i wrote awhile ago about the Oregon State University and the Oregon Health and Science University’s experiments in “curing” homosexuality in sheep. Well, looks like they’ve had some success (although I’m still skeptical of this considering animal testers’ history of playing with results).
According to The Times, researchers at Oregon State University in the city of Corvallis and at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland were able to “pinpoint the mechanisms influencing the desires of ‘male-oriented’ rams by studying their brains”.
Specifically, they cut open the offending sheeps’ skulls, attached electonic sensors to their grey matter and monitored them while “varying the hormone levels, mainly by injecting hormones into the brain”. They reported “considerable success” in getting previously gay rams to consider a bit of boy-on-girl.
The purpose behind these experiments is to “improve the productivity of herds” since “approximately one ram in 10 prefers to mount other rams rather than mate with ewes”. The implications are far more sinister, opponents claim, since the acquired knowledge could in the future be used to “cure” human homosexuality, or may offer the prospect that “pregnant women could one day be offered a [hormone] treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual”.
Sounds good to me. I’m gonna go adopt me some gay-bos, cut their skulls open, and inject them with hormones to make god happy… i mean improve the productivity of the herd.
