• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    Fun fact: they once dressed up some female rats in ‘slutty’ clothes and make up and the male rats preferred that to other female rats that were ‘au naturel’. You’d think a species with no concept of a nudity taboo wouldn’t notice this, but apparently that happened.

    Point is: accentuated or ‘decorated’ nudity would be sexier than just simple nudity.

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      4 days ago

      The boys’ first sexual experience was with a girl in a vest, so they sought more of what they knew they enjoyed. It’s not that certain clothing is inherently sexual, but that the sex/clothing association is learned.

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        4 days ago

        Which makes me what made those male rats gravitate towards the female rats in makeup and a microskirt thingie…

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          3 days ago

          What I mean is that the study contrived the situation such that their first time having sex would be with a female in a vest. This caused the rats to associate the vests with sexual pleasure and form an association between clothing and sex. Similar studies have trained rats to associate other things with sex as well.