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Panda Porn

Category: Aminals • Sex
Posted on: March 28, 2007 9:20 AM, by Jake Young

This is not just videos of hairy, fat people having sex. This is actual panda porn we are talking about:

Chuang Chuang the panda has been spending his days in front of a big-screen television watching panda porn.
Authorities at the Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand hope the images will encourage him to mate with his partner, Lin Hui, and serve as an instructional lesson in how to do it right.

So far, it's been a tough sell, the zoo's chief veterinarian, Kanika Limtrakul, said Tuesday.

"Chuang Chuang seems indifferent to the videos; he has no reaction to what he's seeing on TV," Kanika said. "But we're continuing to show him videos and hoping they will leave an impression."

Not the oddest or the wrongest pornography to come out of Thailand by any stretch of the imagination but certainly the most interesting.

Come on Chuang Chuang. Get a move on. I want cute baby pandas, and you are slacking off.

Comments

I guess there is also the possibility of zoo patrons being treated to the spectacle of a panda spanking the monkey.

Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | March 28, 2007 9:39 AM

Well here i sit, it's taken me a week of working at the worst article i've ever written IL-6 Jakmip and nerve regeneration!! yes i know, yawn on! and i saw this web site of yours and my heart lifted (dosn't take alot)The thought of the pandas made me smile. Top shelf stuff

Posted by: Louise | March 28, 2007 12:32 PM

Based on the picture they haven't considered the difference in color vision between humans and pandas. Color TV will look really weird to all animals but the apes. It may not only be panda porn, but psychedelic panda porn.

Posted by: Thomas | March 28, 2007 1:50 PM

Does Lin Hui get any porn?

Posted by: yami | March 30, 2007 12:22 AM