Neuroscience
Or rather, "No-Word," because they still haven't posted the pheromone article. It's annoying that their manuscripts are released to the press so far in advance of when they're available to the rest of us without press credentials (you know, the public, e.g., scientists).
However, viewers of The L Word will be happy to hear that lesbians aren't just like heterosexual men, after all!
Lesbian Responses to Pheromones
Lesbian women respond to pheromones differently than their heterosexual counterparts, although lesbian responses are not quite similar to those of heterosexual men.
Results from the latest study by Ivanka Savic and colleagues
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Neuroscience
The PNAS Word
Or rather, "No-Word," because they still haven't posted the pheromone article. It's annoying that their manuscripts are released to the press so far in advance of when they're available to the rest of us without press credentials (you know, the public, e.g., scientists).
However, viewers of The L Word will be happy to hear that lesbians aren't just like heterosexual men, after all!
Lesbian Responses to Pheromones
Lesbian women respond to pheromones differently than their heterosexual counterparts, although lesbian responses are not quite similar to those of heterosexual men.
add further evidence to the idea that AND & EST pheromones
are involved in sexual preference, and also suggests that male
homosexuality is quite different than female homosexuality.
are involved in sexual preference, and also suggests that male
homosexuality is quite different than female homosexuality.
- Is Sexism The Reason Why So Many Heterosexual Men Are Prejudiced Towards Gay Men?
Gay rights have improved hugely in recent years, but prejudice remains a significant problem. Hate crime data from the US show that gay men in particular are victimised more than other sexual minorities and that their attackers are usually heterosexual...
- Can Friendship Triumph Over Prejudice?
"I'm not a racist, many of my best friends are [insert ethnic minority identifier]" ... so goes the contemporary refrain. But how much does friendship really smooth inter-group interactions? A wealth of research has shown that people typically feel...
- How Messages Are Scent
The idea that humans release chemical signals – pheromones – that affect people around them is controversial. If pheromones do exist, however, two chemicals that might fulfil this role are the testosterone derivative 4,16-androstadien-3-one (AND),...
- Intersex (for Lack Of A Better Word)...
...is the title of a book by Thea Hillman, in which (according to a review by David S. Hall), She speaks of her experiences as a young child, being diagnosed with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, and what that experience meant to a four year old girl who...
- Dr. Suzanne Corkin, "gay Brain" Skeptic
Just a quick post for now on the brand new PNAS article by Savic and Lindström that spawned the "Gay Men, Straight Women Have Similar Brains" story. Professor Suzanne Corkin of MIT (famous for her studies of the amnesic patient H.M., among other things)...