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January 3, 2006 6:19 PM   Subscribe

The Gay Love Bomb. "The US military investigated building a 'gay bomb', which would make enemy soldiers 'sexually irresistible' to each other, government papers say."
posted by adrober (29 comments total)

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I know who I would want dropping the gay love bomb.
posted by Derive the Hamiltonian of... at 6:26 PM on January 3, 2006


We've dropped it here before.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 6:27 PM on January 3, 2006


(its a music video. you should watch it)
posted by Derive the Hamiltonian of... at 6:28 PM on January 3, 2006


Could these be delivered in the form of MRE's??? Like what we dropped on Afghanistan, perhaps gay bars?

posted by pieisexactlythree at 6:33 PM on January 3, 2006


Drop one of those, then one of these, and it's party time.
posted by schoolgirl report at 6:35 PM on January 3, 2006


You were my thrills, you were my pills
You dropped a bomb on me
You turn me out, you turn me on
You turned me loose, then you turned me wrong

You dropped a bomb on me, baby


Aw yeah
posted by zerokey at 6:44 PM on January 3, 2006


This will be the most fabulous weapon ever used.
posted by mullingitover at 6:46 PM on January 3, 2006


Aw, aw baby, yeah, ooh yeak, huh, listen to this
Spy on me baby use satellite
Infrared to see me move through the night
Aim gonna fire shoot me right
Aim gonna like the way you fight
And I love the way you fight

Sexbomb sexbomb you’re a sexbomb
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Sexbomb sexbomb you’re my sexbomb
And baby you can turn me on turn me on darlin’
Sexbomb sexbomb you’re my sexbomb sexbomb
You can give it to me when I need to come along
Sexbomb sexbomb your’re my sexbomb
And baby you can turn me on
posted by ori at 6:49 PM on January 3, 2006


The most apropos topic possible, and yet no "Sexbomb" lyrics? Here, let me help.

Don't get me wrong, ain't gonna do you no harm;
This bomb's for lovin', and you can shoot it far.
I'm your main target, come and help me ignite,
Lovestruck and holdin' you tight.

posted by booksandlibretti at 6:51 PM on January 3, 2006


ooooooh hit me baby!
posted by moonbird at 6:55 PM on January 3, 2006


I thought this was what MDMA, cocaine and viagra were for?
posted by geoff. at 7:01 PM on January 3, 2006


Finally, a legitimate military use for gaydar!
posted by John Smallberries at 7:05 PM on January 3, 2006


preliminary tests in Chelsea and the West Village were promising.
posted by jonmc at 7:05 PM on January 3, 2006


While this is a sad commentary on "military intelligence", I suppose it's better than building new death rays. Make love, not war and all that.
posted by sacrilicious at 7:10 PM on January 3, 2006


I think a good way to take over the world would be to genetically engineer a bacteria or parasite that dumps serotonin and other 'happy' drugs into the brain. People would be to chill to fight back.
posted by delmoi at 7:22 PM on January 3, 2006


A love bomb? Wasn't that a Henry Sackerman novel from the Seventies?
posted by maxsparber at 7:25 PM on January 3, 2006


preliminary tests in Chelsea and the West Village were promising.
Come on jonmc, you know where this should, nay, must be tested. The NASCAR track!!! two drivers suddenly realize...they're racing for the same team!!! and so forth
posted by pieisexactlythree at 7:28 PM on January 3, 2006


I fail to see how making fellow soldiers sexually irresistible would compromise fighting ability, morale, cadre, or esprit-de-corps. Some of the greatest warriors in history were at least bisexual if not outright gay.

There's so much homoeroticism in the whole military experience that making all the soldiers gay would likely make them even more dangerous - if you're shooting at a soldier's buddy, you're really, really gonna piss him off. If that buddy is also a lover, you might enrage him to the point of near-invincibility.

Military "intelligence," indeed.
posted by zoogleplex at 7:34 PM on January 3, 2006


I wonder if this wasn't some unacknowleged wish fufillment fantasy of the researchers.
posted by maryh at 7:41 PM on January 3, 2006


I just hope they invent some "straight sex bomb" that I could carry about on my personcould be used by soldiers in the field.
posted by clevershark at 7:59 PM on January 3, 2006


Isn't anyone offended by the suggestion that homosexuality can be caused by chemicals?
posted by JekPorkins at 8:06 PM on January 3, 2006


ZOMG THEY CAUGHT TEH GAY.
posted by keswick at 8:07 PM on January 3, 2006


O RLY
posted by nervestaple at 8:11 PM on January 3, 2006



Isn't anyone offended by the suggestion that homosexuality can be caused by chemicals?


It's not homosexuality, it's rampant eros. I think everyone would be fucking everyone. Wouldn't want to be a camel.
posted by wilful at 8:12 PM on January 3, 2006


Isn't anyone offended by the suggestion that homosexuality can be caused by chemicals?

Unless you think homosexuality is a learned behavior and a choice, why would you be?
posted by Meredith at 8:13 PM on January 3, 2006


"Isn't anyone offended by the suggestion that homosexuality can be caused by chemicals?"

No, no, not at all... They should put it in the water, like fluoride. I would also dispute that an increase in homosexuality would cause a decrease in army morale.. quite the opposite.. imagine the relief.. the Spartans were encouraged to love their fellow warriors, it was rightly thought they would not act cowardly next to a lover in battle.
posted by bukharin at 8:15 PM on January 3, 2006


Agree with Zoogleplex, who happens also to be echoing what Plato argued on the subject of homosexual lovers in the military.

Aside from that, meh - these ideas are surely just the dregs of a brainstorming exercise. Gay bomb? Fart bomb? Killer bee attracting bomb? That's exactly how brainstorming is supposed to operate: no idea is too stupid.
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:15 PM on January 3, 2006


Metafilter: no idea is too stupid
posted by pieisexactlythree at 8:19 PM on January 3, 2006


OK, agree with bukharin too. Spartans, huh? Could be...I seem to recall it being in The Republic, but it's been ages since I read it...
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:19 PM on January 3, 2006


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