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!”
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