and really, how is using pheros that much different from a guy wearing some nice shoes?

You got to know that straight guys don\'t *really* personally care about shoes all that much (separating your foot from the ground is good, anything else is negotiable) but they also know that for some Imelda-like fetishistic reason women really want their guys to have nice shoes.
So is a guy manipulating the woman if he wears nice shoes? No.