Women's Tears Bring Down Male Libidos

[3113]

If they're smelled, that is. From here:

A woman's tears can be a total turnoff for a guy — if he smells them, that is. Men who sniffed the tears of weeping women produced less testosterone and found female faces less arousing....Emotional tears previously had been shown to be chemically distinct from reflexive, eye-protecting tears. And in animals, tears are known to convey important messages: Male mice that cry attract females, and blind mole rats that weep ward off other males.

Perhaps human tears contained a chemical signal too, Sobel [the researcher] thought. So he asked six women to watch triple-hanky chick flicks such as "My Sister's Keeper" and let their tears trickle into a test tube. Sobel had assumed the tears would trigger feelings of sadness or empathy. Instead, the tears dampened men's libido like a cold shower.

The 50 tear-sniffing men whose testosterone levels were tested experienced a drop averaging 13%. Sniffers who viewed erotic images before submitting to an MRI showed less activity in the sexual arousal regions of their brains, too.

So now I gotta wonder...how do women feel if they "smell" men's tears?

 

[Liar]

There you have it, a lapdance is in fact not better when the stripper is crying.

 

[amicus]

I noticed that on the news today also...and thought about it from the aspect of 'kissing her tears away'...

There is a subtle nuance about writing romance that dabbles in scents, be they pheromones or artificial scents to amplify or duplicate the message of scent, or to cover and mask it.

But then, there are 'tears of joy' that women profusely excrete over situations beyond understanding of the mere male; I would suggest there is much more to be discovered from 'tears', than just the sensationalism of the initial study.

amicus

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm reading a book about salt, of all things. Salt plays an important role in sex. Tears contain no salt; sweat does.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Women get turned on by sweaty t-shirts.

 

[xssve]

I read that - but crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good...

 

[Stella_Omega]

Women get turned on by sweaty t-shirts.

this news will devastate the Old Spice Guy.