cloacal theory, n.All

The Cloacal theory (n.) holds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that babies are born like a stool, which has the advantage, for a boy, of letting men have babies too.

The Cloacal theory (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the child's first sex research: before knowing the female genitals, it decides babies arrive the way faeces leave.

The Cloacal theory (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the small child's belief that intercourse and birth take place through the anus, which survives repressed beside later correct knowledge.