Posted on 02/10/2007 3:29:45 PM PST by NormsRevenge
A chemical in male sweat can boost mood, brain activity and sexual arousal in heterosexual women, according to a new study released just in time for Valentine's Day.
The study offers the first direct evidence that humans secrete a scent that can affect the physiology of the opposite sex, said researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Their findings were published this week in The Journal of Neuroscience.
"This is the first time anyone has demonstrated that a change in women's hormonal levels is induced by sniffing an identified compound of male sweat," said study leader Claire Wyart, a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. "There is much more going on than we think when we are smelling body odor."
The study conducted last year involved 48 undergraduate women who took 20 sniffs from a bottle containing androstadienone, a compound found in male perspiration and other bodily secretions.
The researchers measured the women's levels of the stress hormone cortisol and compared them to the women's responses to a control odor. Cortisol levels in the women rose within about 15 minutes of inhaling the androstadienone scent and remained elevated for more than an hour, UC Berkeley researchers found.
They also discovered that blood pressure, heart rate and breathing increased, mood improved and sexual arousal was boosted.
While the compound can make women feel more positive and sexually aroused, it's still unclear how it affects their behavior, Wyart said.
"Humans are more complex," she said. "You cannot expect them to have stereotypical responses like rodents."
It's raining in The Grove today. The elk are all bedded down between the SUV's and the bungalows.
This is no surprise to women is it? This was discussed on FR about a year ago, and several women affirmed this is true.
Anyway, I've been thinking about changing careers, and this has given me an idea. They have doe pee to attract bucks, why not bottle this and sell it?
That's right, I remember that stuff. gguckk. I'm a CoolWater guy these days myself... ;-)
It could become more profitable than snake venom, Go for it!
God Bless America,the FRee market and the entrepreneurial spirit inside all of us, and on our skin too.. Woo Hoo! 8-)
Thanks! This was no secret, uh? lol
And to quote my beloved wife: YUCK!
It isn't the sweat that turns the women on. It is the honey do lists that bring on the sweat.
"They have doe pee to attract bucks, why not bottle this and sell it?"
I'll do the Marketing, YOU can do the "harvesting," LOL!
I've always gone for men that were more cerebral than sweaty. Though on second thought there was this young, hard-working Cabana Boy in my past that was rather well tanned and "glistening." *WINK* :)
"I'm a CoolWater guy these days myself... ;-)"
Mmmmmmm. I love that scent! Have you tried 'Grey Flannel' by Geoffrey Bean? It's an oldie, but a goodie; I'm gettin' all "sweaty" just thinking about it. *SWOON* That stuff sends me to the Moon!
Try it out on your Special Lady. Any Nordstrom's sales clerk worth her salt will give you some free samples. (Of cologne!) ;)
Oh Norm, you sexy thang.
I buy the CoolWater on cruises duty free, it last quite awhile, haven't tried Grey Flannel, Thanks! I'll have to make a Nordstorm pitstop. lol
Thangs! :-)
Tell me something that most of us didn't know.
LOL
Romans used to recover male sweat and market it.
Nothing under the sun is new.
News? Hasn't anyone heard of pheromones and studies on them before?
In fact, years ago, Jovan used to sell a men's colonge called 'Andros" or something similar that the company claimed was pheromone based.
I bought a case. I'm now down to my last bottle.
You won't regret it! :)
pheromones? Oh Yes.. drives the little insects and critters wild. Mother Nature definitely knows how to rev things up.
I should have dropped this in chat, it's kind of a slow 'news' day tho. ;-)
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