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THE SCENT OF A MAN: GAY MEN AND PHEROMON
As his name suggts, Otterj draws his greatt spiratn om the slenr, hairy, beard, and often tattooed gay male subculture known as otters -- but not exclively.
The men his photographs are unabashed exhibnists lookg for a place to f to a gay culture that has creasgly turned s back on a sexually aware world where leather and cisg are forms of liberatn.
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. 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.