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catchme_ifucan Joined Fri 11/03/06 Posts: 24221	Sat 09/01/07 09:04 PM
Men's HealthPrintAroma and Arousal -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Scott McCredie for MSN Health & Fitness Find More America, 100 Percent Fat Healthy Eating Gets an Early Start More About Men's Health on MSN Health & Fitness 1 \| 2 \| Next > advertisement You come home after a long day of work to find dinner prepared and your partner sitting at the table with a sly grin. The meal is like none you’ve ever had. First course: cheese pizza, warm and gooey but kinda bland. That’s followed by a bowl of buttered microwave popcorn. Revenge for something you said? Then, a weird dessert: pumpkin pie smothered with lavender ice cream. “Honey,” you finally ask, “is everything okay?” Odd Food Smells and Libido Pumpkin pie and lavender, and other food smells like doughnuts and licorice, don’t seem like the kinds of odors men would find sexually stimulating. Yet for several years, these allegedly potent odors have appeared in media stories about male aphrodisiacs, garnering wide-eyed looks and more than a few guffaws. The odors from the above-mentioned foods were the most sexually tantalizing of those tested in a study carried out in the late 1990s by Dr. Alan R. Hirsch, who directs the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago. Among all the odors tested, the combination of pumpkin pie and lavender produced the greatest increase in arousal (a 40 percent increase in penile blood flow). The next most arousing odors were a mix of cinnamon buns, doughnuts and licorice; pumpkin pie and doughnuts; orange; and lavender and doughnuts. Other stimulating aromas were buttered popcorn and cheese pizza. About what you’d expect to smell in a frat house rec room the morning after a big party. Sexual Scents: Fantasy? Brown University psychologist Rachel Herz, who has made a career investigating the science of scent, laughs a little derisively when asked about the Hirsch study. “There’s nothing inherent about the scent of any particular food that makes it sexual or arousing,” says Herz, author of the upcoming book The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell (Harper Collins, October 2007). “There’s nothing inherent about any odor to make you do anything. It’s all a function of how you’ve acquired the meaning of that smell.” And the meaning of pumpkin pie’s odor to these 30 men? “How odor comes to have meaning to the person is through their past experiences with it,” she says. “So without ever having smelled pumpkin pie before, it’s not going to do anything for you. But if your first sexual experience was at Thanksgiving under the dessert table, then that scent may become associated with it. In the future, when you smell pumpkin pie, you are brought back to that time and place in a very instant and visceral way, and may experience sexual arousal.” A study Herz directed at Brown, published in the International Journal of Comparative Psychology, proved the validity of this idea with several experiments. One involved 30 women playing a computer game. Permeating the air was a novel odor concocted from buttered popcorn, dirt, and rain. The more satisfying it was for a woman to play the game, the more likely it was for her to rate the odor as pleasant. Other experiments showed a similar trend. We get the idea.. SO pizza,popcorn,pumpkin pie!! &&&& of course DIRT!!!!

willy_cents Joined Sat 07/14/07 Posts: 4471	Sat 09/01/07 09:16 PM
Dirt ????? gonna try out not cleaning my house(what an excuse ) and hauling dirt around in the pickup. Just tell ppl that I am doing a scientific sex study

pkh Joined Sat 05/26/07 Posts: 14961	Sat 09/01/07 09:44 PM
3 of my favorites I think that was me under the table at Thanksgiving Dinner

Gypsy41 Joined Tue 05/15/07 Posts: 123359	Sat 09/01/07 09:45 PM
lmaooooooooooooooooooooo pkh!!!!!!!!!!!!

catchme_ifucan Joined Fri 11/03/06 Posts: 24221	Sat 09/01/07 10:20 PM


catchme_ifucan Joined Fri 11/03/06 Posts: 24221	Sat 09/01/07 10:20 PM
just dont forget the whip cream on that pie!!

Gypsy41 Joined Tue 05/15/07 Posts: 123359	Sat 09/01/07 10:23 PM
Women always need to carry a can of that stuff in their purses on dates!!!

catchme_ifucan Joined Fri 11/03/06 Posts: 24221	Sat 09/01/07 10:28 PM


Gypsy41 Joined Tue 05/15/07 Posts: 123359	Sat 09/01/07 10:29 PM
whip cream is a girls best friend.......well along with diamonds!!!

kidatheart70 Joined Sun 04/08/07 Posts: 6234	Sat 09/01/07 10:33 PM
The Cool Whip Queen!

Gypsy41 Joined Tue 05/15/07 Posts: 123359	Sat 09/01/07 10:34 PM
OHHHHHH stop!!!! You mean to tell me that if I sprayed cool whip all over my body......you wouldnt lick it off???

catchme_ifucan Joined Fri 11/03/06 Posts: 24221	Sat 09/01/07 10:35 PM
Whip cream is cheaper & more fun!!! queen!!

Gypsy41 Joined Tue 05/15/07 Posts: 123359	Sat 09/01/07 10:38 PM
lol he isnt answering!!!!

catchme_ifucan Joined Fri 11/03/06 Posts: 24221	Sat 09/01/07 10:40 PM
what the hell is lavender ice cream omg!!

Gypsy41 Joined Tue 05/15/07 Posts: 123359	Sat 09/01/07 10:40 PM
Im up for some mauve ice cream.......idk its made with lavendar.....

catchme_ifucan Joined Fri 11/03/06 Posts: 24221	Sat 09/01/07 10:42 PM
no flowers plzzz... mauve??? i want any ice cream its still hot here

Gypsy41 Joined Tue 05/15/07 Posts: 123359	Sat 09/01/07 10:45 PM
they make ice cream in all sorts of flavour now......hot pepper....green tea......etc

catchme_ifucan Joined Fri 11/03/06 Posts: 24221	Sat 09/01/07 10:48 PM
yikes!! I'll stick to my ol' favorites thankyouverymuch!!

Gypsy41 Joined Tue 05/15/07 Posts: 123359	Sat 09/01/07 10:51 PM
catch ya gotta live alittle!!!!

adj4u Joined Sun 04/08/07 Posts: 21254	Sat 09/01/07 10:53 PM
i scream i scream get yer i scream hehehhe