Phallic Find
July 25th, 2005 by David Bradley >> No Comments
A symbolic stone penis has been unearthed by German researchers according to the SciScoop Science News Forum. The phallus is 28000 years old. But, of more interest to Significant Figures is that it is described as being 19.2 cm long.
Now, we all know that 20 cm is almost 8 inches, which would be a fairly impressive phallic symbol, whereas 19.2 cm is starting to sound like someone worrying that they don’t measure up and trying to grasp every last millimetre.
Lengthy conversations aside, the researchers reckon this stone phallus was not merely a masculine symbol (they don’t say whether women had any use for it), but was also used as a type of hammer.
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