If this turns you on and you are not a panda, please leave now.

Is the world this sick?

Now you might be wondering why I was searching for “panda porn” on a late Saturday night. I was looking for a photo to accompany this legitimate news story:

(AP) CHIANG MAI, Thailand 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.”

Zoo officials say Chuang Chuang will be reunited with his partner in about another week. The two pandas have been kept separate since late last year as part of efforts to spark some romance between them.

Chuang Chuang recently was put on a strict diet because zoo officials said he was too heavy to mate. The diet trimmed him down from 331 pounds to 313 pounds.

Since real pandas aren’t using Google, who the heck are all these people posting panda porn pictures?

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