Male Sweat Makes Women Happy 93
guacamolefoo writes "CNN reports a study by the University of Pennsylvania that involved applying to the upper lips of women a solution containing underarm sweat from men who had not used deodorant in four weeks. It apparently elevated their moods and increased their fertility. Use this knowledge at your own risk."
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And on any part of their face, too.
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I never knew women could have an orgasm simply by having someone ejaculate on their face.
however, i've noticed that the women i've dated usually make a face like i just asked them do drink ocean water mixed with raw eggs. they obviously were frigid or had emotional problems, which is why i didn't mind them cheating on me or dumping me.
see, porn is highly educational! now, if i can just find a bitch who likes to wear dog collars...
Are they kidding? (Score:5, Funny)
This solution, if it came from my body, would rednder women unconcious, if it didn't kill them straight up. Even after one day my body odour is so powerful, the American militrary would declare it a weapon of mass destruction. Even thinking of the smell of my unwashed armpit after four week makes me woosy. What are these people thinking?
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Shower in the morning, and have a freshen up - just with plain water or minimal soap - after lunch-time, and have another light wash after work. Within a month you'll start missing out the lunch-time wash as it won't be necessary any more. Wear cotton rather than man-made fibers, for improved breathability and wicking.
It's not _sweat_ that smells, it's _stale sweat_. Fresh sweat, as this study indicates, is not unpleasant to most people. However, some of the hormones it contains, such as androsterone, are smelt differently by different noses. To some it's like flowers, to some it's sweet, to others it's like a jock's jockstrap. So don't expect everyone to think that you smell divine.
I've not used an aftershave or deoderant for about 10 years, I simply make sure I keep good personal hygiene, and my girlfriend loves my smell. (She's one who likes androsterone)
This article isn't news to me at all - hell, my girlfriend always nuzzles up to my armpits when going for a hug! However, I have a very sedentary lifestyle, and a cool flat (I'm exothermic), so I sweat very little on the whole.
YAW.
Re:Are they kidding? (Score:4, Informative)
Not quite - the human have different kinds of sweat glands, which we have over all of our bodies. The greatest concentration of sweat glands are on the palms of our hands and soles of our feet.
The watery kind of sweat is secreted by eccrine sweat glands; this kind of sweat consists of mostly water and some dissolved salts.
The smelly type of sweat comes from the apocrine, or specialized, sweat glands. The reason that the sweat smells is that the apocrine sweat glands in the armpits and genital-anal areas produce sweat that 1) stimulates bacterial growth, and 2) is oilier and is broken down into smelly components.
As a sidenote: yes, we "sweat" in our ear, but the apocrine sweat glands there produce earwax instead of normal sweat.
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If I'm 'oily' sweaty, then I will usually have a cup of hot Masala Tea (indian tea with spices, including ginger and black pepper), which causes the 'wet' sweat to start. I find it easier, or at least more refreshing, to wash after I've added the wet sweat.
Your 'broken down into smelly components' is what I meant by 'stale'.
Eugh, was a lovely subject matter.
YAW.
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That's beautiful.
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However, I am not French, but compared with my unchosen nationality, I'd much rather be French at the moment.
YAW.
Left out diet. (Score:3, Informative)
But you left out the one, singularly most important aspect -- diet. You MUST eat properly if you're going to stop using deodorant.
Stop eatinng fast food.
Stop eating processed food.
Stop drinking soda, drink more tea.
Eat fresh veggies, lean meats.
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Yes to { Tea, Lean meat, Fresh veg }
No to { Fast food, processed food, Soda }
Not by design, that's just what I like (maybe I can smell myself if I indulge in the bad stuff, and give myself negative feedback, bleh!)
YAW.
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I thought the smell was supposed to be from the waste excretions of the (mostly anaerobic) bacteria living and multiplying on the areas of your skin that get the least exposure to fresh air.
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(not all smells are bacterial, some are fungal - particularly in foot and crotch areas. However, these are usually nasty, an you'd want to get something from your local apothecary.)
YAW.
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My former roommate's boyfriend got that advice backwards. After three days without bathing, the other roommate and I agreed that if he didn't leave the premises we'd toss him in the shower ourselves.
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My girlfried and I do a lot of distance hiking ~ 90 miles in a week, and strangly enough, after about the third day of hard, sweaty hiking without deoderant, you stop stinking like a rancid kitchen towel.
When friends come an pick us up at the end of out hikes - we've asked them if we stunk like limburger cheese, and never once has anybody piped up that we stunk. (They could be horribly polite)
In our slacker civilisation though, I stink like cat puke if I don't slather on some deoderant every day.
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"Rancid kitchen towel" isn't quite strong enough to describe the smell. They might as well have been decomposing in the back of my car.
On a different note, my last girlfriend enjoyed my underarm smell very much. To each her own, I guess.
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"Rancid kitchen towel" isn't quite strong enough to describe the smell. They might as well have been decomposing in the back of my car.
We see a few hikers here on the Pacific Crest Trail that stink like rotting tuna mixed with fermenting brussel sprouts - the're usually the hippy weed-hikers that roll their own feces into their hair.
Nice pepole, from about 100 feet away.
Also, stay away from the crazed skinny camo hikers - they usually smell like the rotting human flesh of their last victem.
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So that's what the patchouli oil I see in these online hippie shops smells like
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OTOH, when did you fetch these hikers? There was a huge drought late last summe
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You are also prolly mistaking the fac
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Left to itself, with no added chemicals (internal or external), and with sweat allowed to evaporate in a timely manner, even a long-unwashed human body doesn't smell like much of anything (sweat itself has no smell). Odor becomes an issue due to skin bacterial imbalances (soap, deodorant, and perfume are common culprits), and due to chemical waste being excreted thru the ski
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If you knew anything about biology, you'd know that pheremones are excreted with sweat.
It's how humans "spray", so to speak.
non-bully women (Score:4, Funny)
additionally - lisa simpson has taught us that the sweat of geeks sets off some nerve in bullies.
conclusion - the women in this study were not bullies. which is good for us men - it means there are women out there who beat the sh*t out of us before we say hi.
Deodorant is a capitalist conspiracy! (Score:5, Funny)
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Oh! That certainly clears things up.
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What I was trying to say is that this knowledge that the article conveys has a real application.
It took me ages to accept that I'm Bi. Not Gay, not straight, just Bi. It is questionable and damn worrying that it's possible that you can scientifically determine your sexual orientation but I would have personally have found it of value. The value of this is outwieghed by risk, granted.
Original comment was:-
" For anyone troubled by trying to figu
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examine any biological origin of homosexuality
This article suggests a credible explanation, basically linked to oestrogen like chemicals.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns
What an eye-opener (Score:2, Funny)
one page fact sheet (Score:3, Informative)
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This _may_ be a media misquote.
The active ingredient they're talking about is probably Pheromones; the language of smells we also use, certainly for sex.
However what they may mean is that there is something else other than Pheromones in it.
Washing quietens the dialogue between people via smells making society a stonger influence over who's having sex than the individual?
Next time you get a hot flush notice the feeling under your arm
Pheromones (Score:5, Interesting)
The study says there is no evidence for sexual arousal, but that this could be because the tests were done in a sterile enviroment. Biologically, however, the primary function of pheromones is sexual communication. Here is an article [stars.com] on pheromones in humans and animals. Relevant portion:
I don't know if the Napoleon story is an urban legend and if it is related to the myth that Frenchwomen don't wash.18 women (Score:2)
Poor methodology? (Score:2, Insightful)
Where's the comparison with women's sweat, dog's sweat, floor wax, nothing? I don't here any mention of a control group, etc. I bet sitting most women down in a sterile environment for 10 minutes would elevate their moods without smearing anything on there noses.
This strike me as a very weak experiment, scientifically, with more vague and ill-formed conclusions drawn fro
Semen works too! (Score:3, Interesting)
I can't even begin to record here all the things this combination brings to mind...
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As I recall, the front cover was a milk style carton with "Semen" written on the side.
I am *not* kidding.
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He's not kidding either.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=n
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Speaking from Experience (Score:4, Funny)
In other news... (Score:1)
Hmmm... bastards, sounds like some companies are already cashin in on the n
I can already imagine the spam (Score:3, Funny)
Ahem (Score:1)
That's just rude... (Score:2)
What else did I not know on how keep women happy???
And I am sure she will understand when I do this....Re:That's just rude... (Score:1)
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This explains (Score:3, Funny)
I've read about this some time ago (Score:2, Informative)
And that's how stinky men get laid.
This experiment was done 15 years ago! (Score:2, Informative)
Addendum (Score:2, Informative)
There is nothing more pleasing to a woman... (Score:4, Funny)
Fits with history (Score:3, Informative)