# Do animals like porn
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [June 23, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592 "2011-06-23T18:57:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/1 "2011-06-23T18:57:39Z")
Well, my question doesn’t entirely have to do with the title.
Humans are well-known for watching other people fornicate. They enjoy it, they get aroused by it - that’s why porn is such a big thing.
Do any other animals enjoy watching members of their own species “do it?” Do they intentionally seek out fornicating species-members and watch them, thus deriving some sort of pleasure (sexual or otherwise) from the “show?”
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/2 "2011-06-23T19:01:59Z")
Well, we show pandas who won’t get it on panda porn to try to encourage them. Does that count? (Of course, it’s all in black and white.)
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/3 "2011-06-23T19:04:32Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> Well, we show pandas who won’t get it on panda porn to try to encourage them. Does that count? (Of course, it’s all in black and white.)
Stop that.
(All right, I laughed, I admit it.)
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/4 "2011-06-23T19:14:27Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> Well, we show pandas who won’t get it on panda porn to try to encourage them. Does that count? (Of course, it’s all in black and white.)
You humans lack creativity - you need inter-racial Panda porn. With like a grizzly bear or something.
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/5 "2011-06-23T19:24:30Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> Well, we show pandas who won’t get it on panda porn to try to encourage them. Does that count? (Of course, it’s all in black and white.)
You just won the prize for best answer 😃
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### Author:  [@Dingbang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dingbang)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2011, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/6 "2011-06-23T19:27:37Z")
Not sure about porn but primates like human women. I once worked at a zoo where the primate keepers knew that a certain male orangutan like blonde women – a lot, if you know what I mean. There was a certain blonde primate keeper that would prompt him to start masturbating, and they would use that to their advantage when they were trying to breed him with another orang or collect a sperm sample. She’d walk in and he’d get all excited.
One day, that blonde keeper was off for the day. So over the radio comes a call for “any blonde female staffer, please report to the orang house.” Somebody showed up and helped further the preservation of the species.
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### Author:  [@srzss05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/srzss05)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/7 "2011-06-23T19:31:22Z")
> [@Dingbang](#):
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> One day, that blonde keeper was off for the day. So over the radio comes a call for “any blonde female staffer, please report to the orang house.” Somebody showed up and helped further the preservation of the species.
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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### Author:  [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/8 "2011-06-23T19:35:28Z")
Apparently some monkeys do:
[http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/000721.html](http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/000721.html)
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/9 "2011-06-23T19:52:55Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> Well, we show pandas who won’t get it on panda porn to try to encourage them. Does that count? (Of course, it’s all in black and white.)
But does this really count as porn for arousal or is it an instructional video? Being a gay male I could watch a man and a woman and learn from it, but not get aroused by it at all. (though some gays can).
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### Author:  [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/10 "2011-06-24T00:28:29Z")
> [@Dingbang](#):
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> One day, that blonde keeper was off for the day. So over the radio comes a call for “any blonde female staffer, please report to the orang house.” Somebody showed up and helped further the preservation of the species.
> [@srzss05](#):
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> I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
I’m shocked that the facility couldn’t get by for a single day without another round of orangutan semen. Give the little feller a break now and then, folks.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/11 "2011-06-24T01:13:56Z")
A [Radiolab podcast](http://www.radiolab.org/2010/feb/19/lucy/) gave the (tragic) tale of Lucy the chimpanzee who was taken as a baby from the wild and raised by a human couple to see how “human” she could become. One anecdote mentioned is that Lucy masturbated to an issue of Playgirl.
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/12 "2011-06-24T01:23:13Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#):
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> You humans lack creativity - you need inter-racial Panda porn. With like a grizzly bear or something.
You can Google “bear porn” if you like, and get results (NSFW). On the Internet no one knows if you’re a Panda.
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/13 "2011-06-24T02:42:16Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#):
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> You humans lack creativity - you need inter-racial Panda porn. With like a grizzly bear or something.
It’s been done
[http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/grolar+pizzly+Scientists+confirm+grizzly+polar+bear+cross/2978186/story.html?id=2978186](http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/grolar+pizzly+Scientists+confirm+grizzly+polar+bear+cross/2978186/story.html?id=2978186)
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/14 "2011-06-25T19:17:49Z")
> [@outlierrn](#):
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> It’s been done
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> [http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/grolar+pizzly+Scientists+confirm+grizzly+polar+bear+cross/2978186/story.html?id=2978186](http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/grolar+pizzly+Scientists+confirm+grizzly+polar+bear+cross/2978186/story.html?id=2978186)
Has anyone alerted Stephen Colbert of this new threat?
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/15 "2011-06-25T20:03:54Z")
IANA agriculturalist, but every time I’ve seen farm critters having sex the many other animals nearby seemed totally uninterested.
I expect some of our actual professional critter raisers\* will be along shortly with better data.
\*In a thread like this I’m gonna avoid the term animal husbandry. No sense begging for trouble.
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/16 "2011-06-25T23:49:55Z")
> [@Zsofia](#):
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> Well, we show pandas who won’t get it on panda porn to try to encourage them. Does that count? (Of course, it’s all in black and white.)
IIRC however, they weren’t interested or showed more interest in reproducing. So while we do proactively show particular pandas porn, panda porn does not particularly pander to panda prurient interest.
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### Author:  [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/17 "2011-06-26T00:18:55Z")
Thank god we don’t get turned on by other species… NM.
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### Author:  [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-like-porn/586592/18 "2011-06-26T00:21:10Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#):
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> A [Radiolab podcast](http://www.radiolab.org/2010/feb/19/lucy/) gave the (tragic) tale of Lucy the chimpanzee who was taken as a baby from the wild and raised by a human couple to see how “human” she could become. One anecdote mentioned is that Lucy masturbated to an issue of Playgirl.
Did you happen to notice the name in the first sentence on your link?
“Our hour begins with a tale from Dr. Barbara _ **Smut** _s.”
Highly appropriate to this thread. 😃