[HN Gopher] The history of sex toys and what they tell us about ...
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       The history of sex toys and what they tell us about ancient women
        
       Author : austinallegro
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-01-12 16:21 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | treetalker wrote:
       | > "Have you done what some women are wont to do? They take a live
       | fish and put it in their vagina, keeping it there for a while
       | until it is dead. Then they cook or roast it and give it to their
       | husbands to eat, doing this in order to make the men be more
       | ardent in their love for them. If you have, you should do two
       | years of penance on the appointed fast days."
       | 
       | I'll stick with microplastic-laden seafood, thanks.
        
         | bryanrasmussen wrote:
         | I'm guessing you're a man, so, evidently they did not tell
         | their husbands if they were making them more ardent in their
         | love, and thus you would not really have that choice.
        
       | sombragris wrote:
       | Extremely light on "history", it is more like a sermon.
        
       | rsynnott wrote:
       | > But our ancient relatives did indeed use sex toys before the
       | modern development of what would become the vibrator in the late
       | 19th century
       | 
       | Of course, in those days, more forward planning was required, as
       | it would take the steam engine at least an hour to get up to
       | pressure.
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | that's a steam punk concept I never thought about
        
       | hulitu wrote:
       | Fascinating read. Has almost nothing to do with history (only 2
       | or 3 stories) but a lot of men bashing.
       | 
       | I would have expected what the title promised. We learned in
       | history that the human society, is, since some a couple thousand
       | years, a patriarchal one. We haven't evolved: Women are expected
       | to make children and men to die in wars so the rich get richer.
        
       | neilv wrote:
       | The title alone sounds like it's work-inappropriate.
        
         | sheepdestroyer wrote:
         | The concept of work-inappropriate is laughable. Just don't be
         | on internet if that the kind of work environment you have to
         | endure.
        
       | bryanrasmussen wrote:
       | >Due to this approach, women's lives are often lost to history -
       | especially their intimate lives. One example of this is an antler
       | bone found with 28 notches engraved on its side. Male
       | archaeologists proclaimed the item was used by male farmers to
       | count cattle; modern female archaeologists suggested it was used
       | for tracking menstrual cycles instead.
       | 
       | follow the link on antler bone and learn that evidently nobody
       | knows what it was used for.
       | 
       | anyway, in following the scolding moralistic tone of the article
       | I read it all and I learned that evidently gay men did not exist
       | during any of these ages of the earth and all sex toy usage was
       | by the women. Hoist by their own petard, ironic that.
        
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