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Fetish Origins, the Big Oyster, the Most Luxurious Fruit

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Weirdest Thing We Learned This Week

Researchers once got mice to develop a jacket fetish. In this 2014 study, they allowed virgin male rats to have sex with female rats who were wearing special little jackets. And what did that result in? I don't think I'm going to be able to give them a look. But basically throughout the course of the other experiments they did, the males preferred to meet with female rats in jackets as opposed to the unclad rats.

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