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)
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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.
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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. The gay men rpond to the two chemils the same way as did women, Dr. 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. 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.