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Sex 'bomb' causes panic at German post office BERLIN (AFP) - A parcel which vibrated and made strange noises caused panic in a post office in eastern Germany before it was revealed that it was an inflatable erotic doll, police said. "The post office worker thought it could have been a dangerous object, even a bomb," a spokesman for Chemnitz police said. The police were called and noticed that the sender's address was on the package. When they confronted the red-faced sender of the parcel, he explained it was a lifesize doll which he had folded up to send back...

Pentagon: 'Sex Bomb' Et Al Mostly Folly Wednesday, February 02, 2005 By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos WASHINGTON — Those who complain the military should make love, not war, may be happy to know that on at least one occasion, military scientists were searching for ways to break down the enemy with aching desire. Now known as the "sex bomb," or in saucier headlines, the "gay bomb," scientists considered developing a chemical weapon with aphrodisiac qualities that would make enemy soldiers hopelessly, physically attractive to one another so as to paralyze their ranks and destroy morale. The plan was unearthed by a...

Pentagon: 'Sex Bomb' Et Al Mostly Folly Wednesday, February 02, 2005 By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos WASHINGTON — Those who complain the military should make love, not war, may be happy to know that on at least one occasion, military scientists were searching for ways to break down the enemy with aching desire. Now known as the "sex bomb," or in saucier headlines, the "gay bomb," scientists considered developing a chemical weapon with aphrodisiac qualities that would make enemy soldiers hopelessly, physically attractive to one another so as to paralyze their ranks and destroy morale. The plan was unearthed by a...

A "SEX bomb" that would make enemy soldiers irresistible to each other was considered by the US military. Declassified documents reveal the Pentagon toyed with the idea of an aphrodisiac chemical weapon in 1994. The gas would have made enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. The weapon's developers said homosexual behaviour among troops would deal a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale. The plans, unearthed from a US air force laboratory in Ohio, were published in New Scientist magazine.

THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal. Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says. Other ideas included chemical weapons that attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats to troop positions, making them uninhabitable. Another was to develop a chemical that caused "severe and lasting halitosis", making...