Why do people like the smell of their own farts/poop/anus? Also, their own genitals?
Why do people dislike the smell of others?
Why do people sometimes like the smell of certain others?
This is seriously driving me nuts. I can't find any good science on this -- just a bunch of, HuffPo-level articles.
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weird pheromone chemistry stuff.
I remember hearing that one's perception of bodily odors differs depending on whether two individuals have compatible immune systems for the creation of healthy offspring.
you also know that you if are in good health you are safe and are at no risk of disease
>why do people smell their own nuts
>Its driving me nuts
Having a hard time putting your finger down today?
It's weird because animals also do that. Dogs, for example, smell their poop after they're done, just like we smell our hands when we scratch our asses/crotches/etc.
Really makes you think...
>Why do people like the smell of their own anus?
i wish i could bend that far to enjoy it
why do you sit on the toilet, masturbating to the reflection of your own sphincter?
>balls itch really bad
>scratch when you think nobody is looking
>smell your hand to see if it stinks
>it smells like balls and people are probably going to notice
I've heard that too, but then why do people like their own smells? The whole point of liking others' smells is to diversify the immune system, apparently.
>hard time
Assuming the assertion is true, a possible reason for this is the prevention of disease. In the past, people may have been exposed to their own fecal matter far more than others, and as a result, they have a higher likelihood of being immunized against diseases present within their own feces when compared to the feces of others. As a result, people will keep away from foreign dung. My theory of course has many unanswered questions - for example, why would the body not have made people react negatively to ALL poop, but merely prefer their own? Would they actually have a higher chance of immunization against their own fecal diseases? Is the assertion even true, or are you a defect (no pun intended)? This is the best explanation that I could come up with so far, however.
It could also be vestigial, form a prior evolutionary stage where humans had a better sense of smell. By liking the smell of your own genitals and disliking the small of others', the creature could smell whether or not a female has mated, and if a foreign genital stench is detected, they can try to claw out the semen of the other mate thereby increasing the chance of its own genes being passed on. This would also explain why mates with compatible immune systems smell good, so the genitals which smell bad are either incompatible or already mated. Some animals use this strategy so it may be a better theory than my previous one!
>Why do people like the smell of their own farts/poop/anus? Also, their own genitals?
they don't... they are itching themselves, and seeing if their hand smells.
Not really, I smell because I (dunno why) enjoy smelling my own nutsack. Not that I like it, but I feel that it has something special in it.
No, people like their own smell.
That's interesting. I could definitely see it being something vestigial. But this interpretation could also show a bias towards cultural norms, where it's fucking weird to sniff people's genitals. Whether you're a millionaire American or a tribal African, I'm pretty sure neither person would think it's cool to run around sniffing vaginas like a madman.
I wonder if two feral children coming across each other in the forest would have anything to say about the other's smell.
Everybody loves their own brand.
Our sense of smell is well developed enough to let us sense if we are healthy or not, we aren't consciously trained to isolate the odours but our subconscious knows.
I noticed that my ball sweat changes odour rather significantly depending on my hormone balance after fucking with my endocrine.
I've also had bad reactions to antibiotics in the past that changed every odour my body produced, and it was all awful, normally I enjoy my own smell, even my sweat smelled nice before it happened. Now it's slowly recovering.
Lodesa anecdote but it's enough to make me believe there is something to it.
Smelling fart right after emittance desensitizes nose.,
Yeah baby
Careful. Smelling your own penis can give you cocklust. It happened to me once at 24 years old. Almost thought i was turning queer.
Sorry buddy ive smelled my own cock before and that hasn't happened. You might be gay.
Dat nigga gay
>masturbate a million times to women since 12 years old
>caught making out with female cousin at 4 years old
>have never seen, nor had desire to see gay porn
>never been attracted to a man before
>instinctively stare at women's hips, thighs and ass
>repulsed at the idea of anal sex even even on a woman
but get semi weird feeling about wanting to suck a dick ONCE after smelling how good my junk smells and now i'm gay?
Nice (((try)))
>grow up in typical American home
>see mother and father, friends mothers and fathers, older siblings and significant others, television/movies/cartoons depicting heterosexual relationships
>rightfully think heterosexual is the way to go
>play at being heterosexual.
>even at 4, when children don't have sexual thoughts, play at being heterosexual
>hate the idea of anal sex. it infuriates me
>smell my dick
>start wanting to suck dick
>tfw i've been acting my whole life
>tfw i hate anal sex because deep down inside, I'm afraid i want it
>tfw when i'm a degenerate faggot
are you telling me you caught the gay from your dick smell? What a cruel world we live in.
lol. Gotta love when some armchair intellectual performs a psychoanalysis on you from 6 lines of greentext.
Anyway, i don't have problems with the gays. My family is very accepting and atheist so why wouldn't i come out if i were gay? I have had 13 years of post puberty experience and never had any inclination towards men. In fact, the only women who can get my dick hard are nigger thicc women with cellulite. even boyish plain women make me limp.
I don't have dick sucking cravings or reoccuring thoughts of faggotory. But 3 months ago, for the first time at age 24, i noticed how great my dick smells and how mouth watering it looked. I think maybe i have been watching too much porn but for sure i know i m not gay. I can't be the only straight guy that has had this happened to?
>fat women are not attractive to any straight man
>but I wouldn't know that, because I'm gay
>in a final effort to prove my heterosexuality to myself, I train myself to jack off to ham planets
>"they're the exact opposite of a boy!" i say hopefully, jerkin muh gerkin to amorphous fat rolls
>smell my dick. love it.
>keep picturing dicks in the fat rolls
>it's like an ink blot test
>the only person I'm fooling is myself
>finally come to terms with my faggotry. feels good man
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Conservatives have a strong sense of disgust, and hate the small of BO.
I wonder, do ultra-right wingers also hate their own scent, or just the scent of those that are "different' from their own.
Becos when u smell urself u can smell familiarity and it's comforting to remember and re place urself in the world in this way. Its a stability thing especially in a world where a lot of control is taken from you as soon as ur born.
>you're a racist right winger if you are disgusted by body odor
>minorities stink
>science proves it
>my sides
It's for identifying predators
Don't ask me why
But if you fart around me I'll attack