Prehistoric dildo!

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My favorite quote:

Seems... big.

Just a bit more than 1" wide.

And yet, nearly 8" long.

And that's big to you, eh?

http://suicidegirls.com/news/culture/10471/

A 28,000 y/o "sex aid" from during the Ice Ages?

Oh, naturally, that's exactly what it must be. It's highly doubtful that pre-historic humans had the amount of free time necessary to carve and experiment with dildos (even thought it must have been a truly erotic experience having a freezing stone phallus shoved up your crotch). Perhaps the Venus of Willendorf is actually a rudimentary butt-plug.

I was wondering where that had gone....

Are you kidding?

Highly doubtful? Humans exist to procreate. Why do you think they would have been any less fascinated with sex then as we are now? You can currently buy dildos made from glass or stone at several websites. Plus, they had the free time to carve all sorts of things including the Venus of Willendorf, I'm sure a dildo was simpler than that.

Do you believe everything you read? The title is actually "Ancient Phallus unearthed in cave", not "prehistoric dildo". Later it mentions "In addition to being a symbolic representation of male genitalia, it was also at times used for knapping flints", which is much harder evidence than "it may well have been used as a sex aid".

Humans 30,000 years ago did not necessarily think and act as we do today. While the sex/procreation link would have already been well-established over the course of human evolution, most artifacts dating prior to 30,000 years ago reflected strictly utilitarian concerns. Symbolic artifacts such as the Venus of Willendorf (which the earliest known of its kind) are generally believed to be fertility icons, not "sex aids". Why would we leap to "dildo" just because it's shaped like a phallus...? Besides... if the goal is procreation... a dildo won't be very effective.

Further, the speculated daily life of early Homo sapiens wouldn't have been "hunt, shit and fuck" along with oodles of free time. Between scavenging (more so than hunting), gathering edible plants, childcare, fending off predators, and a multitude of other demands on hunter-gatherers, free time was not a luxury. About 25,000 years later, agriculture would finally allow certain individuals to begin specializing in other crafts.

But what the hell do any of us know? We weren't there. I'm just saying flint knapper or fertility icon,,, fine. Dildo? Doubtful.

You know, I was waiting for that, and I had my retort all prepared at one point. Now I'm drawing a blank, but I assure you it involved my massive, sturdy, and fearsome wang.
All I mean to say is, it seems to me that these days, and perhaps I'm wrong, most dildos resemble the current average penis size. Was that "average" for a tool size then? Or was that average for a penis size then? Perhaps it has many historical implications.

These are the questions about history that I'm afraid to ask.

I think perhaps it's just about as likely a dildo as it is, simply a symbol. Except, I wonder, and I don't know at all, did females do a lot of stone carving? Surely a male wouldn't have done that for a female, but if he did, he would have been wise to make it smaller than himself.

"Eh, lets just use you tonight."

I searched, but I must have searched poorly and failed. My sincere apologies.

Ummm, all of the indirect evidence that is being used to refute progressivist anthropological theory suggests that most of the time hunter gatherers had far more free time than we do. Further, the idea that paleolithic man, or woman, had time to carve a functionless abstraction, but not a tool, which, no pun intended, is what a dildo is, is pretty silly.

Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while...
it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo.

Sometimes a cigar is just a ....honking great stone phallus...

So why are you so fired up about it definitely being a dildo as opposed to something more decorative?

So what you DO know is that sex has carried throughout history?

cheers to the original dildo users~

Alright, I'll buy that. I mean, I don't go to the shops and study the sizes, but on the infrequent occasion that I do see one, it seems to me that they're pretty small or average based on humans, especially vibrators as you said. But I just tried to look it up and everything I saw said "there is no average dildo size"... which isn't possible, there has to be an average. But you know, either way, I don't really know what I was getting at.

"knapping flints"-interesting new inuendo.

I think you guys just enjoy saying dildo too much to let this thread die...