Do Pheromones Play A Role In Our Sex Lives

[XSteveO]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pheromones-sex-lives/

Scientific American
By Adam Hadhazy on February 13, 2012

"We've just started to understand that there is communication below the level of consciousness," says Bettina Pause, a psychologist at Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf (H.H.U.), who has been studying pheromones and human social olfaction for 15 years. "My guess is that a lot of our communication is influenced by chemosignals."

[Ragnar Lothbrook]

Honestly, even though I have a degree and professional job, the science and terminology are above my paygrade. I would love to educate myself on the subject though. Obviously, we knew it was always there, or at least you did thankfully. But, it's always nice to have validation. And scientific validation at that. I like cranial nerve o, Steve O. Coincidence??? I think not.

[KateD]

What the female moth is working with is certainly impressive.

The term "pheromone" itself came about in 1959 with the identification of bombykol, a powerful aphrodisiac secreted by female silk moths that can work over kilometers of distance. "The males are enormously sensitive to it," says Tristram Wyatt, a zoologist at the University of Oxford. "Just a very few molecules are enough to get the male to fly to the female."

Interesting read,thanks for sharing Steve O

[Quicksilver]

KateD Something left unsaid here, that really bears some thought.... How does a male moth get a sense of direction to the female moth from detecting "a few molecules"? Remember, she is "kilometers away" Somehow I think there's more to this than we understand ...

For example, I wore a good mix a week ago, was driving in a parking lot in an atmittedly nondescript vehicle, and got what I would normally call an over the top IOI / hit from a beautiful mid 20s woman whose back was turned to me, but who I was looking at , standing about 20/30 feet in front of my car.

I can't explain it without referencing Rupert Sheldrake. But I doubt I'm unique in getting hits through glass or in other situations where it couldn't be possible that the subject is responding to our pheromone signature. I think that we often explain this as "self-effects" But what is the mechanism for 'expected pheromone reaction' plus 'subjects back is turned' plus ' isolated scent envelope' plus 'dramatic IOI'?

Cheers,

Quicksilver

[Quicksilver]

Also, just wondering how I lost apparently about a thousand reputation points since becoming active on the forum again? Maybe my memory is spotty? (Update: I must be nuts)

[KateD]

Interesting and thanks for your input.Please pm idle about the loss of your rp points

[Jimmy42]

KateD Something left unsaid here, that really bears some thought.... How does a male moth get a sense of direction to the female moth from detecting "a few molecules"? Remember, she is "kilometers away" Somehow I think there's more to this than we understand ...

For example, I wore a good mix a week ago, was driving in a parking lot in an atmittedly nondescript vehicle, and got what I would normally call an over the top IOI / hit from a beautiful mid 20s woman whose back was turned to me, but who I was looking at , standing about 20/30 feet in front of my car.

I can't explain it without referencing Rupert Sheldrake. But I doubt I'm unique in getting hits through glass or in other situations where it couldn't be possible that the subject is responding to our pheromone signature. I think that we often explain this as "self-effects" But what is the mechanism for 'expected pheromone reaction' plus 'subjects back is turned' plus ' isolated scent envelope' plus 'dramatic IOI'?

Cheers,

Quicksilver

Yeah that is interesting because I've had several big obvious hits/ DIHLs from women far across a room and almost instantly upon them entering the room, clearly way too far away to be hit by my phero cloud. Yet the reaction is there. They sense something even at a fair distance and make immediate eye contact. Strange stuff for sure! ????

[Xcc]

XSteveO Thank you for posting this!