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The manosphere has a new dating hack: stop showering and let yourself stink (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It would stand to reason that different men emit differently balanced pheromones. Why would they all be the same?

My personal combination is attractive to her specifically. It's possible she would find some other men's sweat attractive as well, but I haven't asked.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    differently balanced pheromones

    There is no scientific evidence to support that humans emit any pheromones, let alone a multitude of pheromones. Even if we did, we do not possess the vomeronasal organ that other animals have that allows them to detect them.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    You don't need a specific organ to have a reaction to chemical signals. A pheromone is just a chemical the body creates, and an external body responds to. That response can be due to smell, taste or even touch. No special organ is needed for any of those.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    You don't need a specific organ to have a reaction to chemical signals.

    Yes..... you do? That would be like saying you don't need a nose to smell, or taste buds to taste.

    pheromone is just a chemical the body creates, and an external body responds to

    No. Pheromones are chemical messages that trigger specific behaviour or developmental changes in an external body.

    That response can be due to smell, taste or even touch. No special organ is needed for any of those.

    Smells and associations attached to smell are not the same thing as pheromones. In certain mammals and reptiles pheromones are received by the vomeronasal organ.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    You're trying to make pheromones out to be something not supported by the definition. Pheromones are chemicals created in one body, that have an effect in someone else's body.

    Dictionary definition:

    a chemical substance that is usually produced by an animal and serves especially as a stimulus to other individuals of the same species for one or more behavioral responses

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    Lol, the merriam Webster dictionary is not an appropriate source to define the scientific understanding of a word or term.

    The biggest difference between a pheromone and an odorus compound is that pheromones have an Innate purpose and odors have responses learned through association.

    By your understanding of the word pheromone the sulphuric odor in fart could be defined as a pheromone..

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    It looks like the receptor of pheromones is present, but doesn't work. From [wiki]:

    Among studies that use microanatomical methods, there is no reported evidence that human beings have active sensory neurons like those in working vomeronasal systems of other animals. Furthermore, there is no evidence to date that suggests there are nerve and axon connections between any existing sensory receptor cells that may be in the adult human VNO and the brain. Likewise, there is no evidence for any accessory olfactory bulb in adult human beings, and the key genes involved in VNO function in other mammals have pseudogenized in human beings.

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