Hi everyone,
Here is an interseting article, I just found from Reuters.
For women, nothing’s like the smell of men’s sweat | Health | Reuters
"The study focused on androstadienone, considered a male chemical signal. Previous research had established that a whiff of it affected women’s mood, sexual and physiological arousal and brain activation. Its impact on hormones was less clear.
funny, 'cos you might infer from the observed impact of A1 that chronic exposure would bring down long-term cortisol levels, not elevate them. I have no idea about the short-term dynamics of cortisol though…
This ‘smelly’ research is a step in the right direction. It looks at only one pheromone, but still it is relevant enough to what we are trying to understand of the importance of natural human scents.
In every relationship that I called successful in my times, the female partner has commented fevorably on my scent, and associated it with me. In the others that did not work out that well, there was no mention, or negative reactions.
This happened without fail, always the same, before I heard of pheromones, and after. I call it the Mr Reliable acid test, even tho I do not smell of acid.
I can say the same as well for her scent in every case. I had the longest relationships with women that I liked, and associated, their natural scents with themselves.
So when we understand more of the pheromones science, we can more use it reliably to enhance our own connections with others. Isn’t that what we’re trying to do all along here.
Well…it is and it isn’t.
I giggled like crazy when I saw this on Regis & Kelly the other morning. However, a little part of me was nervous because there is a certain amount of deception that’s necessary in this. Is it good or bad that the public perception of pheromone usage is going to sharpen with articles like this? The support of the scientific community heartens me, however I worry that the increased awareness will heighten the placebo effect and make people more suspicious, thereby making pheromone usage much less effective.
Does anyone else share this worry, or care to weigh in on the subject?
not yet worried
For the first year of using 'pheromones, I didn’t tell a soul. The past 12 months I have probably told 50-100 people. For reasons that have been discussed, it is my opinion that greater public awareness just doesn’t matter that much when it comes to the likely effectiveness of my own pheromone usage over the next 10-20 years.
One only needs to think about how devastatingly effective a well-chosen (but pheromone-free) perfume can be to realize that even if you know somebody is ‘enhanced’ it’s very hard to ‘think away’ the impact of such enhancements on your limbic brain.
Mones are still so far away from being spray-and-forget that I doubt they will ever be adopted by the masses in their present form. [And even otherwise quite smart, curious and open-minded people that are on other fronts highly-motivated to explore new social tools tend to have fixed ideas that human pheromones don’t work].
(Just look at all the new toys Michael has released as putatives and experimones in the past year). And once you understand the purely chemical aspects you need to have lots of observational savvy and understanding of social dynamics to truly benefit (perhaps this tends to apply more to guys than girls).
…Hmmm.
Interesting observations; thank you.
I’m hopeful that you are correct, and such a new and brazen technology won’t become immediately obsolete once the majority of people latch onto it.
I’ll say it differently then.
It may happen yes, but unlikely. If it does it won’t be in our lifetime.
If you think all the variables to control, which include the recepients themselves, I don’t see a way that one day I’ll wake up, apply something with all confidence that it not only fits me very well on the day, but fits the other parties I’ll meet as well.
This is the exact reason we are forever experimenting, and the reasons many give up or call pheromones a fad.