In the 19th century, masturbation was considered, you know, bad. Immoral. And they actually applied this to their horses.
Left to himself, a typical adult stallion may masturbate as much as 14 to 15 times a day. They are harem breeders and need a high sex drive to keep up with their mares. (Geldings will also masturbate, albeit not as much).
They believed that this lowered a stallion's sperm count and made him less inclined to cover the mares. So, a stallion shield was a device that was strapped onto the poor horse in his stall to prevent him from, you know... They even had special ones designed for yearlings and two-year-olds, which kind of gives a lie to the "lowering sperm count" idea and tells us what it was really about: That Victorians were just that hung up about sex.
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