# Wikipedia edit war on the human anus \[NSFW\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358 "2009-06-20T01:17:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/1 "2009-06-20T01:17:30Z")
I honestly haven’t laughed this hard in a while, think of me what you will. There are no pictures when you click through to this link to the talk page for the wikipedia article on the [[Human anus]]. Instead you will find a straightforward and yet somehow unbelievable and unbelievably funny conversation on the appropriateness of various images of anuses in the main article. > **[Talk:Human anus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Human_anus#Endless_image_contention)** > > Someone who has access to editing the page should consider the following. Freud's theory is not the source of the term "anal." That sentence under the "sexuality" section is meaningless. Freud discussed "anal eroticism" and this should be replaced with "anal" in the text of the article. In addition, "anal-retentive" is not only a vulgar or pejorative term. It used to be a way of describing the "anal-retentive" personality style, which is actually a well validated personality type. Despite that ... I’m reading this at work, you might not be allowed to :eek::D:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/2 "2009-06-20T02:50:17Z")
That’s the best page in the history of the Internet. “The consensus of every nation in the world is that there is a difference between an anus and a nose.” Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/3 "2009-06-20T03:38:57Z")
That is the absolute tops. > [@Wikipedia Contributor](#): > > While we’re at it, why not put up an explicit picture of the anus expelling feces since this is its main function. That would surely be beyond valuable to the reader. And don’t forget the “anal sex” page - there should be multiple pictures under anal sex: one of the anus before penetration, one with a penis penetrating the anus, and one of… ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/4 "2009-06-20T03:54:19Z")
See, the tragedy of Samuel Johnson is that we don’t have correspondence like this to look through. If he discussed this sort of thing with anyone, history has no record, to our loss. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/5 "2009-06-20T04:02:02Z")
Say this 3 times fast: [QUOTE=Wikipedia contributor] An anus is an anus is anus. [/QUOTE] Shakespeare wept. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/6 "2009-06-20T04:49:43Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Say this 3 times fast: > Shakespeare wept. I’m fairly certain that Gertrude Stein would weep first… ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/7 "2009-06-20T06:08:07Z")
> [@Wikipedia Contributor](#): > > We don’t need photos of anuses, ok? We just simply do not. It’s gratuitous, inappropriate, nearing pornographic and quite ridiculous. Everyone has an anus and they know what it looks like. What Wikipedia really needs is a picture of a person figuring out what their anus looks like. That would really take the cake, and be very informative as well, since I haven’t figured that out yet despite strenuous effort. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/8 "2009-06-20T06:16:35Z")
Just one tidbid from the talk page: “The shaved and more desirable anus should be the first one to be seen in the article. With the current setup, the only possible way to admire the smooth, clean anus is to have it in the same frame as the hairy anus. Please fix this” And here I thought I needed a life. You know when I’m saying to anyone “get a life”, it’s got to be pretty bad. It’s like, you just want to interject “Uh, guys? YOU’RE ARGUING OVER ANUS PICTURES”. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/9 "2009-06-20T06:39:22Z")
This is quite remarkable. > [@](#): > > My two cents: an encyclopedia is supposed to be a repository of knowledge. We ought not try to anticipate the motivations of those seeking it. Perhaps someone thinks their own anus is strange looking and wants to see a picture of another for comparison. That may sound trivial but it’s still a legitimate reason to want to see a photo. If you thought your anus were strange looking, would wikipedia be your first destination? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/10 "2009-06-20T06:40:40Z")
> [@Maeglin](#): > > If you thought your anus were strange looking, would wikipedia be your first destination? Or Google Images, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/11 "2009-06-20T07:29:45Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Just one tidbid from the talk page: > “The shaved and more desirable anus should be the first one to be seen in the article. With the current setup, the only possible way to admire the smooth, clean anus is to have it in the same frame as the hairy anus. Please fix this” > > And here I thought I needed a life. You know when I’m saying to anyone “get a life”, it’s got to be pretty bad. > > It’s like, you just want to interject “Uh, guys? YOU’RE ARGUING OVER ANUS PICTURES”. Yet I still find myself taking a side. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/12 "2009-06-20T08:31:49Z")
They’re pretty anal in that article ain’t they? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/13 "2009-06-20T19:48:12Z")
It’s taking all my willpower not to change the caption of the picture to _Your mom’s anus_. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/14 "2009-06-20T19:56:39Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m not a fan of females, but cropped, that anus looks more useful than the male one we have now Ok, then ---
**Author:** ![BaconAndEggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@BaconAndEggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaconAndEggs)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/15 "2009-06-20T20:20:34Z")
The more important question here is why were you looking up “anus” on Wikipedia? ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/16 "2009-06-20T20:30:09Z")
> [@BaconAndEggs](#): > > The more important question here is why were you looking up “anus” on Wikipedia? Well first I went to Wikipedia because one of my friends asked me what a sphincter says and I was trying to find out. Then I saw a link to the anus article and clicked! ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/17 "2009-06-20T20:30:38Z")
> [@BaconAndEggs](#): > > The more important question here is why were you looking up “anus” on Wikipedia? He was trying to look up Uranus. ---
**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 20, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/18 "2009-06-20T20:59:42Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I’m fairly certain that Gertrude Stein would weep first… Indeed. Shakespeare was the guy with, “An anus, by any other name, would still smell…” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/19 "2009-06-21T03:54:33Z")
Oy vey. Only on this board would people notice that I screwed up the literary quote to which I was alluding in a thread about anus pictures. I love this place. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358/20 "2009-06-21T04:11:01Z")
Somehow this all just sums up the internet to me. People arguing, quite seriously, about anuses. > [@Maeglin](#): > > This is quite remarkable. > > If you thought your anus were strange looking, would wikipedia be your first destination? I, uh, don’t know how I would possibly know to begin with, let alone what sort of action I would want to take if I somehow came to that conclusion. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wikipedia-edit-war-on-the-human-anus-nsfw/500358.md?page=2)