Prepare A Sexually Receptive Female

Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 02:10 in Biology & Nature

Lab rats generally don’t live pleasant lives. Some are infected with diseases. Some are exposed to radiation. Some are sucked nearly dry with ticks. But occasionally a rat makes it lucky and is chosen to participate in a study on pleasure and rewards, where the pleasure and rewards are sex.   You might think, as I once did, that initiating rat sex would be straightforward.  Male rat + female rat = GO! And… mission complete! read more

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