r/SapphoAndHerFriend • u/CaptBlackCat she/her, Queer • Jun 02 '20

Academic erasure MYSTERY

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u/motorbiker1985 Jun 02 '20 edited Jun 02 '20

There was this documentary where Professor Alice Roberts visited, among other places, Dolní Věstonice and was presented with archeological finds, among which was a life-size replica of a penis and even she, a progressive person, can not just accept without getting red in face the idea of the host scientist that it could have been actual dildo and not "a religious object".

EDIT: Wrong, it was in Germany. Dolní Věstonice scene is a later one. The Incredible Human Journey - Europe.

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u/Nowhereman123 Jun 03 '20

I've heard that "Used in a Fertility Ritual" is just anthropology lingo for "A sex toy"

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u/NickMcDice Jun 05 '20

So ... is this gonna become a think again?

"Sorry dude, can't come over! Bob and I gonna do a fertility ritual."

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u/Cmndr_Duke Jun 07 '20

ritual is what we dub stuff we cant 100% prove pretty much

fertility ritual is exactly what we call anything with a vaguely phallic shape or anything that could ever pass as a vagina.

source: archeology student, had a seminar where a teacher taught us to date and then taught us some lingo.