Why Do We Like Our Own Farts?

Your farts may smell like roses...to you!

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Further Reading--

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Case, T.I., B.M. Repacholi, and R.J. Stevenson, My baby doesn't smell as bad as yours: The plasticity of disgust. Evolution and Human Behaviour, 2005. 27: p. 357-365.

Curtis, V., R. Aunger, and T. Rabie, Evidence that disgust evolved to protect from risk of disease. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 2004. 271: p. 130-134.

Hart, B.L., Behavioural adaptations to pathogens and parasites: five strategies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 1990. 14: p. 273-294.

Haidt, J., C. McCauley, and P. Rozin, Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust: a scale sampling seven domains of disgust elicitiors. Personality and Individual Differences, 1994. 16(5): p. 701-713.

Somerville, L.H., T.F. Heatherton, and W.M. Kelley, Anterior cingulate cortex responds differently to expectancy violations and social rejections. Nature Neuroscience, 2006. 9(8): p. 1007-1008.

[missreesern]

My dad used to say, "I'd rather let it out and bear the shame than hold it in and break a vein!"
Words to live by. Miss you man, RIP

[xisumavoid]

I wouldn't say i like my own farts, however they don't bother me in the slightest.

[tetrapetra]

When I was a kid, I use to think farts gave me a speed boost while running.

[FB-mwgv]

I've been collecting my farts in a jar for the last 33 years, I'm waiting to release it into the wild.

[BianaBee]

These comments though. I choked on my own saliva from laughing....

[Vryx]

classmate blamed me for farting...

i put laxative in his food then he ended up shitting in class...

sounds evil huh?

[GregoryMcCarthy]

I can understand liking your own farts, but who the hell could enjoy other people's farts? That's just raunchy

[AsapSCIENCE]

Your farts may smell like roses...to you! But why do other people's farts smell so much worse? Find out in our newest video:

[Derrako]

Farting is God's way of making sure we don't take ourselves too seriously...

[TurboAidan]

12:00 - I should go too bed
1:10 - “why we like our own farts”

[krem]

Sometimes i fart so badly i think i can sell them to the FBI to use as tear gas.

[Toaster-lnnw]

Ever since I got a hybrid car I've loved the smell of my farts

[FlyntofRWBY]

I remember passing a silent but deadly fart in my freshmen Spanish class. It was probably one of the smallest yet most fowl odor anybody has ever smelled. The entire room (with no windows to open) smelled so nasty that our teachers attempt at getting the stench out was opening the door. Somebody, who was in the restroom when I ripped that nasty fart, came back about 2 minutes after the raunchy odor had filled the room and made this face of extreme terror. One of the other students yelled, "It smells like something died in here!" The cute girl that sat next to me was just laughing and covering her nose saying that somebody must've ripped a bad one.

I must say, I had never been so proud of my farts till that day.

[muhammedakbar]

Anyone who says they dont like their own farts are lying, if you dont cup your farts towards your nose then there's something seriously wrong with you

[chungusfungus]

When my fart smells extra smelly I lock it in my blanket and smell it.

[Sieww]

When I'm lying down on my bed and feel a fart coming. I wrap my body in a blanket and  let it rip. Then I quickly place my head in the blanket and take a huge whiff. Best feeling eva!

[kylieroberts]

People that fart are like "EWW YOU FARTED" when it was them.

[jerrywbrice]

One serious point that they overlooked was that generally when you fart it feels quite good to relieve the pressure, which would associate your own farts with the pleasure of release making them far more appealing.

[poobumftw]

if you don't sniff your own farts you are missing out on the fun

[ChrisG]

My Dad made a huge fart and grabbed me so I ahd to smell it
He's evil