I was wondering if anyone happens to know what the moon on a outhouse stands for?
Question:I have just bought an old outhouse that i plan to use as a shed. so hopefully someone out there can answer this.
Answers:
"...it all started around the 1600s, when people traveled by carriage and stayed at inns. A private privy could have any kind of hole cut in it for light and ventilation, but when you had strangers descending on the outhouses, you needed one for men and one for women. The way we have those little stick figures wearing skirts or trousers as universal markers for ladies' and men's loos, innkeepers used the moon and the sun, universally understood symbols for female and male. But since men could just find a convenient tree and relieve themselves without embarrassment, often there was just a ladies' outhouse. Hence the crescent moon on the door. Hence the stereotype."
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The moon is a ventilation hole.
think of it as mooning someone if they walk in on ya!
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