I'll definitely hold it until I'm home...I hardly ever do it in the public washrooms, only because I hate it when I walk into one and the aroma of a number 2 takes over...or all you can hear coming out of one of the stalls is "grunt, groan, splash"...ugh...
I'll go at my fiance's place once in a while because theres always a can of air freshener beside his toilet haha... always in the upstairs bathroom though, I swear the walls downstairs are made of paper!

Ya it's a big deal. I'm a girl, girl's don't poop!

I'm laughing hysterically at this because I have the same thing. I prefer to not have those I live/work/sleep with know what's going down when I'm in there. However, when you gotta go, you gotta go!!

oh my gosh yes.... i can only do it in my own bathroom. I hate public restrooms and i will hold it until i get home as much as i can.

I hate it when people announce when they have to go it just grosses me out.

I think going to the bathroom is a very private thing and there is no need to share it with the world

I absolutely hate when my friend asks me 2 go 2 the bathroom w/her!
I hate talkin bout this topic so much I dont even ask if i can go 2 the bathroom during class. other ppl always do it though..

I won't go anywhere unless it's at my home or at my mom's. I will leave work to go to her house if I need to. When I was 17, I lived with 3 guys and I never once went in the house there. That was a tricky situation. I wish I wasn't so dumb about it, I am probably doing a number to my insides, but I just can't do it publicly!

Amanda, you beat me to it! Girls don't poop!

When I was younger I literally held it for over a month only because I hated going... I don't know why... I just held it and held it until I ended up having to go to the hospital all the time...worst ever

People make fun of me ALL THE TIME for this. I have what I refer to as a "sphincter of steel." I can hold it for hours until I get home if I have to, or until I find a private restroom.

I'm fine at home and if I can find a private one-stall bathroom where I don't have to worry about people waiting and all that. If there's more than one stall and I can't lock the door, forget it.

I come from a family where nothing is sacred. I had to share a bathroom with 3 older sisters, and we all played the “fart game” I also was a camp counselor at a YMCA camp for years and there were no doors on the bathroom stalls. I can drop trough anytime anywhere. We have a saying “my window is open” which is from a Seinfeld episode where Kramer tells jerry that just like astronauts have a window of opportunity to fly back into earth’s atmosphere and if they miss it they have to wait, so does pooping have a window where if you don’t go right then, you will have to wait.

More Pet names for the act:
Make a Deuce
Drop the Cosby kids at the pool
Lay Cable
Pinch a Loaf
Mr. Hanky Hour

Favorite Quote from Southpark

"somebody, came over to a nice clean urinal, pulled their pants down, hovered their buttcheeks over it and squeezed out a chocolate hot dog!!!"

Hahaha oh god this is good!
Well i dunno I try and wait till I'm home because it is really akward/nerve racking doing it at work or someones house!
Work, sometimes I have to, but I make sure NO ONE is in the bathroom with me. But I don't think I ever have at someone's house because I can't...my body won't let me!

I cant stand when i go into a public restroom and someone is in there, and I KNOW YOUR THERE I CAN SEE YOUR FEET! but they do the "Courtesy poop cough" to let me know they are there.

: / I have #2 phobia BIG TIME. I can't go at my boyfriends house. I find myself constantly having to fart because of it. It's so embaressing. But- maybe I'd be able to relax a little if he would. He has NEVER farted in front of me in the past 10 months of dating. I'm waiting for him to but he hasn't. I don't think he ever goes #2 when I am over either. Does he have #2 phobia? I hold it until I come home most of the time but sometimes when I even try to go I can't. I just subconsciously won't let myself or something. I too have the sphincter of steel.

I prefer going at home, but if I have to, I can go at my boyfriend's or at work. I can only go in public if I have a turtle head poking out. I am not that embarassed about it. I'd rather poo than get cramps or something.

These postings are hilarious. I definitely have #2 phobia and prefer a private bathroom when I have to go. Luckily there is a bathroom 2 floors down from me at work that gets less use than the one I normally use. So, I try to use that one.

i think i just peed myself Starryeyed "turtle head poking out"!!!!! brilliant

OMG! Home only for me!

I did have a phobia of this..but my doctor said that it was messing me up..so basically i have attempted to "train" myself to do it at home..in the morning...but sometimes if i gotta go at work..I just gotta..of course, if someone is already doing their #2 business in there..the smell overpowers mine..just kidding..at work the best scenario would be when no one - no one is there..& that works out for me..

Haha, turtle poking out. Haven't heard that on in a while.

Emiily, same here! My ex-bf NEVER ONCE farted or pooped around me, and we were together for FOUR YEARS! We lived together for heaven's sake!

I have no problem letting my boyfriend know I have to poop. Usually we make a giant announcement when we're at home so I always know when he's going to drop a deuce and vice versa.

I also have no problem pooping in public if I'm somewhere large and anonymous like a mall or an airport. Even if I make an earsplitting fart or a giant stink, nobody there knows me so I don't care.

But. I can NOT poop at work. Because everyone knows me, and I just imagine them going back to their offices and saying, "Man, guess who made the smelliest sh*t ever?" So I have to hold it in, all day.

Oh, I know someone who lived with her ex-boyfriend for NINE YEARS and they never once farted in front of each other or spoke about pooping.

That's insane. To me, part of being in love is being comfortable enough to sit on his lap, pretending you want a hug, and squeezing out a giant fart on his lap.

I wouldn't be bothered by some generic "nature's calling" comment but I have a general public bathroom phobia of sorts. If it's a restroom where other people are there, if it's quiet when I walk into the stall, I have trouble peeing because I start thinking that's the only noise anyone's going to hear, but then I think that if they don't hear it they think I'm pooping, so I just start feeling nervous about that. It's stupid, but I can't help it. I much prefer when there are other noises - a toilet flushing, water running, whatever. Anything that detracts from someone paying attention to my peeing or not peeing.

And at home my husband will try to talk to me while I'm in the bathroom. Ugh! Leave me alone! I hate that.

Whiplashgirl....I have a friend that is the exact same way! It wasn't her, though, it was the boyfriend that didn't want to mention it or do it around her....weird.

I would never poo in front of someone. It is one thing to pee but poo no way. I do not need to be home but at least a real bathroom with a door that locks. When I lived in NYC my roommate and I only closed the door to poo and what we referred to as tampon transfer. We are good friends but not good enough to poo in front of each other.

I seriously am not grossed out by this topic at all! I mean I grew up with a father a brother and all his nasty friends!
I'm the type of person that seriously has to go after they eat....I think I'm like a duck or something? The doctor told me that was great though so I guess their's a plus side to it! But Im also the type of person to have matches or a little bottle of spray in their purse in case I need to go somewhere public especially at a restaurant/mall cause I don't wanna stink up the place....but if I have to go I'm going!

So I guess Im like whiplash cause I have no shame when it comes to this....now that I think of it neither do most of my friends! Actually some of my friends could probably take most guys out in a burping competition...another form of passing gas

butterfly77 about the matches...i do that too!

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I'm not especially grossed out by natural processes, but I'd love it for a week to go by where we didn't discuss bathroom habits on dear sugar. What's next: Do you puke in front of your boyfriend?

I'm not very shy about peeing, but I need privacy for #2. I want that door closed!

remedios, I know what you mean about people talking to you. It's annoying enough at home, but there's a very short annoying guy here at work and he actually tracked me down in the bathroom once and was trying to ask me questions through the door. I was so irritated and just told him I would speak to him later. What an idiot!

Only #2 in my home! I feel weird doing it in public and although my hubby thinks it's necessary to announce when he is going....I would rather not announce it to the world!

Well, when you've gotta go, you've gotta go. I'd *prefer* #2 at home, but it doesn't always work out that way. But I won't do that in front of anyone. Never, ever.

I need privacy for #2. I won't go at work if anyone else is in the bathroom, and I have to have the door closed at home.

I used to visit a buddy in Canada for weekends at a time and never went once. I have a huge phobia about going anywhere but my own apartment, and I def don't want my boyfriend to know when I'm doing it, so sometimes I'll just wait until he's not home, or go right before showering (with the fan and shower on, I don't want him hearing me!).

oh thank God- I thought I was the only one n I was weird or smtg. Yay.
but I wouldn't call it a phobia...

I don't get all this "I have to wait 'till I get home" crap (haha, get it? CRAP?) aaaaanyway, my philosophy is: if you have to poop, then POOP!!! I do get awkward when there are other people in the bathroom (so I see where you guys are coming from), but I'll still go.

Funny thing, my boyfriend refuses to poop ANYWHERE but his house. He'll even leave my house to go poop.

Funny thing #2 (haha, #2...) is that I use my laptop on the toilet, and I read this while pooping.

Okay, I've probably grossed out 95% of everyone reading this, and the other 5% could sure do without my lame poop jokes, so I'll shut up now...

hahah i had to comment after i read the comment abt holding it for a month and getting hospitalized! that is kinda sad.

anyways, has anyone tried the flush and poop? its when you flush at the same time you poop so you cant hear the sound. it also eliminates smell cause its not exposed to the air too long. haha try it!

I have serious issues going #2 in public places. It took me over a year to go at my exes house. Weird? All I know is I had soooo many belly aches that year;)

No #2 in public places unless it's an emergency (I have to be extremely sick and there are no other alternatives). Even in those unusual circumstances I still check multiple bathrooms in order to find one that's empty. If someone comes in while I'm there I wait for them to leave first because I would be mortified. I HATE being in the bathroom when someone is doing #2 and/or passing gas. so gross

I hate using a public bathroom period sometimes they are just so dirty YUK and what bout all the people who have sat on that toilet. I use mine at home haha. I don't like going infront of people either I mean I can pee with the door wide open but not when I #2.lol

Oh man, big open family - I don't drop a deuce when my man's about to come over or anything, but not because I'm sensitive about it - I just don't want to have to subject him to that smell!! I totally talk about my bowels in chill public situations - usually it gets everyone to share a hilarious story or two on their experiences.

I don't mind taking a dump in a public bathroom, but I do prefer the privacy of a secluded bathroom, or of my own. So if I'm somewhere for a significant length of time - campus, or work - I make sure I use a hidden bathroom or something... like the 10th floor of the historical abstracts library or something. I just don't like feeling like I SHOULD feel embarassed because I'm taking my time evacuating my bowels!

If you have to go you have to go. It's human nature, everybody does it. And I heard if you hold it in over the long run you will cause problems to your stomach. I used to hold it in, but i thought about it and i don't want to cause problems when i get older.

i don't want to #2 anywhere but my own bathroom. and i can't stand when people announce they're going! i realize its something we all doo (haha) but i don't want to hear about it. i used to have a friend that would always go "drop the kids off at the pool" and even typing it just now made me think of how much that angered me.

Oddly enough, I have no need for privacy at home. I don't care if my husband or kids talk to me, or if the door's open, or anything. The phobia is all about work and public places. As a matter of fact, right now I am very anxiously counting down the minutes to quitting time...

I wish my husband had a phobia about farting around me, though. My nasal passages are SHOT.

For the record, it's not always a voluntary "holding it." People can say "if you gotta go, you gotta go!" but for some of us, it's physically impossible to do that.

It is something I discuss in detail with my doctors, especially now that I'm pregnant again. I'm assured that how I handle it isn't doing my body any harm.

I hate going to public restrooms because i dont know who sat there before me... i start thinking the worst... yuck!!!

I have no phobia whatsoever. I used to at the beginning when I first started dating my boyfriend, but now it's been almost two years. We always make fun of each other. If he was in the bathroom for a long time, I'll ask him "how long was your poop? Did you have a lot?" He does the same to me. And I don't mind answering! We talk about poop all the time, it makes us giggle.

This is such a funny topic - obviously everyone does it but so many people have a problem with it. Including me!

Hell will freeze over before I 'release gas' in front of my boyfriend, if I can help it. Sometimes I wake up during the night in a mild panic when he's sleeping over because I think I may have accidently let one go! There are just some things that kill the romance completely, IMO. I don't want my boyfriend to associate me with a stinky fart! Or worse, laugh with his friends about what a ripper his girl let go! Ugh.

As for number 2s, I much prefer to do them in the privacy of my own home. If my boyfriend is visiting, or I'm staying at his place and I have to go I'll usually try to do it before a shower. So I'll say I'm going to have a shower and clean my teeth etc while he's busy watching tv.

I'll go into the bathroom, do my 'stuff' (placing lots of toilet paper into the bowl first to prevent a 'splash') and then turn the shower on while I flush and spray freshener to distract from the sound! I also open the window so that by the time I'm done showering there's no trace of smell left.

The thing is, I wouldn't mind if my boyfriend let off some gas around me, as long as it wasn't directed at me or anything! (Double standard, I know.) But I think he doesn't do it because I don't. And I'm certainly not keen to bring it up in conversation! We've been dating for 8 months. I can't see my phobia changing though.

Yes, I'm very, very silly. I'm the first to admit it. But girls just don't poop! Not as far as their boyfriend is concerned anyway.

I can't say I like doing number two when other people are around. If a I go on a weekend I always hold it in, its like I psychologically prepare myself to not want to go 2. As soon as I go home I run to the bathroom.
I don't mind other people doing it though. I have a lot of friends who will get up and be like "I need to take a crap" literally. And I'll say it too, I really don't mind poop jokes, but I'm never comfortable doing it anywhere other than my bathroom.

I'll do it sometimes and I don't mind announcing, or other people announcing it, but I just usually am not ok with doing it anywhere than my own bathroom.