January 17, 2005
Private: Pentagon Considered Gay Bomb
Yahoo News is reporting that the Pentagon looked into developing a "sex bomb" that would make enemy troops attracted to each other. The idea was to release an aphrodisiac that would result in widespread homosexual behavior and cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal blow" to morale.
"Humiliating your enemy with gay sex sounds a lot like what happened at Abu Ghraib," observed Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project, a watchdog group that monitors research into biological and chemical weapons and that was responsible for the proposal's disclosure. Steve Ralls, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), said, "It is a homophobic and delusional proposition for the Pentagon to assume a gay opponent is any less formidable than a straight one."