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Could a plant lure humans in by using 'sex pheromones'?

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So this question, Designing a Carnivorous Plant, talks about animals being attracted to a plant, at first by a sweet scent, and then being drugged by an unspecified toxin which renders them 'euphoric' enough to not want to move. The plant then digests them and uses their biomass for nutrition like a Venus flytrap does a fly.

My question is similar but different (Captain Obvious I know but hear me out): Could a plant use pheromones which sexually attract humans to achieve its purposes? This can be a carnivorous plant or one which wants to attract humans for the purposes of spreading its seeds - or even, strange as it seems, pollination.

Clarification: I'm working with current human biology here. By 'pheromones', I'm referring to anything chemical which humans use to signal sexual availability.

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