10 Unbelievable Details Surrounding History’s Oldest Dildo

6 /10 Ice Art - Clearly Male

Some artifacts found on the site are remarkably sophisticated for the period. For example, an avian figurine carved out of mammoth ivory is believed to be among the earliest fabricated depictions of birds in the archaeological record.

Based on the findings and evidence recovered so far, the Swabian Alps appeared to be a central region where cultural innovations flourished after the arrival of modern humans in Europe some 40,000 years ago.

The Hohle Fels phallus, not long after its discovery, would make a stop at the Blaubeuren prehistoric museum in the “Ice Art – Clearly Male” exhibition.

5 /10 Not The First Of Its Kind

The 28,000-year-old dildo is not the first of its kind. Other stone objects similar to a phallus have been recovered from Morocco and France; some are even older.

Representations of male genitalia or phallic symbols from the period were scarce.

On the other hand, female genitalia symbols have been well documented at many archeological sites because even at that time, such representations were quite common.

It is mainly due to the rarity that researchers still doubt whether the object was used as a sex toy.

4 /10 More Recent Findings

For anybody in the United States, similar artifacts – albeit dated to a much more recent time in history – have been displayed at the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami Beach, Florida.

The museum features a plethora of 3,000-year-old sexy relics from ancient Greek and Roman times and a 1,000-year-old heavily decorated dildo made of jade from Japan.

When asked about the finding in Germany, the museum director David Tarmago said the term “sex toy” did not sound right because many sex-related artifacts were revered items often used as part of prayer or communication to the gods.

3 /10 Medical Treatments

According to Tarmago, many archaeological objects made in shapes similar to that of modern-day sex toys were used by ancient people as a form of offering to the deities.

The objects were put in a special place in the home to promote fertility. Although it does not rule out the possibility of their function for self-induced sexual stimulation and intercourse, the chances of them being dildos were pretty slim.

Back then, sexual pleasure was not as crucial as producing large families. Even in the late 1800s, vibrators were a medical device to induce orgasm as a treatment for dementia.

2 /10 Uncanny Similarity

It is nearly impossible for anybody in today’s world not to associate the shape with a dildo.

The resemblance is uncanny. Göran Gruber, an archaeologist of the National Heritage Board in Sweden who also took part in the excavation, explained that the artifact showed any modern person the image of an erect penis.

It is not a simple matter to determine that Stone Age people also thought about sexual activities when seeing or holding the object. They would see the similarity, but they might have different contexts in mind.

1 /10 More Samples

Another dildo-like object had been unearthed from a Mesolithic site in Sweden in July 2010. The site has been known to contain numerous ancient artifacts from 4,000 to 6,000 BC.

One of the site’s unique features is how well the area preserves bone fragments, which are typically destroyed over the millennia.

The object found in Sweden was made of bone measuring 10.5cm long and 2cm in diameter. It seems like more samples of sex-related ancient artifacts will be uncovered, judging from the discoveries made thus far.