The Wooden Horse/Pony

Really gets to the point of the matter? Riding the wooden horse or wooden mare was a common punishment for soldiers (usually for rioting or drinking). One example was a straight, narrow, horizontal pole, standing twelve feet long. Sometimes the upper edge of the board or pole was acutely sharpened to intensify the cruelty. The soldier was set astride this board, with his hands tied behind his back. Often a heavy weight was tied to each foot, as was jocularly said, "to stop his horse from throwing him." There are reports of punishments lasting three days for stealing chickens, 'rode the wooden horse for three days, from two o'clock to close of parade, with a fifty-pound weight tied to each foot'. A severe punishment? We think so.

The other people think that "Riding the wooden pony" was a torture originally designed for the punishment of women by the ancient Japanese.

Initially the subject would hold her self above the board by standing on their tiptoes. As her legs tired and weakened she would come down, allowing the board to dig into her tender genitals. After a brief and painful rest the unfortunate woman would stretch frantically upward again, repeating the excruciating cycle of pain, fatigue and more pain.

It was always a futile effort, with the exhausted woman finally having to resort to sitting on the sharp edge of the board. There she would squirm and adjust herself, attempting to avoid those tender areas already bruised by the wood. Eventually there were no such areas left and subject had to rest her weight painfully wherever she could.

In BDSM the same device has proven very popular and many examples can be found......

Some Mistresses now administering their own version of this brutal torture to the male who had fallen into there trap. A "pony" constructed is especially with a male subject in mind. The cleaving action of the board would not be as effective as it was on a woman since a man had no "cleft." Instead there is fastened a "butt-plug" into the crotch of the saddle. The subject, constrained by the saddle and belt-post, held in position directly over plug so that the only way down was for him to impale himself. The subject's eventual fatigue and his willingness to trade pain for rest assures penetration will ultimately occur.