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The Last Soviet, the Last NSYNC
An object found in a ditch at the Vindalanda Roman Fort in Northern England. It had initially been catalogued as a darning tool but new research suggests that it was actually a wooden phallus. This is big news because it's the first phallic object of its type found from the Roman era. The authors of this paper give us three possibilities: A penis inserted into and out of another statue, or a pestle to grind up your food. But the third and frankly most exciting possibility is that it was a dildo. Up until now there have been no dildos found from the Greco-Roman era,. although there have been dildos referenced in art from
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