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Posted on 11/27/2011 2:55:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Men in prehistoric Europe scarred, pierced and tattooed their penises, likely for ritualistic and social group reasons, according to a new study.
Analysis of phallic decorations in Paleolithic art, described in the December issue of The Journal of Urology, may also show evidence of the world's first known surgery performed on a male genital organ. The alteration, or surgery, might have just been for ornamental purposes, or a piercing, the researchers suggest...
Angulo and colleagues Marcos Garcia-Diez and Marc Martinez studied male genital representations in portable, mostly handheld sizes of art made in Europe approximately 38,000 to 11,000 years ago.
The pieces, researchers say, frequently mirrored what actually appeared on the male penis. Paleolithic art is known to be very naturalistic, so the artists were recreating what they saw...
What is clear is that phallic decoration became more prevalent among men of the Magdalenian Culture in France and Spain about 12,000 years ago...
Another finding of the study is that prehistoric men seemed to favor preputial retraction, or drawing back of the foreskin. As a result, the scientists think it's likely that early males practiced circumcision as both a way to prevent disease and for affiliation purposes. To this day, ritual or religious circumcisions occur within several cultures.
For the prehistoric cultures, Angulo believes that their "canon of beauty" changed over time. Earlier humans of the Gravettian culture, known for characteristic tools such as carving blades, appear to have favored more exaggerated depictions of sexuality, as is evident in many of their "Venus" figurines of naked women. The Magdalenians, on the other hand, had a more naturalistic concept of beauty, according to the authors.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
Men in prehistoric Europe manipulated their privates with body art and piercings in ritual and to just fit in.
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>>Men in prehistoric Europe manipulated their privates with body art and piercings in ritual and to just fit in.<<
Occupy Pangea?
Maybe because they were uncivilized??
Maybe because scientists like to read into things far deeper than evidence suggests and focus on weird things to get more attention and research grants?
Kinda’ makes me want to decorate my peepee like a Christmas tree to stay with the season.
I'm sure they sit around making sure they disagree with each other. Then they BOTH need grant money to prove each other wrong.
They sure do create some interesting (ridiculous) ABSOLUTELY UN-PROVEABLE fairy tales.
I'm sure they sit around making sure they disagree with each other. Then they BOTH need grant money to prove each other wrong.
They sure do create some interesting (ridiculous) ABSOLUTELY UN-PROVEABLE fairy tales.
Just make sure you don’t have any shorts in your Christmas light strings.
It appears doing peculiar things to one’s privates is not restricted to the modern era at all.
It was the Aztec priestly class, I believe, who opened their bloody sacrificial ceremonies by running their own organ through with a sword. The strange thing is, iirc, despite repeatedly having done so, they appear to have not just remained functional but actually enhanced their (ahem) ... virility, to be intentionally vague.
No idea how this could have been possible, whether it was a legend that grew out of the practice, or what. If it was a truthful recounting, I suppose accumulated scar tissue provided the perceived, err, benefit.
Weird.
Just keep the lights out of your shorts and you won’t have to worry so much about shorts in your lights.
It is amazing the social customs they can theorize based on almost nothing. They extrapolate to the nth degree and often focus on something prurient for the attention. Attention usually means more money.
Good advice. I’d hate to have shorts in my shorts!
I just settled for a smiley-face on mine.
Several cultures? I suppose if you are trying to describe the vast majority of the civilized Western World, then OK that would include "several" cultures.
Actually, these were practical jokes done to drunk buddies as they were sleeping it off.
fit in what????
fit in what????
fit in what????
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