yummm… sweaty t-shirt

another hint that smell is the sense of the future: a study showing that men and women are attracted to partners with an opposing/complementary MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex) which is an immuno-defense that makes us reject foreign organs, for example. it also works for smell: in a study where women were asked to rank sweaty t-shirts in terms of desirability of men, they were found to prefer smells that were of significantly different MHC – an indication that opposites attract? even more strange, women on birth control had flipped and preferred similar smells to their own – meaning you could wake up next to someone who thinks you stink, or not, depending on the pill. hmmm…
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9A04E6DB143AF93AA35755C0A96E958260