GoodOriginally Posted by luxveritas
catch. It's already being discussed on the sexology research listserver. I added this to the
discussion.
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124 Poster Chemosensory Coding and
Clinical
HETEROSEXUAL FEMALES, BUT NOT LESBIANS, SENSITIZE TO LOW LEVELS OF ODORANT
Wysocki C.1,
Sergeant M.2, Louie J.1 1Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA; 2Division of Psychology, Nottingham
Trent
University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Sexual orientation influences human olfaction (Martins et al,
2005, Psych. Sci.). Here we report that lesbians, like heterosexual males, do not demonstrate a gender-typical
process of olfactory sensitization to low level odorants previously reported for women, but not men (Dalton et al.,
2002, Nat. Neurosci.). This finding suggests that within-gender variation in sensitization among women may not be
fully explained by
changes in levels of activational
hormones.
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I have an article in press for late
this year that explains olfactory/pheromonal conditioning of human male sexual preferences (including homosexual
preferences). There will soon be sufficient data from human studies to include olfactory/pheromonal conditioning of
human female sexual preferences.
JVK
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