*“The View” cohost Sunny Hostin claims gay people can identify other gay people via scent.
“I’m very embarrassed to admit that [my husband] Manny and I got so obsessed with this show that we binged it yesterday, and we watched all eight episodes. I learned things that I never heard in my life,” Hostin said during Monday’s Hot Topic, Entertainment Weekly reports. “Have you heard of a Prince Albert piercing? I didn’t know about that.”
Hostin did not name a specific scientific study but she talked about “research” that “found that gay men have different scent attraction” and that “homosexual people have a nose for each other.”
Her co-host Whoopi Goldberg replied, “I know too many gay people that say my gaydar is down.”
Meanwhile, a 2005 study reported in the New York Times found differences between cis heterosexuals and cis homosexuals in the way they perceive scent.
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Per the UK Independent, scientists found:
“Heterosexual males and females preferred odours from heterosexual males relative to gay males; gay males preferred odours from other gay males.
“Heterosexual males and females and lesbians over the age of 25 preferred odours from lesbians, relative to the odours from gay males; gay males preferred the odours of other gay males relative to lesbians,” they say.
Charles Wysocki of the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia said the most substantial “finding was that gay men prefer the smell of other gay men and that lesbians responded differently to body odour compared to heterosexual women,” the Independent writes.
“The overall conclusions are that the body odour you most prefer or least prefer does not depend on where it comes from but it also depends on who you are, in other words, your sexual orientation,” Wysocki said.
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