Last week we discussed seduction as the psychological stimulation needed to get us turned on to sex. Once the brain becomes erect, our next challenge is to get the body excited. We typically know this stage as arousal, or the awakening of the second biggest sex organ our skin.

Posted on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 0852 -0700 at http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-316...menon.html

Any article (e.g., like this one) that refers to the work of Winnifred Cutler indicates the journalist is not familiar with the topic. The results from studies that Cutler says show some effect of her unnamed chemical were debunked many years ago.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15327919
Two studies of the effects of perfume additives, termed human pheromones by the authors, have conveyed the message that these substances can promote an increase in human sociosexual behaviour [Physiol. Behav. 75 (2003) R1; Arch. Sex. Behav. 27 (1998) R2]. The present paper presents an extended analysis of this data. It is shown that in neither study is there a statistically significant increase in any of the sociosexual behaviours for the experimental groups. In the control groups of both studies, there are, however, moderate but statistically significant decreases in the corresponding behaviour. Most notably, there is no support in data for the claim that the substances increase the attractiveness of the wearers of the substances to the other sex....My emphasis added.

(08-15-2010 11:29 AM)Forum Staff Wrote:  Last week we discussed seduction as the psychological stimulation needed to get us turned on to sex. Once the brain becomes erect, our next challenge is to get the body excited. We typically know this stage as arousal, or the awakening of the second biggest sex organ our skin.

Posted on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 0852 -0700 at http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-316...menon.html