Posted on 06/22/2021 8:02:47 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
There is a wealth of psychological and biological information stored in our scent, but for some reason we choose to ignore it.
Our body odour can reveal details about our health, like the presence of diseases (cholera smells sweet and acute diabetes like rotten apples). "It can also reveal information about our diet," ...
Men find women's body odour more pleasant and attractive during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, when women are most fertile, and least pleasant and attractive during menstruation. This might have been useful for our ancient ancestors to detect good candidates for reproduction, suggest the authors of that paper. Men's testosterone levels might improve their scent, too.
Our body odour is specific enough, and our sense of smell accurate enough, that people can pair the sweaty T-shirts of identical twins from a group of strangers' T-shirts. Identical twin body odour is so similar that matchers in this experiment even mistook duplicate T-shirts from the same individual as two twin T-shirts.
"so, we might be able to detect genetic information about other people by smelling them."
These women put the T-shirts worn by men with the most dissimilar HLA profile first and last the most similar. So they were able to identify the men, and preferred the men, with the best match in terms of immune system genetics. They didn't know that was what they were doing, of course – it was subconscious.
The female must be discerning in her choice, so looks for clues as to a male's quality. This is why males are often colourful, perform dances, sing songs or offer gifts in nature – they have to prove their genetic quality.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Women aren’t looking for a mating partner anymore to conceive and raise a family.
“genetics” isn’t the factor that it once was
*Perform dances...two step & waltzes
*Sing songs...David Allen Cole: You never call me by my name.
*Offer gifts of nature...Beer.
they look for a husbank
with no fault divorce tgey claim to be bored or not in love anymore, and divorce him
and take half his stuff
and then go on the c0ck carousel again for awhile until they run out of money
Dogs are born knowing this
Men stink because they have lots of testosterone.
The birth control pill screws this all up. Women look for men more fluffy and maternal while their bodies tell the they’re pregnant, which the pill does.
Also Pregnancy (the pill) tells men tge girl is pregnant. Pheromones are shut down. Women don’t smell the same. They have to use other means to attract men. Fluffy men.
I love my husband’s scent. It drives me nuts.
Men find women least pleasant and attractive during menstruation.
Well maybe the fact that she’s acting like a demon has something to do with it?
Guess it worked.
Still married.
Like I tell my male friends-just find someone you hate and buy them a house...
“It reminds me of a combination of boiled cabbage, urine and farts.”
Long ago, I worked for an institution full of young men.
You could just walk around and smell the testosterone everywhere in the air.
When I mentioned this to other people, they looked puzzled...
Perhaps this is why for several millennia in most civilizations a woman’s mate was chosen by her father.
Before I was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer and put on androgen deprivation therapy, I perspired, a lot. After an hour or so of being active, the odor was not pleasant.
Now, I can wear a polyester shirt around the house for two days, and no odor.
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