You won’t believe what sort of toys they got in the prehistoric times, It is like they were way ahead of us in the kinky game.
The artificial phallus — the dildo — is very far from a new invention. In fact, the oldest known example dates about 30,000 years ago. Archaeologists gave it, and its kind, the euphemistic name of “ice-age batons.”
c. 6,000 BCE – 4,000 BCE
Carved stag antler phallus, Sweden. 10.5 cm long, 2 cm in diameter.
IMAGE: PETER ZETTERLUND, SWEDISH NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD
Neolithic
Carved chalk phallus from an infilled pit in a ditch of Maumbury rings, now at Dorset County Museum.
IMAGE: CM DIXON/PRINT COLLECTOR/GETTY IMAGES
c. 12,000 BCE
“Several portable phallic pieces. The top line shows totally retracted or absent foreskin on the art pieces. The second line shows a replication of piercing, scaring and tattooing.” – Javier Angulo.
IMAGE: JAVIER ANGULO / HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE
c. 29,000 BCE
Paleolithic stone phallus discovered at Hohle Fels Cave, southwestern Germany. Made from fine-grained siltstone, ground, polished and incised. The phallus appears to have been also used as a hammerstone.
IMAGE: WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY / PREHISTORY MUSEUM, BLAUBEUREN