23 Comments

  1. hot take – if you dont like the stink of your partner on some level you aren’t as compatible as you could be

  2. Pandrew_Pandaroo on

    I don’t think it’s a “fetish”

    No different from saying “Wow, your perfume smells nice honey”

    (Except that you’re not wearing perfume, but still, nice smells are nice smells. Doesn’t make it a kink)

  3. No bathrooms or showers in the valley, maybe that’s why he moved here. As far as I can tell, Linus is the cleanest person in town. He’s the only one, that I’ve seen, to bathe.

  4. So happy to see multiple comments pointing out that thinking your partner smells good is not a fetish. OP if ur a woman then I hope you experience actual romantic love at some point in your life

  5. MuchBetterThankYou on

    Generally speaking you should find the way your spouse smells to be attractive. That’s not a fetish, that’s just chemistry.

    Also, BO smell and “hard days work” smell are completely different. It’s hard to describe to someone who hasn’t experienced it firsthand, but it’s stark.

  6. 404-Soul_Not_Found on

    I mean the line literally implies that the smell is pleasant, not like BO.

    I don’t love the way my husband smells when he’s bad sweaty, but that little salty and hot skin smell that’s uniquely him at the end of a day is nice. I find for him and myself both that being warm also makes the soap and shampoo/conditioner smells stronger as it perspires out of the skin.

  7. Y’all are taking OP way too seriously, I think. This seems like a lighthearted joke about one of Elliot’s many over the top lines and y’all are rushing in here to educate them on romance and pheromones. Lmao, chill, folks.

  8. Throwawaynotmebye on

    It’s 50/50 normal/fetish bc scientifically it’s shown people tend to find their partner’s BO appeal to some extent but there are more than likely boundaries between finding their natural smell nice and when they’re drenched in sweat and unshowered from that which could arguably push into a BO fetish territory.

  9. TheBlackRonin505 on

    It’s actually just biology. Liking the smell of somebody’s body odor means you have opposite immune systems which produces better offspring, completely normal thing.