Taste Aversions to Sexual Attractants
- 12 September 1975
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 189 (4206), 893-894
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1154027
Abstract
The vaginal secretion of female hamsters serves as a sexual excitant or attractant for the male even in the absence of previous sexual experience, but attraction to the secretion can be altered with surprising ease by pairing ingestion of the secretion with gastrointestinal illness.Keywords
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