THE ETHICS OF USING PHEROMONES...

[IronMind]

I think phermones just adds a

little cherry on top.

[platinumfox]

I'll admit I use pheromones to

attract other mens wives and girlfriends.

[IronMind]

well thats kinda loserish.

[Rover The Dog]

"well thats kinda

loserish."

ditto

[David]

I agree with the

gist of what others are saying. These in IMHO no moral issue here. Whats the difference from any of a long list of

other things people do to attract others: any cologne/perfume, fixing our hair, wearing nice (or sexy) clothes,

wearing a Rolex, driving a beemer, what ever.

Paradoxically, we do all the above (and other) things (which

to some extent are facades) to attract someone initially, but who we really are is what (hopefully) keeps

them.

I personally am most seriously interested in a deep abiding connection with someone. The mones are

just part of the hunt. I doubt they will be relevent after making "first contact". But I'm not

sure.

Namaste
David

[DrSmellThis]

Wearing pheromones is doing people a favor, by creating a more pleasant pheromone profile for

them. You're pleasing the senses.

It is essentially no different, or no more deceptive, than wearing nice

clothes instead of going naked everywhere. Is wearing a shirt over your little beer belly deceptive? If somebody

dresses well or smells good (pheros help people to enjoy smells more thoroughly), their habit is often a lasting,

and therefore not superficial, difference in their attractiveness. I will always smell good (and dress with

aesthetics somewhat in mind), and any woman in my life can count on that enjoyment.

But what if

pheromones were magic -- so powerful, they caused every woman to find you attractive?

So what? Is it

unethical for Brad Pitt to be Brad Pitt? People are as free, responsible and attracted as they are going to be,

in response to all the things we do to ourselves to help our attractiveness. It is what it is. Who can judge how

attracted someone should be?

But even assuming we could and "should" be these kinds of

judges, maybe people "should be" more attracted to each other than they are. Maybe pheromones help redress

the excessive alienation, mistrust and isolation that plague capitalist, individualist cultures; and help remove

some purely biological obstacles to intimacy; obstacles that are less relevant, in practical terms, than they used

to be.