Posted on 09/19/2007 4:51:48 AM PDT by Froufrou
Liz Gabor calls the odor “man sweat.” Though she’s loath to admit it, the aromatic scent makes her feel, as she calls it, a little frisky. “My friends think I’m crazy, but I think male sweat is kind of pleasant and, well, kind of hot,” says Gabor, 28, a customer service rep and happily married mother of two young girls.
Gabor doesn’t have a honker that’s on the fritz. Rather, her penchant for “man sweat” is all in her genes, according to new research from Rockefeller and Duke Universities published this week in the journal Nature. Scientists have previously found an association between male sweat and female arousal, but this study is the first to find a gene that is linked to the ability to smell a specific chemical in the sweat. And that, they say, may be a revolution in the understanding of how our olfactory sense functions.
According to the Rockefeller and Duke researchers, about 70 percent of adult men and women have the genetic capacity to perceive a particular chemical called androstenone in male body odor. To them, the testosterone-laden substance can take on a pleasant bouquet similar to vanilla or other sweet or woodsy scents. Others who have a functional copy of the gene perceive androstenone as less than pleasurable, akin to the aromatic elixir of stale urine. About 30 percent of adult men and women can’t smell androstenone at all, leading researchers to suspect they might be missing the gene responsible for smelling the aroma.
To figure out exactly who could smell the scent of androstenone, researchers presented 400 participants with 66 different odors, including woodsy scents like pine, strong scents like garlic, and esoteric odors like methanethiol, a man-made scent that is similar to the smell of urine after a person has eaten asparagus.
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Yes,I've been complimented often on my rather distinctive proboscis.
Don’t be humble. It’s more of a rostrum!
Totally.
Esp. when your in line and you can smell the next day hangover stale toxic booze reek from the guy next to you.
Gag and Barf
Not likely responsive canidates unless the testers lookes like Hef’s girls.
National Talk-Like-a-Pirate-Day, and I SMELL MEN!
I like it, too.
So, tell me, do women like horses because of the smell?
If so, I'm gonna go rub myself down in horse sweat and head for the bar.
I like the way you think.
And a woman should smell faintly of sun tan lotion, clean sheets and fried chicken.
Some women, as girls, love horses like crazy. I wasn’t one of them.
However, I do like that song, “Save a Horse, Ride A Cowboy!”
Is Hawaian Tropic coconut oil okay?
I used to have a girlfriend that had the bumper sticker.
I guess she's off saving another horse now. :~)
Okay? It just happens to be my favorite....sniff, sniffsniff.
I just like the saying. I think i’ll add it to my tagline repertoire. Or would that be arsenal????
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