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When a private pee is a public disgrace

The free pee is getting rarer. And the lack of suitably equipped disabled toilets is condemning people to lives cloistered away in their own homes. Discover how toilet access for all is part of an equal society.

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Shame’s long shadow

What is shame and why is it so powerful? A violent sexual assault left Lucia Osborne-Crowley suffocated with shame, but she’s now determined to understand how this overwhelming emotion works.

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A woman in her wilderness of things

Even though her home was overwhelmed with stuff, Georgie Evans’s grandma couldn’t stop buying things. In this series, Georgie delves into hoarding, and attempts to make sense of her grandma’s behaviour.

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Finding solidarity in arachnophobia

Arachnophobia is very different from just disliking spiders. Izzie Price shares the reality of having the phobia, and explores its likely origins.

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  • Egypt, Bathroom at house T36.36. at Tell El-'Amarnah.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: children washing in a communal bathroom. Photograph, 1921.
  • Men washing themselves in a public or factory bathroom to prevent typhus, and having clothes cleaned in an industrial cleanser. Colour lithograph by V.S., 1921.
  • Men washing themselves in a public or factory bathroom to prevent typhus, and having clothes cleaned in an industrial cleanser. Colour lithograph by V.S., 1921.
  • Two naked men in a bathroom setting, one holds his hand against the stomach of the other man who holds a towel; an advertisement for safe sex by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • "Don't just sit there, Fred - get a house renovation grant." : If you need an inside lavoratory, proper bathroom or a hot water supply, see about a free grant at your town hall / Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office.
  • "Don't just sit there, George - get a house renovation grant." : If you need an inside lavoratory, proper bathroom or a hot water supply, see about a free grant at your town hall / Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office.
  • Saturday night, Sunday morning : through the bottom of a glass he looked so fit, but his bathroom cabinet told a different story / Pride and prejudice was created by HIV positive gay and bisexual men from Juice and "Positive Voice", with assistance from Gay Men's Health, Waverley Care Trust and funded by Health Gay Scotland ; photographic work led by Rebecca Marr, design & internet consultant Design Resource Ltd.
  • Saturday night, Sunday morning : through the bottom of a glass he looked so fit, but his bathroom cabinet told a different story / Pride and prejudice was created by HIV positive gay and bisexual men from Juice and "Positive Voice", with assistance from Gay Men's Health, Waverley Care Trust and funded by Health Gay Scotland ; photographic work led by Rebecca Marr, design & internet consultant Design Resource Ltd.
  • Kalk, Fett, Rost, Grünspan, Algen : Calmic cleaning compounds, wir helfen ihnen / Calmic GmbH.
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