A Tearful Aphrodisiac
• Erotic Technology
Can spam for mouse tear extract be long in coming?
Despite the behavior of some people humans aren't mice and what works for them may not for you. Mouse research is popular because mice are cheap. That hasn't stopped makers of supplements from distorting such research to their own ends.
According to Japanese researchers male mice release pheromones in the fluid that moistens their eyes.
“Nobody expected that sex-specific pheromones would exist in tears,” says Kazushige Touhara of the University of Tokyo in Chiba. Pheromones, the chemicals that convey messages about everything from fear to sexual desire, are most common in sweat in humans, and in urine in mice.
Would be dangerous for anyone with a rodent problem.