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QC FYI: Swedish Archeologists Discover Four-Inch Dildo, Stone-Sharpening Tool

Swedish archaeologists recently unearthed what appears to be a four-inch Stone Age dildo carved out of antler bone. Was it used to pleasure cavemen or was it used as a sharpening tool (bo-ring)? Scientists don’t know yet, but what they do know is that it reminds everyone of a cock:

Sex toys have come a long way since the Stone Age—but then again, perhaps not as much as we might think…

Though scientists can’t be sure exactly what this tool was used for, it’s hard not to leap to conclusions…

“Your mind and my mind wanders away to make this interpretation about what it looks like – for you and me, it signals this erected-penis-like shape,” said archaeologist Gšran Gruber of the National Heritage Board in Sweden, who worked on the excavation. “But if that’s the way the Stone Age people thought about it, I can’t say.”

The resemblance is uncanny.

“Without doubt anyone alive at the time of its making would have seen the penile similarities just as easily as we do today,” wrote Swedish archaeologist Martin Rundkvist on his blog, Aardvarchaeology…

It’s not the first time that such a phallic object has been found from the ancient world. Another item strongly resembling a penis was unearthed in Germany in 2005. That one is even older—dating from 28,000 years ago—and made of stone.

It’s nice to know that even though the human race and world have changed a lot over the last 30 millennia, that our ancestors were still interested in sticking bones into themselves to get off. The more things change, the more they still want to get their rocks off.