In today’s high-stress world, sometimes it’s nice to get away from it all in the great outdoors. Maybe you could go to a friend’s farm out in rural Pennsylvania and relax, or maybe go hiking on the Appalachian Trail. Or maybe your idea of getting away from it all is to slap on some hooves and a bit and prance around outside (pic from shadowplayers.com):

Pony play is, like the name suggests, people who pretend to be horses. They get stabled, groomed, hosed down, hooved, get led around by the reins, and even pull carts and carry human riders on their backs. I’m sure most of us have at least dabbled in making our partners carry us around on their backs in a moment of silliness, but pony play takes it to a new level.

There’s a variety of different kinds of ponies. You have the show ponies, which get dressed up really well and prance about, they are more about looks than actually carrying riders. Spellbound from water-hole.com (a maker of fine pony gear) would be a good example of a show pony:

Then you’ve got the cart ponies, which can be either gender. They pull their masters in small carts, sometimes solo and sometimes in pairs:

And finally you have ones that carry human riders, as best seen on The Human Equine which is run by a burly ponyboy named Trigger. His major goal in life appears to be to allow as many women to ride him as humanly possible, to the point that he rents himself out to parties for women to ride him. A noble cause to be sure, and in all honesty if he asked me to ride him I’d probably go for it.

There’s also a subset of ponies who really like wearing full body latex. I can’t exactly tell why, as most real ponies I’ve seen are pretty fuzzy and not at all rubbery, but I guess if I can accept the fact that there are people who want to dress up and canter around like horses, I can accept that some of them would like to be wearing head-to-toe latex while doing it. I only bring this up because I wanted to have an excuse to post this picture:

There’s many more pictures and a fuller description of pony play at the-stampede.com, and I’m throwing this picture in because it is topical, but mostly because there’s someone on the right who looks like they’re made of water and I can’t stop laughing about it:

If you would like to learn more, check out this must see video, which is actually the entire reason I wrote this entry: My Sexy Pony!

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