# Primates and Pron.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primates-and-pron/486273
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 17, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primates-and-pron/486273 "2009-02-17T15:25:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primates-and-pron/486273/1 "2009-02-17T15:25:26Z")

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Has there ever been a study with primates and putting on some porn for them to watch to see what would happen?

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### Author: ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primates-and-pron/486273/2 "2009-02-17T15:32:14Z")

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I believe the response of the primate _Homo sapiens_ to porn has been well documented.

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### Author: ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primates-and-pron/486273/3 "2009-02-17T15:36:33Z")

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A few years ago Duke did a study where monkeys paid to see porn:

[http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/6799](http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/6799)

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### Author: ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primates-and-pron/486273/4 "2009-02-17T15:42:00Z")

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Well… [there was this one chimp](http://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2007/11/chimps-will-inh.html)

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> Once she became an adult, Lucy developed tastes that were very Vegas: she liked to sip her gin straight, flip through Playgirl magazine, and masturbate with a vacuum cleaner. (Which brings new meaning to the term “tool wielding.”)

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### Author: ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primates-and-pron/486273/5 "2009-02-17T16:41:13Z")

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Bonobos practically live a life of porn.

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### Author: ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primates-and-pron/486273/6 "2009-02-17T18:00:11Z")

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Crevice tool!

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### Author: ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primates-and-pron/486273/7 "2009-02-17T19:49:13Z")

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Jacko and Bubbles should be able to help out with this…

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### Author: ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primates-and-pron/486273/8 "2009-02-17T21:11:51Z")

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I knew that if I took this random thought in my head regarding porn and primates and threw it out there for all of Doperkind to look at, someone would actually know something about something.