SICKY Magazine - "Fetish Animals"

Lovely animals always are shaped an expected feeling of tenderness or motherhood. They carry an aesthetic that mobilises proprietary desires, that equates to a moral emotion: the desire to care, to cherish and to protect. Furry and malleable in appearance, animals like these inhabit a soothing tactile world where there are no sharp bits or abrasive materials, but where everything is conveniently soft-sculpted to yield to our eager squeezing and cuddling. The aesthetics of animal loveliness creates a world of still objects and seductive appearances, putting themselves at the mercy of human interaction entirely through the senses. Our compulsive groping even constitutes what might be called cuteness, given the intense physicality of our response to their helpless sluggishness. https://sickymag.com/fetish-animals/