Saucy Seaside Postcards by Alan Wykes

“The secrecy with which we invest the act of emptying bladder or bowel implies our vulnerability. It is a form of guilt. So long as we remain undiscovered in the act we can pretend to a godlike independence of such mundane matters. Everybody else may do these things, but individually we fancy ourselves to be immune, differing from the animals in physical functions as well as in wisdom. To observe anyone else with trousers down, skirt up, or flies unzipped is a form of unpleasant triumph and our laughter is really a jeer at another’s vulnerability having been discovered.”

-Alan Wykes, 1977