Researchers Are Using Vibrators to Give Turtles Boners

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Inspired by a paper he read about ejaculating turtles with a vibrator (to obtain sperm for study), he decided to determine whether sex toys reliably arouse male turtles; if so, he could show that masturbating turtles was a method researchers could use to distinguish between males and females.

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Getting turtles off with a vibrator isn't just an odd pastime. It also represents a much less intrusive method than some other means of determining a turtle's sex, like dissection

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The results of McKnight's study, published in the journal Acta Herpetologica, suggest that turtles are not so different from us. What got one turtle off did not necessarily work for others, so a little trial and error may be required to refine techniques before they are put into wide use.

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