It is difficult to compare the human counterpart of what Jeffcott describes as another 'well known' problem in horses, namely, cold-back.

And we shall caper a-heel-and-toeing, / A Newgate hornpipe some fine day; / With the mots, their ogles throwing, / Tol lol, &c. / And old Cotton humming his pray.

The prominence of domestic fiction suggests the degree to which such power did not in fact rely on overtly juridical or economic means so much as on cultural hegemony, that is, on the notion of the family, norms of sexual behavior, the polite use of language, the regulation of leisure time, and all those microtechniques that constitute the modern subject.

[…] to pussify their sound in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator, which will theoretically help that corporation move a bajillion units.