The Scent of a Woman
Don't trust the hype about pheromones and sexual attraction.

"But there's a huge difference between an instinctual behavior-changer and a pleasing odor."

Food odors and social odors (pheromones) change behavior via their effect on luteinizing hormone (LH).

"Besides, most of the evidence nowadays suggests that the way we react to aromas is learned—learning that can go back to the womb."

It's not learning, it's conditioning. Our behavior is conditioned by odors to occur in the presence of other associated sensory input.

"For instance, Doty refers to a 2004 study on sheep that interrogated the long-held assumption that females ovulate in the presence of males, most likely due to pheromones."

This is undisputed, and obviously due to pheromones in all mammals.

"The researchers put lavender on the males and after a few mating sessions, the females began ovulating from the scent of lavender alone. The findings suggest that the females' hormonal response was an acquired behavior, rather than an innate one."

Read that again; he just turned a hormone response that occurs due to the effect of pheromones on LH into an acquired behavior due to the lavendar. Silly man, silly article.

Here's the way it works.

Very interesting read

Cheers

SS

(08-19-2011 9:06 PM)jvkohl Wrote:  "The researchers put lavender on the males and after a few mating sessions, the females began ovulating from the scent of lavender alone. The findings suggest that the females' hormonal response was an acquired behavior, rather than an innate one."

Read that again; he just turned a hormone response that occurs due to the effect of pheromones on LH into an acquired behavior due to the lavendar. Silly man, silly article.

The FACT that copulins have been shown to increase testosterone levels in males by 140%, must then be due to an acquired behavior as well, right?

I mean come on, do you really believe that we just might have evolved from lower mammals and have any remaining primitive physiological traits? Nonsense I tell you! Nonsense!