No plans this weekend?

How about you grab a buddy, dress up like pandas, and film yourselves having sex? Sounds fun and totally normal, right?

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Now, to be clear, we’re not suggesting this for our own personal enjoyment (although we do take some pleasure in the idea that people around the world may all spend their Saturday mornings trying to find panda costumes).

This request comes from Pornhub.


Yesterday was World Panda Day, and to celebrate, Pornhub issued a gentle request to all fans of their porn: please could you dress up like a panda and have sex?

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It’s not to fulfill a niche fetish. The campaign is actually designed to help save pandas from slipping into endangerment.



You see, giant pandas are not great at getting laid.

Male pandas like spending their days sleeping and eating, while female pandas are only interested in sex for a few days out of each year.

Their laziness and lack of sexual drive mean that it’s tricky for pandas to keep populating the world without some help.

And one form of help scientists have found to be effective is panda porn.

Watching other pandas have sex helps pandas to feel more turned on and willing to procreate, rescuing the panda population in the process.

The porn works if, instead of pandas, the videos show people dressed as pandas having sex, because pandas are not great at distinguishing between the two.

Which is brilliant. It’s great to know that porn has the power to save an entire species.

There’s just one problem: there’s hardly any panda porn out there.

Which is where Pornhub comes in.

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Yesterday they encouraged their fans to make their own panda porn (meaning filming themselves having sex while dressed as pandas, rather than nipping to the zoo and hitting record) and upload it to their site, so that they could share their porn with the pandas that need it most.

The website will also be donating $100 towards panda preservation for each panda style video people upload to the site, and 1 cent for every view of any panda style videos.

So even if you don’t fancy actually dressing as a panda to get it on, you can still feel like you’re doing some good by watching everyone else’s efforts.

‘Considering wood is a main staple of a panda’s diet, it’s especially surprising that they only mate a few times per year, if at all,’ said Corey Price, VP of Pornhub.

‘Thus, in celebration of National Panda Day, we wanted to do our part and help grow the dwindling panda population.

‘Through this initiative we hope to not only generate quality content scientists and zookeepers can use to show pandas, but also raise adequate funds for a nonprofit organization to ensure the livelihood of the world’s giant panda population.’

So go ahead. Buy a panda costume. Have a wank. Make your porn habit do some good.



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