Topic: Hon, lemme me sniff your armpits and your ears. Are you straight, bi, or lessie?

[oldcoastie6468]

Earwax may reveal clues about a person’s identity and habits
Posted: Feb 14, 2014 12:43 PM CST
Updated: Feb 14, 2014 1:10 PM CST

By FOX NEWS -
It turns out clues about a person’s identity and ethnicity can come from a surprising source: earwax.

Researchers from the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia decided to analyze earwax as a possible source of personal information based on previous studies in which researchers analyzed underarm odor to unlock clues about a person’s identity.

"Our previous research has shown that underarm odors can convey a great deal of information about an individual, including personal identity, gender, sexual orientation and health status," study author George Preti, an organic chemist at Monell, said in a press release. "We think it possible that earwax may contain similar information."

For their study, Preti and his colleagues identified odor-producing compounds contained in earwax obtained from 16 healthy men. Eight of the men were Caucasian while the remainder of the men were of East Asian descent.

Researchers then heated the earwax samples to prompt them to produce odorous volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Though all of the men’s earwax samples tested positive for VOCs, Caucasian men had greater amounts of 11 out of the 12 VOCs tested compared to the men of East Asian origin.

"In essence, we could obtain information about a person's ethnicity simply by looking in his ears,” study author Katharine Prokop-Prigge, a Monell chemist, said. “While the types of odorants were similar, the amounts were very different.”

Furthermore, they suspect earwax may be a source of even more clues about a person’s identity and habits.

The researchers suspect that the fatty nature of earwax makes it a likely repository for lipid-soluble odorants produced by certain diseases and the environment.

  

RED EMPHASIS = Mine.

http://www.myfoxny.com/Story/24726863/earwax-may-reveal-clues-about-a-persons-identity-and-habits

[Glock32]

Racial differences in ear wax have been known to anthropologists for some time. Europeans have a more "wet" type wax, Asians have a dry, crumbly type of wax. I haven't read the subject in a while, but I believe Africans have a type similar to Europeans.

Funny though that they talk about these things, but then go back to their official dogma about there being "no such thing" as race.

[Libertas]

These clowns got a government taxpayer grant, didn't they? 

[oldcoastie6468]

These clowns got a government taxpayer grant, didn't they? 

HEY, HEY, HEY!!!    It's your tax dollars hard at work!   

[AlanS]

I love my wife, but I'm not sure about sniffer under her arms after a day of pulling weeds around the house.

[Libertas]

Expains that neck nuzzling though, eh?  Earwax sniffer!