Is it true that women are attracted to a mans BO?

Question

you mean, I have been taking all these showers for nothing?

Answer 1

I don't think women want a "stinky" man, but many women have told me they're attracted to the general scent of a man that came home from work or from the gym, and have that faint mixture of sweat and cologne. Many women have told me they're turned on by that.

Remember one of those female teachers that had sex with her 13 (or 14) year old student? I remember reading her "love letters" (published in the press) that she'd write to him, and she'd talk about how she was turned on by his scent after his Phys Ed class of his mixture of "sweat" and "cologne." Her words, not mine.

Basically what I'm saying is -- women don't want men that DON'T shower, but I think many women do like the faint scent of sweat after a day's work.

So I think you heard of this, but weren't specific, thus your question is misguided, and you're getting a lot of misguided answers (like Deidre) who think what you're referring to is stinky men that don't bathe. Not bathing for a week straight, and simply being sweaty on a hot day are two different things.

I for one like the smell of the pheromones of a sweaty woman during sex.

Answer 2

To figure out how we pick mates, scientists have measured every shape and angle of the human face, studied the symmetry of dancers, crafted formulas from the measurements of Playboy models, and had both men and women rank attractiveness based on smelling armpit sweat.

After all this and more, the rules of attraction for the human species are still not clearly understood. How it all factors into true love is even more mysterious.

But a short list of scientific rules for the game of love is emerging. Some are as clearly defined as the prominent, feminine eyes of a supermodel or the desirable hips of a well-built man. Other rules work at the subconscious level, motivating us to action for evolutionary reasons that are tucked inside clouds of infatuation.

In the end, lasting love depends at least as much on behavior as biology. But the first moves are made before you're even born.

Research reported last month found women both smell and look more attractive to men at certain times of the month.

And symmetrical men smell better.

Borrowing sweaty undershirts from a variety of men, Thornhill offered the shirts to the noses of women, asking for their impressions of the scents. Hands down, the women found the scent of a symmetrical man to be more attractive and desirable, especially if the woman was menstruating.

By now you might be wondering how much of this we're consciously aware of. The rules of attraction, it turns out, seem sometimes to play out in our subconscious.

In some cases, women in Thornhill's study reported not smelling anything on a shirt, yet still said they were attracted to it.
We think the detection of these types of scent is way outside consciousness," Thornhill said.

A 2002 study found women prefer the scent of men with genes somewhat similar to their own over the scent of nearly genetically identical or totally dissimilar men.

These subconscious scents might be related to pheromones, chemical signals produced by the body to communicate reproductive quality. The human genome contains more than 1,000 olfactory genes—compared to approximately 300 genes for photoreceptors in the eyes—so pheromones have received a lot of attention from basic research scientists as well as perfume manufacturers.

But the role of pheromones in the human realm remains controversial.

Answer 3

My wife goes nut when I come in from working in the yard, at least I get to take a shower with a smile after she is done with me.

Answer 4

some magazine took a survey on that, but I, nor a lot of people believe in surveys because they don't reach a lot of people, or they reach only certain areas, but maybe a lot of people who wanted to say no to your question were at work and too busy to take a survey.

I personally would rather be around a showered man.

Answer 5

Not to his BO, silly, to his scent. We all have phermones, a signature odor if you will, that the "right" person will find irresistable. When I first started dating the love of my life, I couldn't get enough of the scent of his sheets, his clothes, it was like a drug!

Answer 6

Not that it may matter, but I don't know a women who would go out with a smelly man. Of course they also need to have brains, teeth, and a permanent address.

Answer 7

Haha... I actually saw a study about that.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=434685&in_page_id=1879

Of course, as a few people posted, nobody likes an accumulation of that body odor. (Well, most people don't at least...)

EDIT: Baba Yaga, you're really something! I already apologized, lord almighty! I was in error, calm down! It's the Internet, remember? By the way, did you start your period today? You've been screaming like crazy on these boards!

And I take offense at that. I don't cheat at all! I don't INTENTIONALLY lie, either; my error was a misunderstanding and a mistake. My bad. (I'll take the self-righteous, though, as I do believe quite a few of my viewpoints are moral. Thanks!)

Answer 8

i would hope not , i don't they are attracted to funky men i think that they are attracted to their own mens sweat. FYI .. all sweat isn't funky, sometimes a man needs to smell like a man

Answer 9

I like clean smelling men,no Stinky's.

Answer 10

Let me put it this way...my husband gets more attention if he's just had a shower. And he has one every day...he's really fussy about hygiene.