AN AFFINITY with horses one can understand, but people clippity-clopping round the place with false-tails and bits in their mouths?
Newly arrived on these shores, Equus Eroticus proudly proclaims itself as a publication for and about the world of pony boys and girls.
While anybody looking for harmless Thelwell-ian fun or indeed, the winner of the 2.40 at Kempton Park will be sorely disappointed, the American quarterly is a must for those partial to a roll in the hay.
The human pony fetish is different things to different people and this magazine will feature many of these exciting combinations, Paul Reed gushes in his editorial. Severe physical injury can occur if safe role-playing practices are not followed. Please be careful if you participate in this activity, as safety is extremely important when people are used as human ponies.
Once you re saddled up, you can participate in such fun events as Leather Retreat 99 a pansexual four-day BDSM weekend run in the hills of southeast Pennsylvania.
We ve reserved a special area of the retreat for those who play with the noble beast, enthuses a spokeshorse. All through the weekend there will be pony play activities, including a series of training classes from basic handling to advanced 2- and 4- legged techniques. We are setting up stables near the specially reserved equestrian cabins to help create an event within an event. To top off the weekend we will be holding the Parade of Ponies and the Leather Retreat Classic Equestrian Show on Sunday.
Other attractions include all-day dungeon hours, craft workshops and a kinky carnival.
Meanwhile, their Letters Section finds 39-year-old Tony from Honolulu waxing lyrical about his college days, and former marefriend, Rachel.
One time she rode me on all fours the entire length of the football field, to see how long it would take, he writes. It was two o clock in the morning, and we thought we were alone, but as she rode me into the end zone after our hundred-yard gallop, we heard someone clapping! It was a security guard, who scolded us and sent us away.
Elsewhere you can read about geldings (pony boys who want to be pony girls), the thwackingly good time that was had by all at The Pony Party, and one man s quest for the perfect pair of stirrups.
It all makes the Sporting Life seem rather tame.
Stuart Clark