The Dolphin Experiment
Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures #42 shows Gusâ retelling of a crazy experiment from the 1960s involving a dolphin, a flooded house, a poor research assistant, sexual favors and LSD.
Birthing the dolphin/human hybrid was a piece of cake!
Nursing? Not so muchâŚ
Indeed this is so 60âs!
The blog title is kind of misleading, the article says that the dolphinâs periodic sexual urges were distracting him from his âEnglish lessonsâ and it took too much time to transport him to the tank with the female dolphins whenever that happened, so âit just seemed easier for Lovatt to relieve his urges herself manuallyâ. Would you say a cattle breeder who âmanually relievesâ a bull is sleeping with the bull? (and thatâs after the blog title was edited, it originally said âthe woman who lived (and had sex) with a dolphinâ).
The blog who posted (and left up) a clickbaity shock article that misleads anyone who doesnât click through. They didnât give LSD to peter. Plus it did nothing anyway.
Injecting the dolphins with LSD was not something Lovatt was in favour of and she insisted that the drug was not given to Peter, which Lilly agreed to. But it was his lab, and they were his animals, she recalls. And as a young woman in her 20s she felt powerless to stop him giving LSD to the other two dolphins.
âPeter liked to be with me,â explains Lovatt. âHe would rub himself on my knee, or my foot, or my hand. And at first I would put him downstairs with the girls,â she says. But transporting Peter downstairs proved so disruptive to the lessons that, faced with his frequent arousals, it just seemed easier for Lovatt to relieve his urges herself manually.
For Lovatt it was a precious thing, which was always carried out with great respect. âPeter was right there and he knew that I was right there,â she continues. âIt wasnât sexual on my part. Sensuous perhaps. It seemed to me that it made the bond closer. Not because of the sexual activity, but because of the lack of having to keep breaking. And thatâs really all it was. I was there to get to know Peter. That was part of Peter.â
PS: psychedelic dolphin researcher - where do I sign up??
Hmm⌠Fine line there. One key point may be that the bull breeder is simply collecting semen, and that the âmanual reliefâ (which it isnât usually BTW, more frighteningly usually happening with AVâs or electrostimulation) is simply a means to collect said materiel.
âManually relievingâ your charge so that he pays better attention to his studies⌠Well⌠that makes me wish that I had had such a conscientious tutor when I was a teenager 
Completely not a sexual thing of course.
Or, look at it this way, if you paid a prostitute to âmanually relieveâ you, Iâm pretty sure that the courts would still bust you for paying for a sex act.
Yeah, itâs not as dramatic and clickbaity as âwoman had sex with dolphinâ (which conjures other images), but Iâm pretty sure that dolphin had sex with her (or at least her hand).
Iâd be really worried about the consequences of giving LSD to any water mammal that needs to swim to the surface to be able to breathe. Weâve got some idea about how it affects humans, but they almost certainly had no idea in advance about how it would affect dolphinsâ perceptions, orientation abilities, or swimming coordination, and a tripping dolphin could quite possibly drown.
âI did not have sexual relations with that dolphinâ.
UK readers may remember the âFreddie the dolphinâ court case where a swimmer was cleared of âoutraging public decency by masturbating Freddieâs penisâ.
Poor dolphins. Humans are such confused schmucks sometimes.
âSo long, and thanks for all the hand jobs.â
They apparently gave two other dolphins LSD. I see no mention of how it affected them (or didnât), however.
⌠getting to know PeterâŚ
Iâm certainly not endorsing giving drugs to animals (though, itâs kinda how we know what we know today). Iâm just saying that itâs not necessarily the awful thing people seem to think it is. Turns out it had no effect, buy they might have found it as fun as humans. It might also have killed them. Iâm glad it didnât do the second one but now we know and there wont be some other crackpot trying it.
FTA:
In the 1960s a small selection of neuroscientists like John Lilly were licensed to research LSD by the American government, convinced that the drug had medicinal qualities that could be used to treat mental-health patients. As part of this research, the drug was sometimes injected into animals and Lilly had been using it on his dolphins since 1964, curious about the effect it would have on them.
Much to Lillyâs annoyance, nothing happened. Despite his various attempts to get the dolphins to respond to the drug, it didnât seem to have any effect on them, remembers Lovatt. âDifferent species react to different pharmaceuticals in different ways,â explains the vet, Andy Williamson. âA tranquilliser made for horses might induce a state of excitement in a dog. Playing with pharmaceuticals is a tricky business to say the least.â
In Japan, where prostitution is supposedly illegal (despite the raging sex industry) there is a âserviceâ called White Hands (I know, I know) that provides⌠stimulation for people who are medically unable to do so themselves.
PS: the white hands lady in this video is far more fapable than the 50 year old rotund lady in their other promo vids.
Ah, my mistake, I didnât see that part, thank you. I do have to wonder if it did have a negative effect they didnât observe, but I hope they were correct and the dolphins didnât suffer from it.
The negative effect I was worried about was drowning, which apparently it didnât cause.
LSD has killed elephants, apparently by disrupting their heat regulation mechanism, but while some serotonin-affecting drugs can do that to humans, LSD doesnât have much heat-regulating effect on us. Iâd worry about it possibly doing that to larger whales, but dolphins are small enough and in the water so if it affected them, it wasnât bad enough to cause problems.
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