Women Know Love Stinks

[SteppingRazor]

I'll just post this without any commentary and let you all go to work :P

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-1212lovestinks,0,4198179.story?track=rss

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Give these scientists a man and his T-shirt and they can tell whether a particular woman will be more attracted to him -- merely based on a whiff of the T-shirt he wore and the genes in his MHC complex.

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In this latest study, published in Psychological Science, Christine Garver-Apgar, a doctoral student, and Steven Gangestad, Randy Thornhill, Robert Miller and Jon Olp found that the genes did guide behavior. They genetically typed 48 romantic college couples who had been together an average of two years. They asked the women a series of questions about their sexual responsiveness toward their mate -- and their unfaithfulness in the relationship.

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Then they looked at three MHC genes, each with two different varieties, and compared each partner's genetic makeup. The more similar, the less sexually responsive they were to their partners. They also were more unfaithful. The genetically similar women reported more attraction, interest and fantasy toward other men prior to ovulation. When they were not in this phase of the cycle, they showed no sexual interest outside of their partner.

Here is the depressing news: Thornhill believes the partner one chooses is "a compromise. A woman might get a man who doesn't smell so great in MHC genetic sense but he will have other attractive attributes," said Thornhill, a professor at the university. Once the pairing takes place, "love encourages you to do the best you can."

Men do not show an MHC-based sexual preference, the reproductive biologist added.

[BarenakedLady]

1. Do you think men would get freaked out

If I just randomly started going around sniffing them to find the right one. :shrug:

[billyskank]

2. *checks armpit*

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

3. *sniff sniff*

I'm done with my search. Hurrah!

:woohoo:

How are you today? :hi: :hug:

[billyskank]

4. Run down and icky

so I stayed at home. I need a vacation.

:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

6. Oh no!

What's the matter? Can I come over and take care of you? Make you some tea, perhaps? You can lay on the couch all day while amuse you with my amazing mime impression and funny walks.

:hug:

[billyskank]

7. Sure

come on over. :hug:

[In_The_Wind]

8. billyskank

:loveya:

[billyskank]

9. Hi Joani

:hug:

:*

:loveya:

[cwydro]

10. That might depend where you

were sniffing:evilgrin:

[BarenakedLady]

12. I suppose you are right

I would have to be slick about it I imagine. Maybe the neck. I'll try it out the next time I go somewhere. :evilgrin:

[In_The_Wind]

5. That's scary.

I posted a reply to the story and it almost knew where I'm posting from. :wtf:

Yes. I can agree with the obvious findings when I look at the men I've felt attracted to.

[LaraMN]

11. Hah! My husband always thinks I'm weird when I want to smell his neck.

He ought to be flattered!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. I was watching a talk show once way back when men's colognes first

came on the market.

One of the guests was Dr. Joyce Brothers, and she said that her favorite masculine scent was "clean man," i.e. man just out of the shower.

I didn't understand at the time, being only in my early teens, but now I agree. :-)