PREFERENCE FOR BODY ODORS

Body odor may send specific signals to potential mates

Your nose may play a big role in selecting a mate according to a new study conducted by researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. They found that your preference for another person's body odor is influenced by the gender and sexual orientation of that person as well as your own gender and sexual orientation.

"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," says study author Charles Wysocki The study, to be published in the September issue of Psychological Science, was co-authored by Yolanda Martins. full story...