Secret Ingredient for Elderly Romance

Health - Reuters ^ | 1-26-05 | Anon Health Stringer

[Pharmboy]

LONDON (Reuters) - A mystery chemical isolated from the sweat of young women seems to act as a romance booster for their older counterparts.

When the researchers added the compound, Pheromone 10:13, to a perfume and gave it to older women, it made their partners more affectionate.

"In diaries kept by the women for 6 weeks, 41 percent of pheromone users reported more petting, kissing and affection with partners," New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday.

Pheromones are airborne chemicals secreted from the body and recognized by their smell. Humans and animals emit pheromones.

Joan Friebely of Harvard University and Susan Rako, a doctor from Newton, Massachusetts, studied the behavior of 44 post-menopausal women. Half were given a perfume with the compound while the remainder used a fragrance with a placebo or dummy chemical.

Only 14 percent of women using the perfume with the placebo reported an increase in affection from their partners.

Biologist Winnifred Cutler, the discoverer of the mystery pheromone, is keeping the identify of the compound a secret until patents have been granted to her organization, the Athena Institute for Women's Wellness Research in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, according to the magazine.

[Pharmboy]

Finally, some worthwhile research from Harvard.

[ravingnutter]

In that formulation, it would keep my hubby away...he's allergic to perfume.

[AZLiberty]

This reminds me of a call to Dr. Laura a few years back. An East Indian, in his '50s, called in to report that he found himself less attracted to his wife and increasingly attracted to 18-year-old women. He wondered if this was unusual, and if it meant he should divorce his wife for someone younger.

Of course Dr. Laura jumped on him: Well, duh, 18-year-olds are more physically attractive than 50-year-olds -- to almost any male. You married you wife for better or worse, and you've just noticed some of the "worse" part. Get over it.

Now we learn that not only are young women more beautiful, but they have secret chemicals. What are us 50-year-old men going to do -- except see if we can track some down before Valentine's Day?

Maybe I can convince my wife to let me rub an 18-year-old all over her.

[Pharmboy]

Maybe I can convince my wife to let me rub an 18-year-old all over her.

LOL! If you succeed, share your technique with me...

[Deaf Smith]

"but they have secret chemicals"

Beer?

[Veto!]

So splure a whopping $30 and buy your wife a perfume that's been on the market for more than 20 years....You can find it online a perfumehut.com and other perfume purveyors.

PHEROMONE for women by Marilyn Miglin
EAU DE PARFUM SPRAY 3.4 OZ Launched by the design house of Marilyn Miglin in 1980, PHEROMONE is classified as a luxurious, greens fragrance. This feminine scent possesses a blend of essential oils of light and pure white flowers. It is recommended for romantic wear.