Alie Ward (host)

Now, if you loved it, we do have a colonoscopy how-to episode for you, and we have one on how zoologists analyze freezers full of animal scat.

Okay, so we're through most of the gnarliest parts of this episode.

We're good.

Let's get to other aromas.

Let's get to good ones.

What about pheromones?

Do you find that that smell of attraction, I mean, to flip it on the other side, is used in a lot of romance novels or a lot of very erotic scenes?

Do you find that they use smell to make things more physical?

up in the air.

Oh, my word.

Bless her for that.

Also, in terms of human pheromones, according to the textbook Neurobiology of Chemical Communication, chapter 19, titled Human Pheromones, do they exist?

They say, like all vertebrates, humans excrete or secrete many different chemicals via their urine and anal excrement, breath, genitalia, saliva, and skin glands.

And I just realized I told you guys that we were through with most of the gross parts, but human smells are human smells.

Okay, so it continues.

Most proponents of the human pheromone concept assume that skin glands are the source of the active pheromonal agents.

And all three major skin glands, two sweat and one sebaceous or oil, can produce chemicals that become odorous.

So why can't we smell love then?

Is this why online dating is just such a crapshoot and we should just go back to having dances where you only have to twirl around someone for the length of one song to know if you want to see them naked?

Well, there's this 2023 paper, The Clinical Significance of a Human Vomeronasal Organ.