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The Laws of Attraction
Feeling sexy seems elusive and unpredictable, but experts say there are ways to make desirabilty attainable and down-to-earth. By Meghan Daum. |
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*** ...pheromones are chemicals that trigger a variety of biological responses....In 1971, University of Chicago psychologist Martha McClintock, then a Wellesley College undergraduate, published research suggesting that, thanks to pheromones, women who lived in groups tended to get their periods at the same time each month. That same year, Richard P. Michael, a British behavioral neuroendocrinoloigst studying rhesus monkeys, professed to have isolated whatever compounds in vaginal secretions cause male monkeys to initiate sex when they sniff them. *** In 1986, research biologist Winnifred Cutler and George Preti, a chemist from the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, published data showing that male sweat extracts secreted from sexually active men's armpits promote more fertile menstrual cycles. Cutler went on to claim that in the same way that women who live together experience a synchronization of their periods, "women with unusually short or long menstrual cycles get closer to {more fertile-type length} cycles after regularly inhaling the male essence." (That essence, according to Cutler is comprised of male hormones, sweat, and body odor. "You just walk into a male locker room," she told a reporter in 1998.)
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