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...
Top Opinion
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Kimmel 2012/06/26 17:38:56
I have an uncle much like you. He cannot leave the house in the morning, or do much of anything else, without a woman to help him. Whenever he doesn't have a girlfriend, or a wife, he temporarily moves back in with his parents. He's in his mid-fifties now and did that very thing two years ago. As I said, the man cannot function without a woman to take care of him.
You're a lot like my uncle.
Not a man, but rather a middle-aged child.
PS
If you stop cleaing when a woman leaves, no woman in her right mind will want to fill the void.
My father always said that a man incapable of preparing his own food, mending his own clothes, or maintaining an uncluttered and orderly household isn't a man; but rather a child who left home too early.
You remind me of one of the babies I went to high-school with. One day a button popped off of my shirt during class. I asked the teacher if I could go next door to the home-ec room to get a needle and thread. She allowed me to do so. I came back and reattached the button while I actively participated in the lesson plan. A "tough guy", like you, started making fun of me for knowing how to stitch a button. I turned to him and said, "if you prefer depending on your mommy to fix every little thing that goes wrong in your life, that's your business. However, I prefer being able to take care of myself". The punk didn't even utter a response, but the ladies were impressed with my ability to take care of myself almost as much as they were with my response to the overgrown toddler.
Do you think the men who blazed a trail across this country relied on women to cook and clean for them?
Come on now boy.
Oh the horror... of logical fallacy.
What's the most manly thing you've done in the past month? I'm guessing you haven't done anything measuring up to my example because you've already stated that you wouldn't endanger yourself even for your wife's sake.
Have a nice life... tough guy ;)
Eh?
Yay, he blocked me!
I win ;)
This question put a tickle in my brain.
It's getting really freaking annoying.
That ship sailed like two weeks ago.
SMH
If it continues to be annoying people will find other sites to frequent.
Many people have left.