Cat Bohannon

“We live, at all times, both in the present and in the long rivers of evolutionary time.”
― Cat Bohannon, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

“I found considerably more studies about women’s scent preferences than men’s. I don’t know if that’s because male scientists are particularly curious about What Women Want. Among studies on men, there’s the now-famous bit about men tipping strippers more if they’re ovulating—they do, the effects are reproducible, and they go away if the woman is on birth control—but that may or may not be scent related. (It’s hard to say what you’re smelling, exactly, in a strip club.) Men also prefer the smelly T-shirts of ovulating women, don’t like the pit smells of menstruating women and women who are less immuno-compatible as much, and almost universally dislike the smell of a woman’s tears, regardless of her reproductive status.”
― Cat Bohannon, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution