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12 May 2005 04:31:16 PM |
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Two studies explain why fags are queuing outside Bayonne gym.... |
Zanotitz: "Damn, two studies in one day, both indicative of gay genetic
difference... <sniff>, <sniff>, <sniff>"
http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=24072
Your nose, whether big or small, male or female, heterosexual or
homosexual, may play a big role in selecting your potential mate.
According to scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in
Philadelphia, one person's preference for another person's body odor
depends in part upon the gender and sexual orientation of both sender
and receiver.
"Our findings support the contention that gender preference has a
biological component that is reflected in both the production of
different body odors and in the perception of and response to body
odors," remarks Monell neuroscientist Charles Wysocki, PhD. Wysocki and
Yolanda Martins, PhD co-directed the research effort.
In the study, 82 heterosexual and homosexual men and women were asked to
indicate their preference for the odors of underarm sweat collected from
24 odor donors of varied gender and sexual orientation. Subjects made
four comparisons, evaluating and chosing between odors from (i)
heterosexual males versus gay males, (ii) heterosexual males versus
heterosexual females, (iii) heterosexual females versus lesbian females,
and (iv) gay males versus lesbian females.
Homosexual men and lesbian women had patterns of body odor preferences
that were different from those of heterosexual men and women. In
particular, gay men were strikingly different from heterosexual men and
women and from lesbian women, both in terms of which body odors gay men
preferred and how their own body odors were regarded by the other
groups. Gay men preferred odors from gay men and heterosexual women,
whereas odors from gay men were the least preferred by heterosexual men
and women and by lesbian women.
Overall, odor preference was related to perceptions of odor pleasantness
or unpleasantness, but not to odor intensity. Because the perceptual
differences were related to odor quality, this suggests that at least
some of the chemical attributes that contribute to human body odors are
related to an individual's gender and sexual orientation.
Martins comments, "We need to understand how the biological mechanisms
responsible for production of body odor differs in these groups of
people, who are defined by gender and gender preference. We also need to
identify the factors that lead men versus women and heterosexuals versus
homosexuals to perceive body odor differently."
The results will be published in the September 2005 issue of
Psychological Science. George Preti, PhD, and Christina Crabtree also
contributed to the research.
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0510_050510_gayscent.html
"Sexy" Smells Different for Gay, Straight Men, Study Says
Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News
May 10, 2005
A new study shows that gay men respond differently from straight men
when exposed to a suspected sexual stimulus found in male sweat.
When homosexual men smelled the odor of male sweat—more specifically, a
chemical in the male hormone testosterone—their brains responded
similarly to those of women.
The findings suggest that brain activity and sexual orientation are
linked. It also supports an opinion held by most scientists, that people
are born—not bred—gay.
"This is one more line of evidence that there's a biological substring
for sexual orientation," said Dean Hamer, a geneticist at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Hamer is the author of The Science of Desire: The Gay Gene and the
Biology of Behavior. He was not involved in the research, which was
conducted by scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
The study was published today in the research journal Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.
Reproductive Behavior
The scientists exposed heterosexual men and women and homosexual men to
chemicals found in male and female sex hormones. One chemical is a
testosterone derivative produced in men's sweat. The other chemical is
an estrogen-like compound in women's urine.
These chemicals have long been suspected of being pheromones, molecules
emitted by one individual that evoke some behavior in another of the
same species. Pheromones trigger basic responses, such as sexual
attraction, in many animals.
But scientists have long debated if humans respond to pheromones. The
new study suggests that pheromones indeed play a part in making humans
sexually attractive to one another.
In a previous study a few years ago, the Swedish researchers showed that
the brain's hypothalamus region, which is involved in sexual behavior,
becomes activated when men smell EST (the estrogen derivative) and women
smell AND (the testosterone compound), but not vice versa.
For their new study, the scientists added a sexual-orientation element,
which revealed a difference in the brain activity of gay and straight men.
The researchers found that the testosterone compound activated the
hypothalamus in homosexual men and heterosexual women, but not
heterosexual men. Conversely, the estrogen compound activated the
hypothalamus only in heterosexual men.
"It shows a different physiological response to the same external
stimulus," said Ivanka Savic, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska
Institute and the study's lead researcher. "This response [occurred] in
the brain region involved in reproductive behavior."
When the study subjects sniffed scents such as cedar or lavender, all of
their brains reacted only in the region that handles smells—not sexual
behavior.
Biological Explanation
The results show that the human brain reacts differently to potential
pheromones compared with common odors.
"It directly shows a link between brain activity and sexual
orientation," said Hamer, the NIH geneticist.
Hamer cautions that the gay men's different brain activity could be
either a cause of their sexual orientation or an effect of it. But, he
said, "it certainly seems unlikely that somehow being interested in men
would cause the brain to rewire itself in such a dramatic way."
Other studies have also found that gay and straight men respond
differently to the body odors of others.
Scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, found that gay men preferred odors from other gay men,
while odors from gay men were the least preferred by straight men and women.
The Monell Center's results were released yesterday and are to be
published in the journal Psychological Science in September.
"There are many ongoing studies in the field, and I think that we soon
will have better clarification," said Savic, the Karolinska Institute
neuroscientist. "At the moment, there are no definite proofs."
However, the new studies boost the hypothesis that homosexuality has a
genetic basis and is not simply the result of learned behavior.
"This, incidentally, is not in any way controversial for biologists,"
Hamer said. "It's completely expected from the basic tenets of biology.
It's only controversial because of the social and political controversy
over homosexuality."
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| User: "Never anonymous Bud" |
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| Title: Re: Two studies explain why fags are queuing outside Bayonne gym.... |
12 May 2005 05:15:09 PM |
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Using a finger dipped in purple ink, Absolute Zero <amycaton@hotmail.com> scribed:
Zanotitz: "Damn, two studies in one day, both indicative of gay genetic
difference... <sniff>, <sniff>, <sniff>"
Something MANY of us have known for a LONG LONG time...
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The truth is out there,
but it's not interesting enough for most people.
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13 May 2005 10:52:50 AM |
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LOL!!!
What a joke, so these brainiacs conclude that Homosexuals are turned
on by the odor of men?
And of course their conclusion is that it;s a genitic difference,
LOL!!!
Common sense says that it's an accquired attraction based on their
experience.
Sheesh.
Tony
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| User: "Absolute Zero" |
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13 May 2005 11:05:40 AM |
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wrote:
LOL!!!
What a joke, so these brainiacs conclude that Homosexuals are turned
on by the odor of men?
Seems eminently plausible, closet-boy... probably explains your
fascination with the gym.
And of course their conclusion is that it;s a genitic difference,
LOL!!!
Common sense
Common sense? You?
says that it's an accquired attraction based on their experience.
Sheesh.
Why, thicko?
"This, incidentally, is not in any way controversial for biologists,"
Hamer said. "It's completely expected from the basic tenets of biology.
It's only controversial because of the social and political controversy
over homosexuality."
BTW, 'accquired', 'genitic', 'it;s' ?
By the evaluation of a post you made to tw, this makes you a moron.
-A
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15 May 2005 07:59:09 AM |
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itwill@happen.com wrote:
LOL!!!
What a joke, so these brainiacs conclude that Homosexuals are turned
on by the odor of men?
And of course their conclusion is that it;s a genitic difference,
LOL!!!
Common sense
Common sense? You?
Far more than a dweeb like you, as you show none in this thread.
says that it's an accquired attraction based on their experience.
Sheesh.
Why, thicko?
Figure it out, Clueless.
Tony
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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15 May 2005 09:26:00 AM |
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wrote:
wrote:
LOL!!!
What a joke, so these brainiacs conclude that Homosexuals are turned
on by the odor of men?
And of course their conclusion is that it;s a genitic difference,
LOL!!!
Common sense
Common sense? You?
Far more than a dweeb like you, as you show none in this thread.
says that it's an accquired attraction based on their experience.
Sheesh.
Why, thicko?
Figure it out, Clueless.
IOW - "because I want to believe it"
Woods
Tony
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| User: "Absolute Zero" |
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15 May 2005 08:05:47 AM |
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wrote:
wrote:
LOL!!!
What a joke, so these brainiacs conclude that Homosexuals are turned
on by the odor of men?
And of course their conclusion is that it;s a genitic difference,
LOL!!!
Common sense
Common sense? You?
Far more than a dweeb like you, as you show none in this thread.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
says that it's an accquired attraction based on their experience.
Sheesh.
Why, thicko?
Figure it out, Clueless.
"This, incidentally, is not in any way controversial for biologists,"
Hamer said. "It's completely expected from the basic tenets of biology.
It's only controversial because of the social and political controversy
over homosexuality."
-A
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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13 May 2005 04:50:47 PM |
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wrote:
LOL!!!
What a joke, so these brainiacs conclude that Homosexuals are turned
on by the odor of men?
That's what the study seemed to indicate, yest.
And of course their conclusion is that it;s a genitic difference,
LOL!!!
It would certainly indicate something at the physical level, which is
far more likely to be genetic rather than social.
Common sense says that it's an accquired attraction based on their
experience.
"Common sense" also says the world is flat (if you never go into space),
that maggots spontaneously get created from rotting meat, and that frogs
are created from just mud.
Sheesh.
Yeah, I'll say.
9_9
Woods
Tony
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| User: "" |
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15 May 2005 08:06:34 AM |
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itwill@happen.com wrote:
LOL!!!
What a joke, so these brainiacs conclude that Homosexuals are turned
on by the odor of men?
That's what the study seemed to indicate, yest.
Of course, they've been smelling many sweaty men every day for years,
they got used to it.
And of course their conclusion is that it;s a genitic difference,
LOL!!!
It would certainly indicate something at the physical level, which is
far more likely to be genetic rather than social.
Wrong, an aqdaptedtaste is more like it.
Common sense says that it's an accquired attraction based on their
experience.
Tony
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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15 May 2005 09:29:37 AM |
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wrote:
wrote:
LOL!!!
What a joke, so these brainiacs conclude that Homosexuals are turned
on by the odor of men?
That's what the study seemed to indicate, yest.
Of course, they've been smelling many sweaty men every day for years,
they got used to it.
If that were the case, both homosexual and heterosexual males would have
had the same reaction. Further, heterosexual women would *not* have
reacted in a similar manner to homosexual men.
And of course their conclusion is that it;s a genitic difference,
LOL!!!
It would certainly indicate something at the physical level, which is
far more likely to be genetic rather than social.
Wrong, an aqdaptedtaste is more like it.
Using your fairly inadequate deductive reasoning, all, or nearly all,
men would respond to male pheromes. However, as indicated in the study,
that was certainly NOT the case.
Woods
Common sense says that it's an accquired attraction based on their
experience.
Tony
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