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I am
wondering if a metabolite of this is one of the unknown pheromones we use or if it is a pheromone not yet completely
discovered, or whether it can even get to the surface of our skin and turn into a
pheromone.
http://themarriagebed.com/oxytocin.shtml (\"http://themarriagebed.com/oxytocin.shtml\")
http://www.oxytocin.org/oxytoc/ (\"http://www.oxytocin.org/oxytoc/\")
one more (\"http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/endocrine/hypopit/oxytocin.html\")
apple
03-09-2004, 09:21 PM
dont
know about that pheromone, but i like that marriagebed site. im not religious at all, but it has lots of good
information, and for people who are religious they should be required to go through this site, it give more sexual
freedom than most religious people seem to pretend there really is while keeping a good grasp on what is and isnt
acceptable. I still disagree with the no sex before marriage tho lalala
MysteriousMan
03-10-2004, 07:24 AM
Apple,
it\'s not a pheromone, it\'s a hormone. This is the reason why bjf talked about a
metabolite of oxytocin, we might use.
Perhaps the more interesting question is: what creates an oxytocin
response.
MysteriousMan
MM.....
You can create one just by hugging someone.
That is why hugs feel good.
WOuld make a hell of a
killer pheromone if it can be one (though who knows, maybe it creates the stuff in wagg or some other stuff).
bigdog
03-10-2004, 07:36 AM
Oxytocin release for females is usually a reaction from a physical response. Often from bonding or pregnancy. When
females have an orgasm or are in labor oxytocin is released. Even can get released from a simple massage. Also
appears oxytocin can be released if a female is in a very emotional state or
depressed.
http://members.aol.com/sexualabsti
nence/oxytocin.htm (\"http://members.aol.com/sexualabstinence/oxytocin.htm\")
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Oxytocin responses are physical. When females have
an orgasm or are in labor oxytocin is
released.
http://members.aol.com/sexualabstinence
/oxytocin.htm (\"http://members.aol.com/sexualabstinence/oxytocin.htm\")
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Yea, I think it is in semen to. Anyway,
both men and women have it. It gives people a comforting feeling.
Also, I read something about it being related
to milk production in women, and I suspect it could be the pheromone (its metabolite) that nipples produce, which is
why I feel so relaxed and get that warm and fuzzy feeling around nipples (I wasn\'t breast fed). Anyway, the
pheromones that nipples produce are likely why men love them so much.
bigdog
03-10-2004, 07:52 AM
I
thought I read somewhere an oxytocin release can come from a kiss especially if its on an errogenous zone. Syuch as
the neck and ear which sometimes are considered errogenous zones. I believe oxytocin can be release via touch too.
I am sure to a lesser extent though.
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I thought I read somewhere an oxytocin release can
come from a kiss especially if its on an errogenous zone. Syuch as the neck and ear which sometimes are considered
errogenous zones. I believe oxytocin can be release via touch too. I am sure to a lesser extent though.
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That is why it is called the \"touch hormone\". I heard a teaser last
night on the news about a hormone that was released by hugging. I searched hugging and hormone on google and google
news because I figured a wire report must have been written about something. Didn\'t see any specific wire story,
but found a lot of web pages on oxy-whatever, a few which I listed.
bigdog
03-10-2004, 08:29 AM
I
remember reading somewhere that if physical interaction elicits an oxytocin release more than likely the responder
will welcome another hug,kiss,touch, etc. The release will most likely occur if the interaction is welcomed and
found to be enjoyable. Also the release can be greater and intereaction welcomed again if the interaction is at more
a more intimate/sexual level.
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I remember reading somewhere that if physical
interaction elicits an oxytocin release more than likely the responder will welcome another hug,kiss,touch, etc.
The release will most likely occur if the interaction is welcomed and found to be enjoyable. Also the release can be
greater and intereaction welcomed again if the interaction is at more a more intimate/sexual level.
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Any metabolite on the skin of this hormone would likely signal (well this
is just a guess) that the individual is someone perhaps safe or whatever. The question is, how do hormones get to
the skin, and do all of them get to the skin or just some of them?
bigdog
03-10-2004, 08:47 AM
I
don\'t think its released to the skin. I\'m thinking this is a subject James Kohl knows quite a bit about.
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I don\'t think its released to the skin. I\'m
thinking this is a subject James Kohl knows quite a bit about.
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itis not that it is released to the skin, but sometimes these things get to the skin, ie I
think a-none may come from testosterone, or is a bi-product of the productionof it. Over time, maybe humans
associate a-none pheromones with t-levels then.
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or is a bi-product of the productionof it
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I think I there was an experiment done on oxytocin.
Oxytocin is a substance in our bodies which is said to be very much involved in terms of emotional bonding and
has a certain `feel-good factor´ for lack of a better term. In the experiment a couple (or more?) where given
something which suppresed the release of oxytocin.
The result was that after they had sex both reported that it
didn´t feel as good ie not as fullfilling, satisfying emotionally and sexually (?)as it usually does.
Sorry
I can´t remember all the details it was rather long ago I heard of this. Pretty sure it was oxytocin tho can´t
think of anything else it could have been.
CJ
PS why do I keep getting this stuff when I type up
a post?
<a href=\"http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=sex&v=55\">sex</a>
anyone else
getting this?
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or is a bi-product of the productionof it
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I think I there was an
experiment done on oxytocin.
Oxytocin is a substance in our bodies which is said to be very much involved in terms
of emotional bonding and has a certain `feel-good factor´ for lack of a better term. In the experiment a couple (or
more?) where given something which suppresed the release of oxytocin.
The result was that after they had sex both
reported that it didn´t feel as good ie not as fullfilling, satisfying emotionally and sexually (?)as it usually
does.
Sorry I can´t remember all the details it was rather long ago I heard of this. Pretty sure it was
oxytocin tho can´t think of anything else it could have been.
CJ
PS why do I keep getting this stuff when
I type up a post?
<a href=\"http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=sex&v=55\">sex</a>
anyone else
getting this?
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never got it but it is probably Franki\'s fault.
franki
03-10-2004, 09:52 AM
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or is a
bi-product of the productionof it
<hr /></blockquote><font class=\"post\"> it´s bi? just kiddin
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
I think I there was an experiment done on oxytocin.
Oxytocin
is a substance in our bodies which is said to be very much involved in terms of emotional bonding and has a certain
`feel-good factor´ for lack of a better term. In the experiment a couple (or more?) where given something which
suppresed the release of oxytocin.
The result was that after they had sex both reported that it didn´t feel as good
ie not as fullfilling, satisfying emotionally and sexually (?)as it usually does.
Sorry I can´t remember all the
details it was rather long ago I heard of this. Pretty sure it was oxytocin tho can´t think of anything else it
could have been.
CJ
PS why do I keep getting this stuff when I type up a post?
<a
href=\"http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=sex&v=55\">sex</a>
anyone else getting this?
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never got it but it is probably Franki\'s fault.
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What is going on? I have nothing to do with this link..
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Franki, I love your sense of humor
franki
03-10-2004, 10:02 AM
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif I just want to know what is going on.
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I´ve
gotten that stuff when I do the preview or after I made a correction and re-preview it? Weird?????
Other strange
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I am wondering if a metabolite of this is one of
the unknown pheromones we use or if it is a pheromone not yet completely discovered, or whether it can even get to
the surface of our skin and turn into a
pheromone.
http://themarriagebed.com/oxytocin.shtml (\"http://themarriagebed.com/oxytocin.shtml\")
http://www.oxytocin.org/oxytoc/ (\"http://www.oxytocin.org/oxytoc/\")
one more (\"http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/endocrine/hypopit/oxytocin.html\")
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I though oxytocin was one of the chemicals that causes uterine
contractions-- like menstrual cramps.
I
think it does cause contractions too.
oscar
03-10-2004, 10:48 AM
bjf,
Our hormones reach our skin by way of our apocrine glands. Our \"sweat network\" is made up of
eccrine and apocrine glands. The eccrine glands primarily secrete water to aid in controlling body temperature. The
apocrine glands however are the conveyors of the hormonal metabolites that become what we call pheromones on our
skin.
It\'s a safe bet that at least some quantity of every hormone that our body produces ends up on our
skin via the apocrine glands.
Oscar /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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bjf,
Our hormones reach our skin by way of our
apocrine glands. Our \"sweat network\" is made up of eccrine and apocrine glands. The eccrine glands primarily
secrete water to aid in controlling body temperature. The apocrine glands however are the conveyors of the hormonal
metabolites that become what we call pheromones on our skin.
It\'s a safe bet that at least some quantity of
every hormone that our body produces ends up on our skin via the apocrine
glands.
[url=\"http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/apocrine.htm\"]http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/apocrine.htm[
/url]
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Yes, I believe that basically everything in our body is radiated through the skin at some
level. Like someone was saying (rakesh?) he can\'t even eat curry or he will smell like it.
My understanding
was that a hormone doesn\'t become a true pheromone until after it reaches the skin and interacts.
This stuff
(oxy-whatever) is used by doctors, and it appears to be readily available to the scientific community at least.
Now, would putting trace amounts of it on your skin render it a pheromone, or is there some sort of process it goes
through during its travels or on the skin that makes it into something our noses will recognize?
I am thinking
about emailing stone labs or lacroy to look into using this as a pheromone. Of course, I get the feeling that its
pheromone (if it has one) may already be in use.
oscar
03-10-2004, 11:12 AM
I had
a link in the post above but it turned out to be not only a dead-end, but it seemed to cripple my browser as well,
so I deleted it.
This is the text that went with the link:
___________________
APOCRINE ODOR
Aroma cue. 1. A
pungent, musky scent produced by dense concentrations of apocrine glands in the underarms, and by lesser
concentrations in the face, scalp, ears, eyelids, genital area, and navel. 2. A natural, animal-like aroma which can
be emotionally stimulating and sexually attractive. 3. A urinous odor, from glandular secretions which increase
after puberty, thought to have been (and may still be) used as messages of personal identity, territoriality, and
courtship.
Usage: Many consider apocrine odor offensive (e.g., as a sign of poor grooming), and use deodorants to
mask its smell. Ironically, some deodorants, colognes, and perfumes contain scents designed, like apocrine scent
itself, to mimic the musky, urinous odor of our own sexual steroids.
Neuro-notes. Controlled by sympathetic
nerves of the fight-or-flight response, our apocrine glands are highly responsive to emotional stimuli. About two
dozen chemical compounds contribute to apocrine underarm scent. Odorless until digested by bacteria, millions of
possible smell combinations suggest that apocrine odor may be used to announce our personal identity, presence, and
sexual moods.
See also AROMA CUE, NEW CAR SMELL.
Copyright © 1998 - 2001 (David B. Givens/Center for Nonverbal
Studies)
____________________
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Yes, I believe that basically everything in our
body is radiated through the skin at some level. Like someone was saying (rakesh?) he can\'t even eat curry or he
will smell like it.
<hr /></blockquote><font class=\"post\"> hehe I was gonna use garlic as an example, same
thing though.
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or is there some sort of
process it goes through during its travels or on the skin that makes it into something our noses will recognize?
<hr /></blockquote><font class=\"post\"> if not that, something similar though - when we´re in a great mood
othes can sense it, directly by looking at us or indirectly, things will show in the aura that surrounds us....and
others pick up on this.
The product which comes closest to this effect is still AFA as far as I´m concerned.
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if not that, something similar though - when we´re
in a great mood othes can sense it, directly by looking at us or indirectly, things will show in the aura that
surrounds us....and others pick up on this.
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You got that right,
and I think it is all about the pheromones (or whatever you want to call these things). I.E. stress and its
relationship with A/E rations (rone levels). I wonder if this OXY stuff is higher when you are in a relationship
with someone, thus making you seem warmer to potential mates, which could explain some things (though I do believe
social validation plays a definite role in that phenomana).
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I wonder if this OXY stuff is higher when you are
in a relationship with someone, thus making you seem warmer to potential mates,
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class=\"post\"> I suppose not always in a relationship but when you´re in love and just feel and appear pretty
happy.
Here
is some more info, I put into bold some of the other hormones that could have potential as producing
pheromones.
Enter prolactin and oxytocin, hormones essential for milk production and nursing.
Prolactin is a very ancient molecule whose original function was to maintain salt and water balance in early
vertebrates such as fish. Over evolutionary time, this hormone has proved very versatile and now performs diverse
physiological functions in many kinds of animals. In mammals, it is associated with caretaking behavior in both
females and males.
But perhaps the quintessential mammal hormone is oxytocin . A muscle contractor,
oxytocin (from the Greek for \"swift birth\") evolved in mammals and produces the uterine contractions of birth
and milk ejection during lactation. Present when the mother first greets her emerging offspring, it continues to be
released whenever she nurses. Oxytocin released into the brain is known to promote calming and positive social
behaviors, such as pair bonding. Studies of domestic sheep by Barry Keverne, Keith Kendrick, and their colleagues at
the University of Cambridge provide the most complete picture we have of the behavioral effects of oxytocin. As a
lamb moves down the birth canal, nerves stimulated during the passage trigger the release of oxytocin in the
mother\'s nervous system. Only if oxytocin is present at birth or injected so that it reaches the brain at the
same time a mother meets her newborn, will she bond with her offspring. If release of oxytocin is blocked, the ewe
rejects her lamb. High levels of oxytocin also are found in mother\'s milk, raising the possibility that this
hormone plays a role in making the mother infant attachment mutual.
As important as these hormones can be in
determining how responsive a mother will be, they do not act in a deterministic fashion. They both affect and are
affected by a mother\'s behavior and her experience. Exposure to pups, for instance, can lead to reorganization of
neural pathways in a mother rat\'s brain, making her respond faster to pups in the future, even with lower hormone
levels. And some recent studies suggest that the hormones of breast-feeding may benefit a mother\'s mental health
and increase her ability to deal with stress.
In many mammals, males, as well as adoptive virgin females, can be
primed to exhibit parental behaviors. Prairie vole males, for instance, typically respond to a newborn pup by
retrieving it and huddling over it. Geert De Vries, of the University of Massachusetts, found that such nurturing is
facilitated by vasopressin , a hormone that in other contexts is associated with aggressive, territorial
behavior.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/oxytocin.ht
ml (\"http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rjh9u/oxytocin.html\")
MysteriousMan
03-11-2004, 10:08 AM
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But perhaps the quintessential mammal
hormone is oxytocin . A muscle contractor, oxytocin (from the Greek for \"swift birth\") evolved in
mammals and produces the uterine contractions of birth and milk ejection during lactation. Present when the mother
first greets her emerging offspring, it continues to be released whenever she nurses. Oxytocin released into the
brain is known to promote calming and positive social behaviors, such as pair bonding. Studies of domestic sheep by
Barry Keverne, Keith Kendrick, and their colleagues at the University of Cambridge provide the most complete picture
we have of the behavioral effects of oxytocin. As a lamb moves down the birth canal, nerves stimulated during the
passage trigger the release of oxytocin in the mother\'s nervous system. Only if oxytocin is present at birth or
injected so that it reaches the brain at the same time a mother meets her newborn, will she bond with her offspring.
If release of oxytocin is blocked, the ewe rejects her lamb. High levels of oxytocin also are found in mother\'s
milk, raising the possibility that this hormone plays a role in making the mother infant attachment mutual.
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I learned that as a father I have to be present at birth, when
the mother is full of oxytocin.
MysteriousMan
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