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Home Front: Tech
US military wanted 'sex bomb'
2005-01-14
They shoulda let me know. I could have introduced them to Sonia, my old girlfriend...
A "SEX bomb" that would make enemy soldiers irresistible to each other was considered by the US military. Declassified documents reveal the Pentagon toyed with the idea of an aphrodisiac chemical weapon in 1994. The gas would have made enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. The weapon's developers said homosexual behaviour among troops would deal a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale. The plans, unearthed from a US air force laboratory in Ohio, were published in New Scientist magazine.
Posted by:God Save The World & Bernie

#19  Holy Keeerist, Fred. Thanks (not) for the graphic
Posted by: Frank G   2005-01-14 11:55:39 PM  

#18  On a more serious note.
Though an excellent resource in many ways, New Scientist is a de facto auxiliary of the British academic establishment. It must therefore be regarded as susceptible to Islamist, Marxist, or Hate-America media cult influence. Any of its stories that reflect poorly on the US or, especially, the US military, must therefore be viewed with the utmost scepticism until fact-checked by objective media.
Remember that it was The Lancet, a nominally far more rigorous publication than New Scientist, that published the incredible Goebbels-inspired fantasy alleging that 50,000+ Iraqis had been killed in US air strikes.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2005-01-14 11:24:59 PM  

#17  Actual words to an old Afghan folk song:

"There's a boy across the river with an arse like a peach,
but I cannot swim."

Probably sounds better in Pashtun.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2005-01-14 10:59:29 PM  

#16  So this would be wasted on them... (NSFW)
Posted by: .com   2005-01-14 11:43:35 AM  

#15  Q, now that would be deliciously evil would it not? (no pun intended)
Posted by: Jarhead   2005-01-14 11:29:49 AM  

#14  Jarhead, I think you are onto something: "The crave pork bomb."
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-01-14 11:27:28 AM  

#13  Abu: Achmed.
Achmed: Yes Abu?
Abu: You're looking particularly buff today, your buttocks, they are like that of 13 year old boy.
Achmed: Thanks for noticing, your so sweet, the 6km runs every morning are doing me well.
Abu: I thought you were doing the Atkins diet?
Achmed: Oh no, I tried that, a damn zionist plot I tell you, I like the zone diet personally.
Abu: I hear the zionists are making a new chemical weapon to corrupt us.
Achmed: I've heard the same, apparently they want us to become over enchanted with members of the same sex.
Abu: Is that all? I thought it was to make us crave pork?
Achmed: Oh no, now that would be disgusting.
Posted by: Jarhead   2005-01-14 11:23:15 AM  

#12  The Southeastern portion is Afganistan is heavily populated with homosexuals. This information was provided by a US interrogator. They had to take precautions against the homofreaks.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-01-14 11:19:41 AM  

#11  Some GI friends came back from Afghanistan and told me about Man Days. He said it was so bad Coalition Forces had to stay out of sight or risk being harrassed or even worse raped. Tell me these people are normal. Sex Weapons won't work in Afghanistan, but may help population control which is the only way to keep these people in check.
Posted by: Rightwing   2005-01-14 11:04:11 AM  

#10  Would the sex bomb work if the muzzie is on outpost with his camel--or does one not need to drop the sex bomb in this case?
Posted by: John Q. Citizen   2005-01-14 10:56:05 AM  

#9  Just drop a few thousands of 'The Girls of Tehran' Playboy issue (and a few 'boys life' thrown in for good measure) on them and there you have it.

Plus its not a 'chemical' weapon....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-01-14 9:28:01 AM  

#8  tw - Lol - Sooo sorry, but I no thinka lika imam on fatwa Friday... I have no doubt that they could split hairs and spin it like that to justify themselves - that's sooo very Arab, lol! When I stumbled across this shit, and I did a few times, I did not interrupt them to ask.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-14 9:22:06 AM  

#7  Wonder if this idea originated with the intern staff in Bill Clinton's Oval Office?
Posted by: Mike   2005-01-14 7:18:32 AM  

#6  I understood that in the Middle East, only the one on the receiving end is considered homosexual. The other one is merely making use of a substitute for his missing sheep. Am I wrong, .com?

Regardless, suddenly feeling an overwhelming attraction to the grungy person in the next foxhole would have to be disconcerting.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-01-14 7:13:50 AM  

#5  #1 "Wouldn't work on Arabs and muzzies."
Therefore not?
Posted by: gromgorru   2005-01-14 4:37:02 AM  

#4  Uh, you people do know that the Muslims, at least the Arabs, are already there, doncha? The Middle East has the heaviest concentration of male homosexuality on the planet, hands down, bar none.
Posted by: .com   2005-01-14 4:32:59 AM  

#3  "Queer eye for the bad guy"?
Posted by: Stephen   2005-01-14 2:20:17 AM  

#2  ... a pilgrimage to remember...
Posted by: Dishman   2005-01-14 1:33:31 AM  

#1  Sounds more like a queer bomb to me. Wouldn't work on Arabs and muzzies.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2005-01-14 12:11:52 AM  

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