Jane Hu offers a stunningly exhaustive report on the urban legend of gerbiling and its connection to AIDS-era homophobia: "Gay sexuality as a realm plagued with abnormality, shame-inducing behaviors, and incomprehensible stupidity", when apparently not one documented case of the practice exists."
Burrowing into the gerbil rumors
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