# Don't Shower, Get Women

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-shower-get-women/163930>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 25, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-shower-get-women/163930 "2003-03-25T02:15:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dana27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dana27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dana27)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-shower-get-women/163930/1 "2003-03-25T02:15:07Z")

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> In a study to be published in the journal Biology of Reproduction, researchers collected samples from the underarms of men who refrained from using deodorant for four weeks. The extracts were then blended and applied to the upper lips of 18 women, aged 25 to 45.  
> The women rated their moods on a fixed scale for a period of six hours. The findings suggested something in the perspiration brightened their moods and helped them feel less tense.

[Full Text Link](http://www.msnbc.com/news/885348.asp?0cv=CB10&cp1=1)

Who’s going to be the first to stop using deoderant. I’m married so it does me no good, but for all you single guys out there don’t say I never gave you anything.

So smelling nice may mean less chicks. Brewing up some good armpit stench may help you get women. How very interesting. How wrong we all were. If only I had known this in high school and college I could have had a lot more fun. Maybe that’s how all those smelly european guys we knew in college got all the women.

If word gets out that I leaked this info some of the deoderant companies may order a hit on me. Well gotta go so I can move my computer away from the window.

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**Author:** ![Tony\_Barber\_s\_Underwear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58f4c7/32.png) [@Tony\_Barber\_s\_Underwear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Barber_s_Underwear)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-shower-get-women/163930/2 "2003-03-25T02:57:13Z")

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I just want to know who the birds were who agreed to have complete stranger’s sweat smeared over their upper lips. That’s pretty gross.

-Bubba.