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struggle4progress

(118,327 posts)
Tue Dec 29, 2015, 10:53 PM Dec 2015

Q for the Lounge Women. Is "Hey, baby! I eat garlic! Here! Smell my armpits!" a good pickup line?

Eating garlic makes men smell more 'attractive to women'

... 'Certainly, breath odour plays a crucial role in most social interactions, but human axillary (armpit) odour is also an important factor in intimate relationships,' the researchers wrote in the journal Appetite ...

For the study, 42 men were asked, in rotation, to eat raw garlic, garlic capsules, or no garlic, and wear pads in their armpits for 12 hours afterwards, to collect body odour.

Then, 82 women were asked to sniff the odour samples and judge them on their pleasantness, attractiveness, masculinity and intensity.

The body odour of the men was perceived to be 'significantly more attractive and less intense' when they had eaten the garlic in bulb and capsule form than when they (the same men) hadn't eaten it ...


http://www.irishmirror.ie/lifestyle/sex-relationships/eating-garlic-makes-men-smell-6811161
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Q for the Lounge Women. Is "Hey, baby! I eat garlic! Here! Smell my armpits!" a good pickup line? (Original Post) struggle4progress Dec 2015 OP
A: Um NO! In_The_Wind Dec 2015 #1
there were 82 women who agreed to sniff armit pads? Skittles Dec 2015 #2
Only if you sound REALLY sincere...nt clarice Dec 2015 #3
LOL. With a line like that, the only date you're sure to get is with your right hand, if you catbyte Dec 2015 #4

catbyte

(34,425 posts)
4. LOL. With a line like that, the only date you're sure to get is with your right hand, if you
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 11:20 AM
Dec 2015

catch my drift...

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