The Four Basic Sexual Processes There are four processes involved in mating in the animal kingdom. Detection, selection, connection, and conception. The third process, connection, is essentially technique, but the fundamental stages have been set into our genes for half a million years.
The stages are eye contact, initial touch, acceptance into each other’s space, more touching, kissing, stroking, and sexual touching and finally copulation. All of this may take minutes or months.
Conception, the fourth process is pure anatomy and physiology and is not a topic for us. We shall limit our discussion to detection and selection, for they are the keys that open the doors to the sexual experience.
Detection of a mate is effected by our eyes, the visual sense, or by our nose, the olfactory sense. The sense of smell is one of the most highly developed detection systems in nature. It evolved as a communication system for animals, as a means of finding food and mates, and as a means of detecting and avoiding enemies.
The odors are specific in most cases, with both males and females emitting olfactory signals. Odors locate partners and then signal readiness to mate. Here is a little information about the role the sense of smell plays in sex.
Sex And The Sense Of Smell Odors play an important role in the sex life of many animals, including humans. We are only beginning to appreciate the role of odors in human sexual activity, for it is quite complex.
The sense of smell is not the most sensitive and one of the most complex. While we can discern tens of millions of colors, the eyes pale in contrast to the sensitivity of the nose which can detect an odor at a concentration as low as a few parts per trillion.
That is almost a billion times more sensitive than the discrimination of the eyes. If you compared this to our sense of taste it would require our taste buds to detect one teaspoon of salt in one million gallons of water!
However, we humans can only detect about 10,000 different odors, far less than animals such as dogs. What makes the sense of smell so important in sex is the early role it played in the mating behavior. Male animals who are nocturnal or who live in burrows, such as moles, need a very sensitive odor detection mechanism to find females since they cannot see.
Other animals, such as sheep and goats, have developed a sex odor-sense mechanism that requires the female to detect the odor of the male before she ovulates. So important is mating for survival of the species that nature has built a back up mechanism into the odor attraction so that it is fail-proof.
These dual and triple systems have evolved in many species so that visual and auditory signals are added to the mating program. In humans the sexual aspects of the sense of smell have become extremely subtle and, essentially, are operating on us without knowledge. Triggering Female Arousal When a human female is aroused for any reason, and this can be from anger, fear, or asexual stimulus, she will produce certain hormonal odors that enter onto her skin, picked up in the air and are dispersed.
Now here comes a real change from all other animals. The female herself detects these odors in her nose and they are amplified and transferred to her brain where they produce in her mind a heightened awareness of her attractiveness and her sexuality. She then, again unconsciously, projects this sexual attractiveness in a manner that signals the male that she is desirable. Not available, but desirable!
In other words, this hormonal odor, called pheromone, has sent a chemical message to her brain that she is more attractive and so she projects this attractiveness in a very subtle, but effective way. The human pheromones have been identified and isolated and are available in commercial products.
The key to making them effective is to place the pheromone under your nose first, then behind your ears.
The most interesting aspect of the human pheromone is that we have only begun to understand how it works. We have no idea of the many other subtle aspects that are tied to the action of pheromones.
How does the brain know what to instruct the female to do? What are the signals that the male is picking up from the female? What other biochemical changes are occurring with the attraction phenomenon?
An extremely fascinating topic, but one that would require too much space to explore. Using odors such as pheromones and fragrances can heighten sexual interest and actually increase sexual activity and performance. Excerpted from the forthcoming book: Skin, Sex and Longevity.
Patti Pugliese Rentschler is an expert on skin care and. Peter T. Pugliese, MD is an extremely influential skin care researchers and product developers. To learn more: http://www.drpugliese.com/dr-pugliese-pheradore.html http://www.drpugliesestore.com/pherAdore_p/pher.htm
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