Pheromone-enhanced behavior in sexually inexperienced females

Lack of sexual experience does not reduce the responses of LH, estrus or fertility in anestrous goats exposed to sexually active males.

“These results strongly suggest that the sexual physiological state of males is critical to obtain a high response of females exposed to males, overcoming the lack of sexual experience. It seems that the high sexual behavior displayed by males and the high olfactory cues provided (Delgadilo et al., 2002; Rivas-Muñoz et al., 2007; Vielma et al., 2009), enhanced female’s response even in sexually inexperienced ones.”

In my model: An evolved GnRH-driven neurophysiological mechanism that is driven by pheromones during development primes and subsequently drives the LH response, which is associated with behavior. That explanation seems more likely than an automagical response to visual input from the males. Besides, there is no model for how women develop their differences in preferences for the visually appealing physical features of men — unless visual appeal is directly associated with olfactory/pheromonal input.

That explains how we could predict changes in women’s flirtatious behavior after exposure to a mixture of human pheromonesSo, we ignored the differences between women and other female animals and focused on their biologically based similarities.  Androstenol, for example, is known to alter levels of LH in women. Thus, all we needed was a species specific component of the mixture that signaled masculinity to women in the same way masculinity was signaled by the male goats (via its association with levels of androgens, like testosterone).

We’re rather certain that this is what androsterone does, and it explains what we observed: increased flirtatious behavior. I was still somewhat surprised that the women reported they were more attracted to the man when he was wearing the androsterone/androstenol mix. But only because I didn’t think they would notice any increased attraction.

Typically, the behavioral affect is not perceived, so it makes sense that women were not aware of any increased attraction due to the pheromones. Instead, they merely reported on a questionnaire that they were more attracted to the man when he was wearing the mixture (i.e., an unconscious affect).

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James Vaughn Kohl was the first to accurately conceptualize human pheromones, and began presenting his findings to the scientific community in 1992. He continues to present to, and publish for, diverse scientific and lay audiences, while constantly monitoring the scientific presses for new information that is relevant to the development of his initial and ongoing conceptualization of human pheromones. Recently, Kohl integrated scientific evidence that pinpoints the evolved neurophysiological mechanism that links olfactory/pheromonal input to genes in hormone-secreting cells of tissue in a specific area of the brain that is primarily involved in the sensory integration of olfactory and visual input, and in the development of human sexual preferences. His award-winning 2007 article/book chapter on multisensory integration: The Mind’s Eyes: Human pheromones, neuroscience, and male sexual preferences followed an award winning 2001 publication: Human pheromones: integrating neuroendocrinology and ethology, which was coauthored by disinguished researchers from Vienna. Rarely do researchers win awards in multiple disciplines, but Kohl’s 2001 award was for neuroscience, and his 2007 “Reiss Theory” award was for social science. Kohl has worked as a medical laboratory scientist since 1974, and he has devoted more than twenty-five years to researching the relationship between the sense of smell and the development of human sexual preferences. Unlike many researchers who work with non-human subjects, medical laboratory scientists use the latest technology from many scientific disciplines to perform a variety of specialized diagnostic medical testing on people. James V. Kohl is certified with: * American Society for Clinical Pathology * American Medical Technologists James V. Kohl is a member of: * Society for Neuroscience * Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology * Association for Chemoreception Sciences * Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality * International Society for Human Ethology * American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science * Mensa, the international high IQ society