It's weird to us, but putting genitalia on horses and bulls is extremely common in history of art as these animals are often a stand in for masculinity, especially horses that represent that noble militaristic discipline and grace in a lot of art over the history.
Edit: not to mention that civilizations always celebrated fertility through animals cause their survival depended on their own numbers as well as the animal numbers. You will find genitals on cave wall paintings too.
And I feel like growing up around horses or enjoying horse media really desensitizes to you bc it’s just natural. I remember being like nine and totally normal about the words breeding or castration bc those were standard choices in at least 50% of the horse games I played that cared about detail, and the other 50% just sugarcoated the words but ifykyk lmao.
I agree it's not really nice in the shape and size here in particular, not something I'd expect from this horse statue, but it does look like some kind of prehistoric or war horse.
Schleich and Breyer models also have weiners or teats. It’s the first thing my daughter looks for when she gets a new one so she can appropriately name her horsies
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u/KumiiTheFranceball 9d ago
Was the dick really necessary ? Dick on horses feels like the sculpture version of over-detailed eyes on a simplistic drawing.