Say what? My blood?... are we hoping to score with Elvira Mistress of the Dark now or what? No, but get this: there's a curious aspect to the man-woman seduction and mating dance that plays itself out on a strictly biochemical level. This is going to sound wacky but I wanted to make you aware of it before we move on to the meat and potatoes of my system just to show you that not every factor in seduction is controllable no matter how good you get with women.

It's been documented with hard medical evidence that a woman responds to the body odor of a man in such a way that it effects her decision about whether or not a particular man holds any dating and then mating potential for her!  It turns out there are olfactory clues present in your sweat -- (sweat is derived from your blood) -- that acts as a very crude but effective marker of your genetic make up.  Specifically, women have an ability to detect the character of a man's MHC genes, which have something to do with the expression of certain properties in your immune system.  This talent is not limited to human females, many other animals display a similar ability (you know how dogs like to stick their noses up each other's asses to say hello), but it's somewhat surprising because people don't typically rely on their sense of smell to make choices about things.

What’s the significance of a woman being sensitive to a man’s smell?  Well, it actually seems to give them a better chance of locating a mating partner who has a high probability of fathering a healthy baby for them.  The research on all this is quite fascinating.  It turns out that women are drawn to the natural (unperfumed) scent of any man whose MHC genes turn out to be completely dissimilar to her own.  We’re talking actual BO  here -- this has nothing to do with any type of cologne or that funky ‘phenome spray’ that you bought from the back of last month’s Black Tail magazine.  The women in the study were all genetically typed from blood samples before the experiment was conducted to determine what their DNA classification was so as to contrast them with the men.

It seems that men with mismatched MHC genes were reported to exhibit a pleasant, sexy, almost intoxicating smell to the women who participated in the research study (performed by sniffing the soiled t-shirts of men they’d never met before, I kid you not!).  On the other hand, men whose MHC genes were a match produced a body odor the women reported as being foul, repulsive and sometimes even nauseating.  Different women had strikingly different opinions of the ‘scent of a man’, but the patterns always showed that mismatched DNA was pleasant while matched DNA smelled disgusting. What’s amazing about all of this is that the women’s reaction was visceral and occurred on a profoundly unconscious level.