FORGET flowers, chocolate and musky colognes. For revving up a woman’s sex drive, breast milk is best.
The smells associated with lactation have already been shown to influence menstrual cycles in other women (New Scientist, 6 May 2000, p 12). Natasha Spencer of the University of Chicago wondered if they affected sexual behaviour as well. Her team got 26 nursing women to wear absorbent pads in their bras for 5 to 10 days. Then they asked 90 childless women to sniff these pads, or controls, several times a day for two months. Women sniffing real breast pads reported a…
