I Need to Sweat More

I have been lucky enough in my life in the sense that I don't ever wear antiperspirant deodorant. It is not because I'm a cheap bastard who can't afford a can or tube of the bad odor fighting chemicals. For one, cans of anything contain aerosol, which is an environmental irritant. Secondly, those deodorant sticks either leave some mark on your clothing, or contain extra chemicals if it is claimed to stay on clear. Finally, all antiperspirant products contain aluminum-based compounds. If I remember the element chart correctly from my high school physics class, aluminum is a metal. No thanks for me!

Don't get me wrong. I have used antiperspirants in the past. Just not here in America, but only when I lived in Indonesia. Indonesia is a tropical country, and temperatures there tend to get really warm year round. Because I'm a tropical boy, I have gotten used to the heat that when I moved to the United States, I don't sweat as much anymore. To me, the temperatures are typically too cold. Yes, I like my place a toasty 75 degrees. I will never crank my air conditioner to temperatures colder than 75 degrees even in the summer time! The only time I sweat a lot is when I am running or playing some sort of a physical sport.

Why am I talking about sweat? Well, I think I may have found the root cause, or at the very least, a major contributing factor as to why I'm not successful at dating. Never mind the fact that I sign on to Match.com maybe once a month, and on average email about three people every two months through that online dating site. {Yeah, I pretty much kissed my six month Match.com guarantee goodbye after my first month.}

Anyway, back to the point. I think the reason why I'm not attracting women (actually, just women who I dig) is because I don't perspire enough. Even without wearing antiperspirant products, I don't give off a musky scent {or odor, whichever you prefer} that supposedly attracts women and causes them to be sexually aroused. Hey, I'm not making this up! Apparently researchers at the University of California Berkeley discovered that women who took a whiff of male sweat experienced improved mood and higher sexual arousal!

That's it! Screw the whole showering and putting on cologne thing before a date. From now on, I'll just run a mile on the treadmill immediately prior to picking up my date. Whoever the lucky girl is will be all over me before we get to dessert! =)