Post Date December, 03 2023
"Miss your beauty, miss your smile, miss the faint smell of tobacco on your body." Singer Xin Xiaoqi once conquered hundreds of millions of listeners with a song called "Taste," which expresses a young woman's psychological feeling of missing the taste of her lover's body.
This shows that, like women, there is also a masculinity that highlights male characteristics. Medical experts use a specialized term to describe it, called body odor. So do you know how men taste?
The role of male body odor
Don't underestimate a man's body odor, it has a great physiological effect! Scientists have found that the subtle, light, and heavy scent of men has a significant impact on women's spirit, emotions, and sexuality. For example, researchers collected odors from men's armpits, mixed them with alcohol, and applied them to the lips of a group of unmarried women with irregular menstruation. After a period of time, their menstruation unexpectedly returned to normal. This is also the reason why some scientists imagine to make male scent into cream or perfume as a female health care product.
More magically, men's body odor can, to some extent, influence women's view of mate selection. Psychological research shows that the most important thing women value is not the look in a man's eyes, but the smell emitted by a man. Men who have a similar but different body odor than their father are most likely to be attracted to them. The reason is that body odor can reflect a person's immune system strength, and women have the natural ability to rely on different body odors to identify antibodies from different men, thereby obtaining the greatest opportunity to conceive healthy children.
It can be seen that there is a scientific reason why women love men's body odor. A survey confirms this: 71% of men and women believe that body odor is an important "sexual stimulant"; More than 50% of women believe that musky body odor is the most sexy, while about 25% of women prefer spicy body odor.
The context of masculinity
The body odor of a man consists of two parts: sweat fragrance and sexual fragrance. "Sweat comes from the secretion of sweat glands on the body's surface. The secretion of sweat glands does not have a taste, but after contact with the skin, coupled with the" brewing "of bacteria, the taste comes out, known as sweat fragrance. The main odor substance contained is butyrate.". Once skin hygiene is poor, bacteria feed on the oil secreted by the skin. As the oil decomposes, the taste becomes unpleasant, and the aroma of sweat becomes sweat. In summer, mosquitoes chasing people and police dogs using their sense of smell to track down fugitives are all affected by the scent of sweat.
"Sexual aroma is different. The substances that produce this kind of smell are derived from external hormones secreted by the human body. These external hormones are" brewed "by external glands in the armpits, head and face, chest, and genitals, also known as pheromones.". American scientists have isolated 11 pheromones from human skin cells. These mysterious substances virtually affect basic human behaviors, such as attraction between the sexes. At the same time, everyone also has their own unique pheromones, just as everyone has their own unique fingerprints.
In addition, things released by the human body during the metabolic process can also produce certain odors. According to expert measurements, there are about 900 kinds of odors, including 149 types of respiratory gases, 196 types in feces, 151 types in sweat, and 271 types discharged through the skin. It is these odorant substances that mix to become masculine or feminine.
(Intern Editor: Xie Yunsheng)
