Originally published at: The woman who fell in love with NASA's LSD-dosed and sex-addicted dolphin | Boing Boing
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Where does it say something about the woman being in love with the dolphin? It seems like it might be plausible to say that the dolphin was in love with the woman but not really the other way around.
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This is exactly what the woman said too. That it was sex for Peter, not for her. It was just a way to keep him calm.
NSFW video:
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Insert Charlie Kirk joke here.
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That crazy William Gibson, making up a story about a drug addict hacker dolphin…
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The linked video where Lovatt talks about this should probably be foregrounded here.
She says it was basically a logistical thing for her (keep the dolphin from injuring her while she got on with her work) and frankly I believe her.
Sexually stimulating animals ends up being people’s literal job whenever animal semen is a valuable commodity. The Beeb even made it part of a reality TV show once.
Don’t get me wrong, kinkshaming is one of my kinks (you sick fuckers!) but I don’t think it’s called for here.
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Lung damage from LSD? just what/how?
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If it has similar hallucinogenic effects in dolphins, they could similarly be disoriented and breathe in water and suffer lung damage. As could a human swimmer on LSD.
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Er, “in love with”? I’m sure many generations of women can attest that giving a reluctant handy does not indicate being in love with the owner of the penis.
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Dear gawd what was going on in THIS show!
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One of my favorite King of the Hill episodes.
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So the sexual attraction wasn’t on porpoise, just sort of a fluke.
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I sea what you did there 
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At least there isn’t any LSD use with Walnut and Chris Crowe
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The original show used a female dolphin for Flipper. The reboot with Jessica Alba didn’t, and she wasn’t too happy about it.
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Came here for the Drunk History video, was not disappointed.
Love:
- the narrator trying to talk “dolphin” while heavily inebriated.
- His point of how awkward speech is for dolphins, “how would you like it if aliens abducted you and forced you to speak through your a$$hole”.
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Insert Troy McClure joke here
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I wouldn’t call that lung damage from LSD. At least not so directly.
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According to the Guardian article, the dolphin in question was not given LSD, at her insistence. Furthermore, the LSD had no effect upon the dolphins that were given it.
Reading around, it seems generally believed that Peter the dolphin committed suicide when the project ended and he was kept in a small, low stimulus, tank.
Hence the lung damage.
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