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[–] Applejuicy@feddit.nl 17 points 1 month ago (4 children)

TIL people get erections from perfume.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

People will spend a lot of money if a marketer lies to them enough. It should be noted that scientists don’t recognize any human-arousal pheromones. Only shady websites that wanna sell you overpriced perfume.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Right here. Maybe not full blown blue steel, but I get chubby if a woman's smell hits me right.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah it actually did happen to me irl some years ago when we were on a field trip and a girl who had already flirted with me for the past two days suddenly wore a perfume and i think it was that that made it really difficult for me to stay clear-minded. could have also been the flirting though, i'm not sure actually.

[–] imTIREDnhungryboss@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

it's ok to be gay bro, Internet doesn't judge you well maybe but we don't know you

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's really weird. I've never heard of this. But I guess if you just make an association in you brain, then it can be a turn on.