# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/61 "2005-01-14T20:23:28Z")
> [@MrFantsyPants](#): > > You realize, of course, that there are far more factors to morale than just divisiveness and bigotry, right? > > Okay, so let’s list some possible effects of such a weapon on a soldier… > • self loathing (just cheated on SO, committed act against one’s own religion, etc) > • shame (unable to control oneself, got jiggy instead fighting, acted unprofessionally as a soldier) > • embarrassment around fellow troops (I suspect two macho, homophobic marines who just had some hot man-love might have trouble looking each other in the eye) > • anger (being forced into sex against your will, I would consider that a bit of a violation) > > If you think none of these are going to hurt morale, then I’ll just walk away, shaking my head. I find your argument to be compelling. I stand corrected. I was mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/62 "2005-01-14T20:46:46Z")
> [@Sample\_the\_Dog](#): > > 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?) I believe it was Plato. The Thebans took the advice and their “Sacred Bond” whooped on the Spartans. They in turn were whooped by the Macedonians who were whooped on by the Romans. Whole lotta gay ass whoopin’ going on in the ancient world. We’ve come this far and no one has made a Tom Jones reference? Shame. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/63 "2005-01-14T22:56:55Z")
The [Weekly World News](http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/conspiracies/61525) broke the story long before this _NewScientist_ outfit. No faggot ever won a war by having sex for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb faggot have sex for his country. ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/64 "2005-01-14T23:15:41Z")
All your gay sex bombs are belong to us! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/65 "2005-01-14T23:16:20Z")
See, I _want_ to make a “penis ensues” joke… ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/66 "2005-01-15T00:59:54Z")
> [@DarkSideoftheFloyd](#): > > See, I _want_ to make a “penis ensues” joke… I resisted the temptation when I made my original post, but for the life of me I can’t remember why. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/67 "2005-01-15T03:04:25Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > No faggot ever won a war by having sex for his country. > He won it by making the other poor dumb faggot have sex for his country. The hamsters may turn this into a double post, but this is one of the top five most brilliant things I’ve read on these here boards. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/68 "2005-01-15T03:21:12Z")
Col. Kilgore: We’ll come in low out of the rising sun. About a quarter mile out we’ll turn on the music. Lance: Music? Kilgore: Yeah, I use Barry White. It gets them all turned on. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/69 "2005-01-15T03:43:31Z")
There’s been a **lot** of funny dark and double-entendre humor in this thread, but there’s one point that I think got missed: **How in the holy fuck is this idiot “gay sex bomb” supposed to work?** Last I looked, sexual orientation, or even sexual proclivity, was not something you could change by magical application of pheronomes or something – put a bunch of _exclusively_ straight people in a room with this magical bomb, and they’ll get horny as hell, and not interested in each other. I guess it’s supposed to work on the “latent gayness inside everyone” theory? (Does that mean that all gay men and women also have latent straightness?) Whoever came up with this one needs to have his head examined – by a competent proctologist! ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/70 "2005-01-15T04:04:47Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] There’s been a **lot** of funny dark and double-entendre humor in this thread, but there’s one point that I think got missed: **How in the holy fuck is this idiot “gay sex bomb” supposed to work?** Simple. Blow away our enemies. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/71 "2005-01-15T04:07:25Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > As “Pappy” Boyington famously said, “War consists of long hours of boredom punctuated by brief moments of hot gay sex.” “War is hell. But the gay sex can be nice.” - William T. Sherman, 1864 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/72 "2005-01-15T04:29:16Z")
This is what I call thinking outside the box. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/73 "2005-01-15T04:29:25Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > So these aren’t weapons of mass destruction, but weapons of mass…? 😃 Seduction. One of the problems of this as a morale booster, as opposed to a morale reducer, is that you don’t necessarily know that it’s happening to everyone else. I think the implications of that are at least theoretically interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/74 "2005-01-15T07:18:48Z")
Said General Clay to General Gore, “Must we fight this silly war? To kill and die is such a bore.” “I quite agree,” said General Gore. Said General Gore to general Clay, “We could have some gay sex today! I suddenly feel like a good man lay.” “A grand idea!” said General Clay. Said General Clay to General Gore, “We’ll screw until our dicks are sore!” Said General Gore, “We’ll suck and play!” “Let’s fuck right now!” said General Clay. With apologies to Shel Silverstein ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/75 "2005-01-15T07:48:24Z")
In my Broadway musical production, the water at the Defense Department is going to become contaminated too… ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/76 "2005-01-15T11:11:38Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > There’s been a **lot** of funny dark and double-entendre humor in this thread, but there’s one point that I think got missed: > > **How in the holy fuck is this idiot “gay sex bomb” supposed to work?** Last I looked, sexual orientation, or even sexual proclivity, was not something you could change by magical application of pheronomes or something – put a bunch of _exclusively_ straight people in a room with this magical bomb, and they’ll get horny as hell, and not interested in each other. I guess it’s supposed to work on the “latent gayness inside everyone” theory? (Does that mean that all gay men and women also have latent straightness?) > > Whoever came up with this one needs to have his head examined – by a competent proctologist! I think the idea is that, if a person is horny enough, he or she will have sex with the closest thing which best resembles his or her usual taste. This idea has spawned innumerable jokes, many of them about Scotsmen and sheep, or at least many of the ones I use to torture an old friend about his Scottish heritage. Since he writes military fiction for a living, I can’t wait to tell him about this one. 😃 I’ve got to admit, this does sound like the plot of a good, bad, funny porno movie. Can anyone else picture what would happen if a horniness-inducing bomb was tested at a Dopefest? CJ ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/77 "2005-01-15T11:51:01Z")
Such an aphrodisiac was the basis of a horror story called _The Age of Desire_ by **Clive Barker**. Anyone exposed to it would fuck the next living thing he/she came across, usually to death. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/78 "2005-01-15T14:17:51Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > I think the idea is that, if a person is horny enough, he or she will have sex with the closest thing which best resembles his or her usual taste. This idea has spawned innumerable jokes, many of them about Scotsmen and sheep, or at least many of the ones I use to torture an old friend about his Scottish heritage. Since he writes military fiction for a living, I can’t wait to tell him about this one. 😃 > > I’ve got to admit, this does sound like the plot of a good, bad, funny porno movie. Can anyone else picture what would happen if a horniness-inducing bomb was tested at a Dopefest? > > CJ Hmmm… I can see the idea being proposed by some of the leading lights in the C.D.T., or perhaps by those five-eyed aliens who always speak in the infinitive… ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/79 "2005-01-15T14:44:56Z")
How much time and money was actually wasted on this rape bomb? How far along was its development? If we’re talking about something that just came up at a brainstorming sessions, then it’s worth a :rolleyes: and we move on. If they actually tried to make one. Well, that’s a different story. ---
**Author:** ![FlippyFly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FlippyFly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlippyFly)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681/80 "2005-01-15T20:32:25Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > I think the idea is that, if a person is horny enough, he or she will have sex with the closest thing which best resembles his or her usual taste. This idea has spawned innumerable jokes, many of them about Scotsmen and sheep, or at least many of the ones I use to torture an old friend about his Scottish heritage. Since he writes military fiction for a living, I can’t wait to tell him about this one. 😃 > > I’ve got to admit, this does sound like the plot of a good, bad, funny porno movie. Can anyone else picture what would happen if a horniness-inducing bomb was tested at a Dopefest? > > CJ Not that I have ever been hit with a sex bomb (well, there was this one girl once… but that’s another story) but I would think that if you have a large group of straight men, you would be more likely to see a bunch of magazines fly out and everyone crank one off… and yeah, that might still acomplish some of the same goals of ‘shaming’ the enemy, but I don’t think straight + really horny leads to gay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pentagon-planned-to-develop-a-gay-sex-bomb/284681.md?page=5)