Why we Kiss

Affairs of the Lips: Why We Kiss: Scientific American

Whether humans sense pheromones is controversial. Unlike rats and pigs, people are not known to have a specialized pheromone de*tector, or vomeronasal organ, between their nose and mouth [see “Sex and the Secret Nerve,” by R. Douglas Fields; Scientific American Mind, February/March 2007].

Little-known nerve may be secret to lust — JSCMS
“Fields has supporters, among them James Kohl, co-author of “The Scent of Eros,” a book on pheromones.”

James V. Kohl
author/creator: The Scent of Eros