Kingfish said:MSNBC today - Scientists say sex-starved flies drown their woes in alcohol
Male flies blown off by the ladies turn to drink; study may shed light on human alcoholism
(The flies) were put into a container with a female that had just mated. So she was really, really not interested in doing it again anytime soon. She would run away. She would kick the male. She would stick out her egg-laying organ to hold him at bay.
The male flies went through three hourlong sessions of this every day for four days, enough rejection to discourage them from trying any more.
After that experience, rejected flies were put in vials and given a choice of regular food or alcohol-laced food. They consistently went for the alcohol more than did the male flies that had just mated. In fact, they evidently got plastered.
Some rejected males were moved to a different environment, where groups of guys mingled with receptive females. After the guys had sex, their yen for alcohol declined.
The researchers also paired thousands of other male flies with dead virgin females, so that they didn’t experience rejection but didn’t have sex either. They still hit the sauce.
What’s going on here?
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Answer: Scientists are sadists! And they're probably female scientists at that!
I am reminded of an old Far Side/Larson cartoon: Imagine two red-necked alligators with ball caps, one sitting in a recliner relaxing with his feet and tail propped up, hand on an ice-cold beer with a startled look in his eye!...and the other at the kitchen table geeked out with thick glasses reading the newspaper. The caption below says “Alligator Horiscopes” with the geeked speaking says “OK, here’s yours: 'You will not mate this season, maybe next. Poaching figures big…'”
O' the pain... <reaching for another pint> KF
The real question is can flies masturbate? It they can't find relief then the comparison between them and humans is a much poorer one.