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Punky-LookingKiddo OP t1_je9rlbo wrote

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/touch-wood-luck-protection-power-or-pleasure-a-wooden-phallus-from-vindolanda-roman-fort/53F4B0838D23DB65F6A244695624102E

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Immediate_Restaurant t1_jeamjyb wrote

>The word ‘toy’, and all that this implies, however, may be inaccurate or anachronistic in historical contexts. Use may not have been exclusively sexual or for the pleasure of the user. Such implements may have been used in acts that perpetuated power imbalances, such as between an enslaved person and his or her owner, as attested in the recurrence of sexual violence in Roman literature (Kamen & Marshall Reference Kamen and Marshall2021).

Feels like some interesting/important context. Thanks for link OP

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Apart-Run5933 t1_je9yv3y wrote

I’m no dildologist but I reckon they are right. I have a buddy who’s a marital aid technician, she says “that’s a fuckin stick, no diggity no doubt.”

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