Wow. This should come from the News of the Weird source. NEVER have I heard of this sort of thing happening.
Women don’t fart ... just ask them.
When I was in the navy, we used to light farts to amuse one another when standing sonar watch got boring. Of course, we did it though our dungarees, not bare skin.
It produced a very colorful mushroom cloud of natural gas flame, without damaging the sailor. It never failed to crack everybody up.
Yeah, standing watch was usually pretty boring.