Pestle or Sex Toy? The Roman 'Dildo'
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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The Resistance to the Dildo
I dread to think how many emails you got about this. Most of the ones that I got were people giving alternative suggestions as to what they thought it was. And I think actually that in itself is really interesting. There was more resistance to the thought of it being a dildo than there was joyful glee of it's a dildo. It could be all sorts of other things. Who's to say it ever had one function? I mean, did it start as a puzzle for grinding up stuff?"
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