The Human Pheromone Discovery
	Pheromones: The Key to Sexual Attraction
	By Dr. Winnifred Cutler Excerpted from the newsletter Women's Health Connection, vol II, number 5b copyright Women's Health Connection, PO Box 6338, Madison WI, 53716

Throughout the animal kingdom, it was well known (by 1979) that females emit sex attractants that cause males (of the same species) to approach. Animal pheromones were so well understood, by the late 70's, that manufacturers were marketing them as pest controls; pheromones were used to lure and divert animals and bugs to traps to prevent crop and flower damage. I was fortunate to be one of the scientists working on the research that proved the existence of human pheromones for the first time.

The discovery of human sex pheromones appeared in front page stories internationally when my colleagues and I succeeded in peer-reviewed acceptance for publication in scientific journals in 1986. We provided the proof that women and men emitted pheromones into the atmosphere and we showed that extracted pheromones could be collected, frozen for over a year, thawed and then applied on the upper lip of recipients to mimic some of the pheromonal effects found in nature.

Chemicals in men's bodies can cause their female sex partners to be more fertile, have more regular menstrual cycles and milder menopause, landmark research shows.

And women who have sex with men at least once a week benefit most from the chemicals, which apparently work through the sense of smell.

"The exciting part is the effect we have on each other. Men are important to women," says Dr. Winnifred B. Cutler of Philadelphia, whose studies show for the first time that chemicals called pheromones exist in humans.

Pheromones have long been known to exist in animals, as scents that attract sex partners. Cutler's new studies...show women are affected by pheromones from men and women:

*Women with unusually long or short menstrual cycles get closer-to-average cycles after regularly inhaling male essence, described as a compound of male sweat, hormones and natural body odors. "You just walk into a male locker room," Cutler says, "that's the odor."

*Women exposed to another woman's "female essence" menstruated at the same time after a few months, confirming a long-observed phenomenon that women who live together menstruate at the same time.

Cutler's other studies show women who have sex with men at least once a week have regular menstrual cycles and fewer fertility and menopause problems, apparently because of exposure to pheromones.

In double-blind studies of 20 mature young women, nine received placebo and eleven received female essence (pheromones) randomly assigned by a technician and rubbed on the upper lip under the nose three times a week for 12 to 14 weeks.

Within the 12 to 14 weeks of this study, a statistically significant and substantial increase in the tendency to show weekly sexual behavior was noted among the experimental (pheromone) group. There was no increase in the sexual behavior frequency in the placebo group.

Female essence may operate by increasing the desire for sexual contact, making recipients more receptive to the advances of male partners, or by making them more sexually attractive to their male partners. [emphasis added].

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