Did you know that there is a gene that determines whether a woman finds the smell of male sweat sexy or not? That could explain an awful lot. And apparently there are three states: either you find the smell sexy, or you find it disgusting, or you can’t smell it at all. I appear to be in category three (but then my nose is pretty ineffectual all round so it could be just me). Anyway, now I won’t feel anywhere near so inferior when women authors go on about male smell in sex scenes.
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It’s even more complicated than that for me, I find. I was at One Of Those Parties recently, and spent some, erm, quality time with the host. When I went home, I almost had to shower before I could fall asleep because his scent on my skin was so jarring to me. A month or so previously, I had written to a new lover all aglow because I could still smell his scent on my fingertips the next day.
Who knows?