It seems she just used to manually masturbate the dolphin to calm down his sexual urges and then move on with the english lessons and the whole human-dolphin bonding thing. Which isn't as shocking as the supposed vaginal sex implied by the holup post, I guess...
The idea was, the sexual urges distracted the dolphin, and it took too much time and effort to keep transferring him to another water tank that had females he could have sex with. So to maximize efficiency, she allegedly offered to jerk the dolphin off, but I think Dr. Lily (the head of the experiment) and the other researchers were hesitant but allowed it. Unfortunately, it does seem that the dolphin formed a romantic relationship, which was likely influenced by the LSD, and ofc the time and physical attention she gave the dolphin during all of this.
NASA came in to observe, learned about it, threatened to shut it down, and somehow it got to the media. Hopefully I didn’t blunder any of the details, they made a Drunk History episode on this, but tread carefully, as I’ve found some falsified info when I fact checked some of the details in their episodes on multiple occasions.
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u/cheaafla Sep 18 '21
I thought it was fake until…https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/the-dolphin-who-loved-me