# Which came first: sex or farting? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 27, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111 "2010-11-27T22:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SecondJudith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/21 "2010-11-30T11:43:12Z")
We slept together the first night we got into a romantic relationship, although we’d been friends for years so it was comfortable and we already knew we liked each other. We have farting contests. He usually wins. When we have belching contests, I usually win. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/22 "2010-11-30T12:00:18Z")
o/~ Sex and farts, sex and farts… o/~ o/~ Go together like the horse and carts… o/~ ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/23 "2010-11-30T12:12:09Z")
Farting, I think. Anyway, I just let 'em rip like a MF’er in front of the wife. We’ve been married eight years and have a kid…who f’ing cares? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/24 "2010-11-30T12:28:52Z")
How often does this school boy question need to be asked? I thought someone who joined in 2002 may have read a few previous posts. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/25 "2010-11-30T12:39:37Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > How often does this school boy question need to be asked? I thought someone who joined in 2002 may have read a few previous posts. To be perfectly honest, it never occurred to me that this “school boy question” might have been asked before. I’m deeply sorry if I’ve ruined your SDMB experience. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/26 "2010-11-30T12:48:28Z")
Oh, please don’t worry. Juvenile, repetitive posts I have become used to. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/27 "2010-11-30T14:00:16Z")
My wife and I dated for a few years, then split up for a few years, then got back together and now (obviously) we’re married. The first time we dated, I never farted in front of her even though I was a prodigious farter back in the day. Despite having some pretty nasty sex with each other, for some reason I thought she’d be offended by a fart. Then we split up, and I vowed to be up front an honest with the women I slept with. Whenever I was going to bed with a woman for the first time, I told her “look, I just want to warn you- I fart in bed. Don’t be alarmed, it’s just a little gas.” So when my wife and I got back together, she got the same treatment. It wasn’t long before she was ripping them in front of me. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/28 "2010-11-30T14:09:03Z")
Been married almost 10 years. Still don’t fart in front of each other. Lots of sex, though. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/29 "2010-11-30T14:53:15Z")
Did some comedian once opine: “If a man ain’t farting during sex, he ain’t trying hard enough”? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/30 "2010-11-30T15:40:38Z")
> [@Renee](#): > > Been married almost 10 years. Still don’t fart in front of each other. Lots of sex, though. Honey, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/31 "2010-11-30T20:08:24Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Oh, please don’t worry. Juvenile, repetitive posts I have become used to. Irony ho! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/32 "2010-12-01T02:45:32Z")
I leave and go to the restroom/other part of the house to fart. I think in the 6 years we’ve been together, my husband has heard me fart once\*. In the car or something, I can hold it like nobody’s business. He, on the other hand, farts at will. I have major issues surrounding farting/pooping though. \*it slipped out and I was mortified. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/33 "2010-12-01T03:06:51Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > I am 42 years old and have never farted in front of a man. Please put that on my tombstone. If you said, “I am 35 years old and have never _voluntarily_ farted in front of a man,” that’d be me. Of course, sometimes certain sounds just…come out, especially if you’re sleeping. Or pregnant and laughing. Or pregnant, laughing and trying to have sex. Not that we’ve tried that or anything. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/34 "2010-12-01T04:13:30Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Oh, please don’t worry. Juvenile, repetitive posts I have become used to. So douche comes before farting and sex then. ---
**Author:** ![FartLighter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e68b1a/32.png) [@FartLighter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FartLighter)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/35 "2010-12-11T08:46:36Z")
I could never be with a woman that I couldn’t fart in front of. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/36 "2010-12-11T08:58:54Z")
> [@FartLighter](#): > > I could never be with a woman that I couldn’t fart in front of. I seriously had to look at your join date more than 3 times before I could believe you joined in 2004. Goes without saying, I guess. But I’ll say it anyway. Great post/poster combo! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/37 "2010-12-11T12:56:37Z")
Married over four years, together nine and still do not actively share farts. I’m sure there are accidents from time to time, but we’re polite enough not to say anything. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2010, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111/38 "2010-12-13T10:17:11Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > I seriously had to look at your join date more than 3 times before I could believe you joined in 2004. > > Goes without saying, I guess. But I’ll say it anyway. Great post/poster combo! He’s only made 4 posts in all this time too! And 75% of which are fart related. I guess when he posts, he makes it count 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-came-first-sex-or-farting/562111.md?page=1)