Human Sex Pheromone and Relationships
Posted by: VaranusJay
Subject tags: Sociology, psychology, biology
on Aug 8, 2009
So last night I was having a mixed debate over different subjects and spoke a little about the many products out there that guarantee the sexual success of a male gaining successful sexual advances in women.
AXE men's body spray seems to be one that probably came to mind but if you Google the topic many other products swear by the same testamonials that this is achievable.
First of all if this is a true form of "sex" pheromone then why do we need the products, why pay for something that you naturally produce? Why does marketing play so importantly on sex?
The conversation moved to how deodorants are actually to blame for the masking of the natural pheromone that men produce, it is imprinted in our head that it is nasty or dirty to be the "stinky" guy. So good product placement advertising the greatness in the success of smelling "good" and getting a lady to give herself to you seems like the thing to do to drive a billion dollar industry.
Now to what I know there are different ways of finding out if you have a monitor lizard ready to breed or to intice the sexual process. The fastest and easiest way involves newspaper and your male to excrete urine and fecal matter on it, move that paper to the female cage and watch her reaction. If you are sucessful and she becomes receptive she will pace that area he excreted and then you simply introduce the male to watch the fireworks.
Now that to me is done using the monitors natural pheromones, and it is only a make shift way of exciting sexual reproduction among Varanus.
Now back to the subject matter (I apologize for getting off topic but I find no better way than to write as I think).
If beauty wasn't everything, as media tries to tell us it is, and we actually unconsiously find ourselves attracted through natural pheromones then what happens when we use these masking products? What happens when your mate can no longer "smell" those pheromones?
Could it be one of the reasons relationships last or not?
Think of the woman that travels with her husbands pillow or sweater.
Think of the many times you yourself was in a hot moment and as the sweat and smells emulated did you find yourself more or less in the moment verses other times?
Just a thought, just a wonder, now time to see what you think.
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You bring up an interesting topic. Do you know about the studies done on human pheromones in which women were asked to rate odors from shirts worn by men of similar age?
Well, there was a study in which college women were given T-shirts worn by college men (who were instructed not to use any smell-altering products). The women were asked to rate the pleasantness of the "body odor" on the T-shirts The thing is, some of the women were on birth control pills (experimental group) and some were not (control group) and, as it turned out, the experimental group had a very different opinion about the "sexiest shirt" than the control group. It seems that simulated pregnancy alters perceived sexiness. Sure makes one think twice about getting involved with a woman on the pill.
The foregoing is but a tidbit of what was concluded in that study, but it seems clear that human pheromones play a prominent role in human sexual interplay. Some males simply smell better to females than others and that might be why many of us "should" cover up our body odor, or why some colognes achieve popularity. One could argue that the practice of covering up or augmenting natural smells is dishonest advertising, but then we do a lot of that as humans.
Men face the same olfactory challenges as women. Have you never encountered a good looking woman that turns you off when you are near her? On the flip side, you might have encountered a plain woman whose allure seems to go beyond her outward appearance. There's a lot of research left to do on such topics, but I suspect that we will be found to share much in common with other vertebrates whose olfactory capacities have been co-opted in the name of reproductive success.