10-26-2017, 09:39 PM
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48 minutes ago, Ara said:
This will be a little off topic but I always had this question too, and what I read so far didn't really convince me. How do you think these things work in our species? Because I've never seen any hint of it working. All attraction I see in humans is visual. I don't recall any situation of me getting horny or preferring one female over others for a non-visual reason. I have my visual preferences and the more one matches them, the more appealing I will find them, and there has never been an exception that made me wonder if it's because of pheromones or not. Maybe I'm missunderstanding how pheromones exactly work, but I just don't see anything like that working from what I understand of it. I once heard it stopped being a strong thing in humans since the moment we adopted the custom of taking showers/baths consistently, which gets rid of the smell of such pheromones. What do you think about it?
Scent is involved in attraction, definitely. Boys would inhale deeply around girls and smile, making exaggerated lovey-dovey "ahhh..." expressions. Girls similarly found the scent of guys attractive, particularly after they have exercised.
Whether or not that effect in humans is due to pheromones is another story. In animals, pheromones are scents that an animal cannot conscientiously identify as a smell, but trigger sensations in the brain related to sexual attraction. In humans, that short-circuit pathway is believed to be non-existent, and thus any chemicals that trigger sexual feelings are the result of perceptible scents that are linked to the object of attraction.
