# The non-evolution of the human anus??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 15, 2008, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-evolution-of-the-human-anus/456605 "2008-07-15T21:48:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-evolution-of-the-human-anus/456605/61 "2008-07-17T05:05:35Z")
I’ve got a theory, bear with me. If I’ve learned anything from my years of research in the pornographic arts, men throughout history and spanning the globe like butt sex. Also, if I’ve learned anything from some cursory research of comic strips and cartoons men bonked women on the head to take them to the cave for sex. One must conclude from those two facts that having a funky butt _increased_ the likelihood of reproduction! Evolution at work!!! ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-evolution-of-the-human-anus/456605/62 "2008-07-17T12:16:37Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] I think I read once that in the Middle East and/or Saharan North Africa, people have traditionally used stones or just handfulls of sand. [/QUOTE] I believe the nicely shaped rock is still used in some parts of e.g. Afghanistan. I have also read that in some parts of North Africa it used to be common to grow the nail on the left little finger very long, and that in that part of the world it is still a near-mortal insult to offer your left hand for a handshake. [QUOTE=Cartooniverse] lavaged, dried, fluffed and folded all without touching myself. [/QUOTE] Folded? ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-evolution-of-the-human-anus/456605/63 "2008-07-17T13:07:00Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] As it is, I just look on them as occasional gifts from a benevolent higher being, with no rhyme or reason to their occurrence. [/QUOTE] Is there a patron saint of NWDs? If not, I nominate **lieu**! ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-evolution-of-the-human-anus/456605/64 "2008-07-18T10:44:50Z")
[QUOTE=slaphead] Folded? [/QUOTE] How else do I fit it into my Jockeys?? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-evolution-of-the-human-anus/456605/65 "2008-07-18T12:58:09Z")
[QUOTE=Kyrie Eleison] I’m too scared to ask what the other half is. [/QUOTE] Ladles? ---
**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:** [July 18, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-evolution-of-the-human-anus/456605/66 "2008-07-18T16:43:22Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] I feel like some lost tribe Amazonian whisked from the jungle and placed by the TV store display window. _Points finger_ Those things really exist? You can take a nerf? [/QUOTE] Yes. I had one that looked like I had passed a feather duster. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-evolution-of-the-human-anus/456605/67 "2008-07-18T21:06:58Z")
[QUOTE=Sierra Indigo] Ladles? [/QUOTE] I thought this said "Ladies " 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-non-evolution-of-the-human-anus/456605.md?page=3)