Farting, also known as flatulence, passing gas, and cutting cheese, is a natural bodily function that among humans contributes relatively little to global warming. Both ordinary discussion and scholarly study of farting has tended to be silenced. One common, deviously oppressive saying is “he who smelt it, dealt it.” That saying should be replaced with the more enlightened and awareness-promoting expression, “If you smell something, say something!”
The medieval French farce known as La farce du pet presents a family court ruling, less sexist than normal, that a husband partially owns his wife’s fart. … Read the post rule of marital common property: husband partly owns wife’s fart
Farting, a matter of human equality, has been used both to express wind against hierarchy and to assert hierarchical relations in “a fart to your beard.” … Read the post farting, equality, and hierarchy: analysis of “fart to your beard”
Husbands who believe that their wives never fart are gyno-idolatrous fools. Their ignorance of women’s humanity could cause them to lose everything. … Read the post believing that his wife never farts, husband nearly loses everything
Jonathan Swift’s poems Cassinus and Peter and Strephon and Chloe comically instruct men in the folly of courtly love. They sadly were social failures. … Read the post Swift shows social failures of men’s literature & enlightenment
According to a medieval Latin tale by Poggio, wives desperately seeking sex from their husbands should try farting, but not too often. … Read the post desperate wives should try farting to get sex from husbands
An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds, a medieval Byzantine work, shows that interest in penis size and farting associates men and donkeys. … Read the post donkeys, penis size, and farting: their significance to men
In the Byzantine novel Drosilla and Charikles, a couple’s passionate love redeemed a dour old woman who allegorizes college sex tribunal officials. … Read the post Drosilla and Charikles shows college sex police can be redeemed
In the basic bodily functions of sex and farting, men bear a burden of performance that should be lessened in loving appreciation for men. … Read the post farting: men’s pervasive burden of performance
A medieval fabliau subverted the “kiss my ass” motif of matriarchy with a vigorous display of love between a low-born woman and man. … Read the post kiss my ass: struggle against matriarchy in medieval Europe
Benjamin Franklin was a founding father of the United States. In a letter to a science academy in 1781, he proposed that the academy seek an invention that would “render the natural Discharges of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but agreable as Perfumes.” Franklin declared: Are there twenty Men in Europe at this … Continue reading natural gas is the answer