An Armpit By Any Other Name...Ain't No Rose!

"The sexiest part of a man, a Swiss zoologist has found, may be his armpits: they're an odoriferous window on his genes."

Why, you ask, why armpits? Three simple letters: MHC. Stands for major histocompatibility complex.

A better explanation can be read here. Seems we women pick men who have a more diverse DNA set than our own, rather a take on survival of the fittest. Human reproduction benefits from a wider gene pool. You might call it love with the proper stranger. One weird finding, women on oral birth control tended to select the male odor of a similar DNA pattern. Could be part of the high divorce rate, you think? Not beyond a possibility.

Equally interesting, women exposed to the scent of a male armpit experience a calming effect. Triggers the lutenizing hormone in women. All about pheromones, it seems. Since I no longer have a sense of smell, I wonder if my brain can still sense the male pheromone production? Anyway guys, this is not to say you can get away with three days of nonbathing. I am talking about a natural male odor, not the reek of stale socks in a gym room.

So, love really is about chemistry, huh?