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Uffington's really long post about consent and horse sex
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I come from the thoroughbred world. where AI is not allowed. Here you have the most expensive horses in the world (what other breed has ever had a stallion with a $million stud fee?) and everything is live cover. The stallions are very valuable, and so the breeding farms don't take chances. When the mare gets to the shed, she's put in a box with a guillotine window (it's just a window that can be moved up down with a rope - it doesn't chop off heads). In the next box over is a teaser stallion, usually a cob or large pony. This stallion is allowed to tease the mare until she lets down. Then, she is taken over to some stocks and her genitals are washed and spread with lubricant (it comes in huge tubes labeled "non-spermicidal lubricant). She is then led into the breeding area, where she in controlled by several handlers. At minimum, she is twitched. Some sheds use hobbles, some do not. If she is a maiden, the teaser, wearing leather armor, jumps her first. I've seen mares scream, rear, kick at the teaser when he mounts them. I don't think I would put this down to the mare refusing consent, exactly - I would not put it in such human terms. Horses lack symbolic thought - they don't have the capacity to interpret their feelings the way that humans do. A mare that has never been bred before has no idea what is going on - she's afraid because even though her hormones are driving her to certain behavior, what is happening to her is still something strange.
Most of the time, the mares settle down after a while. Mares that are not maidens also occasionally act up - I have seen an ear twitch come out, and I have seen mares tranquilized to breed. Some sheds allow the real stallion and the mare some brief "foreplay" - in which the mare is not twitched - before twitching the mare and breeding her. Other sheds simply lead the stallion up to the twitched mare and encourage him to sniff her. I have noticed that things happen a lot faster in the sheds which allow non-twitched contact.
I have a really hard time using the word "rape" to describe breeding an unwilling mare. Certainly, breeding a mare that isn't thrilled about the idea does not carry the emotional weight that rape does in humans. I'm not sure consent even applies to anything we do with horses. Before sending a mare to the shed, she's palpated and ultrasounded, which involves first a human arm and then a human arm with a probe attached being inserted in to the mare's rectum. This doesn't seem to bother most mares (although again, they are twitched for it). Their cervices are looked at through a speculum (which is a silver colored cardboard tube). Post-breeding, they are infused with antibiotics (some breeding sheds also put semen extender into mares immediately post breeding, but this is rare), which is either done through the speculum, or with the vet's arm. I've never seen a mare rear, twist, kick, or do anything more than shuffle around through all of this. I actually think that mares are more upset by the stallion's weight on them than the act of penetration.
My first girlfriend thought that the whole breeding industry was evil. She would actually use phrases like "denying them their sexual expression" in reference to horses. It upset her that mares were twitched and hobbled in the breeding shed. Caslick's operations upset her (I'll admit, watching a caslick's makes my crotch hurt. I imagine it's a similar feeling to what a man might feel watching an animal be castrated) because they share superficial similarities to female genital mutilation (of course, the caslick's in usually done under local
anaesthetic, no clitorises are cut off, and it's done to prevent fecal matter from getting into the vagina/uterus). Basically, she applied what was happening to the horses to human lives, and if we did to people what we do to horses, it would be criminal. But horses are not people. As I said before, they don't think about things the way that we do. They don't order and classify and assign emotional weight to different acts. There is this sector of feminism concerned with animal rights - often called vegan feminism - Carol Adams, etc - that connects our treatment of animals with our treatment of women, and while I can see some intersection, I think the real issue is treating people like animals, not the other way around. I have a problem with keeping humans as literal or de facto property. I do not have a problem with keeping animals as property, and so on. Frankly, I think it is insulting to actual, human, rape victims to call using hobbles in a horse breeding shed rape.
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