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Scientists Find Tears Are the Anti-Viagra
An anonymous reader writes "The male test subjects didn't know what they were smelling, they were just given little vials of clear liquid and told to sniff. But when those vials contained a woman's tears (collected while she watched a sad movie), the men rated pictures of women's faces as less sexually attractive, and their saliva contained less testosterone. Is this proof that humans make and respond to pheromones? The researcher behind the study doesn't use that controversial word, but he says his findings do prove that tears contain meaningful chemical messages."
90% of their porn involves women crying.
And if it were collected while she watched a comedy?
And if it were collected while he watched a sad movie?
In soviet Russia, God creates you!
I can only get it up if she's crying.
It's a safety mechanism for women.....
RAPIST: SHUT UP AND LAY STILL!!
RAPE VICTIM: NO!! Please! Don't do this! *sob* *sob* Don't do this to me!
RAPIST: *sniffs* ohhh shit... *loses errection* sorry, have a good night. Gotta go
I find the opposite is true. Nothing is more attractive than holding and protecting a crying woman. It really pumps up testoterone and triggers deeper emotions, which often naturally leads to sex.
Geez, guys. Mental age should be at least 16, mental altitude should be at least a foot above the gutter.
I remember lots of tears and well, it still happened every time.
Perhaps not all generated tears are the same (maybe this explains why guys avoid chick flicks?)
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Hey, I've always thought it's better when she cries.
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Is this proof that humans make and respond to pheromones?
Anyone can find this out very easily: Just don't shower or apply deodorant for a couple of days, and you will notice everyone around you respond (assuming you leave your parent's basement on a regular basis).
I am officially gone from
But the mother-in-law's vaginal odor is awwwright.
I find I am less arroused when I see tears.
Perhaps it is the wintery freshness of mace.
An interesting test would be to do a similar study on violent rapists.
(excluding those in pre-existing relationships with the victim).
Are they less affected, or even aroused, by the same signals?
What about 9?
Man, I love it when they cry. All 7 of em. You know. Here in my basement. Brb, moms calling.
should already know this. A woman who cries to win an argument, then you lose all interest in romance, then she cries because you don't want to touch her, then you are even less interested. It's a vicious cycle that ends up in either broken or sexless relationships. I know.
LK
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This has nothing to do with whether a woman crying is a turn-off (yes, white-knights, we all know crying girls make you so so so so sad). This has to do with a vial of tear-juice impacting your judgement in how attractive women are. I guess this will be completely relevant when women start literally crying buckets. Until then, when do you actually come in contact with enough tears at one time that it could possibly effect you? I'm sure a vial full of ear-wax shoved right under my nose would repulse me, too, and the last thing I'd be thinking about is sex.
ewwwww
If something is there concentrate or synthesize it and test it one by one.
an ex of mine had bipolar, and would often have an attack of intense depression during the night.
if you've ever woken up at 4am to a crying girl trying to hump you, you may find evidence to the contrary of TFA.
I'm sure a vial full of ear-wax shoved right under my nose would repulse me, too, and the last thing I'd be thinking about is sex.
. . . I think that's a valid point for a different reason; I think it's pretty well-settled that a person likes-, and is not offended, by the smells of their lover(-s).
If that's true then perhaps these guys were not turned on b/c they did not "recognize" the smell and they interpreted the tears as just stinky fluid.
Tears is a signal that reduces the testosterone which is connected to both sex drive and aggression. I think this signal is "meant" to reduce aggression -- lowering sex drive being just a coincidence.
Crying is admitting your vulnerability, it's an honest signal to the aggressor. It's also an element of "happy tears" I think..
Throughout most of human history, the man has been the gatekeeper to sexual activity, not the woman. In fact, it was only until very recently that a man could be legally prosecuted for raping his wife.
In the United States, South Dakota was the first state to criminalize "spousal rape." This did not happen until 1975. The last state to criminalize "spousal rape" was 1993.
In even earlier (bust still recent) history, say prior to the 1900's, women were not allowed to vote or own property in a marriage, and they were usually not able to live on their own due to the fact that few people would hire them for any job, and without anti-discrimination laws in place employers were free to systematically deny women employment, or even to pay them a lower wage just because they were female.
In the Middle Ages in Europe, and still today in many cultures around the world, marriages are arranged by the parents and children, especially daughters, may have little say in when they get married or to whom. Combine that with a society in which a woman can't have a political voice, can't refuse to have sex with her husband, can't divorce him, and may be legally beaten by her husband, and you'll find that historically, women have had VERY little say in when a sexual encounter happens, or even with whom it happens with.
Things have began to change recently, which is good, but 1316311 makes an excellent point. It would be a shame if you missed the point, which is why I took the time to compose this message and provide at least one reference. "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it," blah blah blah, and all that rubbish.
Ironic, considering tears make the best lube.
If the tears have a chemical message that is aversive to us, we will perhaps take action to remove the unpleasant stimulus, IE comfort the crying person so they stop producing tears. Also don't neglect that the chemical message contained by the tears is only part of what's going on psychologically when you're fighting with your significant other; the empathetic emotional pain you feel when you see them upset is likely a much stronger driving force.
In short, every crying girl needs a good hot dicking. That is, unless she keeps crying during the dicking, in which case you might be raping her and you should probably stop. Unless, you know, you're both kinky and happen to be into that kind of thing.
Maybe the chemical message in the tears that reduces arousal is part of some defense mechanism against rape?
Hey, I've always thought it's better when she cries.
So true!.
I don't buy this study -- I guess these scientist haven't heard of make-up-sex.
Tears can't hold a candle to vomit when it comes to killing the mood. Back when I was in college one of my dates threw up while we were making out in bed. We had both been drinking, but apparently she had had way too much. It ruined the sheets and bedspread, and even went all over the floor.
Ultimate anti-Viagra!!
A within-species chemical signal is by definition a pheromone.
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Yes, a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'. Well I find it's quite a thrill, When she grinds me against her will, Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
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I used to work with a guy who was such an undesireable date, he had to get women drunk to sleep with him. He bragged about his conquests and more than once described how his dates would hurl at some point during 'the act'. We figured that he had conditioned himself to ignore the puke and keep pumping.
Have gnu, will travel.
John Boehner becomes speaker of the House and starts bawling right and left. Its all a part of the right wing's campaign against sex.
Have gnu, will travel.
I found this out the time I accidentally picked up Deep Heat rather than lubricant.
Though admittedly the tears were mine and they may not have been the biggest contributor to my lack of arousal.
"you ain't so purty whens you cries" doesn't seem like good lyrics for a country song...
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There's twenty of them...
And the lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin, Etc.
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Guys avoid chick flicks because they lack entertainment value.
If I recall correctly, babies cry about 25% of the time. Their tears are the primary mechanism which allows them to shed excess hormones created by stress. It's no surprise to me that a woman's tears would also contain some sort of hormone(s), any of which, if inhaled, would likely temporarily interfere with hormone production in the inhaler.
Everything and its opposite is true. Get used to it.
careful what you wish for... wifey has a baby due in june.
Since when are pheromones controversial? We are still animals, of course we produce and react to pheromones. I though that was establish science. Hm, a quick Google search shows that there aren't so many studies of human pheromones, how come?
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where are the studies of the effect of men's tears on women's libidos? very sexist not to study both effects. ;)
He doesn't use the controversial word "pheromones" but he still uses the controversial word "proven." Establishing a link doesn't prove anything, it merely establishes a link.
I am not a statistician, though; maybe this case is different. I'm still skeptical, however.
Isn't that what they say about a lap dance?
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
If you planted an air freshener loaded with this stuff ( you need to figure out how to synthesize it ) in an NFL team's locker room, think of the competitive advantage!
If you work for JP Morgan, you would want to load up the Goldman trading floor with this stuff. Take the testosterone out and they will suffer!
make me a sammich!
"12 y/o girls don't count."
I blame the education system!
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I shudder to think what Israeli army researchers are doing to make women cry.
"(collected while she watched a sad movie)"
I'm glad you said that, I would have wondered how they got the women to cry otherwise.
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has to do with an environment that is especially conducive to strains of bacteria that produce smelly (sulfur?) compounds.
My ex-wife traded her friend for all his sex books. One of them was titled Guide to getting it on. I flipped it open to a random page one day, and one aspect of the vaginal odor quandary was revealed to me: soap.
Most soaps are very basic, while a few are "pH balanced" to be slightly acidic. When a alkaline-pH soap is used, smelly bacteria thrive (because the skin is supposed to be slightly acidic). When a pH-balanced (slightly acidic) soap is used, the bacteria are much more balanced.
There are more considerations, of course. But this is a good start. If I wasn't posting anonymous so I can moderate myself, I'd post a link to my e-book.... :)
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I think it's more likely that your sex drive goes down when you yourself cries. It's not like you're sniffing the poor gal's tears, right?
There are always tears when I have sex, it's the pepper spray.
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There would be no rapists nor a fetish niche for those who secretly like rape if women's tears would be the turn off switch.
You sure you're not Max Cannon?
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Never been known to fail..."
Took years of research and clinical trials to give men an erection, only to be undone by what women do, naturally (intentionally or not.)
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Seriously, the actual science here is that tears lower testosterone levels in men, which in addition to arousal also control anger and rage. The claim that tears make men less aroused, is rather pointless and a terrible explanation for anything. At best the response would nearly certainly be against uxoricide. So that when men beat their wives, they would at some point stop and not beat the potential future mother of their children to death. Also, in social situtuations where men tend to get out of control and fight, women tend to cry. As such, prevention of violence against one's spouse as well as violence to others would be much more likely to be the clear evolutionary explanation.
Did we get this? No. The media are portraying this in the funny "women tears make men feel less sexy" light, rather than the more apparent men are violent and having some kind of general social cue to make them less violent at times would be good and apparently exists in humans. Violent men... boring. Penis... ahahahhahahaahhaahahah.
It is no longer uncommon to be uncommon.
I think you have a valid point, but the test was specifically having men look at pictures of women and rate their attractiveness. Yes, they tested testosterone too, and if you RTFA you'd see that the researchers did consider a change in sexual arousal may merely be a side effect, as you say. The "media" did cover mainly the sexual side of things, because well, the researchers were covering mainly the sexual side of things in this study.
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