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 ...
I was thinking the exact same thing.
In Vietnam, water buffalo hated GI’s. I think it was because they ate meat and smelled like predators.
Porky’s❣
Someone got millions of dollars to conclude women are least attractive during menstruation and the prior 25 days of PMS. Any man, or woman, could have told “experts” that information for free.
Cat piss and wine
Then why do I get slapped when I give sweaty t-shirts to women - either as a courting gift or for them to do as laundry right after they get me a sandwich and a beer? < /s>
aka “beta bucks”
Mr. mm had prostate cancer and I could tell he had it by the way he smelled. It had changed and not for the better.
After the surgery, the odor was gone.
It’s sad you’re so bitter.
LOL how appropos
Marry a woman, who is greedy and bored. She will happily put you in jail, just for grins, destroy your credit, steal everything you own, and poison your kids against you.
And, why? Because you trusted her.
I guess this helps with blind dates.
Body odor is actually a racial thing with the Oriental Asians having none
See here:
Why Don’t Chinese People Smell Bad? (They Don’t Use Deodorant! 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ah7plRr4WQ&list=PLGVxWL17abn6ev2IjAZZ9SKbu2fRps4XT&index=59
My wife had just eaten Kimchi before I met her.....
Turned out good nearly 34 years later.
The demon thing happens a couple of days before flow. During that time, if the demon can’t find any particular thing to be mad about, it may just jump on you and pleasure itself.
—”In Vietnam, water buffalo hated GI’s.”
Not many water buffalos in my old AO.
Most I knew avoided soap and freshly cleaned uniforms before going out.
Upon return, there was a noticeable scent on the guys going out.
I thought it was the fatigues, others thought it was from the diet?
IMO you become more aware of your senses after time in the bush, animal-like.
bump
LOL!
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