How fast are farts

Sometimes it's even painful. It assails our senses with its repugnant smell, while providing a much-needed release. It can announce its presence with an unapologetic, thunderous sound or a lingering, comedic melody. Sometimes, much to the relief of the perpetrator, it can stealthily go unnoticed. It's considered both rude and crude — something you simply shouldn't do around other people. The act goes by many names — cutting the cheese, blowing a raspberry, letting it rip, passing gas, breaking wind and tooting.

But it is most known as farting. And, while we are still small children, we develop a fascination with one of our body's most basic functions — the accumulation and expelling of gas through the rectum, known as flatulence. If we didn't pass gas, we would explode," says Dr. Our bodies have two processes to remove gas: belching or burping and flatulence.

Belching is mostly caused by the air we swallow, and it releases gas from the upper GI tract — the stomach and the esophagus. Flatulence occurs in the lower gastrointestinal GI tract. Flatulence occurs when gas builds up in the digestive system. On average, a person passes gas up to 18 times a day, and it is usually harmless and….

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How do you stop smelly farts? Source: Vice 6. The average speed of a fart leaving the anus and entering the world is about 10 feet per second or about 9. Source: Bride2Mum 7. Source: Jokideo 8. Women's farts smell worse than men's farts.

Higher hydrogen sulphide content, yo! Source: Toni Bologna 9. But your own farts will never smell as bad to you as someone else's. We begin to reach for the Beano and even find ourselves considering the purchase of Odor Control Nether Garments.

One of the many indignities of the aging process is that loss of muscle tone occurs — even around the anal sphincter. Mark Leyner: I have never been inordinately intrigued or amused by farting.

I much prefer tears, spit, pus, ejaculate, rheum, colostrum, etc. Obviously, there are various illnesses and food allergies that can cause flatulence. On the other hand, what if a person willfully, premeditatedly, and with malice aforethought, renders himself potently flatulent? What if a middle-school student loads up, before school, on a breakfast of beans, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and sauerkraut?

And that is: should farting constitute a mode of constitutionally protected free speech? If not, what necessarily privileges one orifice the mouth above another the anus?