I ran across an interesting BBC Article on body odor's relationship to human fertility today. One of the most interesting quotes came from one of the officials involved:
So, maybe I'm misinterpreting, but is he suggesting that the best way to tell if you're at risk of knocking up someone you're sleeping with is to give their 'pits a sniff? Somehow, I think that might kill the mood a little. Or make you appear like some sort of weird fetishist.
My problem is that I apparently have a dead nose. Either that or the GF has super-human olfactory abilities. Frankly I'm not sure which is more likely anymore. Maybe this explains why she seems to get along with dogs so well, I'd imagine that being able to discuss smells coming from the next county would give someone an almost unlimited variety of small-talk topics in conversation.
But for me such fantasies of intellectual dialogue with the furry-folk about how Mrs. Applewhite in Gary IN used too much nutmeg in her freshly baked apple pie remains idle speculation. Instead of the smelling ability of dogs, I have the hair growing ability of turtles. And turtles tend to not be very conversational about such things. It's considered rude.
"Axillary odour from women in the follicular phase was rated as the most attractive and least intense," the study's leader Dr Jan Havlicek, from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, said.
"The results suggest that body odour can be used by men as a cue to the fertile period in current or prospective sexual partners," he added.
So, maybe I'm misinterpreting, but is he suggesting that the best way to tell if you're at risk of knocking up someone you're sleeping with is to give their 'pits a sniff? Somehow, I think that might kill the mood a little. Or make you appear like some sort of weird fetishist.
My problem is that I apparently have a dead nose. Either that or the GF has super-human olfactory abilities. Frankly I'm not sure which is more likely anymore. Maybe this explains why she seems to get along with dogs so well, I'd imagine that being able to discuss smells coming from the next county would give someone an almost unlimited variety of small-talk topics in conversation.
But for me such fantasies of intellectual dialogue with the furry-folk about how Mrs. Applewhite in Gary IN used too much nutmeg in her freshly baked apple pie remains idle speculation. Instead of the smelling ability of dogs, I have the hair growing ability of turtles. And turtles tend to not be very conversational about such things. It's considered rude.
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The thing is, it's a system that's pretty much obsolete. Human survival in the 20th century is much much easier than, say 900,000 years ago.
There is a big difference between body odor and natural scent smell. Body odor is nasty, and smells like nacho cheese and chili.
Perfumes and colognes sort of try to recreate a certain scent that's appealing, but it totally throws off the entire pheromone system.
Really, women don't need to worry about all this crap anyway. The only real characteristic men are looking for is WILLINGNESS.