Women's hedonic ratings of body odor of heterosexual and homosexual men

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 395-401

  Sergeant, Mark J T ^a   Dickins, Thomas E ^b,c   Davies, Mark N O ^a   Griffiths, Mark D ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body odor; Olfaction; Sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MATE CHOICE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; RATING SCALE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SMELLING;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 34249907275     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-006-9126-3     Document Type: Article

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