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ORIGINAL: SensibleSam

There is an excellent movie called Breaker Morant. Morant was a horse breaker - someone who imposed his will on a horse so forcefully that the animal permanently abandoned their expectations of freedom and resigned themselves thereafter to the saddle. 

This is probably much the attraction that some have for Pony Play.

There's a scene in The Big Country where Gregory Peck finally breaks a particularly rebellious horse. This scene shows his perseverance, determination and his mastery. He doesn't beat the horse. He competes with it and ultimately dominates it.

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ORIGINAL: SensibleSam

There is an excellent movie called Breaker Morant. Morant was a horse breaker - someone who imposed his will on a horse so forcefully that the animal permanently abandoned their expectations of freedom and resigned themselves thereafter to the saddle. 

This is probably much the attraction that some have for Pony Play.

There's a scene in The Big Country where Gregory Peck finally breaks a particularly rebellious horse. This scene shows his perseverance, determination and his mastery. He doesn't beat the horse. He competes with it and ultimately dominates it.

So breaking is a form of attitude adjustment where the breaker imposes his will and the breakee accepts after some resistance his authority. Breaking is not simple coercion but is rather domination. Done properly once broken the animal remains broken.

I submit that this is just what many submissives are seeking when they advertise on this site. Many talk about their rebelliousness while suggesting that they want some man to correct them. Many ask to be trained. Many want to serve. All this means that they want to be broken just the way the cowboy breaks his horse.

After all they've seen the movies too. They know that the cowboy loves his horse best. 

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ORIGINAL: Celeste43

I'm assuming you've never had a horse.

In any relationship there will come times when the one who usually is in charge, needs the other's help. Having show horses, I can assure you that a broken horse will not do what is necessary for that blue ribbon is for some reason the rider doesn't have it together.

Here we teach the horse until he knows what is expected of him, always ending a lesson on a good note, and we love them and give them lots of treats.

In fact, in a Pleasure class, you can't win if the horse is just doing what he's told without any interest. Since it's based on the horse, one who shows enjoyment always scores higher than the one who just does what he's told.

Same thing with this submissive, I need to be taught patiently and without anger, always ending a session with love and affection. Although I prefer chocolate to jelly beans!

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ORIGINAL: SensibleSam

I submit that this is just what many submissives are seeking when they advertise on this site. Many talk about their rebelliousness while suggesting that they want some man to correct them. Many ask to be trained. Many want to serve. All this means that they want to be broken just the way the cowboy breaks his horse.

After all they've seen the movies too. They know that the cowboy loves his horse best. 

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ORIGINAL: onlyHisgirl

Oh, i purposedly used the term "break" to cause conversation and well, that's what a former owner called it.  i rolled my eyes when He said that to me over the phone because i'm not a horse.  He had said "you're a wild horse that needs to be tamed and broken. So I'm going to break you."  i think the term probably is more like retrained or molded.  There are certain Masters who "got it" you know?  Like They say sit and i sit, but a couple have said it and a part of me wants to defy to see what they do.  Call it brattiness but i like to be shown who's in charge. ;-) Have a great thanksgiving if i'm not back on here. :-)