I take testosterone which makes my sense of pheromone smell increase like crazy (not just sweat, I can go into a truck stop late at night and tell if someone was in there somewhere and peed and how hydrated they were, or if someone just had sex in the shower in there… or just an orgasm.)

Sometimes I’ll walk into our own house bathroom half an hour after my fiance left for work and get an overwhelming woah, she’s definitely on her period right now smell or conversely, “tonight’s gonna be a fun night” but the latter requires me not slacking off on dishes or forgetting to do something.

Our oldest started showering in the mornings before school, and its become a subconscious (I think, to him) game of who can get in the shower first, because I do not want to smell his… shower… my entire shower.

Humans are capable of absolutely incredible senses when they’re finely tuned. We have known about, as one example, estrogen-raising (== testosterone-lowering) chemicals being in plastics leechinf directly into our bodies and soil and water and food supplies for over 30 years now (BPA), and around 2010 they did a study that found some BPA-free plastics released more estrogen into the system than BPA did.

Plastics, and then leaded gasoline, and then PFASs shortly after (or before) that… well, when a molecule or series of molecules is found that greatly benefits civilization in some way, people will die. People will sit under oath in front of the supreme court swearing they had no idea how harmful their products were.

It’s very unfortunate, because the species are being modified in so many unforseen ways. Not just humans. Alex Jones got meme’d so hard for the chemicals are turning the fuckin’ frogs gay!

I’m not sure what I’m ranting about now. I’m just sad for our species and those species affected by us and unable to do anything about it. It’s never as simple as it’s ALL profits and follow the money! because we’ve been able to make so much progress as humans through the use of breakthrough technologies like PFASs and plastic. But, at what cost? Our current methodology is to let the major corporations sell these new breakthrough molecules far and wide, and then in 5 years or 5 decades we start to see mainstream scientific acceptance that “okay, it’s really bad, we have to do something about this”…

Sure, though, it did some good in the meantime.