Singles Try to Sniff Out Love at Pheromone Parties: Reasonable or Ridiculous?
SodaHead Living
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
We are very instinct driven and sex is definitely an instinct.
Oh, and yes the sex is awesome and the love-making is pretty great too.
P.S. I love her with all my heart and my teen desires and emotions are just as strong at 63 as they were at 16.
Do i beleive love is mostly chemical though-- yes yes I do. But in that idea I also believe there is a switch which for some the chemicals stay on-- while for others,, at some point sadly switch /off. What makes this world so great is that we are individuals (for the most part) & we all of our own ideals and opinions. Is it science or divine intervention? I do not know.
KUdos to you and your Love! Bravo--
Urine and feces are two major pheromones, so they report, underarm smell is another that attract a woman to a man, so they report, Lol.
So if that's true, how come the ladies don't come begging to me after a rip a big fat fart, Lol, come on ladies, I can fart more, Lol.
If pheromones were that much of an attractant they would be selling like there is no tomorrow, and they don't !!!!!!!!
So its in pretty weird territory