The direction directly opposite the dominant vector of gravity. 
Anyway, I’m 30 years old, male, live in southern Indiana and am single, never married, no kids. I’m very picky in the women I date and the two main things I cannot tolerate, most women in my area have: kids and an addiction to smoking or drugs. So needless to say dating is difficult for me since I can’t find women that meet those criteria.
Then there’s the problem of me not feeling it approrpriate to “hit on” a woman in certain places. Part of that is a “simple” rationalization for my shyness. I’m generally not shy but when it comes to approaching women, I fall back into my old high school self. Unless I’m feeling really good and adventurous I tend to let great opportunities to meet some potentially great women slip past me.
That’s why I’ve decided to give pheremones a try. Intelligent people tend to attack problems by thinking about them rationally, as I’m sure you all do and have done. So knowing that an aspect of attraction between men and women is chemical, it only makes sense to take this step in overcoming certain social problems, such as shyness.
One of my problems is that I am an attractive and young looking man so I tend to get stereotyped when people look at me. I get put into the “just looking for sex” group and don’t get a chance to really talk with women who do interest me. That’s where part of my shyness comes from. I tend to avoid trying to prove their assumption wrong by making my own assumptions. Not very intelligent of me, I know. But the first step in fixing a problem is knowing you have one, right?
So anyway, it all comes down to me trying to find some way to overcome some of my own short comings and get a little help getting positive attention so I can finally find the right woman for a change.
On a slightly different issue, I’m also looking into the use of pheremones to help with my professional life as well. As I mentioned before, I look young and so people tend to assume I am and youth tends to equate to inexperience and in my experience that’s not how you want potential clients to see you. I’m unhappy with my social life (or lack thereof) and that does a real number on my confidence at times and more often than not it’s been those times when I’ve been trying to get more work. The clients pick up on that and assume I’m not confident in my work or assume that they can get something for nothing because of a perceived low self worth.
Anyway, enough about that, I’ll just answer questions from here instead of writing an autobiography on the forum. 
