In the cavalry, for instance, ‘with such an intimate bond between horse and rider’, and with women scarce and horses freely available, it naturally occurred to some officers that there was more than one useful way to mount a horse – or, one may suppose, for those who were ‘straight’, a mare.
Frederick the Great’s judgment on a cavalryman who had abused a mare was more practical than moralistic:
"Should be horse whipped...the fellow is a swine and belongs in the infantry."
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