A short history of a longstanding sex toy

It's 20,000 years older than the wheel and a whole lot less practical, but whether you're stroking, poking, pegging or pounding, the dildo is still one of the most entertaining human inventions. When you insert a dildo, no matter which hole, you are taking part in a tradition that has survived the rise and fall of numerous civilizations and has spanned cultures around the world.

Over the millennia, horny and industrious humans have employed all manner of materials for their plugging pleasure. The dildo enjoyed many incarnations before the mass production of modern rubber and silicone models that we know today. There were unripe bananas being used in early Arab and Polynesian cultures, jade and bronze cocks in China and resin-coated camel dung dongs in ancient African cultures.

One of the world's oldest known dildos is a polished siltstone phallus from the Upper Palaeolithic period 28,000 years ago. It was discovered in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany. The 20-centimetre dildo, reassembled from 14 fragments, shows distinctively penile rings etched around one end. The artifact also has scars showing it was also used for knapping flint chips.

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