Discovery Channel Delves Into the Subconscious World of Attraction in "SCIENCE OF SEX APPEAL"

-- Premiering, February 8 at 9 PM (ET/PT) --

January 9, 2009

(Los Angeles, Ca.) SCIENCE OF SEX APPEAL delves into our deepest subconscious processes and lays them out in shocking and specific detail. Is sex appeal just a matter of taste, or a biological equation waiting to be solved? SCIENCE OF SEX APPEAL, premiering Sunday, February 8 at 9 pm (ET/PT) isolates every detail of human sex appeal and explores what is genetic, hormonal and neurological. What is based on sight, smell and on small, subtle cues like voice and movement? You'll never look at a stranger, your loved one or yourself in quite the same way again.

Scientists used to think that mate preferences were completely arbitrary, but recent studies suggest that there are certain non conscious factors such as sound and smell over which humans have no control that attract people to each other. Scientists wanted to test whether copulance, a natural secretion that women emit to attract men, really affected a man's level of attraction to a woman. So they asked men to rate a group of women in photographs on attractiveness. But when the men were unknowingly given artificial copulance and asked to rate the women, they were unable to distinguish which women were attractive.

In nightclubs across the world, an invisible biochemical war is going on. Men secrete androstenone, which repels women who are not ovulating, while women shoot back with copulance, which makes men find all of them sexy. Could copulance be a hidden weapon in the armory of attraction?

SCIENCE OF SEX APPEAL is produced for Discovery Channel by The Incubator; Simon Andreae and James Younger are executive producers. For Discovery Channel, Susan Winslow is executive producer.

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