According to a Stephen Henderson of the Baltimore Sun, the trend in home design is for the master bedroom and parts of the bathroom to merge into a new "intimate zone" [1], leaving the toilet to "spin off into a separate orbit."

"The toilet is about waste removal," according to Gary Uhl, design director for American Standard, "which has its own taboo. It's a place where you shut the door, you want to be alone and safe. These activities, though, have nothing to do with bathing or showering, which are all acts of rejuvenation and invigoration which we are comfortable sharing with our spouse or significant other. In the future, the toilet won't have anything to do with the bathroom."

PoopReporters, we need to redouble our efforts in the battle against Shameful Shitting and the related reductionist view of shitting as simply "waste removal." Because once the household toilet is banned to a small room with a singular, shameful purpose, it won't be long before people start hiding it in an armoire -- making it effectively an inhouse.