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Most women find the scent of their own man's sweat kind of sexy, assuming it's the I've been working hard in the yard kind of sweat, as opposed to the I'm hung over and ate Mexican for brunch and haven't showered yet kind of sweat. But some women actually find all man sweat sexy, no matter the man--and according to new research, it's in their genes. (Yeah, the article's a few weeks old: we just saw it in the doctor's office this morning, which is pretty much the only time we read Newsweek. But hey, it's not a bad read! And two weeks out of date is not bad for a doctor's waiting room, either.)

So anyway, apparently 70 percent of adult men and women have the genetic capacity to perceive a substance called androstenone in male B.O. And most people who have this capacity find the scent pleasant in a sweet, woodsy way (White Musk, anyone?). But to some people, it smells like stale urine. And still others can't smell androstenone at all. The research is still coming in on humans, but among pigs, apparently the sweaty smell acts as quite the aphrodisiac: "When female pigs catch a whiff of androstenone they immediately assume a posture called lordosis, replete with a curved back and wiggly haunches," reports Newsweek, in possibly the best sentence we've ever read in a weekly news magazine. So here's our question: Does a genetic capacity to perceive androstenone also make you want to throw up in your mouth when you see an Axe Body Spray commercial?