Men smelling women: Null effects of exposure to ovulatory sweat on men's testosterone

Men smelling women: Null effects of exposure to ovulatory sweat on men’s testosterone | Evolutionary Psychology

Women make less androgens so we sweat less sexual pheromones then men and our sexual signalers are not found in sweat like males but in vaginal fluids. This is why heavy masculine mixes dont work well for females at least for sexual signaling. We have known that for a long time

Thats why we use copulins which are not related to sweat and why they are used in such concentrations. Had they done the test with our vaginal fluids instead of sweat they would have had different results.

However other pheromones like EST are secreted in our sweat and while these are not sex pheromones they do elicit responses its just not the response they were testing for in this particular test.

Tisha

They also didn’t mention copulins, which I don’t think show up in sweat. :wink:

Snort, I should hope our vaginal fluids dont show up in sweat LOL That would be weird. :smiley: