r/SipsTea 9h ago

SMH But that Febreze really does work

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u/Greenshardware 8h ago

Yeah... the reason your own sons smell unpleasant to you is... so you don't... so family doesn't... nevermind.

u/Fabulous_Log844 8h ago

I am sure you were trying to be clever and smart here. But whatever joke you were trying to make it didn't land.

u/Greenshardware 8h ago

Not really. It's just awkward. There's a biological reason your own blood smells bad.

MHC genes and scent perception is very, very real.

u/PomPomMom93 4h ago

Besides my dad smelling like cigarette smoke, I do not experience this, and yet I don’t feel the urge to commit incest. People who will commit incest if their family members don’t stink are weird.

u/Greenshardware 19m ago

You absolutely do though. Every human does. You just don't realize it's happening.

Why your mind focused on direct family is interesting, but it works on a far broader spectrum of genetic similarity than that.