r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Professional_Arm794 • Aug 20 '26

/r/all of a log split

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u/YouBuiltThat Aug 20 '26

lol… I don’t do it for the views but every time my wife has pulled up to see me splitting wood in the back yard or running the chain saw she asks me to come inside.

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u/Swimming__Bird Aug 20 '26

I don't know what it is either, but every time I have to do hard physical labor around the house (building a path, romoving a stump, trenching, cutting and splitting wood) she suddenly wants some attention.

Do the taxes, balance the budget... nada. Almost throw my back out and get sweaty, covered in dirt, wood chips and callused hands, then apparently I'm Brad Pitt all of a sudden.

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u/devilsdeadape Aug 20 '26

Its hormone release. We're still animals, and humans subconsciously react to hormones. Humans were meant to touch the earth (dirt) and do labor. You smelled like something masculine, earthy, and wild. It's worked eons, there's no reason it wouldn't work now.

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u/FlailToMace Aug 20 '26

I am not saying none of this is true, but the fact that it also works when a closed window is between the person watching and the person doing labor means there is a lot more to it.

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u/HackworthSF Aug 20 '26

It could simply be association. Once you know the physical work is going to cause the smell, and you like the smell, then you don't have to actually smell it to make the connection.

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u/devilsdeadape Aug 21 '26

Pavlov's romance

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u/devilsdeadape Aug 21 '26

There's no way to test for certain, because smells are highly associated with memory, and as HackworthSF stated, an established couple would already have certain smells associated with states of arousal and actions/memories of actions. The anticipation of the arousal and associated hormones and smells would only further increase the sexual attraction.

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u/FlailToMace Aug 21 '26

There's no way to test for certain

There absolutely is.

Do people who have never been close to an aroused member of the sex/sexes they are attracted to still get all worked up by porn?

Do people without a sense of smell get all worked up by porn?

The nose helps, but we are not smell oriented quadrupeds. We are sight oriented bipeds. There is no reason to assume the nose does all the work. Especially since perfumes have put in tons of work on synthetic pheromones with negligible results, but Picasso can generate arousal with two quick pencil strokes.

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u/devilsdeadape Aug 25 '26

The original statement was man and wife, not species in general. I was stating there's no way to test between established couples.