Birth Control?

So Sister Smith had to use my computer today to print out some checks. While I was waiting, I went and sat with Elder Smith in the conference room and read the paper and watched some news. I felt very old fashioned, sitting at this big table with an old man, our noses in the paper. Every now and again bringing up another way the world is heading down the drain.

Anyway, I read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about birth control with a touch of Darwin entitled "The tricky chemistry of attraction: taking birth-control pills may mask the signals that draw the sexes together." Birth control, apparently, "disrupts some chemical signals". It removes the natural attraction that women get to a certain kind of man during ovulation. Normally, a woman will gravitate towards more masculine men and men who have different immune system properties than she. Both of these things will produce superior stock (hence the Darwin) - babies with strong bodies and fabulous immune systems allowing for the greatest chance of survival. The same is true as far as men being attracted to women. Because birth control masks those hormones/pheromones, his body isn't alerted to the fact that a woman is ready to make babies. Normally, he would be particularly attracted to ovulating women.

It wasn't conclusive evidence to anything, and they weren't trying to say "don't use birth control," but it's interesting to note. I've also heard that two people who are compatible physically taste/smell good to each other. I never really realized how our bodies are really prepared to continue to populate the world. We unconsciously gravitate towards opportunities that allow for successful reproduction.

Speaking of saliva, do you ever wonder who the first people were to discover kissing? or Mono?