Signals
in Our Sweat
[ ABC News excerpt]
"Scientists are
learning something else about how we select our mates. There may be other chemical signals
we sent each other that we can't smell--signals that carry a wide range of biological
messages. They're called pheromones.
In animals and insects this "chemical
command" is irresistible. *** But what about humans? Can we be controlled by these
subconscious chemical commands?
Biologist W. Cutler & M. Walker thinks so.
In fact, Walker first developed pheromones in the lab. And she says her trials reported
report dramatic results.
"I've one guy sho said to me, 'Five times
a year maybe we had sex. Since I've been using the pheomone straight, it's five times a
week!"
She is not alone. There are now several
products on the market *** that contain sex pheromones. What exactly is in these products?
"A true pheromone formula is a closely
guarded trade secret." Walker says.only a few people worldwide have access to it"
"But other products aren't so secretive.
And some really do contain a chemical that is a sex pheromone--a sex pheromone for pigs,
that is."
The product seems to work. And their is now
even published studies which proves the claims."
But Can it Pass the Twins test?
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| We at ABCNEWS couldn't resist conducting a
little unscientific test ourselves. Our
subjects, two sets of twins from a place called Twins Restaurant in New York. We had one
twin in each pair wear AP Holdings pheromone product--the other got just plain gucci
cologne. But nobody knew what they received.
After three weeks, we took our twins to a popular New
York bar. Our ground rules: We had them secretly trade places throughout the evening, so
no one would know they were twins. And they couldn't make the first move. |
The results astonished us !
The girls came out
about even. Each had about a handful of men start talking to them. But the men were a
different story. Larry, who got the gucci, had a slow start but ended up being approached
by 11 girls. Lawerence, who wore the AP Holdings product, was chatted up by 30
girls--nearly three times the number who approached Larry, his identical twin.
"People, like, didn't even want to talk to me, and
my brother got all the attention," Lawerence says. "It was incredible,
truly." |
The following was communicated to us by a
man from Cologne, Germany via email on August 29, 2002.
We quote him directly. Although
his English is quite good, native English speakers will notice some words and phrases that
are different from those they would choose to say the same thing...
German TV Twins Test of
Athena Pheromones
"Hello!
Yesterday I saw on German television (PRO7, "TNT") a documentary about your
pheromone perfume*. Because I'm a retailer of perfumes in Germany, I'm interested...
There were two tests with a hidden camera in some bars around
Cologne, Germany. The first test was with a male twin pair: one of them was using your
pheromone...., one was not. They wore the same outfits, so everything looked absolutely
similar.
The twin with your colonge got quite fast contact with 2
girls; the other twin got none, sitting or standing at different places in the bar: no
visual contact.
After some time, the twins changed their position in the bar,
so the twin without pheromone takes the place of his brother at the bar, right next to the
girls, which were talking to him before she left 'for restroom' (switching with her
brother).
After that, the twin (now without pheromone) got no longer
contact to the girls (standing right beside him!) The other twin, now sitting at the bar
where his brother got no contact, got also immediately contact with a woman!
The second test was with 1 boy : the boy used your pheromone.
The boy got already at the street an invitation to the bar for a drink. So later at the
bar: the boy with your perfume* were talking to some girls ; the boy without your
pheromone---NOT.
The conclusions were: that the pheromones are the main reason
for the quick contact; maybe also the self-confidence (from using it) are more attractive
to the other sex. The duration was about 5 to 8 minutes. I think this was a good ad for
your perfume*, because they always used the name, AP Concentrate from the AP Holdings..."
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