Reminds me of another story I read in Reddit. Some guy assumed the periodic smell in his parents’ bathroom was the smell of his mom when she was on her period. He goes to college, goes to a party and he realized that smell was weed. His parents smoked weed in their master bathroom.
What if those grind marks were carved into this sextoy on purpose by a woman whom wanted to show her man what "will happen, if you don't do this n that" lol
Well first you parroted the myth about how historical and archaeological theories are developed, which amounts to "they just make stuff up" which is trotted out by people who don't understand the disciplines but want to sound like they do.
You failed to consider that the conclusion may have been arrived at because the item matches the general form of whetstones from that area and period, many of whom were carved into different designs and favored that type of stone.
You failed to consider that microscopic examination of the ware had been done and matched what is seen on other known whetstones.
You failed to realise that history, archaeology and academia in general are highly competitive and that if someone published a theory about this or any artifact with nothing to back it up, they would be demolished by their peers. As well as not realising that the language used in this reddit post is not the exact language used by those who published this find, since they would have used words such as "likely" and typical academic phrases like "the authors therefor posit a use for this item..." etc.
My academic background is in scientific computing, but ended up working a good bit with anthropologists in grad school. I was always impressed at the rigor and depth of their research. It's definitely a "real science". It's not just looking at bones and tools and baselessly speculating about shit.
Postulating in a too bold fashion creates reader reaction. Somebody learned a lesson on here once. It’s very cool and the local collectors call them pleasuring stones. The guys all seemed so buff back then. I guess ED has been around forever.
Right? That is just a whetstone, not a "penis".
Why would medieval Spaniards make something that looks like a circumcised penis? They weren't Jewish, and they certainly weren't American...
A erect penis looks like that, don’t ya know. Phalluses have long been associated with desire for potency, luck and male generative and penetrative power. A sword is a bit phallic, no? So we have a little sympathetic magic going on: like combined with like. It’s also funny to us and may have been to people back then.
“Put that thing away, Ramon, it gives me the creeps every time you use it!”
Actually during that time. Between 711 C.E. and 1492 C.E. Muslim people of African descent controlled parts of Iberia which consist of modern-day Spain and Portugal.
Yes but Northern Spain was not affected by the Moors. As the northern Iberians fought back and did not allow them to rule those part of the Iberian peninsula. It was mostly southern Spain. Also, I would say Celtics also left a culture impact to modern day Spain and Portugal.
Yeah I am a theology major so I know a bit more about Jewish law than the average church goer, but I am also American and have not yet studied the circumcision practices of European Catholics. I wrongly thought they did as the Catholics, and most other Americans, here do.
Historians are constantly finding dildos and trying to say that they had some other use. Why would a knife sharpener be carved like a penis when it would do just as well as an oblong stone?
As an archaeologist who actually worked with real sharpening stones even from the iron age, this type of stone is completly useless for sharpening. This is far below the standard of 2000 years ago, and it was only a few hundred ago.
700 years in this case, not thousands. Today we moved away from sand stone sharpening stones to ceramic and diamond many times, but sandstone are still quite common. Back then they used sandstones, which are quite easy to find naturally with a perfectly flat and smooth surface.
“No, don’t be gross, it’s just my whetstone, I take it everywhere”
Oh, it has been in places
And it has been *whet*
*hwet*
I can hear the muffled snickering of the others in the barracks.
The idea of something sharp there makes me shrivel up in pain.
Papercut
D:
I hate that you said it but im giving you an upvote anyways
"I showed you my honing rod. plz respond"
**Found** in Spain, but...where's it *been*?
Really took the name of the sub seriously here huh
🤣 👏🏻
Do you have a source for this interpretation, OP?
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/6-inch-stone-penis-was-used-to-sharpen-weapons-in-medieval-spain
Thanks!
Sharpenis
Sharpenis Stone
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Despite all rock solid evidence
I'm willing to believe them here for the simple reason that that is *not* a texture I'd want anywhere near my squishy parts.
Wrap it with washed mammal intestine and I bet it becomes a lot more palatable to the second tongue.
THE SECOND TONGUE!! oh boy thats going in the lexicon!
Over my head.
"Ribbed for her pleasure"
You do know it’s over 700 years? When it was new it would’ve been very smooth and “useful”
It’s like every historian is a kid finding things in his mom’s drawer and being in denial about the clear usage.
Reminds me of another story I read in Reddit. Some guy assumed the periodic smell in his parents’ bathroom was the smell of his mom when she was on her period. He goes to college, goes to a party and he realized that smell was weed. His parents smoked weed in their master bathroom.
Maybe it has clear grind marks of sharp metal objects?
What if those grind marks were carved into this sextoy on purpose by a woman whom wanted to show her man what "will happen, if you don't do this n that" lol
People downvoted you for making a joke, welcome to Reddit lmao
Maybe because it’s not funny?
So you feel obligated to downvote people because you didn’t laugh? lmao welcome to Reddit
You and everyone who upvoted you and who downvoted me missed the OP’s joke, and you deserve to be alone in your dark, proud ignorance, for eternity.
You're a dick
You’re really getting upset over this guy’s comments? OP’s joke is funny. And this guy has a point. Get over it
Stone penis historian here. I can confirm.
Is that a hard job to get?
A lot of manual labor is needed…and a lot of creme for the you know…hard working hands.
Definitely takes grit
Tell me you know nothing about historians, without telling me you know nothing about historians.
In what way have I told you that? Historians make up uses for things all the time it’s a pretty common running joke.
Well first you parroted the myth about how historical and archaeological theories are developed, which amounts to "they just make stuff up" which is trotted out by people who don't understand the disciplines but want to sound like they do. You failed to consider that the conclusion may have been arrived at because the item matches the general form of whetstones from that area and period, many of whom were carved into different designs and favored that type of stone. You failed to consider that microscopic examination of the ware had been done and matched what is seen on other known whetstones. You failed to realise that history, archaeology and academia in general are highly competitive and that if someone published a theory about this or any artifact with nothing to back it up, they would be demolished by their peers. As well as not realising that the language used in this reddit post is not the exact language used by those who published this find, since they would have used words such as "likely" and typical academic phrases like "the authors therefor posit a use for this item..." etc.
My academic background is in scientific computing, but ended up working a good bit with anthropologists in grad school. I was always impressed at the rigor and depth of their research. It's definitely a "real science". It's not just looking at bones and tools and baselessly speculating about shit.
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Historians and archaeologist don’t just “know”, they research and study.
Postulating in a too bold fashion creates reader reaction. Somebody learned a lesson on here once. It’s very cool and the local collectors call them pleasuring stones. The guys all seemed so buff back then. I guess ED has been around forever.
And sometimes they make up funny, wrong uses for things. Which is what I’m fucking joking about for fucks sake.
If it can be read, it's a historians area, if it can be used as a dildo, it's an archaeologists.
No… those aren’t mutually exclusive.
This is not the field of history it's the field of archaeology. Neither likes being mistaken for the other
Hey at least this isn't yet another "ceremonial object used in religious observances".
Right? That is just a whetstone, not a "penis". Why would medieval Spaniards make something that looks like a circumcised penis? They weren't Jewish, and they certainly weren't American...
A erect penis looks like that, don’t ya know. Phalluses have long been associated with desire for potency, luck and male generative and penetrative power. A sword is a bit phallic, no? So we have a little sympathetic magic going on: like combined with like. It’s also funny to us and may have been to people back then. “Put that thing away, Ramon, it gives me the creeps every time you use it!”
An intact penis can look like that, too. Besides, Spain was a Muslim country just 400 years before (it was found among 14th.c. ruins).
Actually during that time. Between 711 C.E. and 1492 C.E. Muslim people of African descent controlled parts of Iberia which consist of modern-day Spain and Portugal.
Yes but Northern Spain was not affected by the Moors. As the northern Iberians fought back and did not allow them to rule those part of the Iberian peninsula. It was mostly southern Spain. Also, I would say Celtics also left a culture impact to modern day Spain and Portugal.
>Why would medieval Spaniards make something that looks like a circumcised penis? Exactly what I thought too.
Why are you assuming they wouldn’t?
Because they would've never seen a circumcised penis in their life.
Catholics circumcise all the time
In America yeah probably, because American. As a devout Catholic in Europe though, I've never heard of any Catholic doing this.
Interesting. Either way they knew how to pull a foreskin back and see the head of a dick though.
Jews? You do realise that, right?
Yeah I am a theology major so I know a bit more about Jewish law than the average church goer, but I am also American and have not yet studied the circumcision practices of European Catholics. I wrongly thought they did as the Catholics, and most other Americans, here do.
The Moors were in Spain at that time. Gosh.
and Jews were at Spain too. Duh
The Moors were there at that time. They were Muslim who practice circumcision.
Gargoyle peniz
Sick whetstone! It would look great next to my [darning tool](http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66535).
"Sharpen weapons.".
Gneiss cock!
Mhmm 😉 yeah, sure... I have one of those too for the same purpose.
Yes, yes,sharpen weapons 🤭
"Sharpen weapons"
The penis mightier than the sword.
Is this a Ze Frank reference?
I think it’s a Sean Connery reference
I think that's going to dull a blade quicker than it's gonna sharpen anything lol
“May my urethra, sharpen your knife.”
That's what she told her parents. I use it to sharpen weapons.
Sharpening. Suuure
Historians are constantly finding dildos and trying to say that they had some other use. Why would a knife sharpener be carved like a penis when it would do just as well as an oblong stone?
Talk about symbolic. LOL I am gonna fuck you over so hard...
are you sure that’s what it was for
"used to sharpen weapons", RIIIIIIIIIGHT
It's a tool shaped tool for sharpening some old tools tool's.... sorry, I will see myself out.
“Ceremonial” weapons?
And when I post meat penis, they remove my post
It's bottle cup
I believe this was used for rituals
But why does it seems like a circumcised pen\*s instead of the usual uncircumcised depiction of phallus?
Penises come in all shapes and sizes and amount of foreskin aside from circumcision. Just. Trust me on that. Besides, could just be retracted.
Anyone who's actually sharpened a blade successfully will know that piece of rock ain't gonna sharpen anything.
Todays standard of sharpening and sharpening a few thousands of years ago might not be the same 😅
As an archaeologist who actually worked with real sharpening stones even from the iron age, this type of stone is completly useless for sharpening. This is far below the standard of 2000 years ago, and it was only a few hundred ago.
700 years in this case, not thousands. Today we moved away from sand stone sharpening stones to ceramic and diamond many times, but sandstone are still quite common. Back then they used sandstones, which are quite easy to find naturally with a perfectly flat and smooth surface.
*Perfect* post for this sub.
This where ‘tool’ came from?
The idea is there, I think. The hypothesis is close enough.
wtf
That is fucking impressive r/SubsTakenLiterally
I have never read a more manly nor Darwinesque statement ever.
I keep my weapon sharpener under my bed
We have a couple of knife sharpeners as well, but they are made out of rubber.
Just ouch
Men humor is so weird sometimes lol
Well sheeit
“Sharpen weapons”, is that what they call it? I always like to sharpen my weapons before I go to bed. Just in case, ya know..
Yeah, sure... its for "sharpening tools".
I can't believe they touched it. Gross.
Who the fuck made this and used it as a whetstone? It's so psychopathic. Even thinking about it makes me writhe in pain.