The Strip Club as Scientific Laboratory

Interesting article. I think birth control does alot to fuck up the natural chemical balances.

True sinclair, I have heard women say how going off the pill suddenly had them feeling incredibly horny.  The funny thing is that, horny or not a dancer is going to be doing everything she knows how to do to get your money.  And dancers are certainly pros at faking sexual desire. So it is either something she doesn't know she is doing or just can't be faked. 

I read the publication. Self reporting bias in the data, and I am too weak in my stats knowledge to know if the F test the researches used was correct for that data, but very interesting.

Also, Sinclair, that's the point of birth control, "to fuck up the natural chemical balance" so that it stop menses.

@winorhino:  Self-reporting was unavoidable.  Could you imagine any dancers participating if it meant having a  researcher check their money at the end of each shift  and then physically verify if they were menstruating or not?  I know strippers are used to strange requests, but 'I need to swab your vagina for signs of blood' is over the top.

Besides, you would have to imagine some reason why women not on hormonal birth control would exaggerate their income more than others, and that they would exaggerate more while they would ovulating!

"Ooh look, we found out there's some attraction between human beings that nobody can consciously detect!" No shit, Sherlock, it's called pheromones...

Where the fuck have these guys been for the last 25 years?

@georgmicrodong.  Despite marketing claims of cologne and perfume manufacturers I do not think that there has been a single controled, peer-reviewed paper that has shown pheremones actually causing men or women to change behavior (like tipping more).  There is plenty of evidence in other species but in terms of humans changing otherwise voluntary behavior, nada.  Maybe it is pheremones, maybe something else.  If they could conclusively prove it was pheremones, and which ones, it would be a breakthrough.

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They claim to be peer reviewed anyway.  And while the article is primarily about male pheromones affecting females, the likelihood that the reverse isn't true as well seems so vanishingly small to me that I'm inclined not to consider it.   Especially since anecdotal evidence suggests that it is indeed true in the reverse.  I live in a house with three women.  When Aunt Flo is visiting, all at the same time, I want to leave the house.  It's not a conscious decision, I just get the urge to leave.

Seriously, when my eldest daughter reached menarche, it took her about 7-8 months to regularize and sync up with her mother.  When my youngest daughter started, it only took her about 5 months to sync up with the other two.  Now that my wife has pretty much stopped, the other two are parting ways as well, I think because they don't spend as much time with each other as they did with Mom.

@gerogmicrodong:

Menstrual synchronization is a well known phenomenon, and the role of pheremones in it is well known.  But this is about changing a conscious behavior, specifically sexual desire.

Calling "sexual desire" a conscious decision is a bit of a stretch.  You made a conscious decision about what girls are attractive to you?  Which ones you go after is certainly a choice, but not which ones you actually desire.

@georgemicrodong:

So you buy lapdances unconsciously?

Buying lap dances falls in the "which ones one goes after" category, i.e. the part one consciously chooses.  Which ones make one want to buy lap dances from them hasn't obviously been a conscious decision.

This was a brilliant, fascinating article! Thank you very much for posting it here.