Men who were born without a sense of smell report having far fewer sexual partners than other men do, and women with the same disorder report being more insecure in their partnerships, according to new research.The researchers don’t know why romantic difficulties could be tied to smell, but they say one possibility is that people with anosmia, or no sense of smell, are insecure, having missed many emotional signals all their life.”A lot of social signals are transported through the olfactory channel, and they are probably missing them,” said lead author Ilona Croy, a psychologist at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.The findings were published Nov. …
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