Well that didn\'t take long. About 180 pages of reading. I skipped around a bit sticking to things I
was more interested in. (once again, I have little/no background in science so this is coming from just an average
reader and I may miss things.)
Some things I found interesting:
->Regelson loves DHEA.
->He mentions
-rone and -nol often. I don\'t know if I ever came across a reference to -none which was somewhat confusing.
->In discussing -nol he briefly mentioned a study where women were more likely to hang around a waiting room
when there was -nol on the chairs. He links -nol directly to stimulating interest in the opposite sex.
->He
discusses a 1978 study by Kirk-Smith which studied the effects of -nol and copulins found in the primate vagina.
They placed the pheromones on some surgical masks to study the effects of sexual odors on evaluation of human
candidates being interviewed for a job. Females wore the surgical masks in assessing the male candidates for the
job. The study found that =nol enhanced favorable ratings while copulins had the exact opposite effect (interesting
for those of us who occasionally use copulins and theorized that they would produce similar results in women as
men.)
->He discusses three main pheromone manufacturer\'s (Cutler, REALM and his own company EuroScent -
which I never heard of until reading his book.) Seeing as this book was published in 2002, this seems like some
shoddy research. I don\'t even know if any of them still exist. By 2002 I had purchased items from stone labs and
a handful of other manufacturer\'s, not to mention JVK\'s SOE was on the market by then. This book was likely a
marketing tool for his product.
->His Euroscent supposedly should be applied right under the nose and then
your body (same for both men and women) should respond to the pheromone (I believe it is just -rone) and produce
more of your own phero signature. I never really thought of pheromones in that way and it is an interesting approach
as opposed to dumping a bunch of synthetic \'mones on us. I don\'t know if it works or not though. It
couldn\'t have been too popular if someone who follows this stuff like myself never heard of the
company.
->Lots of monkey talk. I skipped through most of it in my initial reading. I don\'t think anyone
disputes that pheromones play an important role in the mating process of many animals. I really wish he would have
focused more on human relationships.
->He states the reason Monica kept the semen-stained blue dress was that
she could re-live the sexual encounter with Clinton over-and-over again. That\'s kinda [censored] up.
->I
found his discussions of \"anti-pheromones\" to be interesting. I don\'t know if such a thing could ever exist,
but can you imagine a woman being sexually assaulted and grabbing a bottle of something out of her purse spraying
the main in the nose with it and watching as he lost all sexual desire.
Overall it is an OK book, if somewhat
disappointing. This forum could easily give you 10 times the information contained in the book. There is some decent
science and lots of sociological background info, but as far as discussion of pheromone use by humans and its uses
the book is somewhat barren. The focus is all over the place and I don\'t know necessarily what he set out to
prove by writing it. Perhaps I\'m a prejudiced reader because I already have \"bought into the system.\"
I
have JVK\'s SOE coming as well as Love Scents which came out in 2000.
take care,
JDM
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