Bellamy, you're right in that we don't really know what horses think or feel, but I'm willing to be sex probably feels good-- have you ever seen videos of the bonobo apes? Freakin' monkey pornography. And we thought we invented oral sex? Ha. Damn apes beat us to it. Humans and dolphins are NOT the only animals to engage in sex for pleasure. The bonobos use it for greetings, goodbyes, conflict resolution, you name it, they have sex for it. Boy-girl, girl-girl, boy-boy-- s'all good if you're a bonobo.
Needless to say, in zoos they are not very popular exhibits with the families with young kids...
I doubt horses bond emotionally over sex, though. I think that's for primates. Though during breeding season, Gus, the polar bear at the Central Park Zoo does seem to like to cuddle with the girl bear, Ida, afterwards...
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