foetid plants

When I was a teen, my father somehow acquired one of these arums that smells of rotting meat.  I found it disgusting.  When I lived in New Mexico, I had a wild vine in the cucurbitaceae that smelled like the worst smelly feet imaginable.  I did my best to eradicate it.  Am I the only plant lover out there who finds black phallic plants ugly, and when they smell like the sewer finds them disgusting?  I don't want them in my garden.  Sure, they might be "interesting" in the wild, but only in the academic sense.  I only plant roses that are fragrant, and have as many lovely smelling things in the garden as I can fit.  I flush things that smell like that arum; how could anyone want it near?
Give me gardenias, lavender, heliotrope, and tuberose.
Mind-boggled Karrie Reid
Folsom Gardener
P.S. I don't mean to be insulting, I am just truly baffled.
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