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># Scientists research body odor. PHILADELPHIA (AP) George Preti approaches
>his patients sniffing. He snuffles under their armpits, takes deep whiffs
>of their necks and slowly sniffs up and down their bodies. "Mmm-hmm," he
>says, jotting down notes. "OK, take a deep breath and exhale into my face."
>Yummy: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559836935-7f7
Many moons ago, when I was an undergrad, I got paid $10 to participate in a
study where four times for one month I had to sniff an empty sandwich bag.
It was a blind study, so I had no clue as to why the psychology professor
wanted me to whiff this baggie, but $10 was a couple of pitchers of beer and
a pizza, ya know? Anyway, one week I whiffed the baggie and shuddered,
pulling away. The student assistant asked me what was wrong, and I said,
"Whew! Smells like my little brother's room!" He got really excited by
that, and grabbed his clipboard. "Can you expand on that?" "Well, yeah," I
says. "Smells like my little brother's room. Ya know, he plays hockey and
he leaves his jock strap and stuff on the floor all week...smells awful!"
This REALLY excited the student assistant. Come to find out, at the end of
the study when they debriefed me, they told me they were measuring responses
against menstrual cycles: whether or not women could detect male
pheremones, and if so at what point in their cycle. So they mapped out my
cycle for a month. Apparently, they were trying to debunk a previous study
wherein the hypothesis that women are more sensitive at certain points of
their cycle than others to male pheremones was proven. They weren't able to
debunk it. So, the professor (a strict behaviorist) never published the
study. So what was it I was smelling???!!! I was really worried about
that, ya know! I had all kinds of nightmares about what the heck the male
student assistant had in that baggie!!! Apparently, I was smelling "body
odor." The male assistant stuck his fist in the bag, held it shut, and
sweated.
Why do male academics have such a fetish about body odor anyway?
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