Swedish rearchers show that homosexual and heterosexual men rpond differently to two odors that may be volved sexual aroal, and that gay men rpond same way as women; new rearch may open way to studyg pheromon humans; they are known to ern sexual activy animals, but experts differ about their role, if any, makg humans sexually attractive to one another; rearch supportg existence of human pheromon is reported The Proceedgs of the Natnal Amy of Scienc; two chemils study were ttosterone rivative produced men's sweat and trogen-like pound women's ure, both of which have long been spected of beg pheromon; new fdg, if nfirmed, would break ground two important directns, those of human pheromon and human sexualy (M)
Contents:
- FOR GAY MEN, AN ATTRACTNTO A DIFFERENT KD OF SCENT
- THE SCENT OF A MAN: GAY MEN AND PHEROMON
- CAN GAY MEN AND WOMEN REALLY SENSE EACH OTHER BY SMELL?
- DISGTG SMELLS E CREASED LIKG OF GAY MEN
- HOW A VICTORIAN HEART MEDICE BEME A GAY SEX DG
- THE SMELLS OF A GAY BAR
- WHY DO BEN-GAY SMELL LIKE THAT?
FOR GAY MEN, AN ATTRACTNTO A DIFFERENT KD OF SCENT
* gay smell *
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMay 10, 2005Usg a bra imagg technique, Swedish rearchers have shown that homosexual and heterosexual men rpond differently to two odors that may be volved sexual aroal, and that the gay men rpond the same way as new rearch may open the way to studyg human pheromon, as well as the blogil basis of sexual preference.
THE SCENT OF A MAN: GAY MEN AND PHEROMON
An ductn of disgt n lead to more negative attus toward an entire social group: Participants who were exposed to a nox ambient odor reported ls warmth toward gay men. This effect of disgt was equally strong for polil liberals and nservativ, and was specific to attus to … * gay smell *
The two chemils seemed to be leadg a double life, playg the role of odor wh one sex and of pheromone wh Swedish rearchers have now repeated the experiment but wh the addn of gay men as a third group.
CAN GAY MEN AND WOMEN REALLY SENSE EACH OTHER BY SMELL?
The gay men rpond to the two chemils the same way as did women, Dr.
DISGTG SMELLS E CREASED LIKG OF GAY MEN
Savic reports, as if the hypothalam's rponse is termed not by blogil sex but by the owner's sexual Savic said that she had also studied gay women, but that the data were "somewhat plited" and not yet ready for fdg is siar to a report 1991 by Dr.
Simon LeVay that a small regn of the hypothalam is twice as large straight men as women or gay men. "The big qutn is not where homosexualy om, but where do sexualy e om, " said Dr.
HOW A VICTORIAN HEART MEDICE BEME A GAY SEX DG
Savic se the bras of gay men uld be eher a e of their sexual orientatn or an effect of . Savic's fdg uld be jt a nsequence of straight and gay men's g their bra different ways.
Savic's suggt that the hypothalam is specifilly anized relatn to sexual orientatn, he rearchers believe there is likely to be a geic ponent of homosexualy bee of s nrdance among tws.
THE SMELLS OF A GAY BAR
The occurrence of male homosexualy both members of a tw pair is 22 percent nonintil tws but ris to 52 percent intil men have fewer children, meang that Darwian terms, any geic variant that promot homosexualy should be quickly elimated om the populatn. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: For Gay Men, Different Scent Of Attractn.
However, other gay men I know report somethg siarly powerful recurrg experience spired me to search my mental Rolox of scent memori to see if I uld make any nnectns.
WHY DO BEN-GAY SMELL LIKE THAT?
A 2005 Natnal Geographic article about a bra study revealed that when gay men smelled male sweat (which ntas ttosterone), their cerebral activy the regn volved reproductive behavr looked parable to women’s cerebral activy.
Another study showed that gay men preferred the odors of other gay men, while odors emted by gay men were the least preferred by straight earlit scent memori of my dad are of Old Spice, tobac, cigarette smoke, alhol (om the “high balls” he drank before g home at the end of the week), and…. Homosexual people have a nose for each other, acrdg to new rearch published Psychologil Science. Scientists Philalphia llected sampl of unrarm sweat om 24 donors of "varied genr and sexual orientatn" and then asked 82 heterosexual and homosexual men and women to tt the for any potential appealg quali.
Homosexual men and lbian women showed preferenc that were not those of heterosexual people of eher sex.