Howdy, I’m a 25 year old guy from Western Australia. My scientific curiosity has sparked an interest in pheremones in the last… erm… hour
After wading through countless adverts from stores and realizing that my pop-up blocker is… less than adequate, I stumbled accross this website.
As a skeptic, (but open-minded skeptic) I’ve been reading a few articles and forum postings and I admit that this whole pheremone thing has me intriqued. Obviously something like pheremones is incredibly hard to study with any form of concreteness… one study I read about had people sniffing pheremone tissue paper or something and asking the subjects if they were turned on… How turned on are you by this tissue paper… out of 10? Is kinda… well… not going to make the cover story of “scientific american”.
But what I find amazing is the amount of people on this forum who are convinced that pheremones are the way to go and actually notice results. I especially like the idea that there are different types of pheremones for different situations. Also the stories that people tell of noticeable differences in other peoples behavior when wearing/not wearing pheremones is certainly intriguing.
So what I’ve deduced so far is that its got scientific merits however the level of effect is more or less unproveable. But because fine people like yourself personally notice favorable differences is reason enough for me to give it a shot. A little bit about myself, for the last 2 years I’ve been bartending in a large nightclub, I’m 180cm, straight, well groomed, some might say goodlooking, but I have a terrible time getting girls numbers!!
From what friends tell me- I’m apparently oblivious to signs that girls are interested in me. I like to get to know a girl quite well before I make any move, trouble is the girls I meet tend to be attracted to me at first but then I’m stuck in the friend zone, (which is ironically when I fall for them). Any pick-up artist reading this wants to whap me upside the head right now, lol, yes I’ve read all the books
So working behind the bar talking to lots of women every night seems like the perfect experiment conditions does it not? I’d end up talking to more women in the club in one night than even the most gregarious pick-up artist. It’d be interesting to see whether wearing a voodoo odor has any changes to customers behavior.
I’d also like to know whether it has more of a psycological effect on my behavior, regardless of any scientific effect. So for example.. I might just feel more confident because I feel like I have something extra, or I might notice more signs of attraction simply because I’m paying attention because of it… I may just feel cheeky and devious and wear a half-smirk all night. In any case, if it makes a difference to my or anybodys behavior I may just become a pheremone convert ![]()
So my main question to you “pheremoners” is this… What was the moment when you went from hopefully but half-skeptically wearing pheremones to fully believing in its subtle influence over the opposite sex? Was there an unexplainable/baffling moment? Can you explain the circumstances? I apologise for the length and thank you for bearing with me ![]()
Jay