Community | May 13, 2009 | 46 comments

Ancient dildo unearthed in cave

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In a way it is comforting that some things never change. It gives structure to our lives. I'm not sure how that fits into the concept of a 23,000 year old dildo but I suppose it just shows that even before humans had a written language they had sex toys.

I have this bizarre picture of Betty Rubble and Wilma Flintstone browsing around in the sex rocks shop in my head right now.

Scientists in Germany recently pieced together this "tool" from 14 pieces and said that it wasn't until they had the last piece in place that they realized what they had on their hands. I'm betting that the last piece was the top...

Now I am thinking about Brooke Shields in the "German Engineering" commercials for Volkswagen...

The 20 cm (7.87401575 inch), highly polished (I bet it was) stone penis had other uses too. According to the scientists it was also used for knapping (splitting) flints when not employed in its primary function.

If you ever wondered where the term "hard as a rock" came from...
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