Re: Lab full of women smelling T Shirts...
by
comportment
08/17/2008, 5:54 PM #
it is kind of paradoxical that the scientists say that our smell has a point, but we spend so much time trying to erase it. last time i checked, smelling like a hoagie led to jokes and ridicule. i'm sure that has a biological behavioral explanation too, but speaking of ridicule, i'd fell kind of ridiculous trying to translate a control study where women smell dirty t-shirts to real life in the first place.
if scientists explain pedophilia it still won't stop us saying that it is utterly wrong. i say this half-seriously, because i'm certain that there's a biological component to that particular problem, one that is stronger and more primal and more pervasive. i'm guessing that studies on this would have to pass through a pretty heavy cipher before they appear as a headline. I'm thinking of it now.
the title of the paper is "raping extremely young women increases probability of passing genetic material" and the headline is "men are attracted to youth" followed by a cosmo article titled "how to attain that youthful look in 5 easy steps."