# Why we Kiss

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**Category:** Pheromone Theory & Molecules\
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[Affairs of the Lips: Why We Kiss: Scientific American](http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=affairs-of-the-lips-why-we-kiss&page=1)

Whether humans sense [pheromones](https://pheromonelabs.com/) 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](http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2007-04-24/russell-sexnerve)  
“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