Love Bytes: four must click sex, dating and relationship links.

The nose is apparently an organ of attraction. [Asylum]

Two new dating sites are using the odor given off by our immune systems to make potential love connections. Studies have shown that people are most attracted to those who have different—and different-smelling—major histocompatibility complexes (MHC).

The Brits tell us Emotional Intelligence leads to great sex. [TresSugar]

Somethings can ruin the mood. These are 4 of them. [Shine]

A man's brain talks to his sex organ. [College Humor]

Anyone who's been in love, lust or a variation of the sort knows about becoming attached to a scent. Tommy Hilfiger cologne, Old Spice deodorant with a hint of sweat, and Trident gum all come to mind. The funky side of this olfactory attraction is when the reminding scent happens to be an unpleasant one.

Armpits, for example, are not famously sweet smelling. Yet, nestling into a man's nook and inhaling a mix of his natural body odor (with a trace of deodorant) can be comforting, arousing or both. The same goes for morning breath.

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Love Bytes: three must-click sex, dating and relationship links.

Forget meeting the parents; now it's meet the pets! Advice on how to create harmonious relationships with people, pets, and people with pets. [MSNBC]

Trend: hope sex. Can you guess what this is all about? [Huffington Post]

Hope is a physical as well as mental state," says Pepper Schwartz, PhD., professor of sociology at the University of Washington and author of Prime: Adventures and Advice About Sex, Love and the Sensual Years. "When we feel hopeful we produce positive hormones, such as adrenalin and dopamine, that energize and uplift our … Read More

If you've ever smelled your man and thought, "Baby, I'd love to eat you on a cracker," science can explain.

In a recent study, Swiss researchers took sweat samples from men and women's armpits, mixed them with the enzymes from bacteria normally found there and discovered that men smell like cheese and women smell like grapefruits or onions. That's right: grapefruit or onion. So, if your man's ever been tempted to sprinkle sugar on you in the morning or sauté you in olive oil for taco night, there you have it.

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Ice cream, alcohol, meaningless hookups: the go-to antidotes for a bad breakup are often about distraction rather than relief. What's more, they tend to injure more than assuage, as if the breakup itself didn't cause enough pain.

Here, we've identified 10 healthy ways to deal with getting dumped that don't include booze, food or flings:

1. Buy the Dumped! Fun and Games Activity Book, which offers such whimsical games as "I Cried to Smell Few (I Tried to Tell You)." Help broken-hearted "Sam" decipher what his friends have been telling him about his now … Read More

Women's website Dear Sugar recently asked users to sound in on what birth control method they recommend. The answers ranged from celibacy and condoms to patches and intrauterine devices (IUDs).

While the methods varied, the users' endorsements of this product or rants against that one were universally resolute. Because, for a woman, birth control is not only a hormone or a shield or a sponge, it's so much more; the Pill, the gateway female-controlled form of contraception, has long represented a social, political and moral battlefield embodies freedom for some and fear for others. Let's just say its … Read More

Another study, this one from the University of Liverpool, shows that birth control pills do indeed lead a female to be attracted to the opposite kind of fellow she would be into without the presence of artificial hormones in her system.

A groundbreaking, much-referenced 1995 study revealed the correlation between the level of attractiveness a woman feels to a man's scent and the compatibility of their DNA were they to have kids.

The "sweaty T-shirt study," as it's widely known, also revealed that women on hormonal birth control pills were attracted to the scents of men whose immune … Read More

What happens when you're attracted to someone: Is it really his cute nose, or something going on deep inside both of your nostrils? According to this article, it's more likely to be the latter.

That inexplicable pull you feel toward your new crush has more to do than with the way he ruffles his feathers. While looks and personality are significant initially, true attraction is biological.

In fact, the way a person smells tells us about their genetic makeup, and when we decode this information we are comparing their DNA with our own. According to research, we subconsciously sniff out … Read More