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A woman friend of mine recently commented about her guy: "He's such a boy. His towels are stinky. And he doesn't seem to notice!" Well, maybe he can't smell the stinkyness. According to recent research from the Monell Chemical Senses Center, women have much sharper noses.
Women Smell Better Than Men
Seeded on Thu Apr 9, 2009 1:32 AM EDT
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The researchers suggest that for women there may be important biological information contained in male sweat.
Although apparently its unpleasant information to perceive.
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#1 - Thu Apr 9, 2009 1:34 AM EDThttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-374153/Armpit-smell-indicate-fertility.html
Earlier research has shown that people are more attracted to others whose immune systems complement their own.
It makes sense to have a wide range of immune system genes providing the broadest possible immunity.
Ideally, men and women with contrasting immunity genes should get together so their offspring have a mixture of the two.
Scientists have found that people "smell' more attractive to each other when their immune system genes are the right kind.
I couldn't find an orginal article. This one mentions the smell/immune system compatability in passing.
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I recall running into some of these studies some time ago, perhaps I'll venture over to PubMed and see how things have advanced in the field.
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Washing his towels more often it helps.
Sheesh, if the towels stink is because they are thrown and not aired or clean.
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So...Does this mean I smell better than Magoo? Or do I SMELL better than Magoo?
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Samuel Johnson compiled the first English dictionary and he was a stickler for proper word use. He wasn't so good, however, at personal hygiene. He once got into a horse-drawn London taxi-cab with an un-acquainted lady who after not very long looked him in the eye and pronounced: "Sir, you smell!"
Sam replied: "No, madam. You smell. I stink."
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#5 - Thu Apr 9, 2009 12:06 PM EDTThis isn't news, medical science has known this for quite a while. I learned about it in medical school.
Still, glad to see it reiterated.
*sniff sniff*
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#6 - Thu Apr 9, 2009 10:49 PM EDTAs soon as I read the headlines, I came over here to say, "WELL DUH!"
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So did I air force vet.I guess they have been smelling 80 year olds who stopped taking baths when they were in their 70's and try to cover it up with Jade East.
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True. I have a nose for that kind of thing.
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#7 - Thu Apr 9, 2009 11:08 PM EDTI perhaps am the exception that confirms the rule: In our couple, I am the one with the sharp nose. My wife will often call me here and there to check if everything smells clean and fresh. Before she conceded the point, my nose used to register something fishy, days ahead of hers.
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Not to sound gross or anything, but I stopped wearin deodorant after I decided I didn't want to rub aluminum all over my body. I know it's safe, it's just a personal thing. Haven't been told I'm smelly yet :-)
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#8 - Fri Apr 10, 2009 1:22 AM EDTthat's because since you quit wearing deodorant, everyone has stayed as far from you as possible. (:
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if they are being released into the air and water by giant corps like dow, exxon-mobil, dupont, etc. hell yeah!
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Hahaha! That may be true, I have been getting a lot less dates lately....
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if they are being released into the air and water by giant corps like dow, exxon-mobil, dupont, etc. hell yeah!
You're a tool. As far as I know dow is stock market and exxon-mobil and the others are OIL companies not aluminum deodorant companies.
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Ordinarily, I'd delete a comment directing spurious insults at someone else in the thread. But you do such a good job making it apparent who is the tool with your second sentence...its hard to imagine Derek M. did anything but laugh.
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Not to sound gross or anything, but I stopped wearin deodorant after I decided I didn't want to rub aluminum all over my body. I know it's safe, it's just a personal thing. Haven't been told I'm smelly yet :-)
Although some researches think the long term exposure of aluminum in deodorants can cause Lou Gehrig's disease and Alzheimer's Disease.
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They sweat, burp and break wind like everyone else.
If it smells like fish, don't make a dish. If it smells like cologne, better leave it alone.
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#9 - Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:48 PM EDTlolollollol1233-
are you kidding? dow is a stock market? i really think you need to know the difference between DOW JONES and dow chemical! dow is the company that rained down agent orange on me in vietnam!
dupont is not an oil company either, it is a chemical company. don't take my word, just google the two.
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#10 - Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:04 PM EDTAnd here I thought women were always concerned with how things smell because they cared, and men generally don't. This is true of a lot of things.
For example, if a couple is building a house, it's almost always the wife who will pick out, well, everything. Kitchen, bathroom, colors, appliances, all of it.
I know a couple who recently built a commercial building for the husband's business. It might have been HIS workplace, but it was his wife doing all the choosing about paint and finishing and carpet and so on. The husband didn't really care about any of that stuff.
One of the wife's add-ons was a shower stall so the husband could go home clean at night. The husband was befuddled by this but went along with it.
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#11 - Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:53 PM EDTLove Stinks. And for good reason.
Napoleon once wrote to Josephine ( sorry, I must paraphrase) "Darling, I'll be home soon, don't bathe!"
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