Do Pheromones Work?

heromones are chemicals that are secreted in our sweat (and other bodily fluids). Mammals and other animals also secrete pheromones, and scientists have long known that these pheromones wield a powerful influence on their mating habits.

If you've ever observed the way a male animal is irresistibly attracted to a female in heat, you already understand the awesome power of pheromones in sexual encounters. Even monkeys, grass carps, blue crabs and ants release pheromones as enticements to love.

Likewise, pheromones affect the mating habits of human beings. These airborne chemicals are the primal cause of all sexual attraction. They influence how often we have sex and with whom.

Does that mean that when humans smell pheromones, we act like love-crazed tom-cats ready to pounce on any member of the opposite sex that happens to be nearby? Not exactly. The effects of pheromones on humans are more subtle, but nonetheless, powerful.

Pheromones perform many tasks other than just stimulate us to have sex. They have been used as appetite suppressants, contraceptives and sedatives, and have also been used to foster menstrual regularity in women, as well as treat a host of illnesses, including impotence, sexual disorders and prostate cancer. However, it is pheromone's sexual attractant properties that have captured the public's fascination for obvious reasons.

Pheromones are odorless, and because they waft through the air in the smallest traces, they're barely perceptible. In fact, it is only through our vomeronasal organ (VNO) located in our nasal cavity that we're able to detect pheromones. Although pheromones cannot be seen, heard, smelled or touched, they secretly affect our biological processes, which in turn, stimulate our sexual drives and reproductive behaviors. That's why they're often called "secret seducers."

When optimized, male pheromones (androstenones) have been scientifically proven to increase the luteinizing hormone (LH) in women, thereby causing a woman to have a heightened sexual responsiveness to a man. Optimized female pheromones (copulins) have also been proven to bring about a testosterone surge in men, thereby causing a man to have a heightened sexual responsiveness to a woman. Both male and female pheromones, when optimized, also release neurotransmitters that directly modify the behavior of the opposite sex, such as triggering sexual excitement.

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