[MLP/DISCUSSION/18+] Clop: what it is and why it is.

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WARNING! THIS POST CONTAINS ADULT CONTENT. YOU SHOULD NOT CONTINUE READING UNLESS YOU 18 OR OLDER!

Are you still here? In that case I must be talking to responsible adults. (or curious kids, last chance to turn back fillies!)

I'll start by a simple definition of the word and some history. "Clop" is onomatopoeia for the sound a horse's hooves make on the ground. It was picked up on by the brony community as used as slang for masturbation to MLP images. As of current, this slang only extends as far as the brony community and is more or less unheard of outside it (thank Celestia for that much...).

Clop seems to be the biggest, and most important dividing issue in the brony community, and for good reason: it's a big deal. Take the fact that it's about ponies out of the equation for a minute and what is it? porn. Clop is MLP porn. That's why it's such a big deal.

You might be wondering, why ponies? what's so sexy about ponies? well, nothing, and everything. In order for me to explain this, we have to back up for a moment and have a little adult conversation here: why do people look at porn? There's the obvious part of course: eye candy, but there's another, more deep reason for it. most people who look at porn, whether they realize it or not, are longing for an intimate relationship. They may deny it, but that's almost always the main underlying cause to porn. It's a powerful desire, and though not wrong in anyway, can manifest itself in unsavory ways.

It's no different with ponies, and unless you're a furry (I don't mean any offense to furies!) or else are viewing humanized clop, there's very little in the way of eye-candy... thus with clop, it's all about desire for intimacy. not just on a sexual level, but an emotional level as well. Call them what you will, but most cloppers just want to be able to love their favorite ponies in the most intimate way they know how: sex, and thanks to the writers portraying these little ponies in such accurately human ways, they become very attractive on an emotional level.

This desire for intimacy which resides in all of us, coupled with the large amount of teen guys in the fandom means that clop spread like wildfire, and became the huge issue it is today. I'm not defending cloppers here, nor am I attacking them. Let's be frank, we all know porn is wrong, ponies or no. But, can we really say it's wrong to desire intimacy, and to simply dream for it to one day become a reality, even though you know in your heart than it can never be? I'll leave you to answer that one for yourself.