Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Smell Is the Most Important Sense - Felix Wang

You may think that smell compared to the others four senses; sight, taste, sound and touch is far less important than the the sense of smell. But you are very wrong. The human what is a human, what is it's purporse? The answer is simple to reproduce, to let the race live on. However inorder to arouse sexual desires, the smell is very important. Your spouse's natural body odor. Smells can invoke memories, sexually arouse people, or even drive you mad. Psychology professor Rachel Herz from Brown University in Rhode Island has spent 17 years studying the human sense of smell, finding it is the most emotionally evocative sense and the one most closely tied to mental health and happiness. She has commented on the fact that the front Australian rock band INXS may have been driven into deep depression after losing his sense of smell, which lead to the end of his life. Another case if of a woman who at 20 lost her sense of smell in car accident, she suffered not only depression, but also hard for her to be intimate with her husband . Taste is only bitter, salty, sour, sweet and umami or savory, all flavors come from smell, so without smell you can't taste the difference between an apple or pear. Smell is an important aspect of safety as if you can't smell gasoline or smoke you don't know when or where there is a fire and would stay in the room. With other sense you have no idea where the fire could be, if its not in opean view sight is off no use, by the time you do see it is too use less. Dogs are animals who have very limited sight as they don't see colour, however there is sense of smell is what makes them such an important roll in society. They track done drug smugglers, theifs using smell, in addtion war time dogs didn't use hearing to warn soilders in WWII, but the smell of the germans allowed them to save pointless confrontation which may have ended in the deaths of the soilders.
In a survy by 100 women, it is said that none of them would date a man that smells bad and this was ranked top among the list disregarding looks and everything else.

So what did we learn? To get a date you must smell GOOD! Now if that doesn't make it the most important, I don't know what does.

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