Gay pheromones

Similarly, it would do a disservice to only look for psychodynamic causes. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers. Close Advertisement. Subscribe now. More from New Scientist Explore the latest news, articles and features.

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Pheromone attracts straight women and gay men

Straight men, meanwhile, were more likely to perceive the figure as feminine when exposed to estratetraenol. Straight women showed no effect, while lesbian and bisexual women showed a response somewhere in between. To keep everything on the straight and narrow, the pheromones were masked with the smell of cloves in all cases.

New Evidence Sexuality Is Innate: Study Finds Gay Men Respond to Male Pheromones

But more evidence never hurts. Chinese researchers studied the pheromones naturally given off by men and women in things such as semen, sweat, and urine. To test their hypothesis, Wen Zhou of the Chinese Academy of Sciences set up an experiment in which participants looked at a video in which human figures rendered in a connect-the-dots style shown above were shown walking.