Re: What men find attractive in a woman
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Date: 01/30/05
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Date: 30 Jan 2005 07:14:05 -0800
habshi wrote:
> We must not permit rubber doll makers to use this perfume
>
> Scent 'restores youthful allure'
>
> A chemical can boost women's sexual attraction
> A mystery chemical signal that young women give off appears to work
> for post-menopausal women too.
> A Harvard University researcher added the pheromone to the perfume of
> older women and found it had a positive effect on their romantic
> lives.
>
> New Scientist magazine reports they had more dates or affection from
> their partners if they used the treated scent rather than a dummy
> version.
>
> Other experts said they needed to know more about how the chemical
> might work.
>
> It's still a mystery substance being applied to individuals at
> unknown concentrations
>
> George Preti, Monell Chemical Senses Centre, Pennsylvania
> Pheromones are natural scent signals which alter animal behaviour.
>
> In the animal kingdom they are widely used to attract mates, but
> controversy surrounds their effect on humans.
>
> Joan Friebely, of Harvard University, and Susan Rako, a private
doctor
> in Newton, Massachusetts, studied 44 post-menopausal women.
>
> Half were given perfume with added Athena Pheromone 10:13, originally
> isolated from a woman's armpit sweat. The rest used untreated
perfume.
>
>
> The women were then asked to keep diaries for six weeks.
>
> 'Secret'
>
> The study, also published in the Journal of Sex Behaviour, said 41%
of
> pheromone users reported more kissing and affection from their
> partners, compared with 14% who had the dummy perfume
This material has been kicking around in one form or another for over
30 years. Every 5 years or so somebody makes some press with a new
brushoff of the material. Problems has been, will be, then, and now,
and always that experimental control of olfactory experiments are at
current, nearly impossible and have always been notoriously difficult.
Think, control for numbers of molecules of "mystery substance" per
cubic volume of air, adeqautely delivered and percieved by x-number of
receptors, blah blah blah They've seemed to gotten it down (somewhat)
on some studies on flies. My sense is that flies and humans do not
interact well on the romantic level, (although socially I'm not so
sure). That said perhaps romantic/affectionate interaction has to do
more with the wine consumed, clothing worn, words spoken, looks given,
place of meeting, type of music, furrniture sat on, time of day, day of
year.... but my guess is this finding won't even be a memory next
year..........But I saw it on the news!!!!!
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