Horses and kink
28 Sep 2016 21:18![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
extrapenguin(No bestiality I promise.)
So, I just realized that horse-riding is essentially loyalty kink and BDSM. In, say, jumping, the horse trusts the rider not to ask for the impossible, and the rider trusts the horse not to fail. It's a very D/s activity, too, since the rider has ~500kg of muscle obeying hir every command (whilst being between the rider's legs).
The old military influences are also still there: one must salute before starting a jumping course, for one. The external trappings are also there: crops, spurs, and loads and loads of leather (boots, saddles, pants).
(And now you know where a huge chunk of my id came from, oops.)
So, I just realized that horse-riding is essentially loyalty kink and BDSM. In, say, jumping, the horse trusts the rider not to ask for the impossible, and the rider trusts the horse not to fail. It's a very D/s activity, too, since the rider has ~500kg of muscle obeying hir every command (whilst being between the rider's legs).
The old military influences are also still there: one must salute before starting a jumping course, for one. The external trappings are also there: crops, spurs, and loads and loads of leather (boots, saddles, pants).
(And now you know where a huge chunk of my id came from, oops.)