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From a study of women who were breast feeding:
"...women with regular partners experienced a 24 percent increase in sexual desire as reported on a standard psychological survey. Women without partners experienced a 17 percent increase in sexual fantasies after exposure for the period." http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-rfc100604.php The entire issue of Hormones and Behavior is focussed on the sense of smell, hormones, and behavior. JVK Last edited by jkohl : 10-07-2004 at 06:11 AM. Reason: typo |
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I think it has to do with oxytocin.
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Breastfeeding women are likely to have higher concentrations of lactobacillus acidophilus, breve, and bifida strains on their skin (as are infants), which could be a co-factor in producing the purported breast-feeding pheromone in the armpit. So we don't know yet that it comes from their fresh sweat, per se. I'm ready to buy a barrel of the stuff, whatever it is; or bribe my lactating friends to let me rub my head under their arms. For species survival purposes, it makes sense that babies, particularly well nourished ones, would lead to more babies, for a couple of reasons.
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The pendulous human female breasts are actually modified apocrine (scent/pheromone-producing) glands. The breasts originate in the axillae (underarm). I have proposed that pendulous female breast development was required as humans lost fur, which traps and amplifies some very important chemical signals in other mammals. The development of pendulous female breasts would compensate for hair/fur loss by providing increased area both for production and distribution.
The only other theory that I know about for the development of pendulous breasts is one attributed to Desmond Morris, who apparently thinks that they developed to mimic the fleshy buttocks (as men needed a better/comparable visual signal when sexual intercourse became a frontal approach event). Compare the two theories--one visually based with no biological basis; the other based on olfactory conditioning with the completely detailed pathway from gene activation to hormonal changes that influence behavior. JVK |
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If you guys remember Commercaire from Enhanced Air Technoligies, it was the phermone system marketed to Casinos and stores to keep people inside longer. The first article I read about it said the pheromone was based on female breast pheromones to recreate the comfort of breastfeeding as an infant.
Funny they never found the same result. |
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Related article abstract:
http://humrep.oupjournals.org/cgi/co...tract/19/2/422 Monell article: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:4-dS3kbrTLcJ:www.monell.org/Newsletters/Monell_Spring03.pdf+breastfeeding+lactating+pherom one&hl=en
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I found the article again. Looks like I misread it the first time. Here's the quote I was thinking of.
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Thanks! Still interesting.
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