Posted February 17, Reviewed by Ekua Hagan. Olfactophilia is a paraphilia in which individuals derive sexual pleasure and arousal from smells and odours. Typically, the erotic focus relates to body odours of a sexual partner, including genital odours. One arguably bizarre sub-type of olfactophilia is eproctophilia. This refers to a condition in which people are sexually attracted to flatulence. A couple of years ago, I published the first academic study of an eproctophile in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
My paper was a case study of Brad a pseudonym , a year old single man from Illinois in the United States. Brad first contacted me after he read a blog I had written on eproctophilia.
I was interested to know where the roots of his fetish began, and he explained that it all started when a girl he had a crush on at school farted in a science class. As he told me:. In terms of relationships, I am straight [heterosexual].
I could only date or have romantic feelings towards a female. In terms of fetishism, I am bisexual. I get aroused thinking of both males and females in these fetish situations. However, I have no real desire for sexual intercourse, be it penetration or being penetrated, which would make me asexual. Brad first engaged in an eproctophile act at around the age of 16 or 17 years of age. He was with a male friend and up to that point he had considered himself as heterosexual. This was until he heard his male friend fart in front of him.
Brad told me that the fart was appealing in sound, and he found himself fixating on it. At first, he didn't want to admit he was into farting, but eventually he decided to experiment. He set up a bet and intentionally lost, with the wager being the right to fart in the loser's face for a week. He continued to lose such bets once every few weeks over a period of two years.
