Experiments Show Women Can Sniff Out Single And Married Men
The eyes are often said to be the window to someone's soul, but the nose could be a backdoor to their bedroom. Experiments have found heterosexual women can actually smell which suitors are available and which are taken.
In recent years, the science of human scent has been sniffing up a storm in the lab, and
recent results suggest that people who like to take deep whiffs of another's natural fragrance are likely to be more sexually motivated overall.
Straight men also seem to be
more attracted to a woman's scent when their crush is at the most fertile point in her menstrual cycle, or
when a woman is sexually aroused. Exposure to these pheromones can even
trigger men to drink more on a night out.
Conversely, when women are ovulating, studies have found they are
more attracted to masculine-looking males. Experiments also suggest that men's
testosterone levels can subtly fluctuate depending on whether men they're single or in a committed relationship.
A 2019 Australian
study asked 82 heterosexual women between the ages of 18 and 35 to rate the body odors and faces of heterosexual men. Half of the women were single while the other half were partnered. When smelling the anonymous bottled male odors, female participants were asked questions like "How much do you like/dislike this smell?" and "How sexy does this odor smell?".
The faces of these scents were then presented randomly to women. When looking at portraits, female participants rated the men on their attractiveness, sexiness, intelligence, loyalty, kindness, trustworthiness, masculinity, and whether they looked like a good partner.
Ultimately, researchers found that single men's body odor smelled stronger to all women than the natural scent of partnered men.
The more likable the male scent, the more likely women were to rate their looks as favorable.
A
study in 2010, for instance, found that single males have higher testosterone levels than partnered males. Not only could this make them more competitive in the dating arena, but the natural scent of their high-testosterone bodies could also signal fitness, viability, and sexual availability to others in an inexplicit way.
"From an evolutionary perspective, it may be advantageous for women to be able to detect the chemosignals that connote coupledom and ultimately avoid courting partnered males (especially with offspring) due to the relatively reduced resources they can offer," the authors
write.
But there is another explanation, and it's far less appealing: It's been suggested that married men have better health and hygiene than single men.
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