Is it normal to like the smell of your own farts

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I said what I said, and my husband thinks it’s weird lol

Very normal to not mind the smell of your own farts - and even enjoy it a bit.

Why you don't mind your own farts

• Familiarity breeds comfort: Your body's microbiome produces a unique scent, and your brain recognizes it as "self," making it less threatening or repulsive.
• Relief association: Smelling your own gas can be linked to the positive feeling of relieving bloating and pressure, a connection absent with others' farts.
• Habituation: Your brain filters out constant sensory input, including your own natural body odors, preventing you from being overwhelmed

Evolutionary disgust: Humans evolved to find the smell of other people's bodily waste disgusting as a protective mechanism to avoid potential pathogens and disease.

"Otherness" factor: Unfamiliar smells from others' excretions signal potential danger or contamination, triggering a stronger negative reaction

I do find it funny though, when posters on Mumsnet claim they never fart in front of anyone/never fart in front of their partner. And some even claim they never fart!

I love a really rollicking good FART when I have had trapped wind for a few hours, and it finds its way out. Ahhhhhhhh, the relief!

Fluff 🤣🤣

When I was in hospital a few years ago I didn't fancy a cooked meal so I ordered leek and potato soup with a roll.

The wind after eating that was pretty horrific but my saving grace was it was just after Covid lock down was lifted and the ward of 4 beds was empty apart from me so I was able to let them go with no embarrassment.

Thank goodness.

Oh my goodness you actually made me laugh with that Gif. My standards must be slipping.

Perfectly normal, and to be encouraged 👍🙂

My chemo farts were something else! My chemo buddy suffered the same so we can definitely blame the meds!

My DD looks nervous when I eat asparagus; luckily for her there’s a short growing season. I love the stuff!

Well being mine only ever smell like lavender I suppose yes, I do like the smell of them. Saves a fortune on air freshener.

😆 You're right, you do have a sense of humour! 😘

Just don’t snap and fart.

You want the truth, he whole truth and nothing but the truth?!

Fine.

Years ago, my husband told me he likes the smell of his farts (which are rank btw) and I said it was disgusting to which he replied that's it's not, it's just honest, everyone likes the smell of their own farts.

And you know what? I've never admitted it to another living breathing soul but he's absolutely right. I love the smell of my own farts and I love farting. The longer the better, the louder the better, the smellier the better. It's incredibly satisfying.

And what's more, when I sit down to a curry or a big Christmas dinner with a nice solid helping of sprouts, my main thoughts are the delicious food and the creativity and how grateful I am for a wonderful meal but at the back of my mind there's a little voice saying "the farts from this are going to be great, I'll look forward to them".

Never admitted it out loud. Never will. Never fart in front of people. And it's definitely not some weird fetish. But I do enjoy it and I truly believe so do most people in their own little way.

Your husband is a massive liar.

@NCbecauseIamadmittingIlikethesmellofmyfarts Yes, and it's been scientifically proven that people like the smell of their own farts. And it's normal to do so.

There's a lot of heavy, awful stuff going on in the world at the moment. I saw this thread and thought That's more like it. I needed a bit of light relief. I also like to learn about which foods to avoid. I only eat beans if I know that I'm not going to be with my partner for a few days. That's out of respect for him

No, but you can find another thread to post on. Yet strangely here you are….

I'm replying to pp who have quoted me and made remarks to me - as you have done.

Of course if someone tell me - as you have done - I shouldn't be posting on a thread I'm going to reply and tell them I have every right to post on the thread. Why wouldn't I defend my right NOT to be told what threads I can post on?

Oh come on!! Take the stick out of your arse for once! 💨😂

Be careful, she may blow away from years of upheld farts!!!

Well i've obviously rattled your cage otherwise you wouldn't be being so personally offensive to me.

Our dog’s farts were the most ‘fragrant’.

Having done one ourselves, we’d often say, ‘Pooh, was it you?’ - and our poor dog would look guilty and slink off and hide behind the sofa. RIP now, 🐶❤️

I’m not offended by my own, like I am of others 😅

Have you ever thought how boring life would be if we all thought exactly the same as each other?

Well exactly.

And to that end a bit of fart humour adds spice to the mix.

ETA I am actually quite proud of the Anglo Saxon proclivity to fart and general toilet humour. The reason I say this is it is usually a perfectly innocuous topic, whereas so much humour actually tends towards derision and cruelty and mockery.

I would have thought it was also a natural way of keeping check of one's own digestive health, a bit like regular breast checks (although for non-farters like me, not nearly as regular as that of course😇). I should think that there is a biological tendency to have a good whiff to keep abreast of any significant changes or developments in one's own microbiome.

This reminds me of a comment my BIL made about farts that you have "to cut your way out of afterwards."

I wouldn’t either because there’s nothing like the real thing.

He's absolutely right, that's a very apt description. 😆😆

This is the sort of quality niche discussion I always look forward to reading on Mumsnet. 😀