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Male Sweat Makes Women Happy
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."
Is that it has to do with pheremone's present in sweat. I'll assume they used underarm sweat as we have a lot of sweat glands there.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Here is a one page fact sheet on human pheromones from a bio class at UIUC. As you can see, this is not exactly news.
ARgh...posted to fast. Correct link here.
And that's how stinky men get laid.
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It's not _sweat_ that smells, it's _stale sweat_.
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.
I was surprised to read this CNN article from a team at Penn who have apparently done nothing more than to reproduce a set of experiments that were carried out in 1987 by Martha McClintock's group (http://cns.bsd.uchicago.edu/faculty/mMcClintock.h tml) at the University of Chicago. You can read the gist of their experiments in a Newsweek article dated 1/12/87 (http://www.athenainstitute.com/mediaarticles/news week.html)
I should say right now my experience has been 100% identical. I haven't worn deodorant in years; my current girlfreind and previous ones have never said "you stink" and a couple have even said they like my smell. One was a fanatic for it -- but she was peculiar ;)
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. Etc etc.
You'll find that along with smelling like a clean human being (which is, if you think about it, better than smelling like chemicals), if you're overweight -- you soon won't be. I dropped 20 pounds in a year. I've kept it off too. Amazingly, the effect of clean lifestyle is enough that I don't even need deodorant after riding my bike to work or going to the gym.
It's amazing what good can come of the most obvious changes in habits.
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Roman gladiators would scrape the sweat off themselves and women would buy bottles of it.
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.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.