• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        2 days ago

        I really don’t understand the obsession with everything cylindrical being a phallice. Like I don’t look at my fingers and think “DICKS!!!¡!” and I love taking a warm glizzy down the back of my throat…

        Yeah, nevermind. I get it.

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          16 hours ago

          “I’ve dwelt among the humans. Their entire culture is built around their penises. It’s funny to say they are small, it’s funny to say they are big. I’ve been at parties where humans have held bottles, pencils and thermoses in front of themselves and called out, ‘Hey, look at me! I’m Mr. So-And-So Dick! I’ve got such-and-such for a penis!’ I never saw it fail to get a laugh.”

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      2 days ago

      That reminds me of the ancient Egyptian fertility god, Min.

      You know how fertility gods are often attractive women, think Aphrodite and the like? That was a relatively recent invention, the ancient Egyptians had a black guy with a huge erection and a “flail”:

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        That was a relatively recent invention

        Idk man I think the paleolithic predates ancient Egypt.

        Most date from the Gravettian period (26,000–21,000 years ago).[1] However, findings are not limited to this period; for example, the Venus of Hohle Fels dates back at least 35,000 years to the Aurignacian era, and the Venus of Monruz dates back about 11,000 years to the Magdalenian, and the Catalhoyuk figurine[2], 8000 years old.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine

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          Prehistoric figurines like that I’m counting as inadmissible because we don’t know what they were for. It’s common to call them “Venuses” and something something fertility totems but nobody knows for sure what they’re for or why they were made. They could have been anything from goddess totems to self-portraits to wank dolls.

          Contrast that to portraits of Min on Egyptian temple walls where we have a pretty thorough understanding of their purpose.

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              14 hours ago

              I saw a video by Joe Scott in which he asked the question, what was the earliest depiction of a human face? Because it’s a weirdly recent phenomenon; prehistoric cave paintings are full of animals and silhouettes of human hands, but rarely any humans at all and if so only as rudimentary stick figures, nowhere near as well drawn as the animals. There are extremely few depictions of human faces that predate the invention of writing. Those “Venus” statues are practically always headless or, like the one shown above, has an abstract nub where the head should be.