Great stuff, nonscents.
Organic periodicity of the sexual process describes well the increased testosterone level in both men and women when a woman ovulates. Men most like the smell of ovulatory women, and women are much more sensitive to musky males scents that correlate well with male testosterone levels. It\'s almost as if nature planned the process (sarcastically said) to ensure properly timed reproductive sexual behavior (as this pheromone driven behavior is typical of all mammals).
The menstrual taboo is probably due to the fact that a progesteronic pheromone decreases testosterone levels in men, which means that menstruating women produce a negative signal that is most likely as readily received (albeit unconsciously) as the ovulatory phase signal (due to estrogenic pheromones).
It appears that Freud (and, perhaps, his correspondents) must have known some stinky women. It sounds like he couldn\'t even finish a copulatory act due to the stench. (Was Freud gay?) Bacterial overgrowth or vaginal parasites (e.g., trichomonas) might have been the problem which allowed Freud to assist in sexual repression by making up theories that have absolutely no biological basis in fact. In this representation his theories might cause others to wonder how our species survived when sex was almost intolerable due to the odor. Could Freud have predicted the increasing popularity of oral-genital sex; or could any other psychiatrist/psychologist explain such an animalistic act?
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