h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My wife was watching something or other on television last week (I hesitate to ask what or why) and she learned that many women have difficulty achieving orgasm because they're afraid they'll fart!

Any other reasons with potential comic value?

The farting has never bothered my partner, only me!

LOL...now thats' a lame excuse!

NM

Hmmm!Never ever had that problem.Stressed due to the fear of being overheard -yes.Farting-no!

Incog.

I might ask, who got a grant to study this superflous subject.? Personally, as a woman, I think the statement is ridiculous! K

Does that mean a woman who's not afraid to be heard farting will have more orgasms?

if you can't fart in the presence of the one you love, who can you fart in front of?

and if it's not someone you love (yet), then what better way to find out if they're a keeper or not?

but as for the question directly put, no, i've never had this problem.

Incognitas, re: fear of being overheard - I find myself inspired to better performance when my wife is afraid of being overheard. I guess I consider it a challenge to make her forget her reservations and make a lot of noise.

broelan: I don't actually expect anyone to *admit* to this, but I do expect it's more common than any of us know. Women tend to be very self-conscious about a lot of things, and flatulence is definitely among them. I'd actually formed a theory that women didn't fart nearly as often as men due to dietary differences... men will tend to eat more proteins than a woman living in the same house.

Then I had my first live-in girlfriend. I felt so self-conscious about not offending her that I found myself farting less often. I'd go in the bathroom to urinate, and without any conscious choice, I'd find myself flatulating with vigor as soon as I closed the door... my girlfriend (wife now) admits she used to hear me from the bedroom and laughed uproariously.

As I became more comfortable with the situation, that stopped, and I went back to normal flatulating habits. And so did she. It turns out she farts every bit as much as I do... it's just that she, and all the other women I'd known, were affected by that same self-consciousness fart suppression I experienced when she moved in.

So much for that theory.

I'm one of those women who's self conscious about flatulence 'cause it just ain't dignified. The way I look at it, though, if I'm in a position to be intimate enough with someone where orgasms might occur, well, he's probably already figured out that I really *am* human. There's not a whole lot that's especially dignified about sex, anyway. I guess you could look at a fart as punctuation.

"a fart as punctuation"
laughing so hard I might pee my pants!

Just so long as you don't fart....

The thing is, if you *do* orgasm, be sure to scream nice and loud! That way if you do fart, he won't hear it anyway!

Good plan, but farting can effect senses other than hearing. How do you combat that?

Stuart

Good idea Shea

Since my farts smell like that's not a problem!

Farting is certainly a danger when orgasming- but hey, once it happens once and the fella or lass doesn't notice- problem sovled!

Have not had the problem, seems a small price to pay!
*fear developing a farting paranoia*

Wandering around Safeways this morning I found I was constantly farting...And I thought of this thread.

Incog.

Well I've never farted during orgasm!

I fart plenty - it's the orgasms that are difficult

Only joking