# "Oh, you smell like Sex! What's your name?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Men's Pheromone Advice & Field Reports\ **Created:** [December 28, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/oh-you-smell-like-sex-whats-your-name/7797 "2007-12-28T01:50:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 132
**Author:** ![MarkL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/markl/32/825_2.png) [@MarkL](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/MarkL)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/oh-you-smell-like-sex-whats-your-name/7797/132 "2008-01-07T12:33:51Z")
> [@mark-in-dallas](#): > > … > > First, I did not say that TAA is not in the mix, I said that it was not the ingredient SteveO warned me about. TAA may or may not be one of the ingredients. The “gay” ingredient that SteveO warned me about actually surprised me, because I did not remember ever seeing anyone refer to it as having gay qualities… TAA is only as gay as the people you are with, IMO; it’s the “let’s celebrate” message, halo of light around the wearer effect. It’s not gender or sexual orientation specific. With TAA, people want to be in the spotlight with you, and violate personal space customs. They (literally) rub up against you, perhaps so that some of the (metaphorical) Shine will rub off onto them. Perhaps at some stage of phylogeny, we needed a chemical message that said “come rub against me so you can pass along the other chemical messages.” Perhaps too much TAA would turn us into the BORG. However. Androstadienone – remember the research? – stimulates brains of straight women and gay men in the same way. And you don’t hear much about Androstadienone here on the forum at all, despite. --- _[View the full topic](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/oh-you-smell-like-sex-whats-your-name/7797)._