What is Pony Play?

Ponyplay is a form of human animal role play that draws on multiple elements of BDSM. This is true even when pony play is not done for erotic purposes.

The very act of dressing up as a horse, especially a domesticated horse, invariably involves both obvious (e.g. hands and feet constrained in hooves, vision limited by masks or blinders, speech restricted and head controlled by bits (type of gag), harnesses to control the body, etc.) and more subtle bondage.

Moreover, being treated and trained like a horse is, by definition, dehumanizing (how being dehumanized feels varies from person to person and can be erotic, pleasant but not erotic, or even evoke no feeling at all), and inherently involves domination and submission unless one works to remove that aspect.

While it should be noted that ponyplay does not have to be associated with BDSM, the focus of this site is on the erotic and BDSM elements of ponyplay because these are the elements that (at least partially) drew me to pony play originally.

However, nearly all of the articles are just as applicable to non-BDSM ponyplay since most are modeled on training biological horses (bio-equine/bio-horse). The end result is you will get treated and dressed as a horse, the only difference is in what feelings are generated in you.

Pony play is incredibly diverse and modular - it has so many facets, that you truly can make it whatever you want it to be.