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She asked twenty heterosexual men to avoid deodorants and other scented products for a few days and then fitted them with little armpit pads while they watched a pornographic video. Electrodes taped to their skin to measure conductivity, a reflection of the amount of sweat produced, confirmed that the men did get aroused. On a separate occasion, the men collected sweat produced as they exercised. Chen then recruited young female volunteers to sniff the male underarm productions as their brains underwent an MRI scan.

Lo and behold, the scent produced when the men had been turned on activated a different area in the female brain than the exercise induced sweat. What this means is hard to say. Maybe women can subconsciously detect when men are excited. Maybe they can sense when that guy who is trying to look really cool and disinterested is really interested. There have been some indications that a steroid, androstadienone, may have a stimulant effect, but it could also be the cheesy hexanoic acid.

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