and the taboo surrounding their farts in polite society by arguing that permitting women fart would make them less talkative. His anonymously published work from the same year, Arse Musica; or, The Lady's Back Report to Don Fart-in-hand-o Puff-in dorst, mocks the public's enthusiasm for Italian opera and lists "Fifty Two Ladies of Quality" who were under fart pseudonyms. He revisits the taboo of women farting again in his 1734 poem Cassinus and Peter.

Benjamin Franklin, in his open letter "To the Royal Academy of Farting",