Neotenic features in lapdogs include soft, folded ears, short muzzles, and playful and docile traits. See for instance Stephen Jay Gould, “A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse,” The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (W. W. Norton & Company, 1992), 95–107.
Donna J. Haraway, When Species Meet (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), 303–04.
Francis McKee, “Martino Gamper’s ‘Middle Chair,’” art agenda, July 25, 2017 →.
See for instance the scientific paper, published by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, by Conrado Avendaño, Ariela Mata, M. S., César A. Sanchez Sarmiento, and Gustavo F. Doncel, “Use of laptop computers connected to internet through Wi-Fi decreases human sperm motility and increases sperm DNA fragmentation,” Fertility and Sterility 1, vol. (January 2012): 39–45 →.
Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press, 2011), 17.
It might also be worth noting that the German term for lap, “Schoß”—hence “Schoßhund” (lapdog) and “Schoßkind” (spoiled child)—can also be used to refer to the female sex organs.
Tim Ingold, “From science to art and back again: The pendulum of an anthropologist,” ANUAC 1, vol. 5 (June 2016): 8.
Lauren Berlant, “Intimacy: A Special Issue,” Critical Inquiry 2, vol. 24 (Winter 1998): 286.
Ingold, “From science to art and back again,” 8.