zben@umcp-cs.UUCP (09/14/83)
(Obeying the convention of not posting to net.women.only.) As a scientist I am intrigued by this perfume, but as a human being I am not sure I like this precedent of manipulating people by their endocrine systems. I do not think wearing such a perfume is at all ethical...
davidl@tekid.UUCP (David Levadie) (09/15/83)
OK - I tried getting Hold of the initiator of all this & so far no response... & now with this contention about the morality of tweaking people's Endocrine systems I am FORCED to spew this out all over the Net... I know somebody who is (was) doing research into pheromones. Some fascinating facts have turned up regarding pheromone receptors in insects have turned up - like, the insects have dielectric horn antennae which are tuned to specific frequencies of light emitted (reflected?) by species-specific pheromones... In his infinite paranoia this person thinks that Big Brother is going to come up with some scheme for manipulating (shudder, quake) HUMANS via some devious transmission of energies (Probably from satellites, right??) O.K. Cologne sounds good. But what does the stuff DO? I can't think of any smell that distracts me so I "can't keep my thoughts straight" (Did I get that right?) Except maybe cyanide gas. (Damn, I just saw a grammatical spaz in here and I'm too dumb to figure out how to fix it... oh well) ?
steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer) (09/15/83)
Pherimone-based perfume non-ethical???
Who ever said that love & sex was ethical??
(Alls fair in love and war).
Actually, I really wrote this response to protest your implication
that people do not have control over their endocrine systems. I seriously
doubt that that woman who was complaining about her office-mates pheromone
perfume, would have any problem at all, if she were not slightly attracted
to him. At best, pherimones may influence the mood, NOT the person.....
Steven Maurer
decvax\!decwrl\!qubix\!stevenmadrid@auvax (09/20/83)
nes. Apparently, women found them attractive; men felt
hostility. (If we consider pheromones to be part of the whole
competition-for-breeding complex, this is not surprising.)
The paper went on to suggest that pheromones may be a significant
factor contributing to rioting at British football games. Apparently,
there is a lot of beer-drinking, and very limited access to plumbing.
Pheromones are found in urine. (That's why dogs mark trees: they are
making territorial claims which are part of the same behavioral complex.)
I would be interested in knowing if the pheromone-wearing colleague
has been having problems with his male co-workers since he started
wearing it.
R.
!alberta!auvax!madriddebenedi@yale-com.UUCP (Robert DeBenedictis) (09/21/83)
A while back (one week?) some woman mentioned that a co-worker was wearing a Pheremone-based perfume that prevented her from "thinking straight" (no MOTSS implications). I wanna know: Which Pheremon-based perfume was he wearing? Send replies to me. Robert DeBenedictis
rld@pyuxnn.UUCP (09/29/83)
I have seen adds for a presumably pheremone-based product designed to attract
males. It was called "Doe in Rut" Deer attractant. Having manipulated the
buck by his endocrine system, the User shoots it through the neck with a
.30-06.
Why can't humans do the same to each other?
[See ya in net.flames!]
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