Intended for professionals in the psychiatric field, the peer-reviewed medical journal has devoted this issue to current perspectives on women's sexuality and sexual therapies. Psychiatrists counseling patients with sexual deficits will learn that a partner's decline of sexual interest may be due to diminished pheromonal output caused by hormonal changes, aging, and pelvic surgeries. The diminution of pheromones may be balanced by topical applications of human synthesized sex-attractant type pheromone cosmetics. Inc. Footnotes Omitted.
Physical attraction is the fundamental precondition for the sexual dance between a man and a woman.
Although appearance, self-confidence, and social behavior all contribute to sexual attractiveness, the reproductive endocrine system appears to play an independent role. Recent discoveries of invisible, odorless, sex attractants, called pheromones, offer biologic ways to use cosmetics for improving the romantic lives of men and women. As an adjunct to existing therapies, human pheromones may serve to catalyze the therapeutic process. From 1975 through 1986, in a series of studies at the University of Pennsylvania, my colleagues and I investigated relationships between the timing of women's sexual behavior and aspects of their reproductive endocrinology. At Stanford University with different colleagues, I investigated similar relationships among perimenopausal women.