# Requesting reality check: reasons teen girls like horse-riding

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**Created:** [December 28, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-reality-check-reasons-teen-girls-like-horse-riding/431432 "2007-12-28T02:44:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-reality-check-reasons-teen-girls-like-horse-riding/431432/61 "2007-12-29T03:37:16Z")

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I was watching our local parade one year, and happened to be standing behind a family that included a girl who was maybe 10-12 years old. The way this girl acted every time a group of horses went clopping past, an observer couldn’t really be faulted for wondering if she had a vibrator tucked into her pants. I wish I’d had a video camera to record her jumping up and down, hopping from one foot to the other, running in place, squealing, shrieking, bizarre facial contortions, eyes rolling back in her head, and various other gyrations. I was waiting for her head to start spinning around. She truly looked like she was going into some sort of sexual frenzy every time the horses came near.

Sure, I’d known plenty of girls who were crazy about horses, but I’d never seen anything quite like this girl.

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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/requesting-reality-check-reasons-teen-girls-like-horse-riding/431432/62 "2007-12-29T04:54:43Z")

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[QUOTE=KGS]  
The horse = sex idea was first put forward in [The Naked Ape](http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Ape-Zoologists-Study-Animal/dp/0385334303) by Desmond Morris. Unfortunately I don’t have the book handy so I have to paraphrase from memory:

- Boys & girls are equally interested in horses until puberty, when girls suddenly become _much_ more interested in horseback riding, at a ratio of three to one over boys.  
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Sorry, I can’t buy this. Young boys and girls equally interested in horses? Bullshit. Here is my [cite.](http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/)  
From toddlerhood on, girls are always more interested in horses than boys.

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