Initially designed as a tecnique of sexual drive preservation between two people remaining in a long-term relationship.
A tecnique acquired as a result of natural selection, the octopus method consists in protruding your hand ( the way italian people do when they don't understand something ) into your bottom area in order to release a potentially loud fart.
Allowing the hand to part alightly, one may pass gas unnoticed. This technique is friend of people in need to not be heard in risky or delicate situations.
Example of the octopus method.
To silently let out your difused particules of feaces while your one night stand has fallen asleep so that you may have another shot at letting the aquantance evolve.
I was with a bird yesterday and had about 1000 farts I needed to get rid of. Saved myself using The Octopus Method