The Internet Has Decided: Hamster Asses Are Hot Now

The internet’s capacity for finding new things to be weirdly horny about never exhausts itself. The latest dispatch: hamster butts. Specifically, the round, fuzzy, improbably firm little posteriors of pet hamsters, photographed from behind and assembled into galleries that have been circulating with mounting enthusiasm over at Sad And Useless.

What’s strange is that it actually works. There’s something about the compact roundness, the soft fur, the complete unawareness of the animal that makes these photos weirdly satisfying. A perfectly formed ass is a perfectly formed ass, even when it belongs to a rodent. The aesthetic principles don’t really change—firm, round, neither drooping nor wobbling, with that characteristic give. The hamster just delivers this in miniature and covered in fluff.

I’m not saying I have a new fetish. I’m saying the line between "objectively pleasing shape" and "inexplicable arousal" is thinner than most people admit, and the internet keeps finding ways to cross it with increasingly absurd subjects. If you’ve recently discovered something about yourself here: probably stay away from pet shops for a while. The temptation would be enormous.