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In the play, book, movie Equus, what does the man do to the horse that makes it sexual?

there are only a certain amount of things that u can show dealing with sexual relations with an animal.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: He blinds all the horses. On the surface this is simply brutal.
But remember that Oedipus blinded himself for punishment concerning sex with his mother, and death for his father.
The "oedipus complex" is considered to be sexual repression of desire for the mother, the supposed root of all mental illness by the father of modern psychiatry.