Here’s something to wrap your nose around: Sniffing man-scent can be a great way to relieve stress. At least, according to a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
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The study was conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia. Here’s how it worked: Researchers recruited about 100 male/female couples. The men were given a clean t-shirt to wear for 24-hours and instructed not to use any deodorant or other scented body products.
Once the 24-hours were up, the female participants were randomly assigned a t-shirt to bury their nose in. The shirts had either been worn by their partner, by someone other than their partner, or were clean/unworn. They were not informed which shirt they had been given prior to the sniff test.
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Before and after smelling the t-shirts, the women underwent stress tests. Researchers noticed that that women who sniffed their own partner’s t-shirt felt less stressed. Not just that, but some of the women were even able to correctly identify their partner’s scent.
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“Many people wear their partner’s shirt or sleep on their partner’s side of the bed when their partner is away, but may not realize why they engage in these behaviors,” the study’s lead author and a grad student in the UBC department of psychology, Marlise Hofer, says.
“Our findings suggest that a partner’s scent alone, even without their physical presence, can be a powerful tool to help reduce stress.”
Frances Chen, a study author and assistant professor in the UBC department of psychology, adds, “Our research suggests that something as simple as taking an article of clothing that was worn by your loved one could help lower stress levels when you’re far from home.”
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crowebobby
This is another one of those things — like rimming — that can be incredibly erotic to “do” but is “off-putting” to talk about. IMHO
Paco
So what does the study say about the stress response of men, gay or straight, that smell the scent of other men?
Nothing. It was a heterosexual study.
Knight
This is actually a follow-up study to one done in the early 2000s we learned about in first year Bio. The same T-shirt in canister test was done to see how scent factors in families. In the vast majority of cases Women preferred the scent of their husbands, and husbands preferred those of their spouses. But men were repulsed by the scent of their daughters and daughters were repulsed by the scent of their fathers. Mothers – sons or sons – daughters had no positive or negative reaction. So, what it showed was in most cases humans that bond emotionally also bond over scent, and nature has a mechanism for decreasing attraction between fathers and daughters (thank God!).
jd.cali
Lol the conclusions are laughable. So smelling your partner makes u feel good… no sh*t! I mean… duh. Just duh
AndThenTheresMax
Am I the only gay in the village that read this article and saw the test subjects were “FEMALE”? Did everyone skip over that part? Personally, if I smell a hot man after Cross Fit, I get all stressed out in the locker room trying to hide my HUGE ERECTION from all the straight bro’s.
It’s kinda like Kim Cattrall in that famous Porky’s scene where she’s taken into the locker room and gets turned on.
So do I find it relaxing? NO! Stressful yes. It’s only relaxing until I shove my BBC deep inside his warm love hole. Then he’ll find that stressful unless there’s poppers involved then that’s a hole different story.
Blackceo
That top picture almost makes me gag. Stay on topic Queerty. Its not licking arm pits; its sniffing them, which also makes me want to throw up in my mouth a bit.
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i’d rather smell the ass-crack of a clean beefy stud
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I’ve always said that the scent of a sweaty man is the best aphrodisiac in the world.
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