What is eproctophilia?

Eproctophilia is a paraphilia that involves sexual arousal from flatulence [1]. This arousal can come from one or more aspects of flatulence including smell and sound, but it has also been known to be enjoyed as an element of domination and humiliation. For others, especially in relation to heterosexual males enjoying the flatulence of females, arousal with eproctophilia lies heavily in the taboo aspect of witnessing a societally forbidden activity [2].

How does eproctophilia work?

Many of those with eproctophilia enjoy experiencing or fantasizing the fetish in a romantic or consensual context, i.e. with a loving partner or trusted friend. There are those, however, that enjoy the context of masochism with flatulence, experiencing it or imagining it used as a kink element in a play scene of consensual non-consent.

Why eproctophilia?

To ponder why one would enjoy eproctophilia, the question of why anyone enjoys any paraphilia would need to be explored. In many self-reported cases, those with eproctophilia cite the exploration of poronographic material on the internet to be their inciting moment of exposure and realization of interest. For others, who noticed interests at a very young age, the paraphilia is believed to be linked to an exposing occurance in childhood [2].

Are there kinks related to eproctophilia?

As with all kinks, there's absolutely an element of personalization to how one would desire to experience them. In a general sense, eproctophilia will often accompany elements of facesitting, headscissors, breath play (smothering), and body worship. For some, there is an element of power exchange desired which is usually explored through verbal domination and objectification (human furniture) as well as aspects of humiliation play.

Despite the presumed intimacy of kink play aspects like facesitting, many of those with eproctophilia will often prefer the Dominant, or Top, be clothed; this is typically for those who derive arousal from the olfactory aspect of flatulence as the fabric tends to retain the aromas [2], however, clothing has been known to affect the auditory aspect as well.

Why have I never heard of eproctophilia and where can I learn more?

To date, there has only been a single officially published study of a person with eproctophilia [2]; as a result, we're left to analyze the fetish based mostly on personal accounts and anecdotes. Even within the kink community, eproctophilia is not widely known even though similar kink elements, like watersports and coprophilia, are somewhat more familiar to a broader segment of BDSM players.

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Are there any notable references to eproctophilia in media?

We are all well aware of fart jokes in movies, however, there are published accounts of eproctophilia in practice.

In Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft from 2000, the prolific author recalls an occurance from his youth:

Eula-Beulah was prone to farts -- the kind that are both loud and smelly. Sometimes when she was so afflicted, she would throw me on the couch, drop her wool-skirted butt on my face, and let loose. 'Pow!' she'd cry in high glee. It was like being buried in marshgas fireworks. I remember the dark, the sense that I was suffocating, and I remember laughing. Because, while what was happening was sort of horrible, it was also sort of funny. In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell, Pow!, the Village Voice holds few terrors. [4]

In one of James Joyce's infamously dirty letters, dated December 8th, 1909, he makes colorful reference to flatulence (censored for language):

At every f--k I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger f--k than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I f--ked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to f--k a farting woman when every f--k drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also. You say when I go back you will suck me off and you want me to lick your c--t, you little depraved blackguard. I hope you will surprise me some time when I am asleep dressed, steal over to me with a whore's glow in your slumberous eyes, gently undo button after button in the fly of my trousers and gently take out your lover's fat mickey, lap it up in your moist mouth and suck away at it till it gets fatter and stiffer and comes off in your mouth. Sometimes too I shall surprise you asleep, lift up your skirts and open your drawers gently, then lie down gently by you and begin to lick lazily round your bush. You will begin to stir uneasily then I will lick the lips of my darling's c--t. You will begin to groan and grunt and sigh and fart with lust in your sleep. Then I will lick up faster and faster like a ravenous dog until your c--t is a mass of slime and your body wriggling wildly. Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little f--kbird! There is one lovely word, darling, you have underlined to make me pull myself off better. Write me more about that and yourself, sweetly, dirtier, dirtier. [5]

Is there any other data or statistics on eproctophilia?

In 2017, PornHub, a notable website for pornographic videos and related content, published their Year in Review for the previous year; the statistics revealed that, in Brazil and the Netherlands, while the search for terms "fart" and "farting" were not among the top 10 searches for either country, they were terms that gained traction that year, by 108% and 126% respectively [3]. That same year, PornHub published insights specific to Scotland which featured "farting" as a term searched 82% more in Edinburgh when compared to the rest of the country [6].

In 2016, PornHub published data on search habits specific to the Netherlands; in those findings, the term "fart" was found to be more popular in Limburg when compared to the rest of the country [7]. That same year, PornHub published statitics on searches in the United Kingdom where the data revealed that the term "fart" is searched 32% more often in Bristol when compared to the rest of the UK. [8]

Sources:

1. "Eproctophilia," UCSB Sociology, updated March, 2016.

2. "Eproctophilia in a Young Adult Male," Mark D. Griffiths, Archives of Sexual Behavior, epub July, 2013.

3. "2016 Year in Review," PornHub, January, 2017.

4. On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft, Stephen King, October, 2000.

5. "James Joyce's Dirty Letters," Arlindo Correia, date unknown.

6. "Scotland Insights," PornHub, February, 2017.

7. "Netherland's Top Searches," PornHub, March, 2016.

8. "The United Kingdom Divided," PornHub, February, 2016.