Kevin had tossed his football jersey on the chair and Anita smelled it, and thought it smelled good. Shandra thought it smelled horrible. 

Anita would grow up to marry twice and have three kids, Shandra was a lesbian.

In a totally unscientific test done at my High School, hetero girls thought ‘clean male sweat’ smelled good,(as did the gay boys) while the straight boys and lesbians thought it smelled awful. 

‘Clean female sweat’  smelled good to straight men and lesbians, but gross to straight women and gays.

Clean fe/male sweat was described as; sweat from a clean body on a clean garment, as opposed to socks worn five days in a row by someone who bathes only on Sunday before church.  As well as not being sick or using drugs or smoking, or stuff like that.

(I said it was unscientific, right?)

As I grew up I began to think ’smell’ would work where genes, ‘born that way’ and ‘nurture‘ failed.

So far there is no ‘gay gene’ which would prove someone was ‘born that way.’  And ‘nurture’ seems to fall down when there are a few kids in the family and only one is gay. 

The only ‘hardwired’ area could be smell.

We know animals sniff each other and we know that certain tribes where the people don’t bathe frequently, scientific studies have proven a member of that tribe can tell the sex of the person of his/her tribe by smell alone.

We know there are phermones in sweat which are sex specific, so I ponder if one isn’t ‘born’ that way because of how their olfactory sense is ‘wired?’

As I said, the only study done was at my High School by those who were interested in doing it, but I think a couple of dollars should be thrown which would then either prove or disprove my theory.