Good catch xvs. I waited to receive and read my reprint of the actualOriginally Posted by xvs
article before commenting.
In the journal article, the authors conclude that "MHC sharing negatively predicts
women’s sexual responsivity to and sexual satisfaction with partners." More sharing correlates with greater
attraction to other men, especially when the women are most fertile. "These effects may be mediated by
scent..."
The fertility-scent link suggests that estradiol may enhance the ability to detect and
differentiate among MHC/HLA -related pheromones that are shed in skin cells. These skin-cell pheromones are
processed by the main olfactory system, again, with no human VNO
involvement.
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