A MARRIED Canadian man has spoken of his illicit unbridled passion for horses, preferring The Big Book of the Horse over Playboy when he was a teenager, and how he now loves to have sex with horses, but not all horses do it for him.

The 42-year-old — who was not identified — spoke candidly with New York Magazine in a wide ranging interview on the little spoken of zoophilia.

“I started to notice horses in “that” way (sexual feelings) when I was about 11 or 12,” he said.

“Everybody else was stealing their dads’ Playboy magazines, but I had a book called The Big Book of the Horse.

“I feel like my sexual development was bang on — I just had a different affection.”

The man said he began to masturbate over the images of horses and later found bestiality porn on the internet.

“I grew up in the city, so I didn’t have much access. I always was on the lookout for horses when I was travelling,” he told the magazine.

The man said that he felt pressure to feel sexually attracted to human but his heart was with the horses and there was also pressure from within the zoophile community to earn his stripes, so-to-speak.

“And losing your virginity is important to becoming a real zoophile because you’re joining a very select group of people, and if you haven’t actually ‘done it’, people wonder if that’s your real sexuality,” he said..

“I’d wanted to have the sexual experience as well as the street credit among my peers — the zoophiles I’d met online — because they were my closest friends, really.

“One of my friends had access to a nice female pony, and he let me have sex with her.

“She was a Shetland-cross, and she had dorsal stripes — the black line across the spine — and that’s something that’s turned me on ever since.”

He said he did not think it was abusive to have sex with animals, saying other people “projected darkness” onto his sexuality and although there were some zoophiles who were bad and he would not want to associate with them, sex with animals was poorly studied. and understood.

“When I first gave a horse oral sex I was in my early 20s, and one of the things I had to overcome was the thought that it’s disgusting to go down on a horse, much like the way some men feel about women,” he said.

“And, as I discovered, mares taste very, very nice, like mown grass or fresh hay, and they really enjoy oral stimulation.

He said he had sex with between 15 and 20 horses, and about six or seven humans and had experimented with stallions but said “that was not really my thing.” And although he used to have gay sex with humans he now considered himself “90 per cent heterosexual with humans and with horses”.

The man has been married to a woman for 19 years and said she had encouraged him to buy some horses.

“What is so wrong about physical contact between my penis and a mare’s genitalia?” he said.

“ ... why are people concerned about consent when my sexuality is involved but not when it comes to drinking milk or eating steak, both of which require artificial insemination and semen collection, which are very sexual acts?

“You put your arm inside the cow, and you masturbate the bull.”

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