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For gay men, an attraction to a different kind of scent

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/science/for-gay-men-an-attractionto-a-different-kind-of-scent.html?smid=url-share

New York Times article, by Nicholas Wade, describes research that is looking at patterns of brain activity when queer individuals smell pheromones of males and females.

I assign this article along with the famous t-shirt sniff article in which heterosexual females sniff the t-shirts of males and rate their attractiveness – Key Study: “The Sweaty T-shirt Study” (Wedekind et al. 1995)

Course content area – Sexual Selection or Human Evolution & Behavior

Course – Evolution & Behavior (100 level)

Campus – Hunter College

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