A dab of artificial sweat can hugely increase your chances for romance, according to psychologist Norma McCoy and her student Lisa Pitino at San Francisco State University. They found that a commercial synthetic ?pheromone? tripled the sexual success of women.

In a study of 36 women, they found that sexual behavior with men was three times as high in women who added this sexy chemical to their perfume, compared to women who received a placebo. McCoy believes the additive, known only as Athena Pheromone 10:13, makes women more attractive to men.
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Sperm counts are falling dramatically across the industrialized world, and scientists are increasingly convinced that pollution is to blame. Studies around the world have shown that average sperm counts in men have dropped by more than half over the past 50 years.

The British Medical Research Council reports that the fertility of Scottish men born since 1970 was 25 per cent less than those born in the 1950s, with sperm counts continuing to drop by two per cent a year. Other research by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shows that, proportionately, a man now produces only about a third as much sperm as a hamster.

Scientists blame hormone-disrupting chemicals that cause cancer and damage the immune system, as well as impairing fertility.
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Men are in danger of extinction because sperm banks, fertility treatments and human cloning may make them no longer necessary. Since men have historically started all major wars, the world would be a more peaceful place without them.
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