Underarm odor and human evolution?

Question

Why do humans detest underarm odor?

I'm sure at one time it was some kind of a chemical attractant, like a pherome that attracted the opposite s*x.

If it was not, why do we have glands that secrete this odor?

Do you think at one time it was pleasing to our noses?

Answer 1

Actually, most humans like the smell.  Its a cultural thing in America that causes most of Americans to not like the smell.

We wash everyday, something that rarely occurs in other cultures; including most Western cultures.  Usually its every other day and sometimes weeks without washing.

But if you keep washing, you also wash away the good bacteria that provide the good smell.  Those bacteria provide a certain pheremone smell that shows the opposite s*x your genetic makeup, on a subconscious level of course.

But if wash away those good bacteria all the time, all that gets out is the bad smell.

It should be noted that quite a few American men still do like the smell of a sweating woman and vice versa.  This man certainly likes the smell.

But overall most Americans don't, and its because of our culture; not because of our being human.

Answer 2

It's still pleasing to my nose in many instances.  A woman just out of the shower smells like soap and whatever berries are in her shampoo.  The same woman two hours later smells wonderful.