Perfuming Basics

[jvkohl]

Couldn't

they just give me some demerol and hold a feline over my head for 90 seconds while I hold my

breath?

Experimental procedures like that are typically not covered by insurance. However, if you

have enough cash, these services will be made available to you, and performed by somewhat qualified, albeit

unlicensed, personnel--somewhere.

Findings: what can I say. . .Here's a neat

finding: "87% of people in this sample survey strongly agree that sex is pleasant; sampling error +/- 12 points. .

." And people get grants and promotions to say stuff like that. I find that hilarious. Than again, I have trouble

matching my socks, so I can't exactly point the finger at anyone and call them out of touch.

I can

indicate, and often have suggested, that people who find meaning in results like these lack sufficient biologically

based training, or a biological model that would add meaning to the sex for pleasure component of properly timed

animalistic reproductive sexual behavior. However, discussion typically then degrades to comments about my ego, with

no further consideration for biology.

Thanks, jvkhol, for the distinction that makes a

truly interesting difference in how I think about the ol' olfactory factory. No kidding. The conscious and

unconscious neural wiring [I only get the abstract stuff] will keep me fascinated for months. I'll go to the

article. Then I'll probably torture my students with questions like the history of acceptable national standards

of personal scent awareness. Then they'll probably ask me to sponsor a student organization. .

.

Torture is not allowed within the boundaries of the US. I'd suggest grilling your students,

instead, but someone might misinterpret my advice to be promoting cannibalism.

But if

you could crib me on the details, I'd like that.

I put the biologically active chemicals in

a fragrance product and their activitity (at an unconscious level) has a positive affect on your behavior (by

effecting the hormones involved in behavioral change). You then respond positively to the fragrance even without the

biologically active chemicals.

Of course, now that you've read the article and been debriefed you may join

the ranks of people marketing products containing chemicals that they call pheromones, but which have not been

demonstrated to have any effect either on hormones or on behavior in any male or female animal of any species.

That's the darkside; I hope you don't cross over.

James V. Kohl
author/creator: The Scent of Eros