The Scent of Sexual Sweat

[ilovemuffins235]

http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode...sweat-09-02-09

I think it was my mom, embarrassingly, who once told me, “You’ve got to love the smell of your man.” Sounds cryptic, but studies have hinted that humans might detect pheromones, or that women are attracted to the scents of symmetrical men, or that a variation in genes determines the draw of a male scent.
Now, The Journal of Neuroscience published a study that shows women recognize male sexual sweat.
You might wonder, as the blogger Neurocritic did, what is “sexual sweat?” The paper doesn’t provide the chemistry, but in the study it’s the sweat excreted as men watch erotic videos. Researchers collected “neutral sweat” while the men watched educational documentaries.
Women sniffed the scents while their brains were scanned by an fMRI.
All but one of the 19 women did not recognize the scents as human, but their brains distinguished the sexual scent. Two regions reacted more to the sexual sweat than any of the other smells: the orbitofrontal cortex (an olfactory area) and the fusiform gyrus, responsible for face/body recognition.
The authors speculate that activation of the fusiform may be the brain recognizing the human quality of sexual sweat, but this leap requires more study.
In the meantime try your own experiment…

 

[William R]

Horny women took the test :.

 

[ohyo5o]

I have long believed in this. Pheromones are amazing aphrodisiacs, both ways. They've done studies with men, women and sweaty t-shirts and it's a real eye opener.

 

[cusmoter]

 

[desmeran (emeritus)]

I dont think this applies to everyone.

 

[Sincity Lin]

I've often been told that I smell of sex by various women with whom I had wonderful affairs with.
I think if they are tuned into you and you into them the pheromones are too high powered for you to ignore.

 

[Scary Halloween Mask]

pheromones are subjective just like beauty ...in the eye or nose of the beholder :he:

 

[Deleted member 79939]

http://www.sciam.com/podcast/episode...sweat-09-02-09

I think it was my mom, embarrassingly, who once told me, “You’ve got to love the smell of your man.” Sounds cryptic, but studies have hinted that humans might detect pheromones, or that women are attracted to the scents of symmetrical men, or that a variation in genes determines the draw of a male scent.
Now, The Journal of Neuroscience published a study that shows women recognize male sexual sweat.
You might wonder, as the blogger Neurocritic did, what is “sexual sweat?” The paper doesn’t provide the chemistry, but in the study it’s the sweat excreted as men watch erotic videos. Researchers collected “neutral sweat” while the men watched educational documentaries.
Women sniffed the scents while their brains were scanned by an fMRI.
All but one of the 19 women did not recognize the scents as human, but their brains distinguished the sexual scent. Two regions reacted more to the sexual sweat than any of the other smells: the orbitofrontal cortex (an olfactory area) and the fusiform gyrus, responsible for face/body recognition.
The authors speculate that activation of the fusiform may be the brain recognizing the human quality of sexual sweat, but this leap requires more study.
In the meantime try your own experiment…

do you sweat when you have sex with a massage lady?

 

[Deleted member 79939]

pheromones are subjective just like beauty ...in the eye or nose of the beholder :he:

Do women smell naturally different