[quote]Sex toys have come a long way since the Stone Age – but then again, perhaps not as much as we might think.
Last week, an excavation in Sweden turned up an object that bears the unmistakable look of a penis carved out of antler bone. Though scientists can't be sure exactly what this tool was used for, it's hard not to leap to conclusions. [See "Sex Myths and Taboos"]
"Your mind and my mind wanders away to make this interpretation about what it looks like – for you and me, it signals this erected-penis-like shape," said archaeologist Gšran Gruber of the National Heritage Board in Sweden, who worked on the excavation. "But if that's the way the Stone Age people thought about it, I can't say."
The resemblance is uncanny.
"Without doubt anyone alive at the time of its making would have seen the penile similarities just as easily as we do today," wrote Swedish archaeologist Martin Rundkvist on his blog, Aardvarchaeology.
The discovery is so recent, Gruber said, there hasn't been enough time to submit the finding for publication in a scientific journal, though the researchers plan to.
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Ancient phallic objects[/B]
The carved bone was unearthed at a Mesolithic site in Motala, Sweden, that is rich with ancient artifacts from between 4,000 to 6,000 B.C. The area's unique features may have allowed bone artifacts, which usually get destroyed over the millennia, to survive.
"It's an organic object, that's why it's special," Gruber told LiveScience. "Normally when we excavate early Mesolithic sites we never get the organic material. But this site where we're excavating now is along the shoreline. The preservation is very good here – it's been lying in the bottom sediments and clay layers of the river, and it's been well preserved there."
The dildo-like object is about 4 inches (10.5 cm) long and 0.8 inches (2 cm) in diameter.
It's not the first time that such a phallic object has been found from the ancient world. Another item strongly resembling a penis was unearthed in Germany in 2005. That one is even older – dating from 28,000 years ago – and made of stone.
Yet the recent discovery was enough to shock the scientists working at the dig, which is led by National Heritage Board archaeologist Fredrik Molin.
"Nobody here, and nobody that we heard of or talked with, had ever seen something like this in northern European or Scandinavian sites," Gruber said.
[B]Other uses[/B]
Perhaps instead of, or in addition to, its sexual purpose, the object may have been used as a tool, such as to chip flakes of flint, Gruber suggested. One end is shaped into more of a point, he said.
It's not immediately clear whether the tool would have been one most likely to be used by men or women or both.
"If it's a tool and it's also shaped like a penis, it could be an item where you want to discuss gender questions," Gruber said.
Sexual symbolism isn't uncommon on ancient artifacts, though more often female symbols, such as those representing a fertile mother Earth, are seen.
"I think this perhaps points in another direction, so to say," Gruber said. [/quote]
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Idiots, it's a blunt hammer.
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:wtc:
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That sure is one hell of a [b]bone[/b]r.
[QUOTE=Kingy_who;23537640]Idiots, it's a blunt hammer.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure whoever was using that was getting a hammering
Jesus that must have hurt, I can't imagine that being well sanded and smoothed before use :ohdear:
I'm guessing it fell off of a statue.
Damm Horny ancient people!
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[QUOTE=the_KMM;23538036]I'm guessing it fell off of a statue.[/QUOTE]
It's pointy on the other end, read the article.
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Also it wasn't uncommon to use a statue of a man with a big penis to offer flowers to for a good crop during norse times. Could be a connection there.
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Also it wasn't uncommon to use a statue of a man with a big penis to offer flowers to for a good crop during norse times. Could be a connection there.[/QUOTE]
Did they fuck the statue?
[quote]The dildo-like object is about 4 inches (10.5 cm) long and 0.8 inches (2 cm) in diameter.[/quote]
Let's just hope for the dignity of the Swedish caveman this was modeled after that it was cold.
I'm gonna guess it was involved in religious ceremony somehow. They were alot more phallic in their nature worshiping so it wouldn't be a shock if it was part of a shrine.
Did you notice how puny penis it is?
I mean, 2 centimeters in diameter and 10 centimeters in length?
Oh good lord what.
It's probably something completly different.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;23538261]Did you notice how puny penis it is?
I mean, 2 centimeters in diameter and 10 centimeters in length?[/QUOTE]
What yours or the one in the article?
[QUOTE=Kingy_who;23538306]What yours or the one in the article?[/QUOTE]
His
Indiana Dongs.
This reminds me of that Futurama episode where they go to the moon and the astronautical history is all wrong.
I feel like we're looking at this with a 21st century perspective instead of when it was made.
Who ever uses it is granted the powers of Thor!
Would this give you like, Extreme sex powers?
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I read the title as "An accident dildo found in Sweden"
ha a dildo made out of bone? thats not wierd at all...
[QUOTE=geoface;23542859]ha a dildo made out of bone? thats not wierd at all...[/QUOTE]
boner
Men had smaller penises in the Stone Age.
[QUOTE=Kingy_who;23537640]Idiots, it's a blunt hammer.[/QUOTE]
All the ladies love my "blunt hammer" :smug:
I'm with Skwisgaar on this one guys.
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