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Why do public bathrooms make us so anxious, and why aren't we doing anything about it?

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imageThe treacherous toilet. Rebecca Boyd/flickr, CC BY-NC

“Public” and “toilet” don’t go together, except when they must. And that “must” is the moment we’re not home – when we need to go and can’t hold it in any longer.

Only then do we face the predicament of having to perform a deeply private...

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