If only smelling good was enough to turn someone on... Good news is, it might just be true.
Pheromones of Men Helpful to Women
In 2008, the researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Monell Chemical Senses Centre found that women who regularly had sex with men were more fertile and had a regular menstrual cycle than celibate women or those who had sex rarely.
Winnifred Cutler, specialist in behavior endocrinology and a biologist said, “What we're saying here is that men are really important for women."
In humans, these chemicals are activated at puberty and are produced by both the sexes.
How do Sexual Pheromones Work?
The presence of vemeronasal organ (VNO) inside the nose picks up signals sent by these pheromones secreted by the apocrine glands around the genitals and in the armpits.
Once the message is received by VNO, it is passed on to the limbic part inside the brain. The limbic portion is responsible for all basic human sensations including sexual attraction. Although the person may not smell them in the traditional sense, yet these have shown to increase the attraction.
Studies to Support Sexual Pheromones’ Work
• According to Denise Chen, a psychology professor at the Rice University, Texas, women can subconsciously determine if the man is attracted to her by the smell of his sweat. Details of the study have been published in the Journal of Neuroscience in January, 2009.
• In 1956, German researchers found that a chemical substance “bombykol” (sexual pheromone) from the abdomen
of 500,000 female moths made several male moths flutter their wings, expressing their attraction.
• As per findings of the Bennett Research, an Australian organization, 90 percent of men reported that use of pheromones made them more attractive to women. 52 percent men reported that women initiated conversation with them and 17 percent told that women expressed their desire to have sex with them.
The study was published in the winter 2001 publication of the Sexual Magnetism magazine.
• During an experiment on sexual pheromones by Dr. Winnifred Cutler at the Athena Institute in Pennsylvania in 1986, pheromone-alcohol solution and simple alcohol solution was given to 38 men and they were asked to add it to their regular cologne. 47 percent of those who used pheromone-alcohol solution reported to have more sex than those who used simple alcohol solutions.
Synthetic (and economical) alternatives to sexual pheromones have been produced and are used liberally by scent manufacturers. It is a 6 billion dollar industry, doing some worthy work.
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