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Sexual potency of flatulence exposed

ENGLAND: To most, smelling another person’s flatulence is an unpleasant experience. But the world’s first case study of a man who is sexually aroused by other people passing wind has now been published.

A British psychologist has recorded the case of so-called “eproctophilia” in a 22-year-old man from Illinois, America. The man, who has been given the pseudonym Brad, states that he is “not sexually attracted to flatulence per se, [but] the person releasing the flatulence”.