Male Organ Odor? It’s Those Damn Apocrine Glands Whew! If a guy needs to open a window every time he takes off his pants, it’s fair to say that he has a serious male organ odor problem. As male organ health issues go, male organ odor is one of the more common. Because a person is less aware of his own bodily aromas, he may very well not realize he has a bad male organ odor problem – but his partner does, and that can impact said partner’s willingness to engage in sensual activity (especially, though not exclusively, oral sensual activity). And although there can be multiple reasons for male organ odor, one of them boils down to the simple presence of apocrine glands. Apo-what glands? A gland is a group of cells that get together to take substances (like hormones) and synthesize them so they can be released into the bloodstream or elsewhere, such as on top of the skin. Most sweat glands in humans are called eccrine glands, but there is another class of sweat glands – the apocrine glands – which cover less of the body, and are especially noteworthy for being the glands found in the armpits and the midsection. What’s different about apocrine glands? Well, a number of things, but one of their most distinctive characteristics is that, in the armpits and midsection, the sweat that they produce has a profound odor. The eccrine glands on your forearms, for example, don’t have the same powerful odor as the apocrine glands near your member. Interestingly, when a person is still a fetus, most of their glands are apocrine; they only get changed out to mostly eccrine after five or six months. And although a person is born with smell-ready apocrine glands just all set to produce painfully pungent odors, they don’t start doing this until hormonal changes set in during puberty. Bacteria
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