Maybe it's just me, but I don't get what's so attractive about sweaty clothes
You must have missed what
@CulR wrote a few messages back...
According to a new study published in the
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by researchers at the
University of British Columbia, smelling a romantic partner’s scent may reduce stress.
“A lot of people, especially women, report doing this — in one survey (
McBurney, Shoup, & Streeter, 2006), about 80 percent of women and 50 percent of men reported that they’d intentionally smelled a worn article of clothing from their partner, and the most common feelings they report after doing this are comfort and security,” says Chen
To which I can confirm. I've had more than one girlfriend in the past who would borrow one of my shirts and sleep with it under her pillow.
If I were still in the Navy and was married, then I'd probably be sending my wife an unlaundered undershirt, sealed in a plastic bag, in the mail every week while underway. And I'm pretty sure that it would be something that'd catch on with my shipmates, because it's stuff like that which will help keep a woman from cheating on you while you're away.
People say that women are overly emotional. The fact of the matter is, though, is that they're being driven by hormones. They just don't realize it because of the toxic idea of, "Oh, she a woman, so she's just being emotional" and how widespread it is. It's just a biological imperative manufactured by hundreds of thousands of years of natural selection. I know it sounds a bit sexist, but us men have our own foibles caused by natural selection, too. And there's not much to be done about it except to understand how it works, take measures to mitigate it where you can, and cultivate careful self-control where you can't mitigate. It's just how the biology works out, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.