February 26, 2007 -- Never mind the recent commercial for deodorant that claims nobody likes sweaty men. A new research study from the University of California Berkeley published in the Journal of Neuroscience shows that women find the smell of sweating men sexy. Forty-eight heterosexual females, 21 years average age, were asked to smell mixtures containing androstadienone, a compound found in male sweat and blanks. Androstadienone is a derivative of testosterone and is found in male sweat as well as saliva and semen. It has a somewhat “musky” smell. The surprising results...
