I bet when they first invented indoor plumbing the first guy to get it got a lot of disgusted side eye from outhouse users when he announced, "I can shit INSIDE my house now!"
@chaos440 People were already shitting inside houses. Outhouses were pretty much a rural thing. People shat into containers, then threw the waste out later.
In some cities, by dumping it out the window or into the rain gutters outside.
I don't think pooping into fresh water is a good idea, but what we had before that was pretty shitty, too.
Also, there was no toilet paper.
@AskTheDevil Yes, rolled toilet paper didn't exist until 1879 when Scott Paper Company shipped the first toilet paper sold in rolls. Then in 1935 Northern Tissue invented splinter free toilet paper, so that's over 50 years of rolled toilet paper with splinters. Yikes.
@chaos440 Some people used rocks, shells, pottery.
I do not understand how humans have survived, sometimes.