A Fear of Phermones

In the article "A Fear of Phermones", it is mentioned how irrelevant pheromones are to humans when we have our "richness of speech, and all our new devices for communication" (16). I do believe and agree with the author that I believe that pheromones are unnecessary but they are a integrated into our every day lives. It is inconvenient however how these pheromones exist in such "strategically located apocrine glands with unaccountable areas of moisture"(16). Yet, it is still amazing how these eight of ten carbon atoms help us humans determine "how to behave to the opposite sex, how to ascertain what is the opposite sex, how to organize members of a society in the proper ranking orders of dominance, how to make out exact boundaries of real estate, and how to establish that one is, beyond argument, one's self"(17). These are the exact reason why, of all the unecessary functions in the world, pheromones are still present in animals andi n humans. This control of our behavior is of the utmost center of why pheromones are important. Although the effect is not as strong due to our more developed knowledge of communication, it is nonetheless vital to our society. One who is affected by these pheromones repulsively through extra sweat should educate themselves and use these pheromones exactly to their advantage. It is our own specific pheromones that make us all different and special and that clearly is why I ultimately disagree with the writer because our difference, our genetic variety, our special features is what makes us human.