The PandaCam & something else
上網窺伺熊貓的生活算不算一種色情的眼光？動物園的網站上有live panda cam……
文章來源：Time.com by ANA MARIE COX
The pleasure of looking at images of a thing accompanied by a smaller version of that thing can feel almost pornographic. Indeed, baby animals and sexy babes can both produce unbidden murmurs of pleasure. This is not a coincidence. Both kinds of images stimulate the brain’s pleasure centers, the area that is also aroused by good food and psychoactive drugs.
In Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism, essayist Daniel Harris wrote about the tendency for “cute” to veer into a fetishization of helplessness or even the grotesque. Writing about a line of dolls from the toy company Galoob, Harris observed that most cute dolls, were they to exist in real life, would not be adorable at all, but in fact deformed and helpless, unable to walk on their stumpy, swollen legs, cursed with useless, fat fingers and with heads too large to be held up by a weak infant’s neck. Science has borne out that such helplessness is exactly what beckons the observer of cute: We are hard-wired to respond to big eyes set low on a round face; low, small ears; and other signifiers of infancy.
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好多年前我曾有舖上網看動物live webcam的癮。最常看的是熊貓、企鵝和猩猩。有次猩猩給我莫大的驚喜，皆因牠竟然在散落一地的樹葉在滾地沙，然後再坐起來，雙手捧起一堆樹葉，仙女散花一樣拋個落葉紛飛！我想牠當時心情好愉快吧，連我看後也快樂起來了．．
自從上星期看過妳貼的這條link，我每天晚上都花十分鐘呆看這幾隻小可愛呢!!
嗯，原來真係會有「癮」咖喎～：)