Gymbox Pheromone Class Aims To Improve Members' Sex Lives
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This Gym Class Promises To Help You Get Laid (Thanks To Sweat)
Ian Lang
Gymbox, a London-based gym, offers a class called P.I.T. (Pheromone Improvement Training) that they claim can help participants with the opposite sex. The class is designed to work up a certain kind of sweat, and then participants are encouraged to forgo showers or deodorant afterwards.
When most people consider the gym as part of their strategy for enticing the opposite sex, it's one component of a larger goal of becoming a healthier, more fit individual who's thereby less repulsive to the people they hope might one day touch their private parts. That's a noble, reasonable goal. Through patience and principled dedication, gym-goers can eventually craft an enviable body.
Or, you can just get really sweaty, skip the shower and roll up to the nearest bar. Introducing P.I.T. (Pheromone Improvement Training), a class offered by London-based Gymbox. From a press release:
Revolutionary gym chain, GYMBOX™, is launching the first ever fitness class created to significantly boost one's sex appeal. P.I.T. (Pheromone Improvement Training) will enable gym-goers to secrete the correct natural pheromones needed to attract a mate on their night out and therefore greatly increase the chances of a sexual encounter.
P.I.T. participants will wear GYMBOX™ bespoke sweat suits to ensure they sweat as profusely as possible. The intense work out lasts for 20 minutes, which is the optimum time to produce fresh sweat and the key pheromone needed to make humans irresistible to other humans: androstenone.
Androstenone (chemical formula C19H28O) is the steroid-like pheromone found in human fresh sweat that acts as an aphrodisiac. When secreted, humans have roughly two hours for the pheromone scent to work its magic on other people in their close vicinity before the sweat evaporates*.
According to the release, post-workout showers, perfumes and deodorants are strongly discouraged. Participants are instead directed to the nearest bar or pub, where their pungent aroma should make them a big hit with the opposite sex. It sounds suspiciously like the weight-cutting regimen many former wrestlers are familiar with, and I remember feeling distinctly un-sexy after a bout of intentional sweating, but to each their own. A video reinforces the principles and gives you a peek into what the workout entails.
I mean, yeah. It's working out while wearing a wetsuit, but apart from that how this differs from any other workout class that makes you sweaty remains to be seen. Pheromone science is a sticky topic (with little in the way of consensus), but in all likelihood the pheromones in your sweat make you more attractive to women to the same degree that the cyanide in apple seeds will make you dead.
Is there anything wrong with giving this a try? Probably not. Is a robust, pheromone-scented cloud of body odour the only thing standing between you and sexual satisfaction? Also probably not. Or rather, probably yes, but not the way the people at Gymbox intend it to be.
How is this any different from other workout classes?
According to at least one small study, eating garlic may also make your sweat smell more attractive.
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