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El Reg reports
Crafty museum curators in [London's Natural History Museum], outraged by lepidopterans gobbling their well-stuffed exhibits, have fought back with a sinister plan that has seen the noshing attackers tricked into orgies of male-on-male sex and hence unable to reproduce.
[...] the Museum staff--their hands tied by recent pesticide regulations designed to safeguard bees--are struggling to cope with a bit of a moth problem. The Museum being full of such tasty moth treats as stuffed animals, this is of course a serious matter.
But the institution's staff have come up with a master plan in which cunning traps are placed around the exhibits, well filled with female moth sex pheromones. Male moths, naturally enough, plunge into these and become coated in female sex chemicals.
This in turn leads other male moths to set upon the hapless victims in a male sex orgy. Actual female moths, it seems, are largely ignored and the lepidopterans thus fail to reproduce effectively--and the curators' cherished stuffings are left undisturbed.
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2015, @04:50PM
Stopped that gay gene dead. Oh wait. How was they gay gene passed on again?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Tork on Friday June 19 2015, @05:11PM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Friday June 19 2015, @06:39PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 19 2015, @06:57PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @03:12PM
Its passed on by victims of "gay cure" camps and people so ashamed of who they are that they marry and father children with somebody they find disgusting physically, with their only respite being able to secretly jerking it to gay porn when their wife is away. Its passed on because "homosexuality is a sin, therefore I have no choice but to marry and copulate with somebody I'll never be attracted to".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @06:57PM
Assuming that was a serious question, then there isn't a "gay gene", homosexuality is the result of multiple genes and environmental factors. It is known that when a women has multiple boys the younger ones are more likely to be gay, not having the younger male offspring competing with the older offspring for women could conceivably be beneficial. Also I read about a study some years ago that did find a "gay gene", that while it caused homosexuality in males, caused hyper-heterosexuality in females, so the males having fewer or no children may be countered by the females have more children, although in that study I think it only accounted for 20-something percent of gay men, homosexuality in other cases must have other causes, I'll also add the disclaimer I didn't read the study itself, so I can't say if it was a good study or that the details I recall are presented correctly.