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This is probably the best review article on copulins I have come across yet: Published in April of 2016 so it is fairly recent
http://evp.sagepub.com/content/14/2/....full.pdf+html
I am very surprised, because most copulin research seems very primitive. In fact, most of the copulin google searches lead to wordpress blogs that cite no sources and probably are not trustable.
This review does a good job reviewing all the recent literature on copulins.
Good news: Copulins have been proven in many studies to affect male behavior. They increase testosterone, they increase male mate guarding, they make men less able to discriminate between women's attractiveness, etc. Cops really are female voodoo juice that make men pay attention, and studies suggest ovulating women producing copulins are more promiscuous, and more likely to seek out mates with compatible immunocampatibility/odors (think: pheromones
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Also this is an important tidbit from the review "We did find that men in the copulin condition rated themselves as significantly more sexually desirable to women than men in the control condition"
- This is probably great for the self-effects cops gives men, which probably will make you more competitive and give you more "game". If you think you are sexually desirable you probably will have more confidence to make a move right? This is what women find attractive in a man...
Bad news: There is 0 research on what copulins does to other women. It's "theorized" it may make women more competitive amongst themselves, and so a man wearing copulins could be seen as a target to date/sleep with as he has been with other women, and so the theory that this is attractive because his "genes" have been "pre-selected" by other women makes sense
We do have self-reports from PXS and elsewhere that women who wear copulins sometimes feel more horny, so this is possibly another plus for men wearing copulins
Anyways, this is the part on the lack of research:
"There has been no research looking at the effects of copulins on other women. Future research questions may include whether women show greater intrasexual aggression and antimate poaching behaviors when exposed to copulins. Future research may also look at the sensitivity of homosexual women to copulins.
As previously mentioned, olfaction is an understudied area of human mating leaving open many questions for future research. Any finding will spawn multiple new research questions, and the interactions between these findings and known olfactory influences, like major histocompatibility, will need interpreting."
http://evp.sagepub.com/content/14/2/....full.pdf+html
I am very surprised, because most copulin research seems very primitive. In fact, most of the copulin google searches lead to wordpress blogs that cite no sources and probably are not trustable.
This review does a good job reviewing all the recent literature on copulins.
Good news: Copulins have been proven in many studies to affect male behavior. They increase testosterone, they increase male mate guarding, they make men less able to discriminate between women's attractiveness, etc. Cops really are female voodoo juice that make men pay attention, and studies suggest ovulating women producing copulins are more promiscuous, and more likely to seek out mates with compatible immunocampatibility/odors (think: pheromones
)Also this is an important tidbit from the review "We did find that men in the copulin condition rated themselves as significantly more sexually desirable to women than men in the control condition"
- This is probably great for the self-effects cops gives men, which probably will make you more competitive and give you more "game". If you think you are sexually desirable you probably will have more confidence to make a move right? This is what women find attractive in a man...
Bad news: There is 0 research on what copulins does to other women. It's "theorized" it may make women more competitive amongst themselves, and so a man wearing copulins could be seen as a target to date/sleep with as he has been with other women, and so the theory that this is attractive because his "genes" have been "pre-selected" by other women makes sense
We do have self-reports from PXS and elsewhere that women who wear copulins sometimes feel more horny, so this is possibly another plus for men wearing copulins
Anyways, this is the part on the lack of research:
"There has been no research looking at the effects of copulins on other women. Future research questions may include whether women show greater intrasexual aggression and antimate poaching behaviors when exposed to copulins. Future research may also look at the sensitivity of homosexual women to copulins.
As previously mentioned, olfaction is an understudied area of human mating leaving open many questions for future research. Any finding will spawn multiple new research questions, and the interactions between these findings and known olfactory influences, like major histocompatibility, will need interpreting."
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