The Oils in Your Crotch

YOUR CROTCH! Such an interesting place with lots to...learn. Both dogs and humans share the same apocrine sweat glands which secrete an oily (and eventually smelly) compound. This oil acts as a phermone, warning signal and even a territorial marker. These glands expel exponentially fast during times when your adrenaline is at its highest (anxiety/stress/fear/pain and sexual stimulation).

It's very interesting that  because of the similarities between the glands in both humans and dogs; they're just as interested in sniffing your crotch as in the dogs next door. By smelling your present crotch in front of them, or your dirty thongs and undies from 2 days before - dogs know if you are currently or once were nervous, panic stricken and scared. Angry, aggressive or assertive. Happy, sick or ill. If you've had sex or even just got excited about having sex...all from the oils which to them, smells as informative as everything you've just currently read.

Dogs can pin point the ovulation cycles of other animals such as cats, cows, sheep and even humans. In some studies they have even been used as a form of birth control, alerting owners as to which dates were optimum for reproduction and which were not. As alarming as it may sound, humans ability to smell certain fluctuations in the odor of oils produced by the apocrine sweat glands is not outside the realm of possibility.

Studies done at multiple locations produced outstanding percentages of exotic dancers whom where all ovulating. These subjects earned at least 80% more in tips then their coworkers all who were not ovulating at the time. coincidence? Or just the ingesting of phermones working on a very primitive animalistic mind? One of which is still very capable at functioning through scent.

We may not be able to smell as well as our four legged friends, but the link between our sense of smell and memory is connected just as powerfully. Because the olfactory bulb is part of the brain's limbic system, an area so closely associated with memory and feeling it's sometimes called the "emotional brain," smell can call up memories and powerful responses almost instantaneously. 

Perfumes, foods, weather, body odor, burning clutches, grandmas house, tears, that one friend who smells like soup, the sweaty itchy scalp of every Caucasian, Asian, Black, Hispanic or Mixed Race. Everything has a distinct smell. Dont ever be scared to smell and trust what or how it makes you feel! You just may be right! And if your ever in doubt, look to you friend lying on the floor there with over 200,000,000 more scent receptors then you. He'll know for sure. He just may not know what to do with it.

Yet.