# Pentagon planned to develop a gay sex bomb **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 14, 2005, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681 "2005-01-14T06:32:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/1 "2005-01-14T06:32:36Z")
[Your tax dollars at work](http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524823.800&print=true). > [@](#): > > THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal. > > Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an “aphrodisiac” chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a “distasteful but completely non-lethal” blow to morale, the proposal says. Heh heh. “Non-lethal blow.” If this wasn’t already the premise for a gay porn movie it is now. ---
**Author:** ![Okaybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc348/32.png) [@Okaybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okaybear)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/2 "2005-01-14T06:37:25Z")
:eek: What if this technology fell into enemy hands? Would we have to revise our “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ink\_a\_dink\_a\_dink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ink\_a\_dink\_a\_dink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ink_a_dink_a_dink)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/3 "2005-01-14T07:09:57Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > If this wasn’t already the premise for a gay porn movie it is now. It is. I had to go thorugh it looking for things to review once. (I write for an adult magazine.) I am sorry but I can’t remember the name. Liked the little commando outfits, though. What? I can’t enjoy a little gay porn every now and then? Ink - who is a gal. PS - for the rest of the OP, may I just shake my head in bewilderment and wait for the world to implode from the weight of all the stupidity? Gay Bomb. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/4 "2005-01-14T07:23:05Z")
Worse yet, terrorists might get their hands on them! Obviously we need an immediate deployment of Gaydar stations across the country. ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/5 "2005-01-14T07:41:23Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > …we need an immediate deployment of Gaydar stations across the country. Useful for cruising purposes, too! ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/6 "2005-01-14T07:43:39Z")
Surely it would’ve become a _boost_ to morale? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/7 "2005-01-14T07:49:09Z")
The worst thing about this is the hypocrisy. If the government doesn’t like homosexuality, then they shouldn’t be coercing enemy troops into gay sex. Especially since the enemy troops don’t approve of it either. ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/8 "2005-01-14T08:19:31Z")
That would invalidate the classic line “War. War never changes.” in the _Fallout_ games ☹ ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/9 "2005-01-14T08:26:01Z")
So would this bomb turn all the gay troops straight? Bummer, no fun then. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/10 "2005-01-14T09:50:22Z")
This was the plot of (at least one) erotic novel. Commandos on a tropical island chasing terrorists who got ahold of the sex bomb. They explode it, hilarity ensues. This goes against all I know of medical and psychological science. And I say this as a fully-qualified English teacher. No aphrodisiac has ever been produced for serious medical purposes, let alone one that could work on a battlefield. No way. Hoax. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/11 "2005-01-14T10:38:21Z")
Sure there’s a link-but to what? An article pulled from the deepest, darkest anals of journalism, such that your posting it is beyond laughable-it’s pitiful. :rolleyes: I don’t know what you’re smoking up there in Minnesota but it’s gotta be primo shit, because the straws at which you’re grasping are further and further into the land of lost left sox with every post. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/12 "2005-01-14T10:59:07Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > An article pulled from the deepest, darkest **anals** of journalism, Oh, this has _got_ to be intentional. It’s too good to be an accident. 😃 But I have doubts about this myself. Since when do there exist effective aphrodisiacs sufficient to increase the likelihood of sexual relations between people who would normally find each other attractive, let alone chemicals that coerce people into sex with people they normally wouldn’t feel any attraction to whatsoever? I would more quickly call this article bullshit, if I didn’t believe in the abiding stupidity of my government. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/13 "2005-01-14T11:02:01Z")
The science can’t be real, but the stupidity very well could be. And I’m going to keep focusing on the stupidity, because the idea of forcing people to have sex with each other as an instrument of war is really sick. On the plus side, this is very easy to laugh at. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/14 "2005-01-14T11:03:50Z")
It was intentional. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/15 "2005-01-14T11:21:31Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > It was intentional. 😛 intentianal I presume. Anyway where the hell can I get hand of this stuff. I wanna target my wife - and any other female I happen across. ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/16 "2005-01-14T11:30:10Z")
Obviously, the Pentagon forgets their history. The Spartans were no wimps. 😛 (Was it a Spartan who opined that a man may fight more fiercely for his lover than for his friend?) ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/17 "2005-01-14T11:36:31Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Sure there’s a link-but to what? An article pulled from the deepest, darkest anals of journalism, such that your posting it is beyond laughable-it’s pitiful. :rolleyes: What the fuck is your damage? The article is from New Scientist, and dated today (probably tomorrow for you). A current cite from a reputable scientific news journal is “the deepest, darkest anals of journalism”? How many fucking rolleyes you want with that, you wanker? ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/18 "2005-01-14T11:44:15Z")
> [@Desmostylus](#): > > What the fuck is your damage? The article is from New Scientist, and dated today (probably tomorrow for you). A current cite from a reputable scientific news journal is “the deepest, darkest anals of journalism”? How many fucking rolleyes you want with that, you wanker? Pucker up, buttercup. In case you haven’t stayed tuned, it is regular activity for the left to demean the credibility of a cite which doesn’t support their theme, so I was simply offering a tablespoon of the same medicine. Put the same article in the New York Times or Washington Post and I’ll afford credibility, but until that day, wank on yourself, mate. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/19 "2005-01-14T11:50:02Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Pucker up, buttercup. In case you haven’t stayed tuned, it is regular activity for the left to demean the credibility of a cite which doesn’t support their theme, so I was simply offering a tablespoon of the same medicine. > > Put the same article in the New York Times or Washington Post and I’ll afford credibility, but until that day, wank on yourself, mate. …New Scientist has no credibility??? 😕😕 cite? ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/20 "2005-01-14T11:54:53Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Put the same article in the New York Times or Washington Post and I’ll afford credibility That really is funny. Anyone remember Jayson Blair? :smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681.md?page=2)