Journal #3: Pheromones Cologne
Summary:
While surfing the net about pheromones, I came across the
website “luveessentials.com” that claims to be selling pheromone colognes and
perfumes that obviously, contains pheromones and will help “increase frequency
of dates, affectionate gestures, sleeping next to a romantic partner and sexual
activities”.
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| Pheromones at Work? |
Personal response:
My first reaction to this was to ridicule it as I recognized
one part to be incorrect (shown to me by marks off in my exam), where it states
pheromones “release neurotransmitters that directly modify the behavior of the
opposite sex”—which is untrue, as it is not only limited to the opposite sex
and that “the people who produce higher than
average amounts of pheromones have greater success with members of the opposite
sex”—to which I frowned a bit upon, because it sounded like the classic
advertisement scam of “the more the better!”. With the definition of its being a
form of chemical communication between members of the same species, it is still
very much unknown for what exactly it does in human, and how much it really
affects us as we’re a practically scentless, clean bunch (with the exception of
artificial sprays). According to a study, there is a correlation between
pheromones and frequency of all those activities mentioned above; however, as pheromones are still a very much
unstudied topic, several question do rise: how much do pheromones contribute to
our daily interactions with others? Do pheromones even affect us the way they
do with animals?
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