Pit Poll: Do You Like Your Men Stinky?

I just love a MUSKY HARD WORKING MAN HERE all natural works for me dont use deodorant or like men that do we are men let,s be men...

Body odor IS a man-smell.
One thing about language is that a lot of guys are assuming that "stinky" means something other than "I-can-smell-you," without asking "How far away is that guy standing from you that you can smell them?" The flight attendant points out people he can smell from a foot away (maybe less). That's pretty strong, I'll admit, but not all musky scents are the same. Some are unpleasant (I'll avoid the word "rank," as the dissenters on here seem to be saying ANY scent that comes "at" them is rank, so I won't even bother, thru a forum to guess what "rank" is to them. I've smelled rank and it's not for me, so my "stinky" does not include "rank," either. But it's certainly not "freshly showered" either, which is just someone who prefers the smell of soap to the smell of the man himself). Other scents, that don't kick you in the nose, can be quite pleasant, like a light, but distinctly sweaty smell. However, on a plane, I'd imagine a scent intensifies, especially since the airlines put you in a 75 degree tube for 20 minutes before they even turn on the air vents. No wonder the flight attendant sees it that way! I'm a passenger, and I see it the same. But I still prefer to smell my dinner (I mean, my sex dinner) to having it come wrapped in plastic or soap, devoid of the way nature delivered it.

The point of this is: On a written forum, we use language differently. Some guys say they love to kiss, but their kiss is as passionate as a prune. Mouth closed, lips pursued and you can't even get your tongue into their mouth. But, TO THEM, that's "love to kiss." Others would say that's the same kiss you get from your maiden aunt, and that ain't even close to "love to kiss". So, one man's passion is another man's poison. We don't truly know (except those of us who say "musky" is GREAT, and even that's a matter of: "Is musky for you a '6 or a 9'" but at LEAST we know we want to be able to inhale the guy's scent in without a bloodhound finding it for us) what a written word means exactly, as language can be pretty confusing. Even the same word doesn't mean the same thing to two different people. "Funky" for example: one person might say "Ugh! I hate funky. It smells awful." And the other person looks at them and says, "What? Fool, what have you been smoking? Funky means, gettin' loose on the dance floor and lettin' it all hang out." So, language on a forum? We can hope for the best, but maybe we're mixing metaphors here.
For the soap and shower crowd, which I'm obviously not a member of, I think they might actually accept a guy who's at the end of the workday as clean enough for them, but they're less detailed (and more restrained even in their written descriptions - just go back and read them: no exclamation points, no exuberance [not picking on you clean-scent guys, just pointing out something about how you're expressing it: not the same gusto level as the "I-love-stinky" crowd] so I could be wrong. In contrast, the I-love-stinky guys (count me in!) are full of gusto, hee-HAW! and sound like a Texan out having fun when they make their point for the "I've-had-a-long-day-and-working-on-that-construction-site-in-110-degree-humid-weather-iand-MAN-I-sure-as-hell-STINK!!!! (Bring him to me!!!!)

I don't think I'd like the way a cowboy from 1865 would smell: THAT would be rank, way past my damn-your-scent-is-making-my-knees-buckle-level. I want a guy who's about the strength of say, a fragrant rose (with a different scent, of course) or even a stargazer or a tuberose (which has a heavy, almost opium-like fragrance). I guess what I'm saying is some of us like a scent that is light, like lemon (which is more a "nose"-oriented smell and I'd even include "freshly showered ones in that, since they want a scent: soap) than a stargazer flower (a member of the lily family) which is infinitely more of a deeper smell, which would go down into the lungs and chest (like mothballs, but much, much nicer! [And who sniffs mothballs, I say. But hey, some people doubtless find that fun, too!]).

I don't necessarily want to get a strong smell from a a guy 3 feet away, either, but if I can catch a whiff (just a whiff) of him 3 feet away , well, that MIGHT be my thing. And even then, it would have to be a nice, light scent (fragrant rose here in contrast to a tuberose. A tuberose is heavy enough that a guy with that heavy a scent from 3 feet away...well, some guys like it heavier than I do. And I applaud them for that!). And, by the way, you can smell cologne 10 feet away - or more. If you really are THAT averse to the smell of man, well...you won't desire me and I SURE won't desire you, either. Cologne is completely and totally OUT: don't even come near me (for an erotic encounter) if you want to smell like aunt Bertha or uncle Bert. Otherwise, at a wedding, fine. Work? Limit the cologne. It's not the place for it unless it's very, VERY light (and many corporations put out memos about wearing cologne, so, for our less-earthy brothers, cologne's not a universally loved scent either) and doesn't affect those with allergies (which ironically, a slightly musky guy's scent is NOT going to trigger. Nature has a sense of humour, I gotta say). So, even socially "acceptable" scents are not socially acceptable everywhere. And while I'm at it, I don't know anyone who wants a nose full of cologne on a plane any more than they want a stinky guy (I could handle it, but I understand the Fabreeze crowd on this one). So it's a draw on a plane. No stink - but no cologne either (and remember, stink doesn't activate allergies. Cologne does).

Still, it's a language barrier in here and unless we were face to face, we don't have a clue as to what someone means by "clean smell" although I'm pretty sure "freshly-showered" is pretty clear.
I will say that if "freshly showered" skin smells NICE, that's a scent, too. If it smells like soap, well just say you prefer the smell of Dial soap and not the actual smell of the guy himself, which, to me, seems like a rejection of another kind: the kind that says, "I don't care how nice you smell naturally, I don't want to even think of a man HAVING a smell. Ugh. Gross. Go take a shower." No offense, but it sounds like what so many women say to their husbands. Oh WAIT, I just remembered: A study some researchers did on pheromones found that women actually LIKE a sweat-stained tee shirt more than a clean one. So, I guess they like a slightly "stinky" guy, too. Yeah, NOW I can relate to women! (And that's a joke: I was married once, so I relate to women just fine.) But who knew they'd (women) respond to a sweaty tee shirt more than a clean one and more than (some) gay guys themselves. Ironic as hell, isn't it?? Men who "like" men don't like their natural smell,and straight women, do. Real life is really weird sometimes. Know that???? I think I'm gonna call up one of my female pals right now and say, "Let's go sniffing guys together tonight whattya say?!!" Damn! NOW I know how to find a sniffin' buddy. Suddenly, 52% of the population sounds like they can be a lot more fun than before I wrote this, and they can't be wrong if they like stinky guys, now can they?

A man with cologne on makes me ill. He smells of chemicals that are produced along the tollways of New Jersey! The chemical plants there, make most of the artificial smells and tastes we have come to know. We have been taught that a mans smell means he is dirty. Its so not true, it is our signature, our uniqueness, like our fingerprints. It is what attracts us to each other. As young boys, we would sweat, but never really had an odor. It was only through puberty that we acquired our scent. Many of the musky scents in cologne are derived from animal gland secretions. Its what attracts other animals. if you must wear deodorant, use unscented, and never any cologne...

to all those that love DEOdorant I try when I work to wear TOM's of Maine or ArmorHammer's chemical free stuff without scent or a very neutral clean scent. I am told that it does not leave a bitter aftertaste if your buddy loves arm pit musk. I am nto sure if diet plays a roll excessive onion garlic ... curry can sweat out of your pores? I myself preferr the clean showered ode du Homme or fresh sweat after a sauna or good run on a hot day. or sweaty hot midnight summer sex. I do have a few freinds that love the smell of the men's gym locker room. or smell of a marathon orgy's bed sheet 3 days old. or sweaty old sneakers... that is harch but as one guy quoted 'whatever makes your nipples hard'

not into the unbathed. in the middle ages one only bathed once or twice a year. tooo unhealthy to get wet and cold in those days without central heating.

or if you ever talked with submarine crews, explorer, astronauts, solo ocean sailors you might also step back when interviewing them just off the boat or out of the capsul. I recently the crew of the international space station were interviewed on a Science Channel special. this is a problem with living in such close quarters. I was part of a trans alantic race crew and we only had time for washing with towelettes the face pit and crotch. it was not pretty at the finsh line...

And I thought I was the only one who.got off.on licking a.mans hairy pit...hmmm

love sweaty pits, no eoderant

Well, I don't like the smell of cologne OR deodorant.
I prefer "natural", clean man sweat. It is very sexy.

I do NOT like the smell of a man who has not showered in a couple of days.

I used to LOVE to sniff my lover's T-shirts after he worked all day and he was in the shower. (we would also lick each others armpits, but I was so turned on by HIS natural man sweat, I would smell his t-shirts...they were not gross in anyway).

I agree with you, xxl9inches...our own body odor does get us laid...because it is natural...not like b.o. for gosh sakes, but nice, clean MAN SWEAT!

I have had some men tell me (if we happened to be sitting side by side at some bar) that they could smell and LOVED my testosterone! So, they called it that. Works for me too!

I am VERY oral...love to eat a nice clean ass, suck cock and swallow man cum, but one thing that really turns me of is smelling a LICKING a man's hairy armpits....sooooo sexy!

sperman8r

Deodorant is a waste of money. Since me and most of my buds work in construction we usually have sweatty pits, thats ok cause hard workin dirty men turn me on. But when we get home a nice cool shower (no soap) cleans us up a bit to .where we just have that musky man odor that bones us up.

for me i like a fresh smeel coming out the shower, i will your armpits for hours, but no stinky one.

Rob:

Thank you for raising this issue but I'm afraid you framed the topic incorrectly in your opening statement. How did you end up equating deodorant with cologne?

The last time I checked, the vast majority of deodorants on the market were completely fragrance-free. I certainly don't wear cologne but I definitely use deodorant, one that doesn't smell at all. I'm amazed that this subject now seems to be pervasive in many profiles on gay websites (including DaddyHunt), and it doesn't make any sense. How did this get to be an either/or consideration of smelling like body odor or smelling like perfume? YOU DON'T NEED TO SMELL LIKE EITHER ONE OF THEM. Mixing this up with some body odor fetish is an entirely different can of worms. That spectrum of sexual expression has nothing to do with social norms of avoiding offensive body odor in day-to-day life.

As a business professional, would anyone honestly show up at work smelling like body odor? I work for an employer with an employee manual that requires the use of deodorant. Many companies do. The customers aren't interested in your smell. For that matter, I'd have to spend half my income on dry cleaning bills if I wore my a suit without using deodorant.

This whole topic cropped up a couple of years ago on gay websites (D.H. and its competitors) and I firmly believe it has everything to do with the pervasive gay paranoia about masculinity. The equation is very simple.....women wear perfume....and men who wear anything that smells like perfume are therefore not masculine. This got twisted into the false issue that anyone who wears deodorant smells like perfume.

The advent of these online discussions about not using deodorant happened around the same time as this endless flap about "winks." You know the story (on another well-known gay website), "Real men don't wink!" Winking is perceived as girlie, and therefore offends the fragile masculinity of self-loathing gay men. So what started out as a "wink" on one website became a "grope" on another. More butch.....get it?????? It's the same lack of awareness from these people who write their online profile as a contest to see how many times they can use the word "masculine" in a sentence. In the process, they only manage to reveal how insecure they are about themselves.

Over 30 years after Stonewall, haven't we evolved somewhat beyond this? DEODORANT DISCUSSIONS? Is there any hope for gay people?

As I mentioned before, farm boys seem to identify scent as natural, since they've been exposed to it as soon as they started slopping hogs. City boys, suburbans and upper-middle and up would, generally speaking, not have the "earthy" experience in their genes.
My mother came from a farm, so I've been smelling animals and gotten used to their smells (most of which do nothing positive for me, but don't make me want to throw up, either). I have yet to meet a guy whose scent (again, IF I LIKE HIS PARTICULAR SCENT) is similar to a hog's. "Clean" as in I-scrubbed-my-skin-until-my-skin-came-off is a fetish in itself: one of fear. And some clean-smelling guys have horrible breath. And sometimes the smell of their "clean" skill is the opposite of erotic: they smell like they're ill or recovering from illness. Scent is scent: some scents, even so-called "body odor", can be erotic, if you haven't brainwashed yourself into automatic response, the kind that makes you jerk your leg away if it accidentally touches a stranger's on a train, and you babble for 5 minutes about "Oh, I'm SO sorry. That was an accident. I hope you're accept my profoundest apology for such an indignity..." blah, blah, blah. I quizzed my straight male friends about it, and they said they notice when another guy smells, but it doesn't really bother them unless it's overpowering. A few said, it reminds them of when they were younger, and guys were more likely to smell than not, especially after being active (which, if you're over 35, means ALL the time. That was before people became hypnotized by 4" screens and Facebook and actually spent their time outside). I was an inner-city kid half the year, a farm boy the other half. Didn't pay much attention to people's smells, so I guess they weren't of the kind that was offensive. When it WAS offensive, MAN did I notice. But I was constantly wrestling guys, and had their feet in my face, my head trapped between their thighs, in their crotch, neck and pits. Never seemed to gross me out.
I still think guys grow up subconsciously trained (which means, they don't even know they've been indoctrinated) to reject any smell that doesn't come out of a Ralph Lauren or Old Spice bottle. Why a manufactured smell (ironically enough, one taken from the glands of a SKUNK, for Chrissakes) is more palatable than a natural scent wafting off a guy, is honestly, and in the final stages. ABSURD. (Do you like the smell of SKUNK? Oh, I see. Just it's derivatives.)
It's all socialized behavior and those who say otherwise? Well, they're just....just....just...AMERICANS. A nutso culture if ever there was one.

I want my men to have armpit hair, but I want them to be clean and fresh. I don't want stink when I lick an armpit any more than I want stink when I rim a man. However, the lack of armpit hair is not a turnoff for me.

I like the scent of a man with a bit of cologne, especially the wood tones such as sandal wood and other barks. I also like the smell of a man who comes in on a warm day -- slightly metallic plus a bit like straw. Does wonderful things for me.

I don't care for someone bathed in cologne. I'm not usually allergic to scents, but overdoing can make me leave the room, the party, the dance floor, the block!

I also like the taste of clean skin and sniffing and licking clean pits, or maybe at the end of warm day, just before a shower.

A lot depends on a man's personal scent. Clean is always good.

I once caught the scent of a guy who just got off work from lawn care. His scent at that time was turning me on! It just depends on the level of the scent. If it's beyond reason, go shower. A shower will only wash away what ever makes it unnatural and unpleasant. Depending on the situation, male fragrances should be used for special occasions or just day to day normal hygiene. But for those times when the natural scent is right and with the right guy, go for it. Then shower together afterwards, that can be fun as well.

Don't need cologne. DO need clean. If you stink, that's not man-scent, that's BO. If one is into raunch, fine, but if you come to me with more than a mild odor, I'm throwing your ass into the shower.

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