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Pestle or Sex Toy? The Roman 'Dildo'

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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The Roman Dildo

It's telling of us as a society that we have yet to positively identify a Roman dildo. We're not Romans. If you had a Roman and you walked them around a museum and showed them all of the things, they probably fall about laughing. There should be more of these out there. And it's not just the penis, but also the vulva. They're biological,. But they have a symbolic meaning in almost every culture.

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