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.
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Do you have Prince Albert...
Riding on the 503
Men before, now and after are/will always trying to make their penis’ look bigger. They are just consumed with “size matters”. Silly boys.
Most likely the symbols were degrees of stupidity or Lesson 1 in the Lorena Bobbitt Cavegal School was to measure and mark the pattern.
TMI
This reminds me of an old joke....... but I can’t tell it here. :D
Look at folks today. From Goth piercing to fraternity initiations, you have echos of tribal behavior.
Your poor pee pee will hurt....LOL
A Scotsman clad in kilt left the bar one evening fair
And one could tell by how he walked he’d drunk more than his share
He staggered on until he could no longer keep his feet
Then stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street.
Ring ding diddle diddle i de o
Ring di diddle i o
He stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the street.
Later on two young and lovely girls just happened by,
And one says to the other with a twinkle in her eye
You see yon sleeping Scotsman who is young and handsome built
I wonder if it’s true what they don’t wear beneath their kilt.
Ring ding diddle diddle i de o
Ring di diddle i o
I wonder if it’s true what they don’t wear beneath their kilt.
They crept up to the sleeping Scotsman quiet as could be
Then lifted up his kilt about an inch so they could see
And there behold for them to view beneath his Scottish skirt
Was nothing but what God had graced him with upon his birth
Ring ding diddle diddle i de o
Ring di diddle i o
There was nothing there but what God gave upon his birth
They marveled for a moment then one said we’d best be gone
But let’s leave a present for our friend before we move along
They took a blue silk ribbon and they tied it in a bow
Around the bonnie spar that the Scot’s lifted kilt did show
Ring ding diddle diddle i de o
Ring di diddle i o
Around the bonnie spar that the Scot’s lifted kilt did show
The Scotsman woke to nature’s call and stumbled toward a tree
Behind a bush he lifts his kilt and gawks at what he sees
Then in a startled voice he says to what’s before his eyes
He said, “Lad I don’t know where you’ve been but I see you won first
prize”
Ring ding diddle diddle i de o
Ring di diddle i o
He said, “Lad I don’t know where you’ve been but I see you won first
prize”
Military hazing?
You mean the MIT one?
So when you get right down to it, prehistoric men and Democrats are remarkably similar.
‘Actually, these were practical jokes done to drunk buddies as they were sleeping it off.’
Nothing’s changed in 12,000 years.
“Kinda’ makes me want to decorate my peepee like a Christmas tree...”
If you say you are going to use mistletoe... I’m throwing a cast iron frying pan at you. LOL!
There once was a fellow from Nablus
Who used tools like a Homo Hab’lus
The sight nearly wrecked us
But this Homo Erectus
Thought his new decorations “Just Fab’lous!”
This article is "evidence" of one thing: that women have been trying to read men's minds since pre-historic times.
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