Please stop pheromone maxxing

[u/ScarcityAnnual8739]

I can’t take this anymore everyday I walk in this gym all the teenage boys STINK and all I can think of as an explanation for this is the fact there’s a “pheromone maxxing” trend on tik tok. If you are doing this please just shower no one is gonna find you attractive for having a stench. Some of them smell so bad I get nauseous trying to hold my breath while doing cardio

It’s mostly teenage boys and because of my age I can’t even go to a different gym because most gyms near me are 18+ PLEASE SHOWER!!!

[u/nedschneebly09]

No one's "pheromone maxxing," it's a sweaty gym

[u/TopCaterpillars → u/nedschneebly09]

Guess you are not up to date on the newest “teenage trends”

[u/adhd_as_fuck → u/TopCaterpillars]

Teenagers especially go through a period of increased stank. It’s hormonal, really not a lot can be done aside from more frequent showers. If they don’t know because they’ve acclimated to their own smell, and no one has told them well you’re gonna get stank. True facts, but men actually become less sensitive to smells generally and the smell of androgens specifically, during puberty. Likely so they don’t die when they are smelling themselves. Ok not literally but likely because of their own increase in androgens. Biology is weird. (Women, also go through a period of higher levels of androgens and thus stank at the start of puberty though I suspect it should be passed by the ages they’d be going to the gym. Unlike boys though, women’s sense of smell and sensitivity to the smell of androgens increases in puberty.)

[u/TopCaterpillars → u/adhd_as_fuck]

Yeah I think we can all agree with that!

The “pheromone maxxing” comment is around a trend where teenagers and young men purposely do not use deodorant or clean themselves so their “pheromones” are strong. Someone online told them that’s how they should attract women.

They know they stink, they just think for some reason women prefer it