An interesting tidbit. A few years ago I saw a show on male/female attraction and they breached the subject of smell. They took a group of men and had them work out some sweat. Thay had a group of 5 ladies to later smell all the t-shirts and say which was the best and worst. Now here’s the twist; among the group of men was a brother of each of the women. In the end the t-shirt of each brother smelled the most disgusting to the women. Reason, if your scent is attractive to a woman then your imune system is very much different then hers hence reproduce and make stronger babies. So phero’s may be a double edged sword. But nevertheless my mom and sister still think I should change my colone.
Great post. Gotta work on that theory.
Of course in reality it ain’t so clear cut. The large number of incest cases, not to mention the kissing cousin thing, that “disgusting” sweat of kinfolk scent isn’t as significant as we might think. I certainly have heard more mention of shock and disgust at the sweat scent of other races than those of family members.
Oh the program also said that women on the pill cannot detect this change in oder. That may explain when women go off the pill to get pregnent and find themselves loosing attraction to their husband. May not be well…“the kids came along so we stopped having sex” food for thought.
I read that study, its down in the pheromone and abstracts section.
There has also been studies that indicate the opposite though. These studies state that women tend to be attracted to similar pheromone signatures as their father which explains why women who grow up with a abusive father tend to end up with abusive men.
Your mom and your sister know your natural pheromone signature. They have been around it all your life and have bonded with you through it. That’s why they dont like you scent they are looking for whats different about you and thats all they can place. Its not the actual smell they dislike but the feeling it evokes that you have changed. You are not communicating in the same way you used to with them. I think 95% of mothers hate synthetic pheromones on their kids,
With pheromones its not the odor. The odor just carries the pheromones. Its the pheromone molecule triggering neurotransmitters in the brain. It will do that no matter what it smells like.
Humans are animals LOL Evolved ones of course but instinctively we are the same.
The pill stops ovulation putting you in a state of pregnancy or at least tricking the body into thinking its pregnant. This is why the pill is notorious for killing a woman’s libido. When your off the pill hormones kick back in and women instinctively start looking for the strongest breeder. Kids come along and then our hormones change once again making us focus less on breeding and more on nurturing and bonding. Our sex drive go’s down a bit.
Remember just like pheromones are hormones that signal outside the body. Hormones send signals inside the body. Men dont have these hormonal fluctuations that women have. Their hormones stay the same then slowly diminish with age. They are designed to breed.
Couple what our hormones are saying to us and the daily stresses of modern times this is why women’s sex drive dwindles after kids. Its not because we are not attracted to you anymore.
Tisha