transward (imported) wrote: Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:47 pm
A while back they published a study where volunteers were given cloth swatches to smell cut from t shirts worn by men, women and children. Most people were able to tell, with a fair degree of accuracy, the sex of the person wearing the shirt when the wearer was past puberty. In another study both men and women could identify the smell of their romantic partners t shirts from other t shirts worn by people of the same sex as their partner. We receive far more information from our five senses than we bother to become aware of. I suspect that a lot of ESP may not actually involve more than the five senses we all have, but paying attention to information that we previously didn't know how to use. A similar idea is "muscle reading"
JesusA (imported) wrote: Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:53 pm
I can attest to what Paolo writes. I have watched strange kids come up to him in a store and want to go home with him. I watched a small child try to jump out of a shopping cart to be with him. Something about him is a child attractant.
I first noticed this phenomenon among non-T eunuchs when I was visiting Andrew, one of the long-time, but now absent, members here. We were in a high-backed booth in the back corner of a restaurant when TWICE small children sought him out and tried to climb into his lap! In neither case could they see or hear us before seeking him out.
I doubt that smell is the entire story. I suspect that research on human pheromones will eventually find our answer. I have talked with one of the experts in the field and she thinks that it's worth studying (once she gets the time for it).
Both the dog thing and the kid thing have happened to me. A dog came up to me and snuggled against me about a year ago, and its obviously lesbian owner said that it hated men. And over Christmas the nephew of a friend of mine (5 yo) just beelined for me in a crowd of people...and went after my crotch oddly enough.
graylayer02 (imported) wrote: Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:01 am
Both the dog thing and the kid thing have happened to me. A dog came up to me and snuggled against me about a year ago, and its obviously lesbian owner said that it hated men. And over Christmas the nephew of a friend of mine (5 yo) just beelined for me in a crowd of people...and went after my crotch oddly enough.
I know that you've had periods of low T. What was your status at the time of these events?
Many years ago my neighbor had a cat that (unfortunately) had learned to run away from men and to cringe at men's voices. Having been around animals before that have also been intimidated by men I had known that when you sit next to them and so forth that I should just simply use my high voice (the voice I would probably be using normally if I had been allowed to be female). Anyway I was the very only male which it came around and years later since my neighbor had to move away, she is now my cat which I renamed as "Left-Behind". And then my original cat which was originally the tiny runt from a litter of feral kittens which adopted me and ran to me for protection, I call "Right-Upfront". And that is more or less what their personalities are too. Left-Behind is big (twice the size of Right-Upfront) but very low keyed wheras Right-Upfront is more vocal and much more outgoing sometimes even annoying.
I am one of those people who likes (some) dogs as much or more than (most) people. Rarely I have a dog get all agressive with me and it always is a male in a fenced yard. Much, much more often is a dog that will come to me. Sometimes it is amusing, like a nursing mother dog seeing me and in that instant getting up to come over for attention, spilling puppies higgeldy piggeldy (finally got to use that work in a post).
I think dogs have all the personality variations of humans. Like us, there are some that you just like on first sight and occassionally some you hate at first sight.
