Singles Try to Sniff Out Love at Pheromone Parties: Reasonable or Ridiculous?
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2012/06/24 18:24:56
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Sick of online dating? Maybe it’s time to sniff your way to love. Yes, you read that right! Many singles across the country are trying to pick future partners based on scent at “pheromone parties,” the latest craze in matchmaking.
Guests at these get-togethers are asked to sleep in a cotton T-shirt for three nights, in a row in order to capture their “odor print,” and to then bring the shirt with them in a Ziploc bag. At the event, the bags are color-coded based on gender and numbered by guest. Participants only know the number assigned to their own shirt.
The bags are then placed on a table where guests can sniff them at their leisure throughout the party. If a participant finds a scent particularly attractive, he or she can take a picture with the bag at a photo station. These pictures are then projected or posted on a wall so that a shirt’s owner can step forward and meet his or her odor’s admirer.
As strange as these pheromone parties sound, they may actually have some scientific backing. According to the Associated Press, “Research studies using similar T-shirt experiments have shown that people prefer different human scents. But whose smell they prefer is dictated by a set of genes that influence our immune response — which researchers say is nature's way of preventing inbreeding and preserving genetic adaptations developed over time.”
So, what do you think SodaHeads? Are pheromone parties reasonable or ridiculous?
Guests at these get-togethers are asked to sleep in a cotton T-shirt for three nights, in a row in order to capture their “odor print,” and to then bring the shirt with them in a Ziploc bag. At the event, the bags are color-coded based on gender and numbered by guest. Participants only know the number assigned to their own shirt.
The bags are then placed on a table where guests can sniff them at their leisure throughout the party. If a participant finds a scent particularly attractive, he or she can take a picture with the bag at a photo station. These pictures are then projected or posted on a wall so that a shirt’s owner can step forward and meet his or her odor’s admirer.
As strange as these pheromone parties sound, they may actually have some scientific backing. According to the Associated Press, “Research studies using similar T-shirt experiments have shown that people prefer different human scents. But whose smell they prefer is dictated by a set of genes that influence our immune response — which researchers say is nature's way of preventing inbreeding and preserving genetic adaptations developed over time.”
So, what do you think SodaHeads? Are pheromone parties reasonable or ridiculous?
Read More: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57459397/singl...
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Kimmel 2012/06/26 17:38:56
So . . . When's the next Party?
Love is not a chemical reaction, nor does it reside in the physical world.
It's an expression of spiritual energy. I'm not talking about the new age garbage, but rather the understanding of spirit as it has existed since man has walked the earth.
However, I wouldn't trade those deep rooted feelings for anything.
If your goal when entering into a relationship is not love, what is it?
People ain't toaster ovens or computers.
My wife cooks and cleans. That's her role.
[sarcasm]
If your wife knows how you feel, she must be severely lacking in her sense of security. My wife's role is to tend to a majority of the domestic tasks. My role is to handle mechanical tasks, heavy lifting, and to provide a sense of security to the best of my ability. There is no fear in our home because I've made a tacit vow to protect my family with metal, blood, and my very life if the need should arise. This is what it means to be a father and husband. Any man who does not live up to these standards is no man at all.
Well gee whiz I guess it's a good that violent assailants are usually very clear in making their intentions known and very good at keeping the scope of their violence at a manageable level.
[sarcasm]
If you aren't willing to risk your life to protect your family you're useless as the head of your household.
If three thugs who look like rugby players kick in your front door like it's made of toothpicks and commence to sexually assaulting your wife and destroying your property, your life is in inherent danger before your presence is even acknowledged. So what do you do, flee out the back door/window or move forward into the fray?
The fact is that during any physical confrontation your life is at risk. People are little more than squishy meat-sacks full of bones.
If you aren't willing to die for the sake of protecting your wife, your heart will not be in the fight. Frankly, I probably wouldn't want to live knowing that I allowed my wife to suffer atrocity or demise for the sake of my own safety.
What is your job, by the way? All you've spoke of are your poor wife's duties.
1. Your wife can cook and clean for you whether you are married or not. Furthermore, being married to you does not obligate her to do either on your behalf.
2. You can feed yourself and do your own laundry while holding a job... can't you?
Again, how does being married help you to finance the whole thing considering your wife evidently doesn't generate revenue?
I told you, she keeps me fed and in clean clothes so I can concentrate on work.
Your determination that your woman being married to you obligates her to perform these duties is arbitrary. Did she refuse to perform these tasks before you were married and turn over a dutiful leaf the day after you were wed?
You're being a duplicitous intellectual coward.
Whether or not you can cease this behavior remains to be seen.