Horse cock, ponyplay and gay cowboys
- Emma
- Jun 7
- 11 min read
“There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”
Ezekiel 23:20
Rode hard and put away wet. The girth rubbed. Blowing heavily amidst riding, the leather gag bit controlling the head – if well-schooled there was little pressure needed – but he was previously untouched and buzzy. Only just starting under saddle, she had only ridden the stallion bareback before.
Indubitable virility, the horse is synonymous with masculine strength, physical power, and a sturdy muscular build. Moreso, the horse’s cock is the symbol of sexual prowess, fertility, and the sheer size of man’s favourite appendage.
Kamasutra, an ancient Sanskrit text on sexuality written by philosopher Vatsyayana in the 3rd century, classifies men according to their penis size from a hare to a bull to, the largest and most impressive; the horse. Of the 93 penises on the Bayeux Tapestry, 88 are horse phalluses carefully embroidered on its depiction of the Norman Conquest of England and the 1066 Battle of Hastings. The horse's penises are synonymous with their rider’s own masculinity and their importance and rank is displayed in their respective mounts endowments. Exhibiting their ideal manhood or at least a stand-in for their own shortcomings –like a man with a sports car. The cowboys of the American frontier corralled wild stallions, overpowering their stubbornness, and riding the once feral beasts. As with the Bayeux Tapestry, the steed is, as noted by Parker Tyler in ‘The Horse: Totem Animal of Male Power’ (1947), a "power symbol, an extension of the man's personal power, and more specifically, of his sexual power".
Needless to say, it is not only from the horse’s mouth that his penis is large, it is widely acknowledged.
So, a man who co-opts the stallion title, or is at the least hung like one, is, as Tyler says, a “robustly lascivious man", and lucky one at that, one whom fucks often and with ease. The sexy, centaur-esque zoomorphism of a human man endowed with a “horse cock” is an appealing image for a man to adopt, and so adopted it has been, particularly in the music scene. With horse riding innuendos prolific in songs like Billy Idol’s ‘Mony Mony’ (1981), Big & Rich’s ‘Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)’ (2004), and Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ (2019).
