# Is coprophagia dangerous? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [June 10, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737 "2005-06-10T14:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fortytwois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f17d59/32.png) [@Fortytwois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fortytwois)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/21 "2005-06-11T21:11:38Z")
Wasn’t there a rock star who crapped on stage and then ate it? One of my professors was telling us about a guy in his class who said he had a clip of the guy crapping on stage and then eating it. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/22 "2005-06-11T21:33:50Z")
> [@Fortytwois](#): > > Wasn’t there a rock star who crapped on stage and then ate it? > One of my professors was telling us about a guy in his class who said he had a clip of the guy crapping on stage and then eating it. Normally I would think this was apocryphal, like Ozzy and the bat, but in this case i’m going to guess…G.G. Allin? Quite likely. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/23 "2005-06-12T01:11:24Z")
Next week’s topic: Chuck E. Cheesephagia ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/24 "2005-06-12T01:35:50Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > Normally I would think this was apocryphal, like Ozzy and the bat, but in this case i’m going to guess…G.G. Allin? Quite likely. Googling the phrase “defecate on stage” yields results which suggest that you are correct in your surmise. ---
**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/25 "2005-06-12T03:54:36Z")
> [@Captain Lance Murdoch](#): > > Next week’s topic: Chuck E. Cheesephagia Eating giant animatronic rats? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/26 "2005-06-12T04:36:04Z")
It’s disgusting, yes. But it’s not so hard to see how a few people might find it intriguing. In infancy, many babies innocently play with their own shit until their parents teach them that shit is icky. Some parents are so strident in that lesson that it gets firmly imprinted. Fast forward to adulthood. Some folks are especially thrilled by what was absolutely forbidden by their parents. Breaking the taboo is more important than the physical pleasure. I ought to put some clever coprophage joke right here, but I can’t think of one. ---
**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/27 "2005-06-12T04:42:46Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > I ought to put some clever coprophage joke right here, but I can’t think of one. I’m surprised that I can’t think of a cuprophage joke, and slightly less that nobody else has. ---
**Author:** ![pessimisticgrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@pessimisticgrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pessimisticgrace)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/28 "2005-06-12T18:30:58Z")
\<\\> Isn’t it? My mom was disturbed that he refused to eat peas as a child, but I don’t think even she expected him to go from hating vegetables to eating his… well, his girlfriend is a fitness trainer and does munch on baby carrots all day. Alas, my little ploy to curb his unorthodox eating habits didn’t work. I alerted him that I had asked a reliable source what the dangers of the practice is, and he got excited and demanded to let me see the column. My mother now knows firsthand what her baby boy does when Cindy (his girl) asks him to show her to the bathroom. I’d show it to his boss, but I’m not entirely sure that State Farm is adverse to sh\*t-feeding. ---
**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/29 "2005-06-12T19:34:59Z")
> [@pessimisticgrace](#): > > \<\\> > > Isn’t it? My mom was disturbed that he refused to eat peas as a child, but I don’t think even she expected him to go from hating vegetables to eating his… well, his girlfriend is a fitness trainer and does munch on baby carrots all day. > > Alas, my little ploy to curb his unorthodox eating habits didn’t work. I alerted him that I had asked a reliable source what the dangers of the practice is, and he got excited and demanded to let me see the column. My mother now knows firsthand what her baby boy does when Cindy (his girl) asks him to show her to the bathroom. > > I’d show it to his boss, but I’m not entirely sure that State Farm is adverse to sh\*t-feeding. (a) you’re asserting, I take it, that you are “Mistress Anastasia” (b) you also showed it to your _mother_? Look, it’s a really foul practice and sure he should be warned of dangers, but how old are you that you go tell mommy? ---
**Author:** ![pessimisticgrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@pessimisticgrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pessimisticgrace)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/30 "2005-06-12T20:45:30Z")
No way! I wouldn’t subject my mother to that. When he found out that he was the subject of a web column, HE showed mom. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/31 "2005-06-12T21:36:03Z")
Since the danger of coprophagia is apparently primarily bacteriological in nature, what if the fæces is cooked thoroughly prior to ingestion? Mind you, I ask from a purely academic curiousity, not from any more personal or ulterior motives. Meanwhile, is it possible that this Cindy is in actuality a rabbit? This would explain both her carrot-heavy diet and the apparently edible state of her excretions. ---
**Author:** ![Studs\_Murphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@Studs\_Murphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studs_Murphy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/32 "2005-06-12T22:54:36Z")
Aye, It’s SHITE pie! Anyone want some? Won’t do you any harm!!! ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/33 "2005-06-12T23:28:10Z")
> [@Studs Murphy](#): > > Aye, > > It’s SHITE pie! > > Anyone want some? > > Won’t do you any harm!!! Aye. That would be pie a la load. One poop, er make that _scoop_ or two? ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/34 "2005-06-12T23:50:21Z")
> [@Studs Murphy](#): > > Aye, > > It’s SHITE pie! > > Anyone want some? > > Won’t do you any harm!!! When come back, _Don’t_ bring pie. [sub][sub][sub][sub]wanker[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub] ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/35 "2005-06-13T03:03:27Z")
I just don’t see the attraction of the cafes along the Hershey Highway, but to each their own… What I do love with great glee is Cecil’s: “missing a few teeth off the main sprocket” comment. Such a wonderful phrase turned under the worst of circumstances; ain’t brown-nosin’ at all…just love that fine descriptive. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/36 "2005-06-13T06:59:38Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > You go, Unca Cece! Stay at the top of your game. And avoided the too obvious “Is coprophagia dangerous?” “Shit yeah” ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/37 "2005-06-13T16:10:43Z")
> [@Mathochist](#): > > I’m surprised that I can’t think of a cuprophage joke, and slightly less that nobody else has. Cuprophage? People who swallow pennies? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/38 "2005-06-13T17:21:07Z")
I just want to point out that the cartoon next to the column by Cecil might not be safe for work. ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/39 "2005-06-13T17:51:39Z")
> [@Jackknifed Juggernaut](#): > > the cartoon next to the column by Cecil might not be safe for work. maybe this should be a sticky naw, it’s kinda like the box of sleeping pills that are labeled, warning, may cause drowsiness ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737/40 "2005-06-13T18:11:44Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > Normally I would think this was apocryphal, like Ozzy and the bat, but in this case i’m going to guess…G.G. Allin? Quite likely. [Frank Zappa. Of course it was just an Urban Ledgend](http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/grossout.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-coprophagia-dangerous/307737.md?page=3)