Science, Vol 189, Issue 4206, 893-894
Copyright © 1975 by American Association for the Advancement of Science
Taste aversions to sexual attractants
RE Johnston
and
DM Zahorik
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.