why do sweaty balls emit probably the most pungent and offensive odor known to mankind?
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Part of out pheramone system. Sexual scents to attract another. We have a society have determined it to be fowl. But your great, great, great, great grandparents were knocking boots to that sweet perfume.
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What makes farts stink? \n\n\nThe odor of farts comes from small amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas and skatole in the mixture. These compounds contain sulfur. The more sulfur-rich your diet, the more sulfides and skatole will be produced by the bacteria in your guts, and the more your farts will stink. Foods such as cauliflower, eggs and meat are notorious for producing smelly farts, whereas beans produce large amounts of not particularly stinky farts.
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Because fecal matter is really not good for you to breath it can in fact make a person sick if they are around it too much, the poo is all the food that one has ingested and it is the bi-product (the left over stuff that your body doesn't need). Some people may digest differently then you and you are used to the smell of your own poo (which stinks too), perhaps some are proud of their own stinky poo and want to share it's aroma by not flushing, or spraying and by leaving the bathroom door wide open this is considered rude however it is usually fairly funny.
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Body odors come from many parts of the body, not just the sweat glands. Hygiene, diet, laundry, perfumes-colognes-aromatic oils and health-ill-health are also known to affect the odors we give off, sweet or not so sweet.  \n\nBut there are 2 basic types of sweat glands, apocrine and eccrine.  Both types produce sweat, but the sweat is different chemistry and for different purposes.  Mammals have sweat glands covering their skin all over.  Sweat glands are important for evaporative cooling and are especially activated when body is overheated.  But the sweat glands associated with the hairy parts of the body that we get a puberty are different, and the odors associated with these parts (axilla and pubic hair) of the body give distinct odors associated with stress and or mating-pairing-breeding-sex and the conscious-unconscious communications by "pheromones" and are activated by the sympathetic nervous system when we are in a "stimualted-fight or flight emergency." Diabetics who are not in good blood sugar health or people losing weight rather rapidly can also have the smell of KETONES coming from them breath or skin.
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I'm actually disturbed by your study...why are you wandering around smelling men's butts?
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Funny...\n\nI think the smell you are describing is directly related to a fart..\n\nSeriously..\n\nWhen you eat different things, does it not make your Farts smell differently. \n\nThink. \nWhat does a beer fart smell like??\nHow about when you eat beans?\nWhat does it smell like when your Golden retriever eats beans??? Whoa...\n\nGarbage in, garbage out. \nIt either leaves out the anus or it leaves through your pee pee...\nIt takes with it what your body does not need.\n\nFor the record, Mine Urine smells wierd when I take an antibiotic.\nThat smell is much different than when I take a strong vitimin. \nDid ya notice it changes color too?\n\nI wonder, if small paricles of your urine are floating around in the air when you pee so that you can smell it, Are germs floating around so you can inhale them too?\n\nCould you get sick by smelling MY urine??\n\nWhy would you want to go around smelling urine?\n\nGADS, I think I will pee sitting down for now on and flush 4 times.
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you must be giving off some heavy scents...are you in heat or something?\n\n\n.\n\n\nkeep kickin in the ballz, sooner or later they will get the hint
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Because they don't care who it offends!  I hate that too, it's gotta be the worst! (Next to really bad body-odor.)
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The fat insulates their bodies so they sweat to cool off. Their pores are also kind of stretched out. The smell is from the large amount of blood sugar processing and being expelled in the sweat.
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dirt and sweat combined\nmakes smelly, pasty goo
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We are biologically programmed not to enjoy that particular scent.\n\nAlthough there are exceptions to everything.
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Odors are also called smells. The term stench or pong is used to describe an unpleasant odor. The term fragrance or aroma is used primarily by the food and cosmetic industry to describe a pleasant odor.\n\nOdors that are mostly perceived as "pleasant":\n\nflowers, trees, some plants, baked goods, cologne, mint, fresh fruit \nOdors that are mostly perceived as "unpleasant":\n\nbad breath, foot odor, feces, flatulence, vomit, and rotting organic matter \nThe study of odors is a growing field, but is a complex and difficult one. The human olfactory system can detect many thousands of scents based on only very minute airborne concentrations of a chemical. The sense of smell of many animals is even better. Some fragrant flowers give off odor plumes that move downwind, and are detectable by bees more than a kilometer away.\n\nPheromones are odors that are deliberately used for communication. A female moth may release a pheromone that can entice a male moth from several kilometers. Honeybee queens constantly release pheromones that regulate the activity of the hive. Workers can release such odors to call other bees into an appropriate cavity when a swarm moves in, or to "sound" an alarm when the hive is threatened.
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Sweat is an odorless liquid.\nIt contains various salts (including sodium chloride) and urea dissolved in water.\nThis urea is the same as that excreted in urine (which also contains the same salts).\nSo in many ways sweat and urine are very similar.\n\nSweat from our armpits is unusual because it also contains proteins and fatty acids which over several hours are acted upon by skin bacteria and generate that stale odor.\n\nSweat on other parts of our body takes ages to get smelly - though you might prefer to have a wash before this happens!
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They smell, even, before they pop. You would have to intercept them to find this out. . . . and, indeed, they do smell even after they pop (or is it poop?). \n\nThe only thing the water does is cool them down a bit. The temperature of a fart at inception is 98.6 degrees and maybe let a little diffuse into the water (but not much).\n\nAn interesting little fact is that when you detect odors you are actually getting a tiny bit of whatever you are smelling in your nose (hmmm?).\n\nGotta let this go now.
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Certain gases and their odours that are emitted by manures, decaying tissue etc are the ones that attract flies. Basically they use these to lay their eggs.
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Some people think that pheromones are emitted and hairy 'bits" secrete more sweat than other parts.
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lmao, mr chili that's so funny.  The odor from flatulation (fart) is actually microscopic particles of feces along with body heat and gases. That is where the smell comes from. \n Once those particles are no longer airborne and fall to the ground the smell can no longer be detected, it's at your feet not up at nose level.\n\nDid you really poot in a box and seal it up? Ahhhh-haaa. LOL!!