Flashback Friday: Sexually aroused by farts? You're not alone.

Photo: flickr/wackyvorionThe saying goes "to each his own," and that definitely holds true for fetishes. This paper describes a person with "eproctophilia", which is the term for when someone is sexually aroused by flatulence. The first half of the article is included below. Warning--it's a bit of a wild ride!Eproctophilia in a Young Adult Male "Olfactophilia (also known as osmolagnia, osphresiolagnia, and ozolagnia) is a paraphilia where an individual derives sexual pleasure from smells and odors (Aggrawal, 2009). Given the large body of research on olfaction, it is not surprising that, in some cases, there should be an association with sexual behavior. As Bieber (1959) noted, smell is a powerful sexual stimulus. Furthermore, the erotic focus is most likely to relate to body odors of a sexual partner, including genital odors. One subtype of olfactophilia is eproctophilia. This is a paraphilia in which people are sexually aroused by flatulence (Aggrawal, ...