
So how can we accurately judge how stinky we are?
I suppose workplace rules prohibit lighting matches inside the building. 
A relative has crohn’s disease, and his poop smells much worse than anyone else’s I’ve gone to the bathroom after.
I think that it has to do with diet. Specifically, carnivores like cats and dogs have seriously disgusting feces, but horses and cattle do not. Maybe vegetarians are less likely to smell up the bathroom.
'Scuze me? Have you ever been to a farm? I can assure you that livestock manure smells like, well, shit.
A poem:
My scat smells of petunias,
My wife’s of fresh mown grasses.
People often pitch a tent
in the space around our asses.
I’ve no idea why we smell so fresh
it’s a complete anomaly.
Must be in the way we’re made -
unique anatomically.
“Do NOT, go in there!” has been the standard announcement once anyone in our home comes out of the bathroom after taking a dump.
At least in our case, the women in the house rank right up there with the men when it comes to stink, but I agree they do take measures to obscure that fact, while we boys tend not to.
Brings to mind a favorite scene from The Drew Carey Show:
Drew’s bathroom is out of order for some reason. Lewis has to take a dump and is forced to do so in Drew’s back yard.
He returns, walking into the kitchen with a newspaper under his arms and says “don’t go out there”.
mmm
Do none of these people’s bathrooms have fart fans?