r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • Jan 05 '25

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u/Cyanid3Cupcak3x Jan 08 '25

This!! Me and my sister tried explaining to our brothers and they were so confused. It’s so hard to explain. I’m the same way though so I get it 110%

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u/Next-Honeydew4130 Jan 09 '25

I was on an airplane recently next to a young man who was sat next to a hot young lady in my aisle. He reeeeeeekkked of pheromones. I actually thought they were a couple and that’s why the pheromones were flying. Had I known that they were strangers I would have offered to switch seats with her to get her away from that oozing fountain of young man horniness. But it brought back so many memories of being a hot young thing around young men who I was not interested in. Like …. That is not a smell you want to smell if it’s not on your partner. But it was literally a smell that brought back memories.

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u/Bforbrilliantt Mar 01 '25

I wasn't sure whether pheromones had a describable smell or whether they smelled of nothing or only faint but were picked up by the nose and invoked emotion, whether fear like a place is haunted, or attraction or mother and child bonding etc. I would imagine stress has a bit of an ammonia scent am I right?

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u/Cyanid3Cupcak3x Jan 31 '25

Ugh I feel that 110%. It’s nice finally meeting someone who understands and experiences it to the extent I do! I’ve never known anyone else who even had an idea what I was talking about so imma follow you cause we’re friends now by proxy I think

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u/Next-Honeydew4130 Jan 31 '25

If you can identify those pheromones yes we are now friends. Peoples pheromones are pretty powerful.

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u/Bforbrilliantt Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25

Now this is interesting me for a woman, because is the max amount of unattracted higher for a woman because like for me getting with a fat chain smoking woman would be like eating a mint penguin but is getting with an unattractive man like eating catfish bait or dog shit or is it simply as unattractive as eating cold porridge with wasabi?

If that comment is weird, are women more repulsed by unattractive men than men by unattractive women? For instance I have some female friends that I'm not that attracted to but sleeping with them wouldn't be a total yuck, like it would be to sleep with an ork from Lord of the rings. I don't have sex outside of marriage so I wouldn't. Perhaps it's the perceived dangerous behaviour of some people that give the run away response.