You know that maxim: "If it exists, then there'due south porn of information technology"? Y'all tin can say the same affair for kinks and fetishes. If information technology exists, and then at that place's someone who's turned on past it, or might even need it to enjoy a sexual feel.

While it's normal to have kinks and fetishes, some happen to be less common than others. One such affinity is the fart fetish—or eproctophilia, in fancy scientific discipline terminology. (FYI, being turned on by farts is different from scat play, which entails bringing fecal matter into a sexual interaction.)

At that place has been very fiddling research conducted on fart fetishists. I found this one instance study from 2013, where the researcher interviewed a man about his fart fetish and published the results in the Archives of Sexual Behavior . Besides that, the only other notable thing I discovered in my research was that prolific novelist James Joyce got seriously turned on by farts. In his Dearest Letters to His "Muddy Little Fuckbird," he describes, in graphic detail too explicit for Men'due south Health, how much he adores his lover'south farts.

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Given the lack of research on eproctophilia, I posted on social media that I was seeking guys who got angry past farts. Two men replied, agreeing to be interviewed under pseudonyms. Here'south what Johnny, an 18-year-erstwhile straight man, and Patrick, a 29-twelvemonth-former gay man, had to say nearly their kink.

When did you get-go realize yous had a fart fetish?

Johnny: When I was 13 and discovered porn. I found myself attracted to all things ass and anal. Somewhen, I establish a video of women filling their anuses with whipped foam and farting information technology out. From there, I found videos of just straight-upwards farting, and I was hooked.

Patrick: A little earlier puberty. For a actually long time, I was actually embarrassed and ashamed of it. Merely merely like coming out of the cupboard has stages of coming out to yourself, I've finally embraced my kink. I don't feel ashamed anymore.

Did you lot have a formative feel that you can retrieve that afterwards made you angry by farts?

J: Honestly, I don't really think at that place was i moment. My allure is born mainly of a contradiction of societal norms. Women are expected to be beautiful, frail, clean piffling butterflies. When someone rips horrid ass, information technology throws that out the window. There's also the trust inherent in showing that part of yourself that you've been taught to hide. Also, the obvious domination inherent in farting on someone. Oh, and there's this incredible conviction in being able to fart without a care in the world. All those factors combine to make me attracted to farts, but they also colour my other kinks and interests in conviction and non-traditional femininity.

P: [Farting on each other] was a pretty typical way nosotros'd fool around equally guys in centre schoolhouse and summer camp. It became this perverse way I could enjoy attention, a kind of intimacy that was otherwise incommunicable. Some guys really enjoyed farting on me and sought me out to humiliate me that way, simply I really liked it.

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How does your fart fetish manifest?

J: As long as there'due south a woman I find to be bonny farting, everything else is simply add-ons. Farts to the face, farting while my dick is inside their ass, or only lifting up a cheek while sitting. It'south the act itself, and everything surrounding it comes downwardly to mood and personal preference.

P: I like existence farted on, in the face. When a guy farts around me, I'm not into it. A guy farting while he's penetrating me is kinda weird, merely I don't think that's always happened. (I'm a strict lesser.)

What turns you on near the farts?

J: In my feel in forums and messaging with other fart fetishists, people are broadly split into two groups: smell and sound. Think of it like the breast man/ass human dichotomy. People are certainly into other parts, but well-nigh have a solid preference. In terms of physical characteristics, I nigh enjoy the audio, particularly deep, rumbly, bubbly ones—the farthest from being feminine. More than that though, for me, it's the attitude, the demeanor, the pose—all the aspects peripheral to the actual fart.

P: The sound, smells, elements of humiliation, control, release—all of information technology.

How often do you participate in your fart fetish?

J: It depends on how yous define participation. In terms of IRL experiences, I've merely had a couple in my life. However, I do a lot of online roleplay with other people into the fetish, say three or four times a week—sometimes more than, sometimes less.

P: Once a month or so, there'south a small-scale handful of dom guys who are aware of my kink and bask it.

Do you take an involvement in scat play likewise, or is it limited to farts?

J: My opinions on scat are mixed. It appeals to me for the same reasons that farts do. Withal, the gross aspect of scat outweighs the attractive elements, and so I'thou very picky about it. I'1000 only really into information technology when I'm close to orgasm, and my barriers are significantly lower, but even then, it'south most purely in a voyeuristic capacity. I don't wanna smear it on myself or consume information technology.

P: No interest in scat. Nope!

How have you constitute partners who besides bask participating in this kink?

J: I've had partners who don't mind information technology, merely they're not into it either. Again though, my experience with IRL sexual encounters is limited in the first identify. Online though, yes decently often. I use r/dirtypenpals [Reddit] to find partners. I also utilise Shamchat and Rolechat to detect partners and found 1 or two long-term FWBs/sexting pals on Omegle. I'm also role of a couple of fart fetish servers, forums, etc.

P: If by "partner" you mean just guys I fuck, I find some circuitous way to insinuate information technology without just throwing it out in that location. [I'll] mention other guys doing information technology to me or having gotten farted on as a kid. I'll never flat-out say "getting farted on is my kink" until a guy has picked up on information technology.

What would you say people become wrong about farting fetishes?

J: I call up there'south definitely a negative perception well-nigh fart fetishists, not just amidst vanilla, "prude" people, but fifty-fifty otherwise kinky people. By personally finding it gross, I recollect a lot of people see it as something for incels and misogynists. And while with any community, of course, y'all run into that problem, the fart fetish community as a whole is incredibly accepting and welcoming.

Recently online, I've seen a really large uptick in stories most queer people, not but lesbian fantasies, but trans characters and gay pairings too. It's also very accepting of various body types, skin colors, and the like. Specially with the appearance of OnlyFans, the field for fart models is wide open, and in that location'southward a market for people of all shapes and sizes. And we're fifty-fifty very kind to each other!

From what I'k seeing and reading online, farting is a rapidly growing fetish. Mainstream porn is replicating it more and more, with extreme anal content turning to gape farts and enemas. Fart fetish creators are climbing higher on the ranks of Pornhub, and mainstream creators are dabbling in adjacent kinks, if not quite farting merely yet. Watersports is at present largely accepted and pretty expected; non everybody'south into it, merely everybody knows about it, and the kink-shaming isn't that bad compared to in the past. Farting is on a like trajectory.

P: I've never really discussed information technology with guys I'k not having sex with, so I actually don't know. I guess in general, guys are really self-conscious about their kinks. When I've heard a rumor become around the local gay customs that a guy has a piss or pes fetish, the truth is, maybe they'll giggle virtually it for five seconds behind your back, and and then get on with their lives. I've seen AB/DL [Adult Baby/Diaper Lovers] guys during kink conventions posting videos of themselves soiling diapers publicly on Twitter. Nothing really shocks me or most gay guys I know.