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Hmm. It's not something I've consciously noticed, but I don't think I've knowingly been close to someone on their period who I wasn't already scent bonded with, so I'm not sure. (Chances are I have been and just didn't know, but I tend to maintain a lot of personal space)

"scent bonded"? tell me moar

Uh, like when you have a partner or someone you're very physically and sexually intimate with, you can hit a point where they just smell very good to you, even if they are in some "objective" sense currently a bit stinky. There are limits to it, but it covers a lot of sins.

gosh that sounds wonderful. i've sort of heard people describe things along these lines but i've never heard anyone give it its own term

I'm not sure if it's an official term. I described it to a partner and this is what they referred to it as and I liked it and thought it captured the concept well, so I kept using it. And yeah, it's pretty great.

bosco

@selentelechia

I've used the term "imprinting"

Hmm. That's good too but I think I'll stick to "scent bonding" - imprinting feels like it has some connotations I don't quite want/mean (mostly it feels less voluntary. Not that scent bonding is exactly voluntary, but it's part of a voluntary process).

one of the many things i like about this is it strikes me as potentially a really robust way to gauge how into someone i am, in a way that is like minimally subject to various forms of self-deception?

nvpkp

@nvpkp

i use scent a lot to understand when i'm bullshitting myself, 100%

8:55 AM · Mar 30, 2021Twitter Web App

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neato! do you have examples?

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in romantic/sexual scenarios mostly. i will use the "sniff check" to see if i'm actually attracted to someone or if there's some other motivation for what i'm doing. recently discovered that my deep sense of (dis)trust in a person also comes thru in how they smell to me!