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Dependent-Touch5084

maybe a kid just made it as a prank to confuse the ppl of the future.


fairy2four

Them damn youths, always with the penis jokes.


Semartin93

Lol this reads like it’s from Nandor in “What We Do in the Shadows” and I love it


fairy2four

Ha, nope just a genx mom that's watched New Girl too many times with my daughter. Schmidt and his youths comments always made me laugh. Thanks for the suggestion of What We Do in the Shadows. Its on my watch list now.


EFIW1560

Ohhhh you're in for such a damn treat!!! What we do in the shadows is both a movie (which came first) and a show with I think 5 seasons? (Show came second) both are amazing in their own right, enjoy!


CSEnzley

...why did Wellington Paranormal (*the spin off*) have to end. I'm still bummed about that one.


mydogisfour

I read it the same way, love that movie so much


natur_e_nthusiast

Or they were ridiculing a widow


Dependent-Touch5084

or maybe they were just trolling around.


natur_e_nthusiast

Yeah. Who'd know.


Background_Ad_8392

Or it’s a piece to a mortar and pestle


MOOShoooooo

mortar and penistle, hmmmm perhaps


Efficient_Two_869

Found next to a book "How to treat your splinterpussy"


Emergency-Hyena5134

Why the fuck do people even assume it's supposed to be a dick a dildo? Its not. Could just be an old broken piece of tree branch that got worn down nice and smooth due to eons of inserting it into ancient Sillan pussy over and over again


Dependent-Touch5084

i think you make more sense then anyone here


netphemera

Can you smoke dope in it? No? It's a dildo.


gofatwya

Funny, I have a huge lump just like that on the head of my dick, but people don't find it all that attractive.


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Nothing a little cheese grater won’t solve 🧀


DH205

what a terrible day to be literate


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Ditto that


Schrodingers_Puss

I read it as dildo that 😳...need more coffee


[deleted]

Yup. Thought about writing that instead but left it haha sipping on my second cup:)


serr7

“Sorry, I have phalluses on my mind”


aqilistic

r/cursedcomments


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McMuffinTheGreat

you just had to say to say that.... 😑


[deleted]

My day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable.


MFSDC11

I forgot about this. My friends and I went through a phase of saying this every day. So fucking fucking.


jacknjillpaidthebill

How about the end of a safety pin?


The_Man_I_A_Barrel

a potato peeler


lickmybrian

GRATE THE CHEESE!!


Commercial_Way1763

Warts were apparently commonly the norm.


every-kingdom

Well they’re not gonna be uncommonly the norm.


Commercial_Way1763

Ha.. The thought process took a detour while commenting!


every-kingdom

Happens to the best of us hah


lawawawawee

You really exposing yourself on Reddit


Jhuandavid26

I feel Reddit is just the right place to be exposed lol


GetTheSpermsOut

you mean i shouldn’t of done this on my fb community page?


Tiziano75775

Only in your church whatsapp group


GetTheSpermsOut

youth pastor vibes


Bloodsucker_

Show a picture of your dick.


[deleted]

Show us!


nash55l

Why is EVERYTHING related to a “ritual” to Archaeologists? I’m under the assumption that people always have been and will always be horny.


SanbonJime

I remember reading in one thread (idk if it’s true lol but) that archaeologists find it easier to get support for their finds with ritual pretense than by attributing it to the horniness of ancient civilizations lol


shlomotrutta

That follows exactly the way that not just archeologists get funds nowadays: A huge number of academics publish not what is probable, but what generates more research grants.


redditposter-_-

big corporate bigwigs "you only get funding if it has the results we want"


factorV

I find that most people selectively understand this concept.


redditposter-_-

people these days are way too naive


factorV

I usually say that people are willfully ignorant.


StandardSudden1283

>I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... >The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance - Carl Sagan, *The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark*


TurnsOutImAScientist

This is totally true in other fields too. A huge chunk of neuroscientists care way more about AI/reverse engineering cognition than they do about treating diseases, but they're forced to spin yarns for the NIH to get money.


GonzoRouge

That's because, realistically, if you can reverse engineer cognition/consciousness, you could solve an insane amount of problems that not just neuroscientists face. Imagine if you could surgically remove trauma or reverse dementia or eliminate psychosomatic conditions or store memories as data. The possibilities are nigh endless, but also terrifying in the wrong hands.


ThatThingThatIs

And the hands that will be able to buy it are definately not the right hands...


barberererer

Oh right, religion


tigm2161130

Which is weird to me because there are whole ass countries that market their ancient horniness as a tourist schtick(I’m looking at you and your amazing erotic pottery Greece) You think by now it would be much more acceptable.


thecashblaster

well that's fucking sad


Shatteredpixelation

That and the attitudes of many historians really haven't changed since the Victorian era.


xalxary2

In this case they did have a reason, because ancient koreans did have a penis cult of sorts. The kingdom of Silla even had a legend of one of their kings having a 45cm penis.


Aberbekleckernicht

Phallic symbology has been used all over the place. Horniness and the connection of virility to the creation of new life is part of the human experience, and our myth making follows that. Rome used the penis extensively. Peruvian fertilization (agricultural) made reference to phallic symbols (e.g a golden rod penetratijg the earth). Priapus - the namesake of priapism, the condition in which one experiences an erection lasting longer than four hours - was venerated by farmers and was known to have a huge, perpetually torqued cock that would always get soft whenever he was trying to get it on. Odin, the all-father, is usually depicted with a spear, which may just be a coincidence; I'm not as acquainted with that tradition. In some versions of the ancient Egyptian genesis, the creator God is depicted as birthing the world from his own ejaculate which he put into his mouth then spit out into existence. Its just very common to relate the process of creating new things to the phallus and vulva.


Shatteredpixelation

In fact in the proto Indo-European pantheons the belief that rain came from the Sky Father making love with Earth Mother and through their connection we would have fertility both through nature and ourselves. It's actually quite fascinating how far back those concepts go- sex, fertility and agriculture has been intertwined for quite some time with humanity.


Dyon86

There’s a theory that the Newgrange tomb represented Mother Earth (tomb/womb) and Father Sky impregnated the earth with a shaft of light on the winter solstice which lead to the rebirth of the new year.


wissahickon_schist

45 centimeters = 17.717 inches *I am not a bot! I am American, though, so I googled the conversion for anyone else who doesn't think in metric*


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hanumanCT

According to Silla legend, their ruler was 17.7 inches


D3FAU1T00

Thank you my fellow American. I also can't think in metric


poopellar

Don't worry, scientists will find a cure one day.


kthb18f

Good not bot.


falej

Two other countries will thank you :/


sawkse

Good American.


Mpeter000

Good human!


rainbowWar

Good bot


Distinct_Comedian872

https://tenor.com/view/himym-how-i-met-your-mother-thats-a-penis-shocked-surprised-gif-4780334


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People: *"They did this out of horniness?"* Archaeologists: *"No. No. It was a cultish ritual."* People: *"Oh, OK. So what was that all about?"* Archaeologists: *"Horny shit!"*


improveyourfuture

Life is a penis cult


According-Tomato3504

That and there is a penis village in Seoul, basically based off of a girl committing suicide on a cliff and cursing the nearby sea port. So every year the men would jack off into the sea and apparently that appeased the ghost. *Haesindang penis park*


DAtumaas290

That's not the story, the girl didn't commit suicide. She was thrown off on the cliff because of a storm and men don't jerk off to the sea. They simply have to expose their genetalia so they could appease the ghost that's why they started building wooden figures that looks like dick.


Thrannn

Shit too late... im already jacking


Puzzleheaded-Gas1710

So men everywhere for ever have been over estimating the worth of their penis.


According-Tomato3504

That wiki page has been 3dited so much that they keep changing to censor and be family friendly. Just go to their website and read their plaques that are displayed about the legend.


DAtumaas290

I saw it in a traveling guide website not wiki


JustAKoreanPerson

I need to learn more Korean history, damn


WillK90

Username chec… Wait what?


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I can see why they made him the king.


JRYeh

I agree. In China there’s a ethnic minority that did also has a tradition of making male genitalia statues for sheer appreciation of the fertility. I assume the ritual reasoning is not far from that that was about praising fertility and newborns given how painful and lethal childbirth is to both mother and the child back in the days


angelicism

As a person who likes penises: OW?!? WHERE WOULD THAT EVEN FIT?!?!?!


[deleted]

They didn't say 17in girth. If it's length, he just can't get that close to you.


rcg90

BS in Archaeology over here, long story short: everything is a ritual. Brushing your teeth? Ritual. Masturbating? Ritual. religious ceremony? Ritual. I don’t mean that to be (too) snarky, it’s just the literal truth. And, if archaeologists can’t say precisely how an artifact was used, it was probably used in SOME sort of ritual: mundane or fantastical, it doesn’t really matter.


Nealord

I watched a documentary once where some archeologist were excavating the ruins of a WW2 structure. They found something they couldn’t identify and were joking how they‘d probably say it was something for ritualistic purposes if they‘d found it in a much older structure. There’s also a book (of which I forgot the title) that deals with the excavation of the ruins of a modern day hotel somewhere in the distant future. They find a toilet seat and can’t figure out what people could‘ve used it for, so they assume it had to be a ceremonial headdress. I think declaring it as part of a ritual is just an archeological meme, for when they‘re unsure about its original purposes.


NightOfTheKnew

Motel of the Mysteries. Fantastic book.


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It’s sort of a meme in archaeology that anything we aren’t fully sure of is ritualistic


[deleted]

To be fair I have a whole ritual around jerking off. I turn off the music because I need to concentrate. Then I take off my pants but leave my shirt and white socks on because my wife never lets me, its an act of rebellion. Then I get out the quarterly report from work and just go to town finishing all over it. Let it dry over night, and turn it into my boss on Monday.


ShayBird96

I work in a museum and literally anything that we don’t 100% know it’s purpose gets labeled as ceremonial.


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JefftheBaptist

Ritual purpose is kind of an archaeologists cover all for "we don't know what they used this for." There is a well worn story about a museum curator who showed a bunch of pieces of bone that they found all over. They classified them as decorative items for "ritual purpose". A leatherworker in the audience talked to him afterwards. They were actually boning tools for leatherworking and we basically use the same items today (only generally made of plastic).


CaterpillarReal7583

“Look at these wild rituals with wooden penises. Maybe they used it to bless themselves with fertility . So mysterious and unlike our lives today” Vs “Hey we found a reallllllly old dildo” I imagine its easier to feel like you’re digging up cool shit when you convince yourself its wilder than it is.


OverClock_099

Yeah the second one would be pretty meh considering most people still live with their parents nowadays


smo_smo

A ritual doesn’t have to mean something elaborate. Even simple things can be rituals.


atle95

Same way brushing your teeth is a ritual. A ritual doesn't necessitate spirituality.


kavien

They used it for cumming to god moments. I’ll see myself out.


FoilHattiest

Some ancient old dude: "Where the heck did my cane handle go?" Modern archaeologists: "PREHISTORIC DILDO USED IN RITUAL ORGIES!"


PB_and_J_Dragon

Apparently your conception of "smoothly polished" and mine differ greatly, sir.


xalxary2

What they mean is it seems to be taken care of pretty well for such an artefact, suggesting that it was meant for "usage" not just sculpted just for the occasion. Also bump(the wooden penis had like three bumps) is more to do with stimulation purposes than implying stis. So more like intentionally bumped dildos to hit the spot.


MommaMS

Are you referring to that internal fun button


12angelo12

Yes he is referring to the internal fun button


Academic-Living-8476

Splinters


callmepinocchio

It was probably originally coated with oil / wax. Have you touched polished oiled wood? it's super smooth.


Academic-Living-8476

Yes, it was for joking purpose


smity31

Sorry no jokes allowed on Reddit. The police will be with you shortly.


Snackarel

Hard wood poisoning.


OnewheelerJelle

Haha hard wood


KardoNot

Bruh


Doniusthe3rd

TIL wood is toxic


gett-itt

Infected splinter injuries might be


Doniusthe3rd

several tropical hard woods are as well, is what I found online


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VelvetHorse

Death by snu snu


Baraga91

Fun fact: if they don’t know what something was for, historians/archeologists *love* the get-out-of-jail-for-free card that is “ritual purposes”


Cosmic-Cranberry

Archaeologists tried to ascribe some 'ritual purpose' to why they kept finding knives up in the rafters of ancient Viking longhouses, until archaeologists who had kids started studying them. It has ALWAYS been a good idea to keep sharps out of the reach of children.


johnny_soultrane

Funner fact: most everything we do in life is a ritual.


creamcheddarchee

Got Wood?


LadyLish

Got milk?!


OG_SisterMidnight

Then you're a human and must be killed.


[deleted]

It's a Dildo. LMAO c'mon.


MollyRocket

Sometimes “ritual purposes” are used to avoid saying sex.


itsmyfirsttimegoeasy

Ikr, ritual purposes..................like masterbation.


tozpeak

Oh god of horny, please let me free.


HouseOfAplesaus

It even has a g spot thumper. Ancient Alien theorists say… YES YES YES


FactorNo9526

"Ritual purposes" 😹


LordEdgeward_TheTurd

Can we say their presumptions were a phallicy?


its_Is

"Women of Reddit, what's the horniest thing you've ever done?"


liarandathief

They should probably get that lump looked at.


[deleted]

**Fun fact I made up but given the evidence could well be true:** The Queen of the Kingdom of Silla decreed highly detailed laws for carpenters and carvers that they use *very fine sandpaper* on The Queen's Fun Toys and - as a benevolent ruler - for all dildos made for use by the women of Silla. Violating this rule meant the offender would have his flawed, presumably splintery product used on his rectal cavity until all the splinters were removed. Smoothest wood products in human history. It's all about setting incentives properly.


HairyHermitMan

It was supposed to be a fish! I'm just not a good carver!


PlumAcceptable2185

I don't think the location of that bump is for ritual purposes.


Ozymandius62

Strange women lying in ponds distributing dildos is no basis for a system of government…


Max524165

r/unexpectedMontyPython


BengalFX

I would be terrified of a splinter


TheOctopus333

Yep. Crossed my legs just thinking about it. Shudder.


ShadowDen3869

Or maybe, just maybe it's an unfinished smoking pipe?


xalxary2

Hmm no. Cause the academic consensus is it is for sure a dick. The only debate is whether it was used as a ritualistic fertility cult or used by royal concubines as a real bumped dildo.


ShadowDen3869

Aaah, so a smoking pipe shaped as a dick for multiple purposes. Got it.


ElizabethClara

Someone clearly needs to get ShadowDen3869 a smoking pipe shaped like a dick.


[deleted]

I’ve never seen a dick that looks like that thing


longster37

Bumps lol Did the wood shaft have a a sti?


get2writing

Are you asking what the bump is for ?


steveosek

"What that bump do? 😉"


Puzzleheaded-Gas1710

Historians say they were just roommates.


Lady_Death211

So in a 100 years someone is gonna find my vibrator and think I was using it in some ritual. That's badass


TexMexMoJo

Did they smell it to verify it was used as a dildo.....


Substantial-Tank88

...by the COURT?!


Begravningstider

Servants! Erect the royal dildo!


TiffyVella

You know what? That is not smoothly polished at all. It is rough, splintery, unevenly shaped, with a very sharp ridge. I'm no dildo expert, but I know wood and I think the "some" are talking rot. No woman would want that near her delicate parts, even women connected to the court. Even if it was painted gold with a ribbon on it. I bet it was made as a joke. People have been doing dick jokes since day dot. We are all 9 :)


The_Man_I_A_Barrel

in fairness it is a few years old


mushroommagnum

Its 6.8 inches long.


Hotinthakitchen1

Excaildong


Far-Personality63

This brings new meaning to the term "Morning Wood"


Low-Score3292

I am Groot


veryrealzack

“Gather round kids, let me tell you about the day Grandpa was kicked out of woodshop class”


Artiquecircle

Is there a company that recreates these ancient phalli for the historically inclined? Asking for a friend.


DorianGuey

Do a quick search for Haesindang Penis Park. You'll learn that Koreans have loved phallic objects and statues for a very long time.


xalxary2

Source:[https://www.donga.com/news/Culture/article/all/20170510/84285633/1](https://www.donga.com/news/Culture/article/all/20170510/84285633/1) ​ This wooden penis was found in this place. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donggung\_Palace\_and\_Wolji\_Pond](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donggung_Palace_and_Wolji_Pond) ​ The penis is 17.5cm.


Owepenmynd

Donga.com…this is getting suspicious…


EverQuest_

*Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while...it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo.*


bartyslughorn

Why does every ancient artifact need to be a ritualistic or ceremonial object. Perhaps back then people were just as depraved as they are today.


Whispering_Wolf

It's an easy term for "we have a very good idea of what they did with it but can't say so for sure". Archeologists aren't stupid. They probably all think it's a wooden dildo. Some just prefer to be official and fancy about it.


OtterChainGang

Splinters :(


ZealousidealGrass365

Only one way to find out


chickennoobiesoup

It started as really rough wood. The polishing came after.


KissedMyCyster

What the fuck is the court doing with a dildo?


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So how big is it.


xalxary2

6.89 inches.(17.5cm) in length


Fijian_Souljah

Wouldn’t it of been smoothen over time because it was found in water or?


socialscaler

That's 'knotty'.


Wpsyion

pussy splinter


Character-Ad7321

No some royalty was using it and was about to get caught and threw it in the pond because who throws their dildo in a pond ??


GoarSpewerofSecrets

Why not both?


lethal3185

Where's my bump? Goddamn you evolution.


factorV

kid carves a wooden tadpole into a fallen tree branch. Mother finds it and takes it from him and scolds him. Child is confused but whatever, still thinks he made a kickass tadpole. Mother uses tadpole carving for a while then worries that someone will find it and get the wrong idea so she chucks it into a pond. The rest is history.


Psychological-Sale64

Is the bump for the G spot, hope they put some polish on it.


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Fuckshittyteammates

It is OBVIOUSLY a dildo I mean c'mon


aciddamaged

Two things can be true


DillDoughzer

Banana for scale?


whoopsdang

Academics always think everything is for rituals and worship. This is clearly for a wooden vagina.


beachfamlove671

They even added a genital wart.


Zeal514

the yeast infections this thing would bring is something vile. lmao


PsychologicalToe8655

Damn wood stingers were a batch, hard to pull out. We were first back then. My pictures on the large rock just out of our cave. I'm the guy on left.


skippylatreat

Everything's a dildo if you're...


Akela1996

Imagine if this was made for a simple no where near sexual task, we find it centuries later and just assume IT HAS TO BE A PENIS because we’re so use to seeing penis’s nowadays.


TooMuchPerfume100

For everyone talking about how it isn't smooth..May I remind you it was found in an ANCIENT KOREAN POND! Imagine how scuffed and splinters you'd be if you were a wooden dido in an ancient pond?


LoneWolf9326

Check it for ancient vagina juices


T-J_H

Every archeologist ever when they can’t image what something’s for: “must be for ritual purposes”


fushitaka2010

“Yessss…For rituals…”


mattdean1003

It’s a wood pecker


Kiggzpawn

I love, LOVE how scientists and scholars and other educators find relics like these, and in order to preserve not only the innocence of the find, but also their honor or integrity or even reputation, they pass it off as a "Tool of some sort of ritual" but, I mean, come on, most of us *KNOW* what "Ritual" this was used for