Here's an insane story I don't know what to make of, or which territory to place in.

https://m.stacker.news/151637

A rando dude at the village pub tells me about "Peter the dolphin." He starts yapping about LSD and wanking off dolphins, I'm half-listening -- mostly to be polite. You know, surely this is some insane reddit-threat internet bro nonsense story.

When I got home I checked the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt for Margaret Howe Lovatt and it sort of confirmed everything this guy said. Shit.

So I check for some mainstream, "respectable" publication, and here's this The Atlantic article from 2014... and apparently, there's a BBC documentary, as well. Lovatt,

... in the 1960s took part in a NASA-funded research project, in which she developed an unusual relationship with a dolphin named Peter. A relationship that at times became sexual.

The emotional attachment between humans and animals is well documented. Like any animal and human who spend long amounts of time together, a dolphin trainer could say they "love" their dolphin, but this does not excuse nor open the door for zoophilia or delphinophilia. While I am a dolphin enthusiast, I am also a firm believer that humans and dolphins should not have sex.

...writes Polly Mosendz.

A science-linguistic experiment, on acid turned into zoophilia. uh-hu.

She literally moved in with him for three months, sleeping next to the tank, and working on a desk that hung over the water where he swam. They spent a great deal of time together, and as Peter was a sexually maturing adolescent dolphin, he often had sexual urges at inconvenient times. As it turns out, it's very difficult to teach a dolphin to talk when he is aroused. Lovatt found that Peter "would rub himself on my knee, my foot or my hand." She allowed it.

They tried to teach a dolpin to speak English and in the process ended up forming a sexual relationship??

"I wasn't uncomfortable — as long as it wasn't too rough. It was just easier to incorporate that and let it happen, it was very precious and very gentle, Peter was right there, he knew that I was right there." —Margaret Howe Lovatt"I wasn't uncomfortable — as long as it wasn't too rough. It was just easier to incorporate that and let it happen, it was very precious and very gentle, Peter was right there, he knew that I was right there." —Margaret Howe Lovatt

Crazy.

https://m.stacker.news/151639

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