Conventional wisdom says that the way to a get a girl in the mood is to woo her with flowers or a candlelit dinner. Well, according to a new study, the way to a woman’s, ahem, well between her legs, maybe the in fact through the male sweat gland.
That twinkle in his eye, his swagger, that sexy smile – all are clear signs he’s in the mood; so when scientist put it to the test whether humans, like animals, use chemical signals called pheromones to communicate sexual interest to potential mates, results find women can tell bu the scent of his sweat.
Although the effects of pharamones are thought to be subconscious -so if we do use it, we’re unaware of it… at leat till now 
A psychologist at Rice University and her colleagues devised an experiment to compare how women respond to different forms of male sweat (um ew.) Sweat produced in normal situations and that of when a man is stimulated.
The researchers speculated that if humans do produce and respond to sweat pheromones, then a woman should respond to a guy’s sexual sweat differently than just his normal B.O.
The experiment asked 20 heterosexual guys to stop wearing deodorant and scented products for a few days. Then had the men put small pads in their armpits as they watched pornographic videos and became aroused (the researchers confirmed, using electrodes, that the images did the job )
Later the guys were asked to exchange those pads to fresh pads to collect the sweat produced when they weren’t aroused. After, the researchers recruited 19 brave women to smell the men’s pads while undergoing brain scans.
The investigators used (fMRI) -a technique that reveals the brain regions a person is using at any given times -even if the actions were subconscious. Sure enough the woman’s brains responded very differently depending on which they sniffed (no, thankfully none of them passed out).
The sexual sweat, but not the normal sweat, activated the right orbitofrontal cortex and the right fusiform cortex brain areas that help us recognize emotions and perceive things, respectively. Both, regions are inthe right hemisphere, which is generally involved in smell, social response and emotions.
While it wasn’t mentioned by the study, do you think this pheromonal awareness could explain why many women say they got a “spidy-sense” that their guy was cheating long before they had hard proof?
Our sexual intentions, in other words, maybe a lot clearer than we ever intended them to be.
