Right up there with "they were roomates".
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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“fertility totems”, surely, “for religious or ceremonial uses”.
Maybe the uses were only masturbating oneself to orgasm with them, though it must be noted that this was done as solemn, mystical propitiation to fertility gods, rather than purely for sexual gratification.
Would it help if it was described as a "religious experience"?
I mean, if I'm busy all week a-huntin' and a-gatherin' I'd make a ceremony of it too. Didn't even have Instagram to scroll, so why not luxuriate?
a classic
Looking at those all day is enough to break anyone.
F in the chat for all the improvised fleshlights that did not survive the march of time. Not even an ancient cum sock.
Probably made out of squishy animal bits instead of the bones.
still practiced to this day in wales
"Prehistoric sex toys are kind of hard to look at - I keep getting thrown out of the museum after trying to get hands on experience with them"
Well if they were soft to look at, they wouldn't be much use would they?
I love it when adverts get placed next to dildos 🤣
Wtf is up with humanity's primordial fascination with cut dicks?
"Totally retracred or cut" means either the foreskin is cut or that it's just pulled back.
We don't know if it's cut or not, we can only speculate it looks like one.
It's hard to cut body parts intricately. Idk.
Great... Now thats also part of my browser history
i always use private for links. I think it's a firefox setting on mobile
Damn I had no idea, you made my day
hehe, hard
There are many non-dildoish uses for which it may have been intended but without doubt anyone at the time would have seen the penile similarities - Dr. Martin Rundkvist, archaeologist
Brilliant.
If you drew eyes on them, any of the lady image could become characters in a Ghibli movie.
Why are they circumsized? Surely it would have been less work to leave the stone foreskin uncut.
I suspect many of the uncut ones are less obvious and thus may have had their purpose misidentified. Also, it's unclear if these are cut or merely retracted
Because our ancestors didn't get up their own ass about buzzwords.
They got up their own ass about manhood rites instead.
If the tools on display in the article are anything to go by, there is a distinct possibility they just got up their own ass.
shouldn't they have flared bases?
Well, none of them are still alive, that should be a hint
Unfortunately flared bases weren't invented until the 19th century.
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