Latrinalia

Other types of latrinalia include political commentary and notes on love as well as derogatory (sharing low opinions) comments and pictures.

The work describes and collates examples of graffiti observed by Reade on a road trip throughout the Western United States in 1928.

[7] The work was described as a classic "model study" of latrinalia that "deserves the attention of any serious student of American language" in a 1979 review, which noted that even then it remained hard to access and "excessively rare.

"[8] The late Alan Dundes, a folklorist at University of California, Berkeley, coined the term latrinalia in 1966 to refer to graffiti found in restrooms.

[9] The word is derived from the compounding of latrine (or toilet) and the suffix -analia, which signifies a worthless collection of something — in this case bathroom writings.