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As I understand it, it's just...not good for the dogs, physically. A harness distributes the force better throughout the body, rather than straining one part. Anyways, I googled it and this seems...partly correct?

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/training/best-dog-harnesses/

you can certainly write these reasons off as post-hoc justifications for a psychological desire, and maybe it is, but would it kill you to Google it beforehand?

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This is a fantastic exercise in bolstering one's pre-existing worldview. My automatic interpretation of dog harnesses booming in popularity especially in cities is that a harness is much more complex to produce and takes more than twice as much material, meaning they only became a convenient option very recently in human history. In addition they're much harder for an excited dog to escape from (which if it happens can create a bigger problem in the city). I guess I don't have your psychosexual hangups guiding the main thrust of my interpretation.

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