THE ETHICS OF USING PHEROMONES...

[**DONOTDELETE**]

ok.

let\'s say you know a girl, she thinks you\'re ok and stuff. next day, pheromones! she will be like...whoa!

or you use pheromones to attract the one. she smells the stuff, get to know you, falls in love, you guys get married. BACK TO THE FUTURE, you accidently leave your primal instinct and other pheromone products(and the ingredients do say human pheromones). she will be what\'s this? do research on human pheromones, finds out you been using it on her and \"cheated\". not very pleasant you know what i mean.

or let\'s say you see an ok girl, get attracted to her....., falls for her and also find out she \"cheated nature\" and used pheromones? what would you guys think? would you guys think, my love and attraction is based on pheromones! take away her pheromones...what would happen? she turned \"ugly\" or what? =)

i think someone used pheromones on me....luckily i heard about it. there was this girl standing in line in front of me, i didn\'t even get to see her face and boobs and all. but i\'m like what the hell? why i want to look at her for? i felt the pull. i looked away but still felt the pull. i\'m like, what the hell, she using pheromones i bet.

[Whitehall]

Bump - it seems like a new batch

of pheromone users need to conside this topic.

[koolking1]

"Women have a very important

function in human ecology and evolution - they largely chose who will father their children and when. The

hypothetical pheromone would negate that responsibility and replace it with what? Pretty soon, every fertile woman

would be pregnant! How would men compete then for the chance to be a father? We would probably see harems as in

Muslim countries where women are kept as possessions and locked up for the sole use of the alpha male. Would eunuchs

make a return? The less powerful males would then get even less opportunities than now."


I doubt the

above scenario would happen as the Alpha male's edge in aggression abilities was pretty much negated with the

advent of the great equalizer, the gun.

[IronMind]

I think phermones just adds a

little cherry on top.

[platinumfox]

I'll admit I use pheromones to

attract other mens wives and girlfriends.

[IronMind]

well thats kinda loserish.

[Rover The Dog]

"well thats kinda

loserish."

ditto

[David]

I agree with the

gist of what others are saying. These in IMHO no moral issue here. Whats the difference from any of a long list of

other things people do to attract others: any cologne/perfume, fixing our hair, wearing nice (or sexy) clothes,

wearing a Rolex, driving a beemer, what ever.

Paradoxically, we do all the above (and other) things (which

to some extent are facades) to attract someone initially, but who we really are is what (hopefully) keeps

them.

I personally am most seriously interested in a deep abiding connection with someone. The mones are

just part of the hunt. I doubt they will be relevent after making "first contact". But I'm not

sure.

Namaste
David

[DrSmellThis]

Wearing pheromones is doing people a favor, by creating a more pleasant pheromone profile for

them. You're pleasing the senses.

It is essentially no different, or no more deceptive, than wearing nice

clothes instead of going naked everywhere. Is wearing a shirt over your little beer belly deceptive? If somebody

dresses well or smells good (pheros help people to enjoy smells more thoroughly), their habit is often a lasting,

and therefore not superficial, difference in their attractiveness. I will always smell good (and dress with

aesthetics somewhat in mind), and any woman in my life can count on that enjoyment.

But what if

pheromones were magic -- so powerful, they caused every woman to find you attractive?

So what? Is it

unethical for Brad Pitt to be Brad Pitt? People are as free, responsible and attracted as they are going to be,

in response to all the things we do to ourselves to help our attractiveness. It is what it is. Who can judge how

attracted someone should be?

But even assuming we could and "should" be these kinds of

judges, maybe people "should be" more attracted to each other than they are. Maybe pheromones help redress

the excessive alienation, mistrust and isolation that plague capitalist, individualist cultures; and help remove

some purely biological obstacles to intimacy; obstacles that are less relevant, in practical terms, than they used

to be.