Just a swift read & reply myself,
i also read that women are more sensitive to scents while on their period (the time that theres more chance to get pregnant no?)
No, that's when there's the
least chance of a woman getting pregnant (in fact you can be pretty darn sure she won't)
But, yes, you are right: Some of those links provided touched on how women were found more susceptible to it during
ovulation, which is when the chance to get pregnant is highest
Would seem to make sense, really.
Some other swift comments: Sure, I hadn't meant to derail this thread by making it all about scent. It isn't, and that had just been a swift and first association of mine. Pretty off-beat in other ways, it is true.
The scent or so mostly pheromones in question btw shouldn't be confused with what we consider "nice" smells or not, it works far more subtly/subliminally than that. Indeed, largely on an unconscious plane. (One counter-argument in one of those links against notably this commercialization of it, by producing supposedly attractive smells using these pheromones, is that in a room full of people you'd still not know, subconsciously or otherwise, who that scent is associated with. Whereas in order to make that click to that indidvidual, you'd need to be 1:1 with them, so there'd already be other factors at play.)
Partydevil, no, you won't find instructions on how to score in Fromm's book. Pick it up at the library or second-hand bookstore of your choice, it's worth a read. To others still: It has been widely translated.
(It's been a long time since I read it, but I remember him touching, among other things, on what we consider passive or active behavior, I guess in relation to what are actively objects of desire, or mere "
assion," as in literally passively following an urge. I think I was reminded of it by this question of what is really selfishness, or egoism, or rather altruism, which btw I personally do believe really exists, and we are after all social beings, first and foremost. OK, one may then ask, is that not still self-preservation. Either way, it is then of course important to ask oneself, so what is the Self, or the ego.
Anyhows, the book is quite instructive. He was, and is, otherwise well-known for his studies on mass psychology, notably related to the experiences of WWI and II. He was a Jew himself, who left Nazi Germany after Hitler's takeover in the early 1930's.
The Art of Loving, as well as some of those studies, was I'm sure quite influential on the wider 1960's counterculture.)
... And then some remarks, must have slipped my mind
So what does make us tick, indeed. Good question