Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
by scns on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:37AM
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Well, do you know the experiment where women were asked to smell shirts worn by men overnight? When they were ready to conceive they liked the smell of male sweat, otherwise they'd say it stinks. When women get off the pill to have children, it happens that they don't like their partners smell anymore.
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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny
by ben_w on Friday August 18, 2023 @06:06AM
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> Why should the organ which tasked to find a mate, to have healthy children with, not work in us anymore?
I can't member where I read this, but I have read that the human sense of smell stopped being hugely important for food when we developed three colour vision.
It's conceivable that vision enhancements also gave us a different path to mate-finding than smell; if so, the smell genes can randomise without much risk to reproductive success.