ghidle

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   by ghidle 4y ago

   Yes but this has not yet been experimentally tested, so it's currently unknown.
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   by ghidle 4y ago

   In the context of how rodents respond to such scents, I think it is currently unknown whether a male on a long-term feminising hormone treatment would still produce a sufficiently male-type scent, or a female-type scent.
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   by ghidle 4y ago

   In this context, "experimenters' sex" can only reasonably mean whether the experimenter was female or male. The other alternative would have been them doing some experimental fucking next to the mice to see what happens. Such
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   by ghidle 4y ago

   Note that a similar effect has been observed previously with regards to stress response and inhibition of pain, in Olfactory exposure to males, including men, causes stress and related analgesia in rodents by Sorge et al (which the linked