Would You Use This Odor-Eating Toilet Seat?
For some reason, we seem to have a problem understanding that feces are, indeed, smelly. We smell millions, possibly billions of dollars trying to hide away a fact of the human body in what I like to refer to as *pushes up glasses* *pulls down overhead screen* *whips out pointer thing* the Poop Industrial Complex. …
A Craigslist Toilet Reviewing Gig Is the Perfect Metaphor for Your MFA
This isn't to shit all over MFA students — they get quite enough of that already, both from snarky real-talkers in the Wall Street Journal weekend section and life — but perhaps the best an aspiring writer can hope for in this brave new media landscape tilled by Google adbots and fertilized with diploma paper is a gig…
3 Clever Tricks For Cleaning Your Moldy, Scummy Bathroom

Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every other week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her.
The Lazy Lady's Secret to Keeping the Bathroom Clean
Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn't get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that's how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal lives, we still buy stuff. So this is Worth It, our recommendation…
Indian Women Fight for the Right to Pee
The right to pee for free without being publicly humiliated is a basic human right that most of us probably take for granted. But Indian women have recently been forced to mobilize in hopes of putting an end to a sexist double standard: in many cities, men pee gratis while women have to pay to wait in line for a…
Who Needs the Family Bed When You Have the Family Toilet?
Recently I was sitting on the toilet peeing while my nearly 2-year old daughter was sitting in my lap playing with her stuffed koala bear, and I thought to myself, how did we get here? It could be worse, I suppose — we could be doing this as a performance art piece at a pop-up gallery in downtown L.A.
Leaving The Toilet Open Causes Everyone Else To Get The Vomits
You probably already knew that when you flush the toilet with the lid open, a great big cloud of bacteria shoots up into the air like a mushroom cloud of poo germs. But did you know that if you leave the lid open even when the toilet is just hanging out and not being shat in, you're exposing all nearby surfaces to a…
A Cure For Ladies With Smelly Poop
"I want to be as ubiquitous as toilet paper," Rob Bobinski recently told me. He's not talking about himself — he's talking about YouGoGirl, an in-toilet product he invented for women who are afraid of others smelling their poop.
Flush Away Your Fears
Embarrassed about bathroom noise? Women in Japan can now purchase the Toto Otohime ("sound princess"), which mimics the sound of a flushing toilet in order to hide their more human moments. Get one for $36 - shame not included. [RandomGoodStuff]
Skip To My Loo
[Shanghai, November 19. Image via Getty]
Baby Survives Fall From Train Toilet
A woman in India recently gave birth inside a train bathroom, but almost lost her newborn when the baby slipped out of her body and straight through the toilet onto the tracks. Does this story sound familiar to anyone else?
It's High Time We Talked About Toilet Paper
Good afternoon. Earlier this morning, Editor Anna asked me my stance on "potty humor." I am somewhat pro. Thus, it is my privilege to discuss with you today's most important global issue: Toilet paper.

