I have a comment on the question and answer concerning vaginal farts or "varts" as they were called. It was stated that this happens to some women during sexual intercourse, but I want to add that it can happen whenever a women has an orgasm, not necessarily just during penetration.

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Dear Alice,

This is in response to Vaginal "farts"?:

I don't know how old that answer was, but there is now a commonly accepted term for these: "queef," noun or verb. "I queefed." "I let out a queef." Books and magazines I've read (e.g., Cosmopolitan) use this term. Love your web site and just thought I'd give you a heads up on that!

-Reads too much Cosmo

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Dear Desperate,

Yes — it happens to me too. But be thankful that it happens to you during sex, with someone you are (hopefully) pretty comfortable with. With me, it happens when I do a headstand in my yoga class. Air gets sucked in when I strain my abdominal muscles, and when I come back down the air puffs out in embarrassing little poofs. Sometimes there are quite a few, and they are sort of loud. It happens around people I barely know and am not comfortable with. I just hope they think I made the noise with my mouth or something!

Signed,
You thought you had it bad!

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To the reader,

Honestly, I think it's nonsense that you'd have to "distract" your partner from a queef. First of all, they're often too loud to cover them up during intercourse, and a queef isn't something you should need to apologize for. It's the same as making farting sounds in your arm pit. No stink, no foul.