Re: Homosexual Pheromones


Posted by James Kohl on May 18, 2004 at 09:23
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Re: Homosexual Pheromones (Jean Pierre)

Thanks for your interest; the Preti/Wysocki paper I mentioned is forthcoming with first author Yolanda Martins (If you've got a preprint, you're ahead of me). An excerpt from the presentation abstract is available at www.pheromones.com

My Neuroendocrinology Letters paper is available at:
http://www.nel.edu/22_5/NEL220501R01_Review.htm
My domain: pheromones.com has this link and information on other work.

My position on the vomeronasal organ (VNO) is that the research showing effects of input to the human VNO is of no consequence when it comes to extending the mammalian model of olfactory conditioned behavior to humans. The luteinizing hormone (LH) response to pheromones of the opposite sex is the typical mammalian response--and Wysocki/Preti have shown that this occurs in women exposed to the axillary secretions of men. This sex-typical mammalian (LH) response does not occur in homosexual rams exposed to the odor of estrus ewes, and indicates incomplete sexual differentiation of the olfactory system(s).
There are several other aspects of mammalian sexual differentiation (e.g., neuroanatomical and neuroendocrinological) in other mammals, including humans that make extension of my model applicable to an explanation of male homosexual orientation

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