Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than a year after they were ordered to sever ties with the College, Harvard's nine all-male final clubs continue to rent space from the University, students and officials said yesterday...
...Center has filed applications for four pheromone patents. The Japanese have purchased rights for research and marketing of a pheromone-based product. U.S. rights are still available. Preti thinks some manufacturers may rush in right now with some sort of essence, even though the 200-odd chemical components of male and female odors have not been sorted out. An effective commercial scent, he believes, is unlikely for three to five years...
...current studies, researchers collected underarm secretions from seven men and women to test further the effects of pheromones. Cutler said a "soup" of aromatic essences was taken from underarm pads worn by the volunteers for 18 to 27 hours a week over a three-month period. Male essence, mixed with alcohol, was applied to the upper lips of six women with abnormal menstrual cycles and no current sexual re- lationship. Although researchers are not sure whether the pheromones were inhaled or absorbed through the skin, the cycles of these women speeded up or slowed down toward 29.5 days. The irregular...
Cutler and her colleagues found that regular sex eased problems of menopause and infertility by making menstrual cycles more regular. Still, she notes, "it wasn't clear until our most recent studies how important male essence really is, but now that we know this, it helps explain our earlier findings. You might say that exposure to pheromones is the essence of sex." Cutler is braced for an attack on her findings from gays and lesbians. She observes, in what may be the understatement of the year, "They may not accept this...
...lower percentage of pregnant women are getting married. Census figures show 42% of single black women ages 18 to 29 have one or more children, vs. 7% among whites that age. "They are not following up pregnancy with marriage," says Chicago's William Wilson, "because joblessness among young black males in the inner city is so high that the male marriageable pool has declined to almost nothing...