Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Ancient Stone Dildo unearthed in cave

OK. I have to admit it. I listen to Howard Stern whenever I can and I could not believe that Robin was reading the news and discussing the exact same news article I was reading about an ancient 28,000 year old phallus. I guess great minds think alike!

Since this sculpted and polished phallus found in a German cave near Ulm in the Swabian Jura is life size, scientists suggest it may have been used as a sex toy.

This prehistoric ”tool” is 20cm-long and 3cm-wide was reassembled from 14 fragments of siltstone. I call it a tool based upon the fact that it was used to knap, or split, flints.

According to Professor Nicholas Conard, from the department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, at Tübingen University ”It’s highly polished; it’s clearly recognizable, In addition to being a symbolic representation of male genitalia, it was also at times used for knapping flints as there are some areas where it has some very typical scars from that”.

”Female representations with highly accentuated sexual attributes are very well documented at many sites, but male representations are very, very rare,” explained Professor Conard. There are a few other stone objects that are obviously phallic symbols and are slightly older - from France and Morocco, but to have any representation of male genitalia from this time period is highly unusual. I have to assume that a life size stone dildo would be very much like the glass dildos I have used and written about here.

1 comment:

vibrators said...

Wow! I have never thought that even our forefathers have used such! Pretty interesting.