Pheromone party

A pheromone party is a social event attended by singles, in an effort to find their mate through sniffing anonymous pieces of clothing.^[1] The Pheromone Party concept builds on the "sweaty T-shirt experiments" performed by Claus Wedekind. The interactive developer and artist Judith Prays brought the sweaty T-shirt study to a party environment in Brooklyn in 2010. Participants in these parties are told to sleep in t-shirts for three consecutive days. Once collected, the garments are placed in individual bags for singles to smell. If a person finds the smell agreeable, they are introduced to the owner.^[2] Subsequently pheromone parties were hosted around the world and seen as a good way to educate people about the science behind the feelings of romantic chemistry ^[3][4]

Chemical basis of love

While it's possible that pheromones trigger a romantic response in humans,^[1][5][6] it's more widely accepted that the Major histocompatibility complex genes, which control the immune response and effective resistance against pathogens. For more information see The_relationship_between_olfaction_and_MHC and Body_odour_and_sexual_attraction.

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• video on pheromone parties from The Colbert Report
• photoblog on pheromone parties from MSNBC archive on Wayback Machine

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