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Evolution rewarded women (and preserved the species) who learned how to smell themselves away from diseased men


Women can smell STD infection in men, reveals new science


Men carrying certain sexually transmitted infections may actually smell worse to women than men without such infections


"Our research revealed that infectious disease reduces odor attractiveness in humans," lead researcher Mikhail Moshkin said. "We can conclude that unpleasant body odor of infected persons can reduce the probability of a dangerous partnership,"


The women rated the sweat of the healthy men nearly twice as pleasant as that of the infected men. They judged nearly half of the infected men's samples as foul-smelling. In contrast, only one-third of the overall samples were rated as foul-smelling.

Similarly, while 26 percent of the healthy men's samples were described as "floral," only 10 percent of the samples from the infected men were described with that adjective. A full 40 percent of the infected men's samples were described as "putrid," compared with just 30 percent of the samples from the healthy men.

http://www.naturalnews.com/z034946_S...ons_smell.html

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I can't stand anything that smells like chemicals, though, which rules out most perfumes and colognes. That stuff doesn't trigger anything for me other than an allergy attack.

I am so thankful that no one I work with bathes in perfume or cologne because they give me migraines.

+1, although I am probably more sensitive than either of you. Some artificial fragrances have given me 30+ hour migraines. My life is basically ruined by fragrance.