Science Plods On

To quote Wayne Campbell, "I think I'm gonna hurl!":

Wysocki's team at the Monell Chemical Senses Center studied the response of 82 heterosexual and homosexual men and heterosexual and homosexual women to the odors of underarm sweat collected from 24 donors of varied gender and sexual orientation.

They found that gay men differed from heterosexual men and women and from lesbian women, both in terms of which body odors gay men preferred and how their own body odors were regarded by the other groups.

Gay men preferred odors from gay men, while odors from gay men were the least preferred by heterosexual men and women and by lesbian women in the study. Their findings, released Monday, are to be published in the journal Psychological Science in September.

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The study has many other components, all equally pungent. The overall conclusion of the study: homo-eroticity is at least biological. We have no problem with that. We've believed for years that homosexuality is somewhat ingrained, kind of like alcoholism. Some people can drink heavily all their lives and never become alcoholics. Some can become alcoholics with comparatively little effort. But either way, it's a sin cord you don't want to trip.

By the way, we wonder how much they had to pay the heterosexual guys to participate in the study. We'd want about $500,000.00.

"What do I have to do, doc?"

"Well, it's pretty simple, actually. You do jumping jacks for five minutes, and then a bunch of gay guys come along and nuzzle their noses in your arm pits."

"Yuck. Then what?"

"They do jumping jacks for five minutes and you nuzzle your nose in their arm pits."