Modern Science Reveals: Sweat Turns Women On

Giving new meaning to the expression “labor of love,” researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have found that women who sniffed a chemical found in male sweat experienced elevated levels of
an important hormone, along with higher sexual arousal, and faster heart
rate. Reuters reports that the researchers measured levels of the hormone cortisol in the saliva of
48 female undergraduates at Berkeley, average age of about 21, after
the women took 20 sniffs from a jar of androstadienone, a derivative of testosterone that is found in male sweat as well as in saliva and semen. Cortisol levels in the women who smelled androstadienone shot up within
roughly 15 minutes and stayed elevated for up to an hour. The research, which is reported in the Journal of Neuroscience, found that the women also reported improved mood, higher
sexual arousal, and had increased blood pressure, heart rate and
breathing.