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[fscom]

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I can't take any sports romance seriously because I just assume the characters must be sweaty and smelly after playing. Of course they can bathe later, but they can't be attractive in the sport uniform or while playing.

This goes for stuff like Heated Rivalry, and sports-related romance novels, and even things like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. It gives me the ick.

Re: Transcript by OP

[(Anonymous)]

Fresh sweat doesn't smell nasty, it needs a couple of hours. And even then some people like it.

[(Anonymous)]

You... you know people are into that, right?

[(Anonymous)]

In OP's defense, knowing other people are into it doesn't mean they can take it any more seriously in a personal sense

I know people are into feet, but knowing that doesn't make me able to take a drama about sexy feet seriously. Might be the same thing with them and physical sports and sweat

[ariakas]

If all sweaty people are immediately disgusting to you, how do you have sex?????

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's a difference between like, freshly showered people doing a few rounds of sex vs. athletes who have stewed in the same uniform and possibly heavy protective gear for like an hour and a half...

I dunno, I'm not OP, and sports shipping does not bother me at all, but people are reading more into this than OP actually said?

[(Anonymous)]

pretty typical for around here, sadly. it seems reasonable for someone to be grossed out by the thought of sex with someone who has been playing a sport in a uniform and gotten sweaty, but people overreact like op just shat on their dining table

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not even arguing about whether it's reasonable or not, people can have different preferences and be squicked or not by different things

But OP literally didn't say what people are saying they said lol. This is getting silly

[ariakas]

As someone above pointed out, clean sweat doesn't stink until it's gone stale though, and not every sport involves wearing a ton of gear either. It's wild to me that someone who'd just come back from a run would be any grosser than someone on, say, round three in bed.

[(Anonymous)]

OP didn't say "all sweat is immediately gross" though, which is what you seem to be responding to. They said imagining athletes "after playing" is gross. Someone who came back from a run, per your example, has been constantly moving and isn't in the same situation as an athlete playing a game where they take time outs and breaks. Tons of athletes after a game do get stinky because they aren't covered in fresh sweat all the time. I dunno why people are insistent on denying this is true

And maybe OP would consider someone on the third round of sex gross, I can't speak for them. Still not "all sweat is immediately gross"...

[ariakas]

Not all sports have a ton of breaks or gear or last four hours like hockey, though, and OP just said "sports" in general, so I'd have to assume they think intimacy after all sweaty things are gross. But if it's not the case and they just think sports like hockey are gross, fair enough I suppose.

[(Anonymous)]

The examples given were hockey and American football so I assumed they meant sports like that. A clean sweat right after a jog or workout or sauna even, seems like a different thing?

If I had to guess, OP might not consider running a sport, which I'd personally disagree with but is common enough for people to think

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP but I would absolutely be more bothered by someone just coming back from a run vs. round three in bed. I was there for the second one and am presumably also equally sweaty for the same reason, which makes a big difference to me.

It's not about the smell for me, it's also the wetness.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I was going to say the exact same thing, sex is exercise after all.

[(Anonymous)]

Jokes on you, I'm into that shit.

[(Anonymous)]

Some sweaty people are gross, some sweaty people are attractive. Some sweaty people smell really good, and some stink. I do get that body stuff just grosses people out sometimes though.

[(Anonymous)]

agree. the amount of sweaty after playing in a sports game is just nasty to me when it comes to the thought of intimacy. no thanks

[(Anonymous)]

Having been in a locker room after games, the stench is real. It also clings to equipment a lot of the time. Especially for things like ice hockey.

That said, it doesn't bother me in fiction in the same way anal sex poop smells don't bother me in fiction unless the writing directly brings it up.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel ya OP. I can accept that people getting sweaty DURING sex is appealing, but to START OUT already drenched and grimy? No thanks.

Over time I have lightened up on this and can understand why others find it hot, but the one I can never vibe with is BOXING. So it's after a boxing match and the boxer is all sweaty and bloody, reeling from concussion, eyes swollen shut, face pummeled to the consistency of ground beef, split lip, drooling bloody saliva, maybe got some loose teeth, and the love interest wants to run into his arms and kiss him? NO JUST NO

[(Anonymous)]

When you say you can't take it seriously, do you mean you, like, cringe away from it in your head because of the ick? Like, the characters could like it and find each other attractive, but you can't get past your own reaction to really engage with that narrative?

[(Anonymous)]

If it helps, players invariably hit the showers right after they get off the field/court/ice.

[(Anonymous)]

A lot of it has to do with endorphins and adrenaline pumping through your system from an intense match. With athletes it's called a 'flow' state, (I think) and much like tunnel vision or getting keyed into something your body will process certain senses over others. Sight and touch will feel more pronounced while smell might fall in the background a bit. Also there is such a thing as becoming nose-blind. I grew up with my dads hockey gear just being out in the basement and I got used to the smell just being around, I barely even noticed it anymore when I went in the basement to grab something.

I can see it being gross if it's between a player and a non-fan SO, but generally if you're watching/into the sport and/or playing it you just become accustomed to the look/smell/experience.