Do humans rely on pheromones to achieve arousal?
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I wore that REALM pheromone perfume for a while years ago.  It didn't really seem to be so powerful.  It smelled good but the guys weren't flocking towards me.  \n\nI think pheromones are more for animals.  For us, it is just a marketing ploy.
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Humans have one or more pheromones (originally called "exaltolides"), presumed to exist for some years, but formally accepted to exist in 1986. They are strongest in women during the time period around ovulation and work subliminally (at concentrations too small to recognize as an odor). They are responsible for women who live together, as in a dorm, synchronizing their ovulatory cycles. Men emit some at a regular rate, but the importance of this is not understood. At stronger concentrations these pheromones have a musky, even offensive, smell - thus the prevalence of musk-type perfumes trying to mimic the effect. It is the buildup of exaltolides in the air that may cause the heightened social activities in everybody at a crowded cocktail party or a dance. The increased body temperature from physical activity will increase evaporation into the air.
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Some of these people seem to be onto the right idea, but are mostly wrong. Pheromones are excreted in your sweat, and are chemicals that are received by our olfactory bulbs (which are responsible for smell). You don't want to maximize the amount of pheromones you excrete unless you're having trouble "getting it up", because in humans, pheromones from a male only affect males, likewise female pheromones. They do exist, and have been "proved", as our grammatically incompetent friend above postulated. So, if you want to improve your chances, you're going to need some lady-sweat. There's evidence for this, too. Have you ever noticed that after physical activity, you feel a little more "in the mood"? Also note that sex is a physical activity which involves sweating... it's all about keeping our species going...
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What species of male?\n\nLimp or aroused?\n\nGotta be a little more specific here!
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The reputed aphrodisiac qualities of chocolate are most often associated with the simple sensual pleasure of its consumption. More recently, suggestion has been made that serotonin and other chemicals found in chocolate, most notably phenethylamine, can act as mild sexual stimulants.
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Love is a natural experience. Attraction is a chemical reaction. Attraction is triggered by pheromones. Attraction is a physical desire, while love is an emotional desire. The physical desire goes hand in hand with the chemical reaction. While the emotional desire goes hand in hand with human feeling.
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No, absolutely!\nOtherwise we all should have skin problem even!\nOn the contrary, scientists says that a regular sexual life (mastu*bation too) helps the reproductive system to keep healthy and increase the performance (desire) too.\nSo, don’t worry, mastu*bation is a natural act, and with the age and stable relations, decreases till vanish.
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Here's one theory:\n\nWomen who work or live together tend to get their menstrual cycles in sync. That curious phenomenon known for years by scientists and many ordinary folk, has long been suspected as an indication that humans, like insects and some mammals, communicate subtly by sexual aromas known as pheromones.
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KEEPING YOUR BLOOD GLUCOSE UNDER CONTROL... IN MY RELATIONSHIP NATURAL APHRODISIAC ARE EFFECTIVE..  IT PERMITS AN NATURAL AROUSAL AND NOT GET DEPENDENT ON MEDICATIONS...  GOOD LUCK
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Your endochrine glands. It is your thyroid and adrenal glands that release pheromones and control their production.
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*Taking a moment to scratch the fur on my skull as I ponder how to phrase this.* Ummm evolution...\n\nYes it is true the majority of males are naturally attracted to females and visa versa.\n\nOne could say simply because that is God's plan ect, but I will not short change you like that...\n\nThe biological imperative: The urge to reproduce and continue the species. KK simply put, without procreation (unless one reproducesses by fission like some single cell forms) a species would die out. In fact, in natural selection things are so rough, even multiple young in one birth is not a guarantee that the species will survive.\nSo evolution added something else, a mutation that caused the extreme urge to procreate, one that takes over even the survival reflex of an individual.\nSo the individuals with the mutation procreated more, had more offspring and thus the mutation is spread through out the gene pool, guaranteeing the specie's survival.\n\nNow why that urge is opposite sex (usually) related is once again survival of the species. If females were atracted to only females and males to only males, that species would soon die out.\nEvolution and Natural Selection have ways to around that problem, such as the attraction of the opposite sex to pheromones, chemical scent cues that tell our body that this one is a likely mate.\n\nThat plus a few other things hardwired in our DNA is why we are attracted to mainly those who could bare our children and pass our genes down through time...
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The majority of the time, medical evaluation and lab tests will not reveal a physical cause. However, testosterone is the hormone responsible for creating sexual desire in both men and women. It may be useful to check testosterone levels, particularly in men who have ISD (inhibited Sexual Desire). Blood for such lab tests in men should be drawn before 10:00 a.m., when male hormone levels are at their highest. Interviews with a specialist in sex therapy are more likely to reveal possible causes.\n\nTreatment must be individualized to the factors that may be inhibiting sexual interest. Often, there may be several such factors. Some couples will need relationship enhancement work or marital therapy prior to focusing directly on enhancing sexual activity.\n\nDeclining sex is sometimes one of the few areas where someone who feels dominated can feel in control. Developing skills in conflict resolution can be helpful to work through differences in nonsexual areas as well as sexual.\n\nCommunication training in talking on a feeling level, showing empathic understanding, resolving differences in a manner that refers to emotions is also helpful. When problems with sexual arousal or performance are factors in decreasing libido, these sexual dysfunctions will need to be directly addressed.\n\nA new drug, Bremelanotide (formerly PT-141), has been shown to directly increase sexual desire in men as well as women. This compound is currently in clinical trials.\n\nThe preceding is for people who were sexually active at first, but later lost it.\n\nIf she was like that from the start, and only she can answer that, she may be an asexual.  That is what I am.  I pretended to be heterosexual for a very long time just to fit in.  The truth is that I never liked sex and I don't crave it.  I just pretended to be interested just to be like all the other guys.
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I think maybe if society brought us up to be physically attracted to chocolate, we would be. Or maybe it's just in our nature to be aroused by our own species, because in the end, that is what gives us life?
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Yes it is biologically related. Pheromones (chemical scents that all of us emit) influence the menstural cycle of women, and are the cause of this phenomenon.\n\nCheck out the link for a more scientific explanation: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f00/web2/braha2.html\n\nThis phenomenon is widespread in nature. Plants use a similar mechanism to thwart pests. I.e. when a plant gets attacked by pests, it releases a pheromone which alerts other plants -- which enables them to build up defenses to combat the pest. http://www.jhu.edu/~newslett/01-28-99/Science/3.html
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Yes. The obvious answer to the question is that you wouldn't like to be hanging around a person if he or she smells. Getting close to someone who smells is not fun.\n  Another deeper reason is that your nose is linked to your brain. Therefore a smell can be paired with a moment in time or a feeling you had when you smell it. Food is an easy example to show this. Lets say your grandma cooked the best apple pie. Every time you smell apple pie you would think of your grandma. So lets say I wear a certain Cologne. If you are around me enough every time you smell that you would think of me. Or a time that we spent together.\n    Another even more in dept attraction to smell is pheromones. Some scientists say that attraction at its most chemical state are pheromones our body produces. These pheromones are made to attract mates. People inhale your pheromones and attract you. So if you have a high pheromone count you could be a very attractive person even though you might not have the looks to go with it. The pheromone theory is just a theory.
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I believe it has to do with pheromones.
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It depends on what moral standards you were raised with, to begin with. There are many different forms of arousal, but if you want to get teknikal about it, sex is when penetration occurs.  Fooly Cooly.