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Mansweat: The Sexy Variety
Posted by Raven on January 13th, 2009
I always knew there was something sexy about the scent of a sweaty man.
Heh.
Denise Chen, a psychologist at Rice University in Houston, and her colleagues devised an experiment to compare how women respond to different forms of male sweat — sweat produced in everyday situations versus that produced when a man is turned on.
…and there is a difference.
Chen and her colleagues asked 20 heterosexual guys to stop wearing deodorant and scented products for a few days.
Then they told the men to put small pads in their armpits as they watched pornographic videos and became aroused. (The researchers confirmed, using electrodes, that the images did the job.)
Heh.
Sure enough, the women’s brains responded very differently depending on which sweat they sniffed. (And no, none of them passed out.)
The sexual sweat, but not the normal sweat, activated the right orbitofrontal cortex and the right fusiform cortex, brain areas that help us recognize emotions and perceive things, respectively.
Heh.
They didn’t have to do this experiment. They should have simply asked me. I would have confirmed this. Sexy sweat is a turn on.
January 14th, 2009 at 12:18 am
I wonder if this guy’s “sexy” sweat would turn Miss Raven on…
Hubba. Hubba Raven. I just got done watching some porn, and I’m sweaty.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
THAT’S JUST WRONG. In so many ways.
I’m gonna get sick.