Smell your way to love? One matchmaker pairs singles' scents

[lpast]

This is new ? Men have been sniffin since Adam and Eve or the first amoeba's whatever you want to believe...thats why women call us dogs

Sniff your way to love? Singles who attend so-called pheromone parties haven't ruled it out.

The get-togethers — which have been held in New York and Los Angeles and are planned for other cities — ask guests to submit a slept-in T-shirt that will be smelled by other participants.

The parties started as an experiment in matchmaking by a California woman weary of online dating, but it turns out they also have a root in science. Researchers have shown that humans can use scent to sort out genetic combinations that could lead to weaker offspring.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-06-23/pheromone-party-dating/55782504/1

 

[Gipper]

Yeah that's not new. Dr. Alan Hirsch has been researching this type of thing for a long time.

You know he's brilliant because he and I went to the same school.

 

[lizzie]

There may be a little something to it, but we are primarily visually-stimulated creatures initially, and our sense of smell is rather undeveloped, as compared to other animals, so I guess they'll have to put on blindfolds.

 

[clownboy]

I thought this was a wonderful idea. Our sense of smell may not be on par with hunting hounds, but we emit pheromones, so it makes sense we can detect them too. I know how much smell rules a relationship, I can't remember what my first love looked like, but to this day, I catch a whiff of her scent and it makes my heart bounce.

 

[lpast]

I believe scent has much to do with attraction...lasting attraction...it may not be all conscious scent either...

 

[notquiteright]

I figure scent is more for lust and breeding than anything long lasting. Like the visual of blonde hair, big boobies, tight butt sexual attraction is one level, long term another. That is not to say there isn't any place for eye appeal, lusty scents of arousal, in determining a long term relationship, just we are a tad bit more refined than bonobos where the female in heat has a day of almost constant coupling.

While I am no scientist I believe what one of them said about it all... the best sexual organ we have is between our ears, thinking more so than hanging off our faces... though more than one young thing has admired having a saddle horn in certain situations.

What attracted me to my wife was her smile, accepting me and what I had done in life without judgment, a wicked sense of humor, oh and she apprciated that saddle horn from time to time...

 

[lizzie]

I figure scent is more for lust and breeding than anything long lasting. Like the visual of blonde hair, big boobies, tight butt sexual attraction is one level, long term another. That is not to say there isn't any place for eye appeal, lusty scents of arousal, in determining a long term relationship, just we are a tad bit more refined than bonobos where the female in heat has a day of almost constant coupling.

I suspect you are exactly right. It's like animals during the rutting season, and the singluar purpose is for the male to impregnate as many females as possible. :lol:

 

[clownboy]

Animals use scent for more than mating. What's the first thing two dogs do upon meeting one another?

 

[American]

Anyway, I think we all realize there are unconscious cues that come into play. But then I've known women who seem to go for the wrong guy repeatedly. They never seems to learn. For example, many women like the "bad boy", but some seem to end up hurt by these relationships each time; yet they fall for the same type again and again.

 

[Risky Thicket]

This is new ? Men have been sniffin since Adam and Eve or the first amoeba's whatever you want to believe...thats why women call us dogs

Sniff your way to love? Singles who attend so-called pheromone parties haven't ruled it out.

The get-togethers — which have been held in New York and Los Angeles and are planned for other cities — ask guests to submit a slept-in T-shirt that will be smelled by other participants.

The parties started as an experiment in matchmaking by a California woman weary of online dating, but it turns out they also have a root in science. Researchers have shown that humans can use scent to sort out genetic combinations that could lead to weaker offspring.


Smell your way to love? One matchmaker pairs singles' scents

Wouldn't work for me. I don't wear anything when I sleep.

 

[Risky Thicket]

Animals use scent for more than mating. What's the first thing two dogs do upon meeting one another?

 

[Sig]

This is new ? Men have been sniffin since Adam and Eve or the first amoeba's whatever you want to believe...thats why women call us dogs

Sniff your way to love? Singles who attend so-called pheromone parties haven't ruled it out.

The get-togethers — which have been held in New York and Los Angeles and are planned for other cities — ask guests to submit a slept-in T-shirt that will be smelled by other participants.

The parties started as an experiment in matchmaking by a California woman weary of online dating, but it turns out they also have a root in science. Researchers have shown that humans can use scent to sort out genetic combinations that could lead to weaker offspring.


Smell your way to love? One matchmaker pairs singles' scents

I do not doubt this.

I have long wondered why it is that some women, though being less attractive in a cultural sense, nevertheless turn me on when they are physically before me, much more so than women who I would undoubtedly prefer if my experience of all of them were limited to mere photographs.

What is more, the natural scent of one woman's vagina will turn me on more than the natural scent of another woman's vagina, even if there is nothing particularly unpleasant about the scent of either vagina, for reasons which are in no way rationally discernible. Indeed, the scent of the vagina of one woman will compel me to stick my face down there till my chin looks like a glazed donut, while the scent of another woman will give me no such compulsion.