...Don’t even try to get a man to wear scent if he doesn’t already do it. Like the underwear question, this is a decision a man makes early in life, and it seems to be connected to his sense of himself as a sexual being. Frankly, many straight men think that cologne/aftershave calls into question their heterosexuality. Many men, straight and gay, believe that a man should only smell of man-smells, and while most women would call that rank (pardon the pun) arrogance, so many otherwise perfectly nice men refuse to anoint their bodies with oils, all we can do is shrug and give in...
"I do live by the motto that pessimists are usually right, but all the great change in history was done by optimists" -Thomas Friedman
...Don’t even try to get a man to wear scent if he doesn’t already do it. Like the underwear question, this is a decision a man makes early in life, and it seems to be connected to his sense of himself as a sexual being. Frankly, many straight men think that cologne/aftershave calls into question their heterosexuality. Many men, straight and gay, believe that a man should only smell of man-smells, and while most women would call that rank (pardon the pun) arrogance, so many otherwise perfectly nice men refuse to anoint their bodies with oils, all we can do is shrug and give in...
"I do live by the motto that pessimists are usually right, but all the great change in history was done by optimists" -Thomas Friedman