"scent bonded"? tell me moar
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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.
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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
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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.
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I've used the term "imprinting"
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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).
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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?
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neato! do you have examples?
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ay nice!
i definitely just enjoy being intimate with women that smell good to me a lot more, but what i've been wondering is how malleable the goodness of the smell can be depending on other kinds of comfort and intimacy; i think i was worried it was 100% immune compatibility
but based on hearing from several different people about their experiences (not just here) seems like the smell thing can be way more of like a multidimensional summary which is really cool
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