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In the cine-essay The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, popular Lacanian cultural critic and philosopher Slavoj Žižek makes the point that toilets are a rather loaded symbol, a kind of terrifying portal to some secret and disgusting underworld and cultural subconscious that we know exists yet want desperately not to think about.
Following that logic, bathroom signs [...]