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Pumpkin Pie increases Male Sex Drive
Dr. Alan Hirsch, Director of Chicago's Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Center, says the key to a man's heart, and other parts, is pumpkin pie. Out of the 40 odors tested in Hirsch's study, a mixture of lavender and pumpkin pie got the biggest rise out of men ages 18 to 64. That particular fragrance was found to increase penile blood flow by an average of 40%. "Maybe the odors acted to reduce anxiety. By reducing anxiety, it acted to remove inhibitions," said Hirsch.
I brought some pie today! What... Headache? Oh, nevermind.
I know the plural of anecdote is not data.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
...will want to try to regulate pumpkin pie as a drug.
The main problem is that after eating turkey, potatoes, squash dressing, pies, more pies that the optimal freedom of movement required for a good romp is going to be quite impeded.
So everyone remember that as your mother serves you pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving in two days.
"Maybe"?
Maybe the pie was "accidentally" baked with a very special ingredient?
What would Brian Boitano do?
How would you set up that experiment?
this is about AMERICAN men.
Not men in general, American men.
As I see it there is a possible (or even probable) confounding here in that a possible alternate cause could be conditioning. Do American men often get laid on thaksgiving? What feelings does the smell of pumpkin pie evoke? For me, none whatsoever. I've never smelled or tasted pumpkin pie.
If so, then the smell of thanksgiving may be triggering their conditioned response.
Science reporters, learn science so you can report what is needed (like what controls/balancing were used and other such things which might change this from worthless crap to interesting information)
Science reporting fail.
This is gourd news for men with erectile disfunction!
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I still can't believe no one in the "adult" industry has managed to bottle that scent. Seriously.
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Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, or Egon Spengler?
If I had a pumpkin on top of me, I too would be pissed as hell about not having any head for 30 years.
If the parents and in-laws didn't come in each Thanksgiving the August 20s would probably be a lot like November 14th.
Yes they have.
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Everyone knows pumpkin pies are sluts.
What'd be an interesting follow-up is whether this is because of the odor itself or what it reminds us of. Do the same study where no one eats pumpkin pie and see if the effect is the same.
The author's hypothesis seems to suggest the former, but that's what science is for.
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The only time I have pumpkin pie is when I'm with my family on Thanksgiving. That's a very disturbing Pavlovian response.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
I'm not sure if I should be shocked, or if I should be ordering...
It's the combination of pumpkin pie and lavender that scores significantly higher than anything else (in this test).
Pumpkin pie & lavender 40% increase in blood flow
Next highest is 20%
Pumpkin pie alone 8.5%
Single highest smell is orange at 19.5%. Even vanilla is 8.5%.
Looking at linoleum makes me wanna have sex.
Look, I like my cats as much as the next fellow...
How high on the scale? If no arousal is 0 and watching pr0n is 100, where does it stand?
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
So does waking and sleeping.
How new can this news be, is there's already a pumpkin pie & lavender perfume on sale on EBay?
What if pumpkin pie isn't alluring to the man? (I know I'm in the minority here.)
Also, a 40% increase due to smelling lavender and pumpkin pie sounds WAY too high to be anything but bad math.
Then again, bad math translates so well to profitable headlines...
How the hell do you measure how boneriffic a boner is? Seriously. And does the pie increase sex drive, or are we secretly all harboring a fetish for pie eating? Maybe the secret is men should have sex with pies from now on. I've never tried it, but I do know pumpkin pie is delicious. Or maybe pumpkin pie works for this purpose because it's generally given out during Thanksgiving, which is supposed to be a place of calm, and what not. Or, pie brings happiness. Does pie make you happy? It makes me happy. And does this mean that pies will begin to become prescribed as sex aids?
There is no -1 Disagree.
You have to grate it yourself at the table, as the essential oils disperse almost immediately.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
That’s just my heart pumping harder in anticipation of all the artery-clogging food I’m about to eat. Increased blood flow everywhere... now hands off my junk!
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I've heard of this as early as 15 years ago. Has no one else heard this before?
as well. Not sure where this article came from as i've been buying pumpkin scented candles for a while and getting a lot of "praise" out of them ;)
I read about this pumpkin pie/lavendar thing on the Cosmo website a couple weeks ago. Never thought I'd see the day where Slashdot articles overlap Cosmo ones.
Given this new information, you should never eat pumpkin with your relatives, it may give you the urge to pump-kin.
It sounds to me like this result set is very WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialized Rich and Democratic). Though of course, that bias is actually listed in the OP, as it refers to the question of whether the western desire to stamp out naturally occurring body odors could be a contributing cause to infertility and erectile dysfunction.
There is only one food item that has ever aroused me: cinnamon. Many of my male friends feel the same way about that spice. Perhaps it's the abundance of cinnamon in most pumpkin pie that's the culprit?
"It's here, but no one wants it." - The Sugar Speaker
If she always complains of headaches, what you do is the days you don't ask her if she has a headache: just simply go up to her and tell her to hold open the palm of her hand to give you something; drop the Aspirin in her hand.
If she asks what the Aspirin are for, then you say "Ah-HA! Take. on. me!" And if she says "Fuck YOU" then just say it feels goooood.
New rule: if it exists, someone has found a way to make money off it.
http://www.viceland.com/wp/2010/03/the-scent-of-a-womans-vagina/
Jack-O-Lanterns give such good head.
All we need to negate the effects is a Graham Cracker Crust !
said food designed by a Presbyterian minister to suppress unhealthy carnal urges...
But you just gotta have another sigarette
So was this the same guy who did the BBC "The Truth About Food" series? Because he showed how different cultures/countries had different arousals from food. Basically your "home country" food turns you on the most!
The last thing geeks need to do with their sex drive is increase it. You might as well tell some desert nomads that salty chips will increase their thirst.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Make of that what you want.
And, even more, they don't find men without any semblance of a sense of humor to be at all attractive...
Oh, hey, sure, because implying that women are all gold diggers is funny. My joke: +5 funny. AC's joke: +1. Who is funnier? That's right, say my name. Soun's your daddy.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Does anyone even care that this study was done in 1998?
Can someone at least do some leg-work on the article before posting to make sure that there is some relatively recent information to be passed around. I remember this same article from when I was a kid... and I'm not young anymore.
I'm sure the men out there will eat a little more pie this holiday... so it works on a marketing level.
But as far as news... it is not!