The different parts of human anatomy have been named for some time now, but a certain region has never been acknowledged as its own. I refer to the area between the rectum and the top of the divide between the gluteus maximus, ie the top of the bottom. Every human has one. This location is deserving of its own name due the concentration of the individuals ‘scent’ in this small area. This is not faecal, it is produced by sweat glands and is unique to each person.
Dr John Eglitis from the Department of Anatomy at Ohio State University published a paper called The Glands of the Anal Canal in a Man in 1961, where he acknowledged that these eccrine glandular secretions vary in size and pungency, are more active under stress and are vestigial ie have no function in modern humans. Even after vigorous hygiene, this area will retain or redevelop its scent or aroma.
It is reportedly more apparent in men than in women, but so little attention has been paid to this rather personal oddity that few facts have been established.
A simple though advisedly discrete self examination, will quickly establish the veracity of this claim, should it somehow not already be known to the individual.
I propose that this long overlooked area of the anatomy be included in anatomical lexicons as The Scorch.
No one to date, including Dr John Eglitis, has taken it upon themselves to give this universal region their own name. The Scorch should take its place amongst the other anatomical eponyms such as Adam’s Apple, Achilles Tendon, Fallopian Channel and the Sphincter of Oddi
Furthermore, I propose that the Scorch become an acknowledged and even celebrated part of the body. That, for example, consenting adults engage their somewhat primal curiosities and closely detect the scent of each other’s Scorch. They would get to know themselves on a new and distinct level. It follows then that persons who were to take their interest into multiple investigations would be a ‘Scorcher’. The person who has been examined would be entitled to say they had been ‘Scorched’. Intimate apparel designed to facilitate and perhaps enhance such an examination might be called ScorchWear.
There are of course numerous developments that could emerge from the new awareness of this part of the body, but that is of little interest to me.
My interest is solely for science and the furtherance of our knowledge of the human body.
Mr Scorch McBurn