Intrasexual differences in olfaction – influence of sexual orientation and gender nonconformity
As mentioned above, gender is the (second) most important demographic factor influencing olfactory capabilities. However, the same mechanisms that contribute to differences between men and women, including, for example, prenatal or early perinatal exposure to androgenic steroids, which affects the interdisciplinary differences in brain anatomy and subsequent behavioral, cognitive or personality factors, also give rise to variability within one sex. People therefore differ within one sex to the extent that they have developed features typical of their own or opposite sex,…(read more)