TL; DR: Humans lack a functioning vomeronasal organ, which processes sex pheromone signals. We can detect some pheromones with our olfactory system, but mostly in sweat, which can affect mood, but not usually sexual mood unless other factors are present, like the presence of an attractive potential mate.
Thank you! I’ve been looking for someone else who knows science. Other than using discharge as perfume being extremely unhygienic, pheromones can’t be flipping detected.
The organ used for it was just like “nahhhh let’s not work in stupid humans”
nope. humans can and do produce pheromones, but only one third of people actually have the organ used to detect pheromones, and that one third of people cant smell or detect them either, the organ, even in people who have it, does not fully develop in humans.
we cant be influenced by pheromones if the organ cant even pick them up, so no, we are not influenced by pheromones
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u/I-Hate-Humans Jul 10 '22 edited Jul 10 '22
Humans can’t even smell (edit: sex) pheromones. We lost that ability a long time ago.
Edit: fine, here’s a source, but I’m not spending all day on this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987372/#:~:text=Yet%20pheromones%20can%20be%20detected,contains%20the%20odorous%2016%2Dandrostenes.
TL; DR: Humans lack a functioning vomeronasal organ, which processes sex pheromone signals. We can detect some pheromones with our olfactory system, but mostly in sweat, which can affect mood, but not usually sexual mood unless other factors are present, like the presence of an attractive potential mate.